All Entries in the "MTNL IPTV" Category
Media: The wonder decade
Couch surfing has become more than passive television viewing over the past decade. Indian TV sets now have DVD-like picture quality with loads of value add-ons thanks to new technologies like DTH, CAS and IPTV. Idiot box goes digital The country has about 130 million television households, including 96 million Cable & Satellite (C&S) homes. As per TAM, average time spent watching television per day was 153 minutes in 2008 Direct-to-home (DTH): DTH consumers receive digital TV channels’ signals through satellite on their dish antennae which are then transmitted to TV through a set top »»»
IPTV subscriber base expected to grow by 51% in APac
Source: Indiantelevision.com MUMBAI: The subscriber base of IPTV in the Asia-Pacific region is expected to grow by 51 per cent this year closing at 9.4 million users and accounting for 37.6 per cent of the global subscribers, reveals research and consulting firm Frost & Sullivan. A new analysis from Frost & Sullivan titled ‘Asia-Pacific IPTV Update’ finds that the IPTV subscriber base in the region would grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 24.6 per cent between 2009 and 2014 and, by the end of 2014, would climb to an estimated 23.5 million subscribers. In 2008, only »»»
On the way: cable TV without any wire
Source: Business Standard In what may become a revolution in entertainment, accessing television via cable, IPTV or interactive DTH services is soon going to be via wireless, on the lines of a wi-fi internet connectivity. This means digital cable TV consumers, who access cable via a set top box (STB), will be able to move their TV sets in the house or go for a second or third set without having to pay extra for the physical add-on connections or messy cable wiring. Currently, any additional digital cable connection comes with additional installation costs (Rs 150-300). Consumers also have to pay »»»
IPTV almost non-existent in India’s pay TV market
Source: TelecomTiger.com Things are not looking good for IPTV services in India. The reason is quite obvious since the broadband penetration in the country itself is yet to pick-up. A new research from Screen Digest reveals that IPTV services will find increased uptake after the penetration of broadband services in households having access to pay-TV services increases from the present figure of 4.2 % to 13.4 % by 2013. While the world maybe moving towards adopting the digital mode for TV services. But in India, Analogue mode enjoys an unmatched dominance. The analogue medium has a market share »»»
Broadband service on TV by March 2010
Source: CIOL News NEW DELHI, INDIA: Smart Digivision, Myway IPTV service provider, is planning to provide a PC enabled set-top-box using which IPTV subscribers will be able to enjoy broadband service on their TV. “The STB that we are using at present is like a mini-computer. It has a processor, ram, Linux OS and a USB port. The next model of STB that we are going to provide will have 1GHz processor,” said explained Kapil Dev Kumar, chief operating officer, Smart Digivision in an interaction with CIOL. “Then, we are already using Internet protocol for our service. Thus a TV is »»»
MyWay or the highway
Source: Business Standard It’s not quite time for DTH to retire, as a leading IPTV firm would have us believe, since there are 13 mn DTH subscribers compared to IPTV’s 30,000. It’s time for DTH to retire. That was the boast IPTV firm Smart Digivision made on huge billboards across the country when it began its MyWay IPTV services three months ago. But against Direct-to-Home TV’s 13 million subscribers, all three IPTV firms including the Mahendra Nahata-promoted firm which has a licence to run IPTV services in 54 cities across the country have a total of just around 30,000 subscribers. »»»
Adult-rated foreign films may be allowed on digital platforms
Source: Business Standard With broadcasters and the government close to working out a new content code for television, foreign movies with partial nudity and mature content may soon be allowed at all time bands on digital addressable media platforms like direct-to-home (DTH) services, conditional access system and IPTV platforms, which have the provision of a parental lock. Currently, all foreign language films, even after adult certification from their country of origin, have to get approval from the Indian censor boards. To get the nod, they invariably have to undertake re-editing of the “objectionable” »»»
