Upside and upstream in the EchoStar-Sling deal
By: By Ed Gubbins
In the wake of EchoStar’s announcement this week of a proposed acquisition of Sling Media, it is unclear how the deal might affect services such as AT&T’s Homezone that are offered in partnership with EchoStar. ...
Motorola bridges MPEG-4, MPEG-2 networks
By: By Sarah Reedy
Motorola is aiming to usher in the next generation of receiver/transcoders with its DSR-6000 series receivers. The receivers will allow networks to use both MPEG-4 AVC and MPEG-2 compression technologies, as well as convert content into MPEG-2 for operators with MPEG-2 set-tops. ...
Arris Group's acquisition of C-COR seen as good fit
By: By Sarah Reedy
Arris Group has agreed to acquire C-COR for a purchase price of approximately $730 million in cash and stock, the company announced today. Each share of C-COR will be converted into either a cash payment of $13.75 or 0.9642 shares of Arris. ...
Nsight turns a triple play
By: By Sarah Reedy
Nortel rounds out Nsight's offerings with an end-to-end IPTV solution, bringing greater TV programming options to the upper Midwest...
Dolby has message for IPTV players
By: By Carol Wilson
Dolby Laboratories doesn’t sell anything directly to telecom service providers, but the well-known creator of high-quality audio technology is trying to get a message across to those who would offer IPTV...
AlcaLu acquires IPTV applications specialist
By: By Sarah Reedy
Alcatel-Lucent today announced it has acquired British software and applications provider Tamblin to enable users to access content, brands and entertainment over its IPTV platform...
AT&T aims for 10,000 IPTV installs per week
By: By Ed Gubbins
AT&T has reduced the average installation time for its U-verse IPTV service by 13% in the past month, according to Ralph de la Vega, the carrier’s group president of regional telecommunications and entertainment...
RipCode transcodes long-tail on-demand video
By: By Sarah Reedy
RipCode, the Texas-based video equipment manufacturer, today announced the availability of its RipCode V4 video transcoding appliance, which delivers on-demand video content to any viewing medium, while reducing server hardware, storage and energy use. RipCode also released the name of its first client – MySpace, which recently completed a trial run with the company...
Muvee and Orca bring Live Photos to IPTV
By: By Sarah Reedy
A picture may be worth 1000 words, but when not presented well, it is practically worthless. This is the logic behind Muvee’s automatic movie-making application Live Photos, now available over IPTV platforms in partnership with middleware provider Orca Interactive...
IPTV captivates Europe
By: By Carol Wilson
More than 60 IPTV services were available in Europe at the end of the second quarter of 2007, according to Screen Digest Television Intelligence...
The climb on uncertain ground
By: By Carol Wilson
The competitive landscape is still shifting, even as bandwidth demand grows and consolidation continues...
Fujitsu takes rural telcos optical
By: By Tim McElligott
Fujitsu Network Communications announced two deployments of its optical gear with rural independent operating companies this week...
Harmonic debuts new encoder, wins DirecTV
By: By Sarah Reedy
Video solution provider Harmonic today introduced the Ion AVC encoder, the latest in its family of DiviCom compression solutions...
U-verse cracks 100,000 mark
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T said today its U-verse IPTV service has now cracked 100,000 subscribers, based on additions of 97,000 this year, as the service expands geographically and is marketed more aggressively. AT&T is installing about 1000 U-verse customers daily, according to a company spokesman...
KT launches nationwide VOD
By: By Sarah Reedy
Korea Telecom, Korea’s largest broadband provider, today announced the commercial launch of its video-on-demand service, Mega TV...
SeaChange reports loss, optimism
By: By Sarah Reedy
SeaChange International expects to be profitable in 2008 despite a fall in revenue in the second quarter. Compared to last year, second-quarter revenue was down 3% to $44.2 million. Following a $1 million profit a year ago, the company reported a net loss of $8 million for this year's second quarter, attributing the loss mainly to severance costs and charges related to capitalized software licenses. ...
Cinea’s digital watermarks hit STBs
By: By Carol Wilson
Cinea, a subsidiary of Dolby known for digital watermarking technology, said today it will announce two major deals at the IBC show next week in Amsterdam that will position its technology in the consumer distribution space....
Sony brings TV to PlayStation
By: By Sarah Reedy
Sony announced its latest device, PlayTV, Wednesday at the Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany...
Free online television enters IPTV industry
By: By Sarah Reedy
FreeTube, a recent IPTV venture, brings Internet users more than 500 television channels – as the name suggests – for free. Slated to be a technological and sociological experiment, this online television site offers viewers with a modem, Web browser and several common plug-ins the ability to watch a variety of channels using IP streaming technology...
AT&T pledges IPTV network overhaul in BellSouth territory
By: By Ed Gubbins
AT&T today announced plans to bring its U-verse video broadband service to South Carolina, a state formerly in BellSouth territory...
Ixia evaluates video pixel by pixel
By: By Tim McElligott
It's hard to believe there are more than 200 companies looking for IPTV test solutions, but that's how many customers Ixia says it has for its IPTV test suite...
NXTcomm highlights
By: A Telephony staff report
The brand new trade show provided a venue for what's next in telecom, including new thinking about the customer experience...
Brix adds IPTV monitoring
By: By Carol Wilson
Brix Networks announced today that it has added continual monitoring of video streams to its BrixVision Internet protocol television (IPTV) portfolio, enabling service providers to get real-time information on the customer experience...
In the Spotlight: Jeff Weber, AT&T
By: By Ed Gubbins
At a panel discussion on the future of video services at the NXTcomm trade show in Chicago last Tuesday, Jeff Weber, AT&T’s vice president of video products, fielded questions on a variety of IPTV topics, bringing his own experience to bear as a telco video veteran...
AT&T adds two U-verse markets
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T announced today that it has added the Ohio cities of Akron and Cleveland to its U-verse roster, bringing the total number of IPTV markets to 23...
