A bunch of stories on IPTV over this last week…
– Why is Asia leading the Global IPTV Revolution?: What may be surprising to many people is the fact that Asia is leading the IPTV revolution and is the fastest growing market for IPTV with subscribers set to double in the next 12 months, followed by Europe and the U.S. as a distant third.
– Time to Rethink US TelcoTV: The US TelcoTV industry has yet to learn the lessons of their predecessors, and would be well advised to reassess the assumptions upon which current deployment paths have been built.
– Phone Companies Using Microsoft Hit TV Service Snags: WSJ on MSFT’s IPTV software problems…
– SBC’s Service Delayed: SBC is unlikely to meet its timetable for offering the IPTV service over its 13-state region in the next three years, but says it pushed back its target date because of problems installing high-speed fiber lines, not because of problems with the Microsoft software.
– Triple play: clearly coming of age: Telefonica’s mix of content offerings and pricing secured it 40,000 subscribers in the first three months since launch and the company now expects 300,000 subscribers by year end.
– HDTV Pushes Telcos Toward MPEG-4: Driven mainly by a need to cost-effectively deliver high-definition (HD) television, many telco TV providers are now preparing to use the more cost-efficient MPEG-4 video compression standard.
The IPTV Roundup Report is sponsored by Maven Networks.
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