Tag archive: IPTV

It's official: people love apps no matter what device they're on. Samsung has revealed that more than 2 million apps have been downloaded from its Samsung Apps store, which is one of the first app stores made for televisions. After it launched its app store in March 2010, it took leader in Internet-enabled TVs until November to hit 1 million downloads, but it has already doubled that number to 2 million in under two months.… Read More

Google may have asked TV makers to hold back Google TV, but that isn't stopping Sony. At Sony's CES booth, Internet TV is all over the place, and it's all powered by Google. We first tried out these TVs at Sony's launch event back in October, and it doesn't appear the software has changed since then. Though the concept is good, Google TV is still underwhelming, both in set-top boxes like the Logitech Revue and… Read More

Market analysis firm Gartner says the number of IPTV subscribers—folks who subscribe to video services delivered over the Internet—is on pace to reach a total of 19.6 million subscribers worldwide by the end of 2008, which would represent a 64.1 percent increase over 12 million IPTV users in 2007. Gartner also projects that the IPTV market will represent $4.5 billion in business during 2008 (a 93.5 percent increase over 2007) and… Read More

Video-on-demand and IPTV developer MatrixStream has announced that it's getting into the in-vehicle entertainment business with its MX2 wireless touch screen IPTV terminal and its MX-Drive in-vehicle IPTV platform. The idea is to provide passengers both standard definition and high-definition content via the Internet—and MatrixStream claims the MX-drive platform will even operate over “very low bandwidth” conditions… Read More

In a research report looking at the state of the IPTV industry, research firm Gartner forecasts that, in the future, PCs aren't likely to serve as the central hubs of in-home networks. Instead, set-top boxes—such as those offered by televisions providers—are more likely to be at the core of entertainment functions on home networks. “The PC is an important part of the entertainment-based network, and most networks… Read More

Internet TV has become a major focus for European phone companies, and several have plans to announce big expansions in the field at the Internationale Funkausstellung, Europe’s big consumer electronics show, which begins in Berlin on Friday.   Users pay between around $40-80 a month to receive digital broadcasts over the networks run by the phone companies (as opposed to cable or satellite). These can then be watched on televisions… Read More

At the NXTcomm conference in Chicago, software giant Microsoft announced the availability of Microsoft Mediaroom, a new version of the company's IPTV platform currently deployed by AT&T and over a dozen other Internet television operators in Europe and Asia. Mediaroom adds image and music sharing features to the platform, along with picture-in-picture capabilities and features which will enable applications to access the Internet… Read More

As part of its CES announcements, Microsoft has announced plans to bring Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) to its Xbox 360 gaming system. As envisioned, the technology with enable Xbox 360 owners to tune into television content streamed to their consoles via the Internet and home broadband connections, and integrate with other IP-based services on the Xbox 360 like instant messaging, voice and text chat, and even gaming. "Both… Read More

A new market forecast from Ireland's Research and Markets predicts massive growth for Internet-delivered television—or IPTV—services by 2010, accounting for more than 53 million subscribers and revenue of $38 billion worldwide by the year 2009. The forecast is basically in line with forward-looking analysis from other firms—for instance, iSuppli recently predicted 63 million IPTV users by 2010—but comes with a… Read More

In conjunction with set-top box makers Cisco, Motorola, Philips, and Tatung, Microsoft announced that set-top boxes with embedded system-on-a-chip (SoC) support for Microsoft's IPTV platform are now available. The new SoC Set-tops boxes are HD-capable, integrate chipsets from Sigma Designs and STMicroelectronics, and enable IPTV providers to deploy new services as the industry turns its attention to delivering video content via… Read More

Internet television—or IPTV—is mostly a pipe-dream right now, with a handful of services up and running, many of which are limited to small trial markets. And who wants to have Mom's bad celebrity dancing show pulling bandwidth from your eight-way first-person shooter Internet deathmatch? But market research firm iSuppli says the IPTV market is poised to explode from just 2.4 million users in 2005 to over 63 million users… Read More

Recent reports suggest that global IPTV subscriptions are expected to jump from 2 million to 34 million between 2005 and 2010. North America is expected to see the quickest growth with aforecasted 14 million households by 2010 accounting for 80% of these subscriptions. While the IPTV market seems to be moving along slowly, albeit steadily, this has been due to small rural operatorsrather than large companies such as Verizon and AT&T,… Read More

One must always question the source of market projections like this, but a new survey, U.S. Consumer Attitudes toward Interactive IPTV Applications, conducted by In-Stat (and sponsored by Siemens) finds that 18 percent of early adapters who now subscribe to cable or satellite television services say they would “probably” or “definitely” switch to IP-based television services offered by their local telephone… Read More

A new study from JupiterResearch finds that 52 percent of consumers surveyed would switch to a different pay TV service to get a better price for the same channel lineup they currently access. “While Internet Protocol TV proponents get caught up in the futuristic possibilities of the technology, consumers remain much more levelheaded about what they look for in a TV service,” said Joseph Laszlo, Research Director at… Read More

In Evaluating IPTV Vendor Strategies, TDG Research found in a survey of more than 100 IPTV vendors in Europe, Asian, and the United States found that careful selection of vendors will be critical service operators as they try to jump into the nascent IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) market. Recent delays in the deployment of IPTV services by SBC, Telstra, Swisscom, and others have largely hinged on technical and inter-operational difficulties,… Read More