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- DVBLink for IPTV 1.0 (Windows)
- DVBLink for IPTV seamlessly integrates TV and radio channels from your ISP or picture from your IP-enabled web/security cameras into MediaCenter, including support for MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 HD video, multichannel audio, EPG information, teletext and subtitles. DVBLink enables all native TV control features of MediaCenter for these channels such as...
- Tags: Channel, IP Television, Microsoft Windows, DVBLogic, DVBLink, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- Software downloads 2009-06-15
- The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: Leveraging Broadband Stimulus for IPTV Services in Lower-Density Markets
- The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 ARRA represents a unique opportunity for network operators to upgrade their networks and greatly enhance their service delivery capabilities. IP video is a key component for serving communities, and IPTV, in particular, represents essential next-generation services which open up valuable revenue opportunities...
- Tags: Lucent Technologies Inc., Recovery, Network, IP Television, Broadband, Alcatel, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications
- White papers 2009-06-09
- IPTV: More Than a Pretty Picture
- IPTV is a game-changing technology. But for telecommunications providers to successfully roll out and drive customer adoption of IPTV services, they must leverage the interactivity delivered by the IP side of the equation. This means developing, delivering and supporting new types of complex software applications that are delivered along with...
- Tags: IP Television, Computer Associates International Inc., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications
- White papers 2009-03-01
- Rapidly deploy new services with confidence in service quality
- Telecommunications operators compete in a market defined by change and continually advancing technology. Up-to-the-minute technologies such as IP virtual private network (IP-VPN), IP television IPTV and Voice over IP VoIP are must-have offerings that can make the difference between keeping a large corporate account and losing out to a competitor.
- Tags: VoIP, IP Television, IP, VPNs, TVs, Telephony, Networking, Tv & Home Theater, Telecommunications, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Network Security, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- White papers 2009-02-04
- Espial Uses SmartDraw to Close Deals Faster and Make Complex IPTV Applications Understandable
- On the cutting edge of on-demand video applications for a global clientele, Espial's 100 member team is constantly expanding their product capabilities, deploying system enhancements for customers, and creating dynamic proposals to win big new accounts. SmartDraw is the perfect fit for the non-stop nature of this growing entertainment technology...
- Tags: IP Television, On-demand, Video, SmartDraw, Company, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Managed Hosting, Corporate Communications, Broadband Internet, Cloud Computing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Telecommunications
- Case studies 2009-01-16
- An Introduction to IPTV
- Internet Protocol Television, or IPTV, refers to television that is distributed over an IP network the same kind of network one uses to surf the internet and exchange emails. In reality, much more than television can be sent over a network. Using IPTV technology, an organisation can easily distribute terrestrial...
- Tags: IP Television, Exterity, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Social Networking Global Survey Results & Practical Steps to Secure Your Organization
- A recent survey of 1,200 corporate Internet users showed that 77 percent of employees use social networks. And while their employers believe that only 10 percent of them use IPTV in the workplace, the true figure is actually 78 percent. Data points that further support the Internet has changed significantly...
- Tags: Network, IP Television, Survey, FaceTime Communications, Internet, Social Networking, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications
- Webcasts 2009-01-01
- Raketu 3.0.1.0 (Windows)
- Raketu, unique technology delivering integrated Communications, Information and Entertainment. Raketu's current release includes: voice calling (multi-line and conferencing), dialing out to landline/mobile, any IM (Yahoo, MSN, Skype, AOL, ICQ, Google, Jabber), SMS texting, file transfer,ipTV, VOD, email, news/sports/weather/stock/podcast feeds, integrated search and travel search, full media player w/karaoke, games -...
- Tags: Raketu Communications, VoD, IP Television, Microsoft Windows, Video On Demand (VoD), Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Broadband Internet, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2008-12-12
- With Windows 7, Media Center Is All About the TV
- This paper speaks about Windows 7 Media Center that will feature easy access to IPTV content; integrated TV guides with IPTV, standard- and hi-def content; rich touchscreen capabilities; more customizable content; friendlier Media Center features for PC users; and superior tools for finding, accessing, and navigating through a variety of...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Media Center PC, IP Television, Media Center PCs, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows CE, Keyboards, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Hardware, Peripherals
- White papers 2008-12-11
- Preserving Video Quality in IPTV Networks
- Growing numbers of service providers are implementing video services over IP networks, and discovering the unique challenges of providing a high quality of experience QoE to subscribers. Delivering consistent QoE in packet-switched networks can be a complex proposition due to the high sensitivity of video traffic to packet loss, as...
- Tags: Network, IP Television, IP, Video, Corporate Communications, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Networking, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- White papers 2008-11-01
- 2.8% of households wordlwide to have Internet TV by 2012
- Global subscriptions to Internet-based TV are on track to reach 19.6 mln subscribers in 2008, a 64% increase, according to Gartner. Revenue from worldwide Internet protocol television is forecast to reach $4.5 bln, up 93.5% from a year earlier, with Western Europe boasting the largest number of IPTV subscribers and...
- Tags: Revenue, IP Television, Internet TV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, AM
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- Cerf's call for simple pricing: Net Neutrality all over again
- Vint Cerf, one of the co-inventors of the underlying technology that makes the Web work, now Google's Internet evangelist, has issued a call for throughput-based pricing by ISPs. This in response to the Comcast ruling by the FCC, which ordered the cable carrier to stop interfering with certain kinds of...
- Tags: Vint Cerf, Network, IP Television, Net Neutrality, Pricing Strategy, Carrier, Cerf, 6MBps, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Federal Government, Internet, TVs, Pricing, Broadband Internet, Tv & Home Theater, Networking, Government, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Telecommunications, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Building An Efficient IPTV Content Supply Chain
- IPTV and video-on-demand promise to open up major new video options for consumers and significant revenue opportunities for service providers. In order to compete with Internet-based video services, IPTV service providers must be able to deliver the broadest possible range of content at any time to any device. And they...
- Tags: Supply Chain, IP Television, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Video On Demand (VoD), Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications
- Webcasts 2008-07-23
- Top states with IPTV interest: Hawaii, New Jersey, North Dakota
- Top states with IPTV interest: Hawaii, New Jersey, North Dakotapeoples are live in dakota...thats goodI live in New York. but I am originally from North Dakota and I am agreed with your comments. You have good information of this place. North Dakota is a evergreen state .there is a good...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, IP television
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Fulfilling the IPTV Digital Supply Chain: Challenges and Opportunities
- Fulfilling the IPTV supply chain involves the coordination of processes involved in content manufacturing and distribution. Network topologies, network and data security, optimization of bandwidth resources, and content tracking are all critical components to the complex series of relationships involving content owners and those offering IPTV-services. In an all-digital, any...
- Tags: Signiant Inc., Supply Chain, IP Television, Supply Chain Management (SCM), TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications
- White papers 2008-07-01
- Enabling IPTV: What's Needed in the Access Network
- Service providers around the globe have begun commercializing triple play services to better compete with cable and satellite operators. While this is helping boost Average Revenue Per User ARPU, it is placing unprecedented stress on the traditional high-speed Internet infrastructure. This paper examines the issues of deploying triple play services...
- Tags: Lucent Technologies Inc., Microsoft Access, Network, IP Television, Alcatel, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Networking, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications
- White papers 2008-04-14
- IPTV revenues to reach $14 bln by 2012
- IPTV service revenues will approach $14 bln in 2012, growing from $694 mln in 2007, according to Strategy Analytics. by AM
- Tags: Revenue, IP Television, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Operational Accounting, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Finance, AM
- Blog posts 2008-03-22
- 12.3 mln IPTV subscribers worldwide
- The number of Internet TV subscribers more than doubled in 2007 to 12.3 mln worldwide. Western Europe, led by France, accounted for 57% of global IPTV subscribers, Informa Telecoms & Media said. China now has about 1 mln IPTV subscribers and Hong Kong already had 1 mln in September 2007,...
- Tags: Subscriber, IP Television, TVs, Broadband Internet, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, AM
- Blog posts 2008-03-11
- Analysis and Realization of IPTV Service Quality
- Digital Television TV service over Internet Protocol IP networks is becoming a crucial element in a network provider's portfolio. However, the limitations of the existing communication networks and the complexity of the service impose many operational, performance, and scalability barriers. Analytic discussion of service quality is non-trivial because of the...
- Tags: Network, IP Television, Service Quality, Analysis, TVs, Corporate Communications, Networking, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing
- White papers 2008-02-27
- 54% of Americans not familiar with IPTV
- 54% of respondents to WebsEdge survey were not familiar with the term IPTV or web-based TV, and only a fifth (20%) had seen an IPTV show or program that was not YouTube, though a huge majority (92%) had watched videos on YouTube. by AM
- Tags: IP Television, YouTube Inc., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, AM
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
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