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Tiscali powers down IPTV service
Italian service provider Tiscali was planning as of last week to shut down its IPTV service in its home country on Dec. 31. The company sent a letter to its roughly 50,000 subscribers in late... Read more >>
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2009 CES: TV at the forefront
I'm attending my first Consumer Electronics Show this week in many, many years, and unfortunately, it looks like it will be a down year for a big event that steals the global tech spotlight every... Read more >>
Spotlight: Netflix-LG offer worth watching
As our sibling publication FierceOnlineVideo and other media outlets reported yesterday, Netflix and LG are teaming up on a video streaming service that bypasses set-top boxes (as well as Netflix'... Read more >>
BT exec defends IPTV progress
BT Vision chief Dan Marks, in an interview with London's Daily Telegraph, lashed out against criticism of the telco IPTV offering's pace of progress. BT Vision has about 350,000 U.K. customers after... Read more >>
CES: Bouygues goes with Verimatrix
In the first of what we hope will be several postings this week related to the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, we highlight an announcement from conditional access software... Read more >>
CR likes telco TV over cable
In the for-what-it's-worth category, Consumer Reports magazine has endorsed the TV services of AT&T and Verizon Communications over those of the companies' cable TV competitors. Telco TV services... Read more >>
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- Report: Motorola eliminated video-related jobs
- 2008 Year in Review: Targeted advertising nears prime time
- 2008 Year in Review: The set-top box evolution is upon us
Also Noted
> Yahoo! plans to bring online widgets and video to Samsung HDTVs.
> Alpha Networks has launched a new IPTV set-top box solution.
> Intel and Adobe plan to bring Flash video to TVs.
Commentary
2008 Year in Review: The talk of 2008
When you look at how the IPTV sector progressed in 2008, there is a lot to like and just a little cause for concern. What's to like: Subscriber growth from one country to the next throughout the... Read more >>
Special Feature
FierceIPTV Special Report: Video transcoding
IPTV operators and other TV service providers don't want to be known only for delivering TV content to TV appliances. Perhaps it will be a while before we figure out a way of describing these... Read more >>
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