The Unbox service from Amazon and TiVo has officially rolled out. Nearly 1.5 million TiVo subscribers can now buy or rent digital movies and buy TV shows from Amazon. People can watch the downloads on their TV via their TiVo, which needs to be connected to broadband. Amazon also offers not only buy-to-own, but movie […]
Premiere, arena both aim for football exclusivity
In separate interviews,Thursday, both Premiere CEO Georg Kofler and cable backed football channel arena’s CEO Dejan Jocic said they would try to gain exclusivity in broadcasting the German Bundesliga the country’s premier football league. Despite last months co-operation agreement between the two Pay-TV operators in which Premiere gained the right to market the arena offer […]
Alcatel-Lucent boosts Danish IPTV
Alcatel-Lucent has confirmed that TDC has opted for the company’s services integration, as well as the Microsoft TV IPTV Edition software platform, for its new IPTV service. Known as TDC TV, it made its debut on February 20 and offers over 35 TV channels, an EPG and movie rental service consisting of over 200 titles […]
Comstar opts for Tandberg
The Russian broadband company Comstar-Direct has signed a deal with Tandberg Television to assist in the expansion of its IPTV network. Under it, Sistema-owned Comstar-Direct will be supplied with Tandberg Television’s control and monitoring software nCompass 5.0. Comstar-Direct already employs Tandberg Television’s IPTV head-end solutions for its ADSL broadband offer. Its future plans include the […]
Tandberg installs MPEG-4 for Inuk
Tandberg Television is to supply a package of MPEG-4 AVC encoders and professional receivers to the Freewire IPTV service. Freewire is currently supplying a package of free-to-air digital channels to students in their halls of residence over the high speed JANET broadband network. Later this year Freewire will extend the service to the UK residential […]
Belgacom TV reports 139,665 subscribers
Belgacom TV has said it reached 139,665 connected homes at the end of 2006. “We beat our own projections of 100,000 homes by year’s end,” declared CEO Didier Bellens. Monthly ARPU for Belgacom TV subscribers is €12. ARPU rose from €11.9 in Q1 2006 to €12.6 at the end of 2006, mainly resulting from increased […]
PTCL to launch Pakistan’s first IPTV network
Irdeto and Huawei Technologies today jointly announced they have signed an agreement with Pakistan Telecommunication Co Ltd (PTCL) to provide an end-to-end IPTV solution to the 1 tier telecom operator. The agreement will enable PTCL to launch IPTV services across Pakistan, and to provide its subscribers with an array of new interactive video and internet […]
Ericsson to power Vodafone Iceland IPTV
Ericsson is to deliver an end-to-end IPTV system to Vodafone Iceland. The solution is based on the Ericsson IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and will be part of a triple play service from the Icelandic operator that will also include voice and broadband Internet. “The IPTV system from Ericsson will enable user interaction, for example voting, […]
Euronews goes into Africa
EuroNews has gained additional capacity on ADSL networks in Senegal and in Morocco following a new agreement with Multi TV. The Media Overseas subsidiary, part of the Canal+ Group, has included the popular news channel on new launches Senegalese Sonatel network and Maroc Télécom network in Morocco. Sonatel is offering its subscribers a choice of […]
Freewire adds three from Five
Inuk Networks has added the legacy broadcaster Five and its two recently launched digital channels Five and Five Life to its Freewire IPTV platform. Freewire is targeting UK students in their halls of residence, although there are also plans to provide a ‘white label’ service for the UK telecommunications market. Campus design, and the lack […]