Inside Digital TV articles from June 2006

Inside Digital TV archives from June 2006

ANGA Report: The Telco Threat Emerges In Germany.(Deutsche Telekom AG)(Premiere Ltd.)
June 7, 2006... Football rights seemed to dominate conversations and panel discussions at the ANGA trade show in Cologne, Germany, last week. While cable operators talked bullishly of offering stronger triple-play services, the shadow of Deutsche Telekom's...

Strategy: Discovery Seeks Multi-Platform Advertisers.(Discovery Networks International's Tanya Field)(Interview)
June 7, 2006... By the end of the year, Discovery Networks International wants its multi- platform approach to be sufficiently advanced that it will have major cross- platform advertisers for its content. Tanya Field, vice president/New Media at Discovery...

Executive Q&A: BSkyB's Sullivan Details HD STB Issues, Solutions.(Brian Sullivan of British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC speaks on their high defination set top boxes)(Interview)
June 7, 2006... BSkyB's launch of high-definition (HD) services in the U.K. has not gone as smoothly as planned. The operator has had to delay installation dates for customers due to a shortage of available HD boxes. While its set-top box (STB) supplier...

Coming Soon: IP DTT In Sweden.(Teracom AB introduces digital terrestrial television services)
June 7, 2006... Teracom, the company that runs the Swedish digital terrestrial television (DTT) operator Boxer, is looking to bring more converged solutions/services to customers in Sweden. Boxer is a major player on the Swedish digital TV landscape with...

MGM Looks At Going It Alone.(Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. to provide downloading services)
June 7, 2006... Content providers are in the middle of looking at ways to maximise the revenues they generate from content. With broadband speeds getting faster and storage space getting bigger, the possibilities for users to download content illegally are...

Orange TV: Coming To A Home Near You.(France Telecom S.A. to provide internet protocol television services)
June 7, 2006... France Telecom (FT) plans to become a player in the developing U.K. IPTV market. The operator, which announced it was going unite different parts of the company (such as Wanadoo) under the Orange brand, is planning to enter the IPTV space...

IPTV In Germany: HanseNet Targets 10,000 Subs This Year.(HanseNet Telekommunikation GmbH, internet protocol television)
June 21, 2006... German telco HanseNet wants to gain 10,000 customers by year's end for its just-launched IPTV service. Michele Novelli, marketing director for HanseNet, revealed to Inside Digital TV the numbers needed for HanseNet to be profitable. ...

HD Update: Thomson Exec Examines BSkyB Fallout.(British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC, Thomson S.A. Thomson Broadcast Solutions)
June 21, 2006... It has been a difficult few weeks for Thomson. The set-top box (STB) vendor, which was selected to provide high-definition (HD) STBs to BSkyB, Europe's largest satellite pay-TV operator, has had difficulties in delivering the boxes to BSkyB...

IPTV In France Exclusive: Club Internet First To Launch On Microsoft TV.(internet protocol television)
June 21, 2006... French ISP Club Internet could be set to make a little piece of digital- television history at the end of this month. The operator will be the first telco in Europe to launch commercial services based on the Microsoft TV software platform....

French DTH Exclusive: Canalsat Plans HD PVR Launch.(direct to home, high definition personal video recorder )
June 21, 2006... French DTH provider CanalSat is stepping up its high-definition (HD) plans. In fact, CEO Guy Lafarge admits the operator will launch an HD personal video recorder (PVR) before the end of the year. Lafarge tells Inside Digital TV, "On the...

Exclusive IPTV Executive Q&A: 'Tremendous Opportunity' For Verizon In The TV Space.(Marilyn O'Connell of Verizon Communications Inc. tells about FiOS TV )(Interview)
June 21, 2006... Verizon, a major player not only in the U.S. communications landscape but globally, is offering an innovative TV service called FiOS TV. The service is delivered over Verizon's fiber-to-the-premises network, and the carrier has franchises...

Around The World.(British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC plans to acquire internet-access division of America Online Inc.)(EchoStar Communications Corp. partners with Wildblue Communications Inc.)(Rainbow Holding Company Inc. partners with Skylife Broadcasting)
June 21, 2006... >>South Korea and the United States Rainbow, Skylife Sign HD Agreement Skylife, the South Korean satellite pay-TV operator, has announced a deal with Rainbow HD Holdings to bring a variety of HD programming to South Korea. The deal...

BBC Head Calls On Ofcom To Stimulate HD.(British Broadcasting Corp., Office of Communications (United Kingdom), Seetha Kumar, high definition)
June 21, 2006... Seetha Kumar, head of HDTV at the BBC, has called on the U.K. regulator Ofcom to play a positive role in stimulating HD development in the U.K. during the next 12 months. In terms of what would represent a good year for HD., Kumar said,...