IPTV Content Roundup: World Forum Coverage; Confusion; Critical Mass

The IPTV portals to nowhere:Why would anyone want their TV provider to be the gateway to their highly personal interactive services? Can we imagine a time when people will log in to check their Sky.com email account for instance?

IPTV World Forum 2006: the role of broadband in content delivery:T he telcos’ message for the studios was to “soften” their attitude towards telcos’ entry into the content delivery space and to increase their confidence in the telcos’ ability to execute successful DRM.

Industry goes mad for IPTV: The truth is that IPTV is going through a first round of consolidation.

Microsoft: IPTV to reach critical mass this year: Ed Graczyk, director of marketing and communications for Microsoft TV, said the number of commercial users of IPTV services should scale up by the end of 2006.

IPTV: What Does It All Mean?: According to a survey of 6,000 users across the US and Europe (Spain, UK, Italy, France and Germany), which was commissioned by Accenture, 46 per cent did not understand what the IPTV term referred to. (In Italy, four percent of respondents thought IPTV was a new TV game show.)

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