All Entries in the "Reliance IPTV" Category
IPTV’s bright Indian future
IPTV services in India were introduced some two years ago, but have so far failed to match the success of DTH or cable. Industry experts feel that this is due to the limited launch of the service and a lack of focused marketing efforts. Bharti and Reliance Communications have launched services only in Delhi and Mumbai, respectively.
RCom to hive off DTH, IPTV business
Reliance Communications (RCom), India’s second-largest telecommunications company, plans to hive off its direct-to-home (DTH) and internet protocol TV (IPTV) businesses into a separate company Reliance Digital Works. People familiar with the matter said the company, plans to bring in multi-system operators (MSOs) as stakeholders in the company.
Anil Ambani likely to hive off DTH, IPTV biz into new entity
New Delhi: After placing its film exhibition and processing business Reliance Media Works and FM radio and outdoor advertising business Reliance Media World under separate listed entities, Anil Ambani’s Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG) may soon hive off its DTH and IPTV under a new entity—Reliance Digital Works (RDW).
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. 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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
