Seven Star Shopping Seeks Shift To Online Video Shopping Thu, 08 May 2008 23:05:56 +0000 China Seven Star Shopping Limited, a leading television shopping company in China, suffered a big loss of HK$380 million in 2007 and as a result the company now seeks to shift to online video shopping.
The 2007 financial report released by Seven Star Shopping last week shows that the company suffered a deficit of HK380 million [...]Read More
Chinese Company Working With International Partners For Hybrid STB Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:31:50 +0000 China's Huashu Digital TV is working with Oki Electric and Intel to jointly develop a Next Generation Hybrid Set-Top Box to serve the digital home market segment in China.
"With the coming digital home era, Huashu has been looking for a platform to enable carriers to promote home digitalization, enhance network intelligence, meet the needs of [...]Read More
Amino Announces Shanghai IPTV Office Opening Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:09:14 +0000 IPTV platform supplier Amino is opening an office in Shanghai as a focus for its China operations group, which provides local support for its manufacturing partners.
Alan Masterman, vice president of operations at Amino, said in a prepared statement, "The IPTV industry in China is growing at a rate of 34.5% every quarter. 2008 is set [...]Read More
Shanghai To Offer Conditional Free IPTV Service Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:32:25 +0000 Shanghai will offer a two-year conditional free IPTV service to expand its IPTV user base.
The city's IPTV operator BesTV will cooperate with Shanghai Telecom to launch a sales promotion until June 30 targeting the city with unlimited-time 2M or 1M ADSL services. During the period, the company will exempt eligible users from paying the RMB310 [...]Read More
Safe-City Project Home For New Chinese IP Video Surveillance Technology Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:30:37 +0000 UTStarcom (UTSI) says its IP video surveillance solution based upon the company's RollingStream IPTV technology has been selected by China Netcom to serve as the primary design and deployment platform for the Safe-City project in Benxi, Liaoning Province.
"Together with UTStarcom, we are pioneering a new security infrastructure that will establish the standard for safe city [...]Read More
SMG Exploring IPTV Market With Tsinghua Tongfang Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:32:01 +0000 Tsinghua Tongfang has decided to spend RMB150 million on acquiring 40% stakes of Shanghai BesTV Media Company and BesTV Network Technology Development Company, respectively. The two companies are wholly-owned by Shanghai Media Group.
Tsinghua Tongfang will first spend RMB100 million on acquiring a 22.82% of the stake of BesTV Network Technology Development Company from the company's [...]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.
