New IPTV Set-Top Boxes Shipping In China Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:01:49 +0000 Canadian mobile search and text input company Zi Corporation (ZICA) says UTStarcom (UTSI) has begun shipping IPTV set-top-boxes in China featuring predictive text input solution eZiText in English and Chinese.
Milos Djokovic, president and CEO of Zi Corporation stated, "We are very pleased that UTStarcom continues to use our award-winning products to succeed in the global [...]Read More
IPTV-Based Video Advertising Network Begins In China Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:01:27 +0000 China Telecom's subsidiary Guangxi Telecom will be using UTStarcom's (UTSI) RollingStream IPTV platform to deploy a new interactive advertising system, making Guangxi Telecom the first service provider in China to deploy IPTV for building-based video advertising.
UTStarcom says it will provide Guangxi Telecom with 3,600 concurrent IPTV streams for the initial deployment of the interactive advertising [...]Read More
China Telecom Sets Up IPTV Lab In Shanghai Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:04:39 +0000 China Telecom (CHA) has set up an IPTV technology research and development laboratory in its Shanghai research institute.
The lab mainly aims at creating technical standards that are consistent with international standards for Chinese IPTV manufacturers and offering test and authorization services to IPTV platform and terminal suppliers throughout China.
Starting from 2005, China Telecom began cooperating [...]Read More
UTStarcom Strips Off Division Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:57:48 +0000 UTStarcom (UTSI) will sell its personal communications division to a firm controlled by AIG Vantage Capital, a part of AIG Investments.
"With the divestiture of our PCD unit, our management team and employees will focus on pursuing the growth opportunities related to our core product suite of IPTV, NGN and Broadband offerings," stated Peter Blackmore, UTStarcom's [...]Read More
New Media Technology Cooperation For Intel In China Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:36:46 +0000 Shanghai Media Group and Intel (INTC) have announced a new collaboration in developing broadband online TV in China.
Intel will provide support to SMG including funding, technology research, and product development, to build a more secure, convenient, and stylish online TV platform. Intel and SMG's collaboration in developing broadband online TV in China is comprehensive. Intel [...]Read More
China Telecom Begins IPTV STB Bidding Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:31:58 +0000 China Telecom (CHA) has initiated a unified bidding process for IPTV set-top box terminals to make preparation for implementing its new strategy following the acquisition of China Unicom's (CHU) CDMA network.
Conducted while China Telecom's IPTV V2.0 platform is being tested, the bidding aims to further solve the mutual connection problems between terminal manufacturers and system [...]Read More
For
residential users, IPTV is often provided in conjunction with
Video on Demand and may be bundled with Internet services
such as Web access and VoIP. The commercial bundling of IPTV,
VoIP and Internet access is referred to as a Triple Play.
Adding the mobile voice service leads to the Quadruple Play
denomination.
IPTV is typically supplied by a broadband operator using
a closed network infrastructure. This closed network approach
is in competition with the delivery of TV content over the
public Internet. This type of delivery is widely called TV
over Internet or Internet Television.
Traditionally, TV has come down one wire cable TV or a terrestrial
antenna, the telephone has used another (the "Plain Old
Telephone System"), and the Internet has been available
on either. Both cable operators and telcos operators are starting
to offer all three on one wire, which is more cost effective.
Triple play is an expression used by service operators describing
a bundle of telephony, data and video down a single connection.
Triple play does not require that the phone and TV use the
Internet Protocol (Voice over IP & IPTV respectively)
- most still offer phone in an analog form. However, TV over
phone connections almost always uses a form of IPTV, which
is more compatible with DSL technologies.
Quad play refers to the triple play package AND mobile
telephony - though this is a package of products rather than
sharing a single wire.
Another advantage of an IP-based network is the opportunity
for integration and convergence. Converged services implies
interaction of existing services in a seamless manner to create
new value added services.
One good example is On-Screen Caller ID, getting Caller ID
on your TV and ability to handle it through something like
voice-mail. IP-based services will help to enable efforts
to provide consumers anytime, anywhere access to content over
their televisions, PCs and cell phones, and to integrate services
and content to tie them together. Within institutions, IPTV
eliminates the need to run a parallel infrastructure to deliver
live and stored video services.
