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CopperGate Communications CG3210 HomePNA 3.1

Today at CES, CopperGate Communications, a provider of home networking technology for triple play IPTV and MDU access over existing wiring, announced its CopperStream CG3210, the highest speed solution for networking entertainment data over existing coax and telephone wires. The...

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Sat3Play Satellite Triple Play - cool stuff!

Apparently, I don't know everything in VoIP , since I never heard of Newtec's Sat3Play until this morning. Sat3Play is a Satellite Triple Play system that offers 2-way communication to enable VoIP, Internet access, and video (IPTV). They categorize it...

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Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV

Microsoft today announced that they have renamed Microsoft IPTV to Microsoft Mediaroom to more accurately reflect the comprehensive "media" functionality of their IPTV platform. In conjunction with the name change to Mediaroom, Microsoft announced several new features to its Internet...

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AT&T U-Verse Chance Encounter - What are the odds?

Late last week, I wrote about how I went into Best Buy and ran into an AT&T U-Verse sales rep pitching their U-Verse product. Well, over the weekend, I received an email from this same sales rep that I met...

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AT&T U-Verse offering 1 Year FREE of DISH Network

Yesterday, I was in Best Buy (Norwalk, CT store) walking past the TV section when I was approached by a guy standing by a table. He handed me some AT&T U-Verse literature and proceeded to pitch me on signing up...

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AT&T Lightspeed ahead! (NOT!)

AT&T won't be reaching 18 million homes this year with its "Lightspeed" U-Verse IPTV & VDSL broadband network, giving more credence to my AT&T U-Verse Doomed? article. The ironic thing is that AT&T just a few days go stated it...

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Sony Links HD with IPTV

Sony has revealed that it would now enable most of its new televisions, including High-Definition (HD), to play video from the Internet -- IPTV. According to recent reports, the company said the convergence of the Internet and other digital video with traditional devices was the...

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AT&T U-verse Doomed?

Many have heard of the difficulties in implementing AT&T's U-verse IPTV service. AT&T's U-verse network is actually a fiber/copper hybrid, which pulls fibers to 3,000 to 5,000 feet from the homes they serve, where it then connects to mini-DSLAMs called...

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Microsoft Carbon IPTV for the XBox 360 is real!

Microsoft Carbon for the XBox 360 is real. Microsoft Carbon is a rumored software add-on for the XBox 360 which would enable IPTV video playback. This, just after Slingbox also announced their IPTV offering called the SlingCatcher. Check out...

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I Want MyTVPal.com

MyTVPal.com is the world's first 1080P HD streaming Video on Demand (VOD) and IPTV service for PC Player and IPTV receiver set top box (STB) clients. (How about that description!) The service starts with more than 700 free IPTV channels from more than 70...

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VON = Voice on the Net or Video on the Net?

I didn't attend VON, so I cannot attest to the traffic numbers or how the "buzz" was at the show just a few short weeks ago. However, I found some interesting posts from bloggers and websites that discussed the VON...

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I Want My Karaoke Channel!

Forget American Idol! -- now here’s something really important. Interactive Television Networks, a leader in Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), recently announced the launch of The Karaoke Channel -- the first IPTV karaoke channel. A product of a three-year agreement between...

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Service providers spending nearly 40% of capex on triple play

Interesting survey from Infonetics that I thought I'd share regarding Triple Play expenditures. Service providers are really starting to ramp up their spending. Service providers around the globe see triple play services not merely as a means of increasing top-line...

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Belgacom IP-TV offers plug and play IP-TV experience

Today, SupportSoft announced that Belgacom's 800,000+ broadband subscribers can now enjoy the benefits of speedy and easy self-installation of an IPTV connection with the help of SupportSoft's SmartAccess solution. The SmartAccess tool enables Belgacom customers to verify their systems for...

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2006 the year of IPTV?

Is 2006 the year for IPTV? Certainly seems that way with all the releases I've been getting in email lately, including this one below, which lists broadband data and 400 IPTV channels. 400 channels? 400 CHANNELS!?!?! Sheesh! I only have...

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SupportSoft and Thomson team up for the Triple Play

I'm a huge fan of Triple Play or even Quadruple Play solutions. I mean who doesn't want IP-TV/video-on-demand, broadband, and VoIP all in one cost-savings bundled package? One of the challenges in Triple Play is the provisioning and management...

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IPTV set to skyrocket according to Infonetics

IPTV is going to be huge, no doubt about it. This report from Infonetics says IPTV is set to skyrocket: to 53.7M Subscribers, $44B in Service Revenue by 2009. I want my Triple Play, damn it! Why do the major...

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Terayon inserts ads into MPEG-4 IPTV streams

Terayon Communication Systems, Inc. a provider of digital video networking applications and home access solutions, today announced what they claim is the industry's first 'telco-optimized' solution that allows telecommunication service providers to create new advertising revenue streams to support their...

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FTTH Jealousy

Just got this news release on a FTTH deployment that includes IPTV, voice, video, video-on-demand, HDTV, ludicrous 100 Mbps Internet speeds, and more. Man, my cable broadband is starting to look like lame dial-up when I read news releases like...

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Coaxsys and ConFocus to offer TVNet (Ethernet-over-Coax)

Coaxsys, Inc., makers of multimedia-over-coax solutions, will announce tomorrow that it has reached an agreement with ConFocus Technologies, Inc., to provide set-top box reference designs with integrated TVnet. TVnet, the standard for Ethernet-over-Coax, is already deployed by more than fifty...

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Consolidated Communications Uses Coaxsys' TVnet to Deliver IPTV in the Home

On Monday (18th), Consolidated Communications (15th largest telco in the U.S.) and Coaxsys will announce that: Consolidated has begun deploying Coaxsys' TVnet products in homes enabling Consolidated to provide IPTV service or the third piece of the "triple play" to...

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SBC IPTV Offering

SBC Communications announced at CES their plan to go after the cable television industry by offering consumers hundreds of television channels using internet protocol (IP) TV technology over a new broadband fibre-optic network. In a keynote address at the Consumer...