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NewsTelekom Austria doing HD, time-shifting
Telekom Austria is making an IPTV push, upgrading its aonTV service with the help of Alcatel-Lucent to offer time-shifted TV and HDTV capabilities. The telco also is working on expanding availability Read more...
Spotlight: Two rural telcos tap Comtrend
Two rural telcos have separately chosen Comtrend to deliver ADSL2+ bonded residential gateways to support the rollout of IPTV services. The bonded aspect allows the gateways to support up to 48 Mbps Read more...
Networks ready for HD programming pile-up?
High-definition television always has been viewed as a nice benefit of new TV delivery technologies, but 2008 may prove to be the year HDTV becomes a significant battlefield in the competitive war Read more...
SureWest chooses ADB set-top boxes
Independent telco SureWest Communications will deploy HDTV set-top boxes with DVR capabilities from Advanced Digital Broadcast. The telco, one of the pioneering IPTV players in the U.S. market, Read more...
Verizon: High-tech households driving GPON
Michael Daigle, vice president of network planning at Verizon Communications, sees the multi-user, multi-device home as the major driver for the telco's ongoing deployment of gigabit passive optical Read more...
Middleware frustrations stymie HD rollout
A number of regional telcos are learning first hand about the pain of moving to HD. As the satellite and cable operators aggressively ramp up their HD offerings--although a rocket failure has delayed Read more...
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FiOS runs out of televisions
Verizon's high-profile campaign to sign up FiOS subs by offering a free 19-inch Sharp HD television has become an embarrassment after Verizon had to admit the televisions would take up to 15 weeks Read more...
Samsung announces 82 " 3D ultra-high definition TV
Samsung has released its vision for next generation TV, a bandwidth-hogging, 3D-immersive digital cinema. Eighty-two inches big and using four times the pixels of HDTV, the ultra-high definition set Read more...
Netflix and LG go for video on demand
The fight for the TV consumer is being played out at several levels with video in the post provider Netflix abandoning its own set-top box ambitions and announcing it would go with a box to be built Read more...
| Press ReleasesCyberTAN Announces Family of Home-Gateways Based on Teknovus’ EPON ONU for the Asia FTTx Market PETALUMA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Teknovus, the leading provider of Gigabit Ethernet Passive Optical Network (G-EPON) chips for the Read more... Verizon Plans Fivefold Increase in HD Channels on FiOS TV in 2008Streaming21 and XAVi Technologies Showcase IPTV Solutions at IP Comm Asia 2007 Strategic partnership to demo end-to-end IPTV and HDTV solutions Taipei, Taiwan - October 22, 2007 - Streaming21, the world's leader in broadcast-quality streaming solutions, together with its set-top box partner, XAVi Technologies, a member of Chicony Electronics Business Group (2365 TT), will showcase their fully integrated IPTV and HDTV solutions at IP Comm Asia 2007 in Taipei, Taiwan, October 23-25. Visitors will experience exciting live demos of end-to-end IPTV solutions with amazing high-definition video quality and theater-like display. "We believe 2008 Read more... Hitachi to Demonstrate Multiple Innovative Video Applications ATLANTA, GA, October 22, 2007 – Hitachi Telecom (USA), Inc., today announced the content of the company’s demonstrations at the TelcoTV Conference and Expo, to be held in Atlanta, Georgia on October 23-25, 2007. Centered around the Hitachi AMN1220 GPON platform, the company will address several applications that increase the value and reach of GPON FTTP deployments. Hitachi is in booth 537, at the Georgia World Congress Center. Read more... |