The global market for IPTV set-top boxes will rapidly increase in terms of shipments and revenue in the years to come, offering increased competition to legacy products in the STB market, according to a report from iSuppli. Sales of IPTV set-top boxes will grow from 19.4 million units in 2009 to 58 million in 2014, […]

Arab Radio and Television Network (ART), the leading Arabic language television network in the Middle East, and NeuLion, an end-to-end IPTV service provider, have inked a long-term partnership to distribute ART channels using NeuLion’s IPTV platform in Canada. The partnership names NeuLion as the exclusive IPTV technology provider and ART/IMD as the exclusive Arabic content […]

Amis Telekom has selected Swedish firm Edgeware to provide its video servers to power the on-demand element of the telco’s IPTV services, which it operates in Slovenia and Croatia. The telco’s IPTV service, called ‘Amis TV’, offers linear channels and on-demand video, network personal video recorder features and time-shifting capabilities, courtesy of the Edgeware servers.

Infonetics Research has released the fourth quarter editions of two video-related market share and forecast reports: Video Infrastructure and Subscribers and Set-Top Boxes and Subscribers. “In the ongoing battle between cable and telco IPTV operators, both continue to spend furiously to add video-on-demand and streaming content server capacity to support the rollout of on-demand HD […]

Football fans will be able to watch English Premier League games on IPTV under a new three-year agreement between ISP Etisalat and du, and Abu Dhabi Media Company, which owns the screening rights for EPL.

Subscribers in China to IPTV will double in 2010, the result of an official government push to accelerate convergence among the country's various telecommunications, broadcast and Internet operators. Subscribers in China to IPTV will jump to 8.5 million in 2010, rising by a hefty 96 per cent from 4.4 million in 2009, according to iSuppli. […]

From David Del Valle in Madrid Telefonica's IPTV platform Imagenio and Mediapro-owned pay DTT channel Gol TV are now leading the growth of the pay-TV in Spain capturing most subscriptions. By contrast, the largest pay-TV operators, the digital satellite platform Digital Plus and the cable company ONO are increasingly losing subs Imagenio added 90,000 subscribers […]

From Colin Mann at IPTV World Forum in London IPTV subscriptions are poised to grow from over 30 million in 2010 to 68 million by the end of 2014, according to analyst firm Strategy Analytics, with Asia Pacific and Western Europe leading in deployments. Although IPTV's future seems promising, Strategy Analytics experts suggest that providers […]

From David Del Valle in Madrid In an attempt to foster subscriptions, Telefonica-controlled IPTV platform Imagenio has launched a new basic tier called Imagenio Flexible, at a price of E10 a month, including a rental decoder. The new offer gives access to commercial TV channels, DTT platform, Regional channels, International news channels as well as […]

Playcast Media has confirmed partnerships with some of the video game industry's top publishers including Atari, Capcom, Codemasters and THQ. Playcast Media delivers console-free video gaming directly through existing Cable and IPTV set-top boxes and is the first gaming-on-demand technology for Cable and IPTV in the world. Playcast Media’s system uses a proprietary new technology […]