Google is hoping to embed Foxtel’s forthcoming video-on-demand service Presto and internet TV offering Foxtel Play as the key broadcast content for its forthcoming digital media player, Chromecast. Foxtel’s 50 per cent shareholder, Telstra, has led the early stage talks with Google, which began late last year. Google wishes to launch Chromecast, a dongle that […]
WiFi & IPTV Platform for Sydney Cricket Ground
The Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) is implementing a new Wi-Fi network which is set to go live in January 2014. The network will allow sports fans to view high definition IPTV and mobile video on their smartphones or tablets. They can also order food and drinks without having to leave their seat. The platform means the […]
Telstra moving on the multi-screen IPTV Market
TELSTRA media boss Rick Ellis has thrown down the gauntlet to rivals in the IPTV and TV sector, saying the telecommunications giant wants to be the leader in the coming “multi-screen world”. Telstra is looking to offer different types of online video entertainment to multiple screens by Christmas, including advertising-supported video, pay-per-view video on demand, […]
IPTV is Coming To Australia
Two years after it launched its first line of commercial television transceivers in 1948, the Zenith Radio Corporation unveiled a device that would come to fundamentally alter the audience’s relationship with the idiot box: the remote control. That small hand-held device, then connected to the television by wire, has in six decades become the tipping […]
IPTV Set to Change TV Advertising
IPTV allows hyper targeted local advertising along with interest and behaviour based advertising. With IPTV you have an IP Address unlike free to air TV which blankets whole regions ignoring suburbs. IPTV will allow smaller advertisers to target the suburbs they supply services and products to. More local news could be delivered based on your suburb, […]
IPTV revenue set to reach $21.3 billion by 2018
Satellite TV (DTH or DBS) revenues are predicted to overtake cable TV revenues in 2013, but the fastest growing platform is IPTV, according to data compiled by Digital TV Research for its Digital TV World Revenue Forecasts, which determined that total global pay TV revenues will climb $19 billion from 2012 to 2018 to top […]
Philips to Launch IPTV for Digital Signage
Philips is launching in Q3 of this year its version of IPTV for digital signage, IP-addressable displays to which content is streamed from a centralized hub instead of from an attached media player. While LG’s EzSign TV and Samsung’s SoC platforms essentially embed a media player inside the display or on a chip, Philips is […]
IPTV Gaining on Pay TV
Global IPTV subscriptions will pass the 100 million mark in 2013 and grow to nearly double that by 2017, according to Pyramid Research. IPTV now accounts for nearly one in ten pay TV subscribers around the world. The Asia-Pacific region remains the largest IPTV market, accounting for 45.3% (38.2 million) of global IPTV subscriptions as of […]
Digital TV Switch-Over
By Christmas 2013, much of Australian television will have gone digital-only. So, what do you need to know to stay in the picture. WITH less than a year until Australia abandons its old analog TV stations, it’s time for the stragglers to finally make the leap to digital television. More than a decade after Australians got their first […]
Intel’s New IPTV Service Will Do What Google, Apple, and Microsoft Can’t
Apple and Google have been attempting for years to entice customers to ditch cable television for set top boxes that deliver TV shows, movies and more via the internet. For the past year or so, Intel has also quietly been working on a top-secret set-top box that could not only be better than what Apple, Google, […]
Apple TV
How good is Apple TV? Real good, I mean really damn good! Apple TV (no, its not television) is a combination of a small box as seen here to the right >> that connects wirelessly with an Apple device like an iPad, Ipod or iPhone or your wireless connection and displays the content (movie, pictures, music, photos) on your television screen. You can […]
Ovation | IPTV Channel
Fetch TV ceased transmission of Ovation on the 27th of February, 2017. Ovation is Australia’s first dedicated arts and entertainment channel and has been providing discerning viewing for the Australian subscription television industry for 15 years. Its programming embraces performance, drama, music, entertainment and visual arts. You can subscribe and view Ovation directly through the […]
Real Change | IPTV, TV or Press?
TheAge this Saturday refers to the great battle with the internet, as TV networks struggle to hold on to viewers. Its becoming a regular and recurring theme of the printed press to refer to this so-called battle of “internet” versus “television” but rarely if not ever do they refer to the other great battle, “printed […]
Future of TV
Future of TV: fragmenting inside the box An array of new choices — Google TV, Apple TV, and internet TV — is reshaping the market, write Julian Lee and Lucy Battersby. TEN years ago the number of media choices the average person turned to each day could be counted on one hand. Nowadays you need […]
Foxtel IPTV + Samsung Smart TV
Australians now have yet another way to watch IPTV: on Samsung Smart TVs via the Foxtel pay-TV subscription service. The Smart TV option joins the Microsoft Xbox 360 which has already been made available on a national basis, as methods by which to access Internet TV both within and outside Foxtel cable areas. There are limitations to […]
IPTV Australia Hits 5 Millions Users
More than a quarter of Australians will have signed up to an online television subscription service within the next 4 years, a report forecasts. And IPTV, other subscription entertainment services and new mobile media apps will drive growth in Australia’s media and entertainment industry of 18 per cent over the next five years, it says. […]
IPTV Content Providers
Australian company TV My Way is offering overseas content holders a cost effective method of distributing their channels in Australia. TV My Way provides a cost effective platform for Network Broadcasters and niche television programmers to get their content out to Australian audiences. The company is able to take an existing content providers live feed […]
Three-way shootout: IPTV
Television viewers are voting with their mouse when it comes to choosing alternatives to free-to-air and pay TV. No longer at the mercy of station programmers, viewers are flocking to their computers, smartphones and internet-enabled televisions to watch movies and shows when it suits them. In the process, some are ditching pay TV subscriptions in […]
Foxtel on Xbox – unmetered on BigPond
Telstra BigPond broadband customers will not be charged for any data when using FOXTEL on Xbox 360, and there will be six BigPond TV channels added to the service from Monday, May 30, 2011. This means all video content will be unmetered for Telstra BigPond customers when viewing the FOXTEL on Xbox 360 service, including […]
Go Connect partner with Netbay Internet on Asian Language IPTV
GoConnect (GCN) is pleased to announce it has joined forces with Netbay Internet, an Australian based Broadband Service provider, to launch a number of Asian language IPTV channels on GoConnect’s IPTV network of properties. Netbay Internet is a Melbourne based broadband ISP that provides IPTV service through its subsidiary company MyiTV. MyiTV is currently providing Triple-Play Services […]
Foxtel positions itself for subscriber growth and IPTV dominance
Great article on Foxtel and its win with AFL media rights and how this will position them in the IPTV market over the next 5 years. Talks about the effect of the AFL rights driving subscriber numbers with IPTV ready set top boxes. Read more on Frostglobal.com
GoConnect’s Richard Li on IPTV in Australia
Adam Shand interviews Richard Li, Executive Chairman of GoConnect Limited on the company’s performance, vision and strategy including his views on IPTV in Australia. Watch the interview on The Business Show In 2010, GoConnect merged with Undercover, one of the world’s most respected music news sites and independent music label, PLW Entertainment. This merger created […]
IPTV relegates 3D as Panasonic launches Smart Viera platform on new TVs
IPTV has now fully eclipsed 3D as Panasonic’s key television technology, with all 26 new models in the Panasonic range containing some form of internet connectivity… By Patrick Avenell SYDNEY, NSW: Read more on Current.com.au
Vividwireless provides users with 4G technology
Whilst Australians have been using 3G mobile broadband networks for some time, and found them perfectly adequate to start with, the demand for mobile broadband and internet services has grown enormously over the past couple of years, and the existing networks are now struggling to cope with the popularity of these services. Lack of capacity […]
Subscription Hulu: Beginning of the End for Cable/Satellite TV?
Subscription Hulu: Beginning of the End for Cable/Satellite TV? Hulu edges ever closer to an service that will finally allow more TV viewers to stop paying for cable/satellite broadcasting. CBS, Viacom and Time Warner are in talks to join Hulu, just as reports surface of a $10/month ‘Hulu Plus’ that would offer a wider range […]
A step to streamline in-home standards
A step to streamline in-home standards Combining wireless technologies like Wi-Fi with powerline systems has been discussed for years, but a real requirement is emerging in growth areas like the smart grid, home monitoring and full-house digital media networks. Read more on telecomasia.net
Actiontec V1000H Named Best Router by Network Products Guide
Actiontec V1000H Named Best Router by Network Products Guide SUNNYVALE, CA–(Marketwire – 06/23/10) – Actiontec Electronics announced today that Network Products Guide, the industry’s leading information technology research and advisory guide, has named the V1000H Wireless N VDSL Modem Router a winner of the 2010 Best Products and Services Award. This respected annual award honors […]
LG und Swisscom: Lancierung von Connected Hotel TV
LG und Swisscom: Lancierung von Connected Hotel TV Ganzheitliche Technologielösung für Hotelzimmer Read more on Portel.de
‘History Detectives’ includes visit to Kalona
‘History Detectives’ includes visit to Kalona A Public Television viewer of “History Detectives” inherited a cane she believes belonged to her great-great grandfather, Henry Clay Dean, famous for his protests against the Civil War. A bronze or copper snake coils elegantly at the top of the striking cane. Read more on The Kalona News
Octasic goes for power efficiency with DSP development
Octasic goes for power efficiency with DSP development Octasic Inc. (Montreal, Canada) is boosting the processing power of its DSP chips by increasing the number of Opus DSP cores from 15 to 24. Canada – Technology – Digital signal processing – Signal processing – Electronics Read more on EETimes