Jim BartholdTop 10 connected TV interfaces: Do Apple, Google, Microsoft make the cut?
Connected TVs and devices ranging from gaming consoles to Blu-ray players are making it easier for consumers to watch both movies and hit TV series without having to rely on a cable or satellite TV subscription. This FierceCable slideshow takes a look at the top 10 connected TV user interfaces.
Managed IPTV, OTT to drive fixed broadband growth
Consumer demand for managed IPTV and over-the-top content services will drive fixed broadband into 745 million homes worldwide by 2017, according to a study released by Digital TV Research. That forecast sees the market growing from 473 million in 2010 and 578 million by the end of this year.
AT&T uses CES to reaffirm U-verse commitment
AT&T seems to be pretty committed to its U-verse IPTV service. The carrier used a series of CES 2013 announcements to demonstrate that it's expanding, not contracting, its IP-based video and other service offerings.
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Waking up to a changed 2013
It took Rip Van Winkle 20 years of sleeping to experience massive societal changes, according to the Washington Irving story. It took FierceIPTV only about two weeks--fewer than 20 days--to do the same.
Verizon, Motorola team up on FiOS TV media server
Verizon may have put the brakes on further FiOS expansion but, at least according to an announcement coming from CES 2013 in Las Vegas, it hasn't put the kibosh on features expansion.
Broadcom chips in to drive Comcast into IP space
Comcast will probably never be identified as an IPTV provider, but that doesn't mean the country's biggest cable operator won't be more IP than cable sometime in the near future.
Accedo takes next multiscreen step with TV Everywhere product intro
Accedo, which has deployed numerous multiscreen applications for Tier 1 MVPDs, has taken the next logical step and introduced a TV Everywhere (TVE) solution that, a company press release said, "enables pay TV operators and media companies to launch new multiscreen services across a range of connected devices more quickly than ever before."
IPTV seen cutting into cable, satellite in Canada
While news about IPTV growth in the United States is generally muted (with the exception of new players like Sony and Intel trying to get into the space), things are a little hotter north of the border. A report by IHS Screen Digest Television Intelligence reports "IPTV is rapidly gaining momentum at the expense of incumbent cable and satellite services" in Canada.
Sony said to be mulling own pay TV service in U.S.
Even as cable operators continue to leak video subscribers and IPTV providers tread water in the pay TV space, it appears that yet another player--Sony, of all companies--thinks there's money to be made in selling television.
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