Content is vital but distribution is as important, If we are not available what is the point ... We have felt that we haven't had as good distribution as we should have so we have been working on getting content to more people. We launched on UBC in Thailand in February, and in April on (Hong Kong's) PCCW's IPTV platform NowBroadbandTV.
Quotes about iptv (11 Quotes)
The longer the format war goes on, the more opportunity smart players in the cable and IPTV and online spaces have to build market share.
Microsoft's IPTV software platform works I've seen it and I'm impressed. But it's one thing to show the service using a single client and a single server at a trade show and quite another to deploy the service in a large, live network where lots can go wrong.
The advanced IPTV industry will kick off in the third and fourth quarter of this year. I think Montana will be on the cutting edge of that.
At that rate, it would take 65 years to obtain all of the franchise we need in order to complete the initial build portion of their IPTV rollout. It is time to remove those barriers to investment and competition.
Providers of television content creation, packaging, programming, and distribution must act quickly. They have to implement strategies that will serve a fragmented audience and also fund new delivery channels, whether it is mobile devices, the Internet, or on-demand TV and IPTV Internet Protocol TV.
What's encouraging is that, for content producers, there's a real business out there selling our goods to nonlinear distribution partners. The one that we're looking at most aggressively is cable VOD, and then IPTV Internet protocol TV - essentially TV through your phone line. We have a whole list of other deals that are in the works to fill out the market across the world.
Compared to the size of its economy and the fact that it is the biggest broadband market -- with 30 million subscribers and growing -- in the world, IPTV hasn't been able to make much of an impact in China yet. But in about two years China is expected to the biggest market in the world.
Set-top boxes may not have the coolness factor of MP3 players or digital televisions. But growth is steady, and key developments like MPEG-4 and IPTV make this a particularly important period in the market.
This is an important product development for a couple of reasons. First of all, the chip will help manufacturers reduce costs by integrating various functions into one chip and eliminating the need for various components. And second, the chips can be embedded into many different kinds of consumer electronic products, such as DVD players, thus eliminating the need for a separate IPTV receiver.
To deliver TV or DVD quality IPTV content, we need bandwidth of three to four mega bits per second (mbps) but the maximum bandwidth available in China is one mbps. So infrastructure has been a problem as well.