IP TV
Nielsen reports people are leaving cable TV in favor of other sources
For quite some while I have been noticing a move among my circle friends away from cable services. Yes I know it is just empirical data, but I believed it was the start of a trend, at least among the tech-savvy. One friend in South San Francisco canned his ...
SES announces in-home distribution of IP-based satellite TV
SES announces their newest technology that allows distribution of satellite TV in your home. The exciting part is that you will be able to take any IP-enabled device in your home and watch whatever video you wish from the content provider. You can use Ethernet, fiber and Wi-Fi to connect your ...
NimbleTV starts streaming paid content over broadband
Today is the beginning of a test where NimbleTV will start streaming paid TV to a group of customers. This is a test that is being limited to New York City. Initially, this test streams 26 different channels. By this summer, they will go live and have the general public sign ...
aioTV and Broadcast International partner for improved OTT content product for IPTV
It looks like there will be many breakthroughs in IPTV at the NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) convention in Las Vegas this week. Broadcast International, Inc. and aioTV will be offering their services to deliver OTT (Over The Top) content. This new partnership is being described as the platform to deliver ...
One quarter of broadband households view TV on devices other than TV
One fourth of all households that have broadband service regularly watch streaming TV on devices of the than their TVs. PCs, tablets and smartphones are the leaders in streaming TV. In fact, at least one-third of people with broadband access in their homes have streamed at least one TV show in ...
31 percent of household broadband customers get movies and TV directly from their broadband
That’s right; thirty-one percent of the households that have broadband get movies and TV shows directly from the Internet. Services such as Netflix and Hulu have accounted for a lot of this, but dedicated devices are starting to penetrate the market. A recent report from Parks Associates of Dallas, Texas said ...
Are the new products by Samsung ringing the death toll for set top boxes?
Samsung’s new Smart Blu-ray Players and Smart TVs may have started the death march for set top boxes. These new products will soon be equipped with the Verizon FiOS TV App. If you are a subscriber to Verizon’s FiOS TV, you will be able to directly access 26 live television channels. ...
Sony to push television innovation to a new level
Sony is known for being on the cutting edge of innovation. They make cameras, camcorders, computers and tablets, TVs phones, home entertainment, game consoles, on-line games, movies, films and a whole huge catalog of music. That is just the consumer side. I remember visiting a Sony building on Zanker Road in ...
Google cable TV a perfect match for Googles 1 Gbps network
Google must have been thinking of challenging the cable TV companies when they started testing their 1Gbps network that delivers a blinding-fast download and upload network to the home. With such a great bandwidth, they could easily push IP/TV along with all the data you could wish to obtain. Google definitely ...
CenturyLink may offer IPTV to some customers
CenturyLink did not plan to get into the IPTV business. After they bought Qwest, they saw a possible way to regain customers they were losing to cable companies. Qwest had not planned to enter the IPTV business, but they had planned to support OTT (Over The Top) IPTV service through third-party ...
