Category Archives: DTT
IBC comes around again… is this one about real IPTV?
Well September has rolled around again and IBC is coming. All of our mailboxes are full of bumf, invites and some that can only be described as spam for even the hardened IBC visitor. However what will it bring this year? Previous years have been about 3D and IPTV, and of course we cannot forget mobile [...]
Targeted Broadband and Digital TV News
This is a reminder for many of you, and that is that this blog maintains an aggregate news feed of hand picked content that is pertinent to the Broadband and Digital TV industries, paying quite a bit of attention towards consumer devices such as STBs and other video/information devices. You can access this information off [...]
The Cable Challenge
This week I have been returning to old thoughts about how things have changed over the last 10 years and what I see today as the rising challenge of Digital Terrestrial/Satellite combined with an Internet return path on Hybrid boxes. The decade started with Digital promise as wider scale EuroDOCSIS acceptance gave way to wider [...]
Electronic Content Guides coming next
The entertainment world has become a complex place compared to 20+ years ago. Back then the UK had 4 channels and the biggest challenge was in ensuring that you had an in house distribution feed for those terrestrial analogue channels, that you had remote control capability and that on at least one TV you had [...]
IBC 2009 Approaching…
The blog has been a little quiet, but this has been down to some pretty intense project work for a major vendor. However IBC is quickly approaching and thoughts are now turning to what is coming and what I shall be looking at for my annual time there (although a little curtailed compared to normal [...]
End of an Era… Start of an Era
It is just over a week after the DTV transition in the US and it seems that the transition has taken place with low levels of complaints. How much of this is down to the overall delay of the transition from February is hard to determine, but certainly the change-over will presage success in the [...]
Tiscali TV losing out
Ofcom has revealed that only 65,000 homes claim to use Tiscali’s television-over-DSL IPTV service as their main means of receiving digital television. Digital TV – News – 65,000 use Tiscali TV as main TV service – Digital Spy. This news is very depressing for one of the trailblazers in the TV over ADSL world, which [...]
Digital Transition – In Retrospect
Well, the US has begun its transition to digital terrestrial television. The transition has been messy in the corridors of power in the US simply because of concern about the disenfranchising of large numbers of the US population were simply not prepared. The mess is that now rather than the transition taking place on a [...]
I’ll take it all back BT Vision
It seems that BT Vision has grown in subscribers to levels that are respectable at last with 398,000 published today. However the detail in the press release behind the post by Broadband TV News is a little low. The understanding about whether these are 398,000 people with the box who may have subscribed once to [...]