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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]