Posted by Simon Perry on 14 May 2008 | Tagged as: BT, Business, HDTV, IPTV, PVR/DVR, UK
Pace, UK-based creators of digital TV products, has won a new contract to supply BT with their next-generation V-box, for use on the BT Vision service.
Previously Philips supplied the V-box (that runs the Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV middleware) but following Pace’s purchase of Philips Set Top Box (STB) division, it’s natural — but we imagine pleasing [...]
Posted by Simon Perry on 20 June 2007 | Tagged as: Broadband, Distribution, IPTV, Networking
DS2 have run test to find the delivery of IPTV over PLC 200Mbps beats WiFi by a factor of four.
Posted by Simon Perry on 8 June 2007 | Tagged as: China, IPTV, News In Brief, Standards
It’s clear that China like to do things their own way.
The latest in the list is a video CoDec’s, the algorithm that is used to compress/decompress video signals. Much of the world currently uses H.264, but China has developed its own equivalent, that they call AVS, standing for Audio Video coding Standard – an acronym [...]
Posted by Simon Perry on 11 May 2007 | Tagged as: BT, IPTV, Services, UK
Much to our surprise, the UK public are starting to be told about the BT Vision service from BT, through a multi-million advertising campaign, with the two 60 second ads kicking off tomorrow during ITV’s ‘Grease Is The Word’.
The background
Since its initial ‘launch’, back in December 2006, when UK journalists were gathered together at BT’s [...]
Posted by Reese Zollinger on 9 May 2007 | Tagged as: Apple, IPTV, Joost, Reviews, Services, Shift to Web delivery
Poor old Reese. He won the competition, but his computer wasn’t up to it. Wise words from him none the less.
Posted by Simon Perry on 1 March 2007 | Tagged as: Advertising, Analysis, Business, Cable TV, Cross platform, Financials, IPTV, Physical Formats, Satellite-delivered, Video on Demand (VoD)
There’s some mighty big numbers knocking around iSupply’s estimates of what the video content world will be worth.
Posted by Simon Perry on 22 February 2007 | Tagged as: Broadband, Distribution, IPTV, Microsoft, Shift to Web delivery, TV related, UK
IPTV is coming to your Xbox 360, and it’s going to be shown in London for the first time in Europe in March.
Posted by The Diffusion Group on 11 January 2007 | Tagged as: Analysis, Distribution, IPTV, Microsoft, Shift to Web delivery
Slotting in nicely with Microsoft’s Xbox/IPTV Announcement (You’ll be able to watch IPTV through your Xbox toward the end of the year). Just the Beginning, says The Diffusion Group.
Posted by Simon Perry on 4 December 2006 | Tagged as: BT, Digital TV, Distribution, IPTV, UK, Video on Demand (VoD)
By way of a background to BT Vision (launching today), here’s some background on where the boss saw it going.
Posted by Simon Perry on 9 November 2006 | Tagged as: BT, Content, IPTV, UK
BT Vision is building up content for its IPTV service, this time with Walt Disney.
