Last year, our little guide to eating out in Amsterdam proved to be a very popular feature of the Broadband TV News IBC Special. So this year it is time for an encore appearance. Be sure to come back again to this place, as we will add a few more reviews in the days leading [...]

The emergence of Silverlight from the Windows Media Player is just a small part of the global players strategy for the TV market that includes an end-to-end advertising proposition. The technology is already in place at ITV.com and won a key deployment with NBC’s web-based coverage of the Olympics.

IBC 2008 Hall 1 Stand C81 Previous years have seen some stunning demonstrations on the OpenTV stand of what future user interfaces will look like and this year the technology company takes us a step closer to deployment

IBC 2008 UK Pavilions It may sometimes feel to UK-based IBC visitors that they have not stepped beyond the White Cliffs of Dover, but the UK Pavilions will still have an extra focus on the best of British manufacturing.

IBC 2008 Hall 4 Stand B49 Zappware is to release new versions of its VOD, EPG, PVR and network PVR systems for operators. They share a redesigned graphical interface that is video centric and created with deployment on HD platforms in mind.

IBC 2008 Hall 1 Stand F44 Advanced advertising is back in the frame as an area for operators to explore. Arris will be demonstrating dynamic VOD advertising and addressable ad insertion alongside VOD and DOCSIS technologies.

IBC 2008 Hall 1. Stand D11 Thomson plans to demo the latest DVB-IP CDS services for the downloading of content to local storage in the home. The broadband delivery mechanism will appeal to broadcasters and the home networking sectors alike.

IBC 2008 Stand No. 1E-90 Mobile TV has first to prove itself to a wider audience, but should it make the leap into an everyday distribution platform we now have the ability to target advertising to individual users.