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FiOS TV: ‘you better believe there’s cord cutting’

Against the trend of US cable pay TV providers Verizon’s director of consumer video services Maitreyi Krishnaswamy, who is responsible for the company’s FIOS TV service, told  The Tampa Tribune “[the cord cutting trend] is not stopping. It’s growing. The question is: Is it growing enough for us?” Most traditional TV services vendors would rather […]

September 7, 2012

Teleste easy access OTT for cable operators

Teleste, an international technology group specialised in broadband video and data communication systems and services, has introduced its first complete OTT solution for cable operators. The new Teleste Ubique includes everything cable operators need to bring TV Everywhere services to their customers. Ubique reduces the time needed to integrate OTT to a cable operator’s offering […]

September 7, 2012

India bans two cable MSOs

India’s government is getting tough over its analogue-to-digital plans. Two Delhi-based cable operators have just had their licences revoked because of their failure to report progress – if any – on their obligations. India’s Information & Broadcasting Ministry has cancelled the licenses held by Home Cable Network and Swami Cable Network, citing their failure for […]

August 31, 2012By Chris Forrester

Pace picks up speed in Indian cable market

Pace has announced that its pre-integrated software, conditional access and set-top box solution has been selected by three Indian cable operators, Delhi Distribution Company (DDC), Faction Digital, and New Delhi and Kozhikode Cablecommunicators Ltd.(KCL), Calicut, to support their move to digital services. Pace has designed its pre-integrated solution to provide a cost-effective alternative to operators […]

August 31, 2012

Kabel Deutschland HD package in 1m+ homes

Kabel Deutschland, Germany’s largest cable operator, has reported that over 1 million digital TV customers are now subscribing to its HD package. The HD package was launched in October 2011 and will be expanded to 35 channels by October this year – with the addition of Cartoon Network HD, AXN HD and Kinowelt HD.

August 30, 2012

Next-gen VoD from SeaChange and TiVo

Multi-screen video software specialist SeaChange International and advanced television entertainment expert TiVo have announced the availability of their joint Cardio solution for cable television operators to deliver an advanced video-on-demand (VoD) experience to subscribers using TiVo set-top boxes including the latest multi-tuner DVR models. This new generation Cardio solution now supports Cisco digital cable platforms […]

August 16, 2012

On-demand revenues to climb 54%

On-demand TV revenues from movies and TV programmes (and excluding revenues from other sources such as sports and adult and also excluding SVoD packages and the Internet) will reach $6.0 billion in 2017, up from $3.9 billion in 2011 and $2.3 billion in 2007, according to findings from Digital TV Research. The On-demand TV Revenue […]

August 15, 2012

US pay-TV providers lose 325,000 Q2 subs

Findings from research and analysis specialist Leichtman Research Group suggest that the thirteen largest multi-channel video providers in the US – representing about 94 per cent of the market – lost about 325,000 net additional video subscribers in Q2 2012. Quarterly net multi-channel video losses in Q2 2012 were only about 1,500 more than in […]

August 15, 2012

Is cord cutting making television better?

IHS Research reports that US pay-TV subs are being lost to Netflix users and other OTT providers. This is always an eye catching headline in our sector, and I confidently predict it will rise close to the top of our most-read parade in coming days. However, like a lot of similar reports, it is a […]

August 14, 2012

Kabel Deutschland 7.7% revenue growth

Growth across Internet, phone and TV market has driven KDH revenues for the quarter up by 7.7 per cent to €444 million. In comparison, in the first quarter of last year, revenues grew by 5.8 per cent year on year. TV revenues increased by 3.5 per cent to €294 million year on year, while Internet […]

August 14, 2012