BT spins off content customization company
By: By Carol Wilson
BT announced this week it is spinning off a new venture, Real Time Content, to capitalize on technology it developed that enables real-time customization of video content for personalized advertising and content delivery...
U-verse comes to Michigan
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T today said it is introducing its U-verse IPTV service in Detroit and Ann Arbor, Mich., where it is taking on cable provider Comcast...
ABI: Gaming consoles to lead Net-video-to-TV market
By: By Ed Gubbins
The market for allowing consumers to play Internet-delivered video over their televisions will yield $1.5 billion in service revenue by 2012, according to a new report from ABI Research...
Broadband Forum chief calls IPTV “on the brink”
By: By Carol Wilson
The chairman of the Broadband Services Forum planned to tell the National Association of Broadcasters today that IPTV is “on the brink of a breakthrough,” according to a pre-released copy of his remarks...
AT&T lures video customers with free HD
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T is countering successful cable bundling with an offer of its own to lure new video customers – free High Definition TV for one year for newcomers to either its U-Verse service, based on a new fiber-to-the-node network...
Analyst predicts cable move away from DVR
By: By Carol Wilson
Even as digital video recorders become more popular as a service offering from cable and telecom service providers, they may be facing a limited future, one leading analyst is saying...
SMS hits TV before new fall schedule
By: By Tim McElligott
The biggest new premiere on television this year may not beat the sixth season of but hopefully it will beat out American Idol. With Caller ID to the...
Dittberner: U.S. may be in IPTV Top 10 after all
By: By Ed Gubbins
One week after reporting that the United States is not among the 10 countries with the most IPTV subscribers, research and consulting firm Dittberner admitted that the U.S. may be in the top 10 after all...
AT&T falls short of 15-market IPTV goal
By: By Ed Gubbins
AT&T fell short of its original goal of launching its U-Verse IPTV service in 15 markets by the end of 2006...
USA not in IPTV Top Ten
By: By Ed Gubbins
The United States is not among the 10 countries with the most IPTV subscribers in the world, new data from Dittberner revealed...
Video star breaks out on blip.tv
By: By Carol Wilson
Internet video host blip.tv today is trumpeting one of its first break-out stars. Video blogger Amanda Congdon today is launching a new Web-based TV show with major national sponsors, Dove Cream Oil Bodywash and Paltalk. ...
YouTube effect changes IPTV plans
By: By Dan O'Shea
A few thousand carriers and vendors graced the TelcoTV conference and expo earlier this month, and although YouTube wasn't among them, the online network...
The IPTV battle enters the home
By: By Dan O'Shea
The battle of in-home distribution technologies for IPTV continued unabated at this month's Telco TV conference and expo in Dallas. The industry may be...
TelcoTV: On becoming a TV star
By: By Jason Meyers
DALLAS--The general session at the TelcoTV conference here offered attendees a glimpse of some of the challenges that small carriers are likely to encounter when they venture into the TV realm...
New VOD duo promises ‘radical’ IPTV content
By: By Ed Gubbins
Mercury Media, the theatrical distributor of “Loose Change,” an infamous documentary exploring September 11 conspiracies, is teaming with video-on-demand (VOD) vendor Aggregator to launch what it calls a “radical” new IPTV content service...
Swisscom launches Microsoft IPTV
By: By Ed Gubbins
Switzerland’s incumbent telco launched an IPTV service today similar to AT&T’s U-Verse service...
Report: Cable bundles a big triumph
By: By Carol Wilson
Cable service bundles are not only luring telephone service customers, but they have helped stem the tide of video customers to satellite services...
Fingerprint-based IPTV remote control debuts
By: By Joan Engebretson
Service providers developing the product road map for their IPTV services recognize that the user interface will play a critical role in how the offers are accepted. Joining the wealth of user interface options is a remote control platform announced this month by European manufacturer Ruwido that uses family members’ fingerprints to control system operation...
AT&T inks first cable content deal
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T and Comcast have signed a distribution deal that will enable AT&T to deliver Comcast video channels over its U-verse IPTV service...
VON: Start-up hopes to be more than a blip
By: By Carol Wilson
BOSTON--A New York-based start-up is trying to get ahead of the video-on-the-Internet wave, hoping not to get swamped...
VON: TV over IP about to explode
By: By Carol Wilson
BOSTON--While telecom service providers scramble to launch IPTV, the TV over the Internet movement is taking off on its own, promising to bring diverse programming to PCs and television sets everywhere. So hot is TV over IP that it took over the opening keynote session of the VON conference...
A TelephonyOnline Podcast: IPTV and Consumer Habit
TelephonyOnline talks to Neale Martin, an industry futurist and a keynote speaker at Telephony’s IPTV Workshop next week at VON in Boston, about consumer behavior and how it could impact the introduction of IPTV. Hear Martin’s views on how what service providers need to do to make their video offerings different...
Homemade comparison: cable versus IPTV
By: By Carol Wilson
An industry public relations professional who happens to be part of AT&T’s U-verse rollout in San Antonio has opened the doors of his home to the world, offering a real-life comparison of IPTV and digital cable....
The home network, rewired
By: By Dan O'Shea
IPTV is helping the telecom industry envision a new type of home network involving service to multiple devices and content-sharing between all of them. Yet a single vision for the in-home wiring necessary remains elusive...
iSuppli: Global IPTV revenue $27 billion by 2010
By: By Dan O'Shea
Market research firm iSuppli Corp. has released a new report suggesting that worldwide overall IPTV service revenue will hit $27 billion by 2010, and that there will be 63 million IPTV subscribers globally by that year...
