Tag Archives: IPTV
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 [...]
Cooling of the IPTV Set-Top Market
The cooling of the IPTV set-top market as reported by Broadband TV News is an interesting development. IPTV set-top market is ‘cooling down’ : Broadband TV News. Much of the growth identified in the report was down to market launches which mop up the early adopters very easily. However, we have not seen the organic [...]
Mobile TV resurrected in the UK?
The BBC is testing the live streaming of its television and radio channels to wi-fi enabled mobile devices. BBC launches live mobile TV tests | Broadband TV News I have talked about this before, with the BT Movio service particularly. Video has not proven to be a huge draw for most people except those that [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
TV Events – Upcoming
A couple of events are coming up in the calendar, so if you are going and want to meet just drop us a line. Broadcast Video Expo, 17th Feb 2009 to 19 Feb 2009, Earls Court, London IPTV World Forum 2009, 25th Mar 2009 to 27th Mar 2009, Olympia Exhibition Centre, London I am really [...]
Digital Britain – What now for TV?
We are now a couple of weeks in after the Digital Britain interim report was published, and the best thing to say is that most people, ordinary people, did not really grasp what this report was about and how it could really effect their future entertainment. The report has failed to communicate some of the [...]
Digital Britain
OFCOM with Lord Carter has published the Interim report about the vision for some of the country’s critical digital services and communications issues, and it was readily digested by all and sundry. The press have really dissected the report for its facts which you can via your favourite search engine, readily find out. Alternatively can [...]
Internet Broadcasting
Over the last couple of days, I had become aware that in the UK, we could watch pretty much live what ITV produces across four channels (ITV1, ITV2, ITV3, ITV4). There are some exemptions where rights are not available as such, but this is a pretty good service based on Silverlight. Prior to Christmas, the [...]
Deeper Troubles for Orange
Well it definitely seems that Orange has much deeper problems than whether it would launch an IPTV service, and it is not hard to see that the reasons for the full-on suspension of the IPTV service launch was not down to ourely competitiveness issues. It seems that Orange in the UK is on the brink [...]