Net neutrality threatens Internet investment dollars
Apr 16, 2008 4:58 PM
Any new government policies regarding the Internet should be focused on advancing broadband deployment in the United States, not trying to impose regulations on Internet service providers, who are investing billions in infrastructure, the head of USTelecom told an audience at the NAB Show this week...
|
Content first IPTV consideration, panel says
Apr 16, 2008 4:56 PM
As IPTV operators seek greater cooperation with broadcasters, content should be their first and foremost consideration, according to a panel of broadcasting and telco executives. The NAB discussion “True Hollywood Story,” moderated by Whit Jackson, VP of business development and studio relations at SecureMedia, concluded that the rules have changed for IPTV providers, and they now must meet the conditions of licensing content, rather than just transporting it...
|
TM Forum demos Content Encounter
Apr 16, 2008 4:54 PM
The TM Forum, a cross between a trade association and standards body, realized that as convergence was becoming more of a reality, the telcos would have to expand their ecosystems to welcome the content companies into the mix. The result of this realization was the Content Encounter, which went public in November of last year...
|
Industry Perspective: Kamil Grajski, FLO Forum president
Apr 16, 2008 4:51 PM
As the mobile TV market continues to attract a lot of attention at the conference, Kamil Grajski, VP of engineering for QUALCOMM and president of FLO Forum, spoke with Telephony associate news editor Sarah Reedy about what the FLO Forum sees as the three biggest trends in mobile TV today...
|
Securing the future of IPTV
Apr 16, 2008 4:49 PM
Layers of security protection for IPTV may have a place in doing more than just deterring content thieves. Measures like deep packet inspection (DPI) and digital rights management (DRM) — once somewhat controversial — are now key elements in maintaining relevancy and taking IPTV across all three screens, according to industry executives today...
|
IPTV still a quality challenge
Apr 16, 2008 4:47 PM
IPTV providers still face multiple challenges in managing end-to-end quality on their networks, because of the technology’s many moving parts and the lack of standards, equipment vendors say...
|
Thomson ready for middleware run
Apr 16, 2008 4:45 PM
Thomson is finally ready to make a run at the U.S. middleware market, the video giant said at this year’s NAB Show. That could be good news for Tier 2 and Tier 3 telcos in the United States, who have lately complained about what they see as limited middleware options...
|
Panel discusses local content production tools
Apr 16, 2008 5:12 PM
"Content Production Potpourri – Hot Products for Producing Local Content" was held Wednesday, April 16, 2:10 -5 p.m., and was moderated by Steven Hawley, senior IP Analyst, Multimedia Research Group...
|
IP-PRIME signs telcos to HD agreements
Apr 16, 2008 6:00 PM
IP-PRIME, the leading provider of turnkey IP-based video services, has announced the addition of 12 new HD programming agreements with local telephone operators...
|
Verizon brings FiOS to New York City
Apr 16, 2008 5:59 PM
Verizon has announced that it has filed the required regulatory documents to bring its FiOS service to New York City and will begin doing so this year...
|
Is network-based DVR an IPTV savior?
Apr 16, 2008 5:20 PM
Delivering HD content on-demand from the network could solve some bandwidth constraint issues, but content providers in the United States have yet to be convinced...
|
Middleware snags stalling HD, DVR rollouts
Apr 15, 2008 6:01 PM
Shortcomings in middleware are causing headaches among some rural telcos, interfering with their plans to offer HD video and digital video recorder (DVR) services...
|
The view from the living room couch
Apr 14, 2008 5:02 PM
As far as customers are concerned, it’s more about TV than IPTV. So how can service providers help customers understand such things as eight-hour installation times, and should they even bother explaining that the TV now has its own IP address? ...
|
Pushing copper’s speed limits
Apr 9, 2008 5:08 PM
Telcos planning to use copper as part of their IPTV delivery systems are pushing their vendors to get as much bandwidth as possible out of those embedded copper lines. Equipment vendors are now discovering new ways to get that additional bandwidth from copper access lines...
|
IPTV: The telco catch-22?
Apr 2, 2008 6:26 PM
IPTV is finally coming of age. Major telcos in the United States and overseas have launched their services and now compete with cable and satellite operators in the pay-TV market. In the broader market of content delivery, consumers have even more choice, as online players and consumer electronics giants enter the game.
The big question is: Who will triumph in this battle for domination of the living room? In an increasingly competitive market, will IPTV ever be profitable for telcos, or is it actually a catch-22 — can't survive without it, can't make money from it?...
|
|
|
Advertisement
Telephony's Guide to IPTV: Spring 2008
Mar 19, 2008 1:22 PM
In this special IPTV report, we investigate IPTV's toughest critics--its users--and have them weigh in on the good, the bad and the ugly of the television offering. As well, editor-in-chief Carol Wilson explores customer quality of experience issues to find out what kind of proactive monitoring measures can be taken to help overcome quality challenges. Don't miss this and much more inside this issue....
|
Exploring IPTV at NAB
Mar 19, 2008 1:22 PM
James McQuivey, principal analyst at Forrester Research, talks with Associate News Editor Sarah Reedy about the growing presence of IPTV at the NAB Show this week in Las Vegas....
|
- IPTV at NAB, April 16, 2008
- IPTV at NAB, April 15, 2008
- IPTV at NAB, April 14, 2008
- IPTV at NAB, April 10, 2008
- IPTV at NAB, April 3, 2008
- IPTV at NAB, March 27, 2008
- IPTV at NAB, March 20, 2008
- IPTV at NAB, March 13, 2008
No turning back now
Apr 16, 2008 5:34 PM
The truth is: The United States blew this broadband thing decades ago, probably back in the late 1980s. That’s when some bright people, who didn’t know what the Internet was going to become, said it would be smart to break up the local phone companies into component parts ...
|
IPTV set-top box quandaries confront Tier 2, Tier 3 telcos, says Bulk
Mar 11, 2008 4:39 PM
In this edition, IPTV Update concludes its conversation with Frank Bulk, technology and product development manager at Premier Communications in Sioux Center, IA, about the real-world IPTV deployment experiences of Tier 2 and Tier 3 telcos in the United States...
|
Clueless on IPTV quality?
Mar 5, 2008 5:31 PM
Service providers used to build quality networks for voice services. Then they began offering data and needed to guarantee a quality of service for that data. Now, as they offer video, they need to guarantee a quality of experience for the video consumer...
|
Converging on an opportunity
Mar 3, 2008 5:29 PM
As an industry, we see signs that the convergence of the Web, wireline and wireless networks is well underway. The next logical step is the delivery of content to all three screens – TV, PC and mobile device. What will this mean for the people who will use the services?...
|
Change is just around the corner
Jan 1, 2008 12:03 PM
The pressures on bandwidth — stemming from the shift of services from SD to HD and the demand for new channels — means that a migration from MPEG-2 to the more efficient MPEG-4 is inevitable...
|
Where
Content Comes to Life
Conferences: April 11-17, 2008
Exhibits: April 14-17, 2008
Las Vegas Convention Center
From Broadcasting to Broader-castingSM, the NAB Show™ has
evolved over the last eight decades to continually lead this ever-changing
industry. And while the solutions at your fingertips have changed to keep pace
with consumer lifestyles, habits and technologies, your aspirations to produce
and deliver memorable content have remained consistent. From conception through
distribution, the NAB Show has proudly served as the incubator for excellence
– helping to breathe life into content everywhere.
From Hollywood to Bollywood, Beijing to Buenos
Aires, Cannes to Cape Town, Montreal to Mexico City, and Sydney to St.
Petersburg, the global community of content professionals converges at the NAB
Show – uniting the creative process with the converging technologies,
harnessing the promise of state-of-the-art concepts and equipment to power the
future of content creation, management and delivery.
Click
here for information on the 2008 NAB Show.
|
