Venice Project would break many users' ISP conditions
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| Internet television system The Venice Project could break users'
| monthly internet bandwith limits in hours, according to the
| team behind it.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/03/venice_project_would_break_users_isp_conditions/
Related:
Singapore Telecom selects Alcatel-Lucent for IPTV trial
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| I recall last week when a high-level Microsoft executive said to
| me that they were pleased with Microsoft IPTV adaption in North
| America and Europe, but their company needed to find more partners
| in Asia. Well, it didn't take long to see movement on that front.
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http://www.digitaltv-weblog.com/50226711/singapore_telecom_selects_alcatellucent_for_iptv_trial.php
http://tinyurl.com/tmlr
Could be as bad as the VoD/DRM/TC-type lockin. There's reason to boycott
certain cable/TV providers (see reasons below).
European Operators Select Motorola's Linux-Based IP Set-Tops For IPTV
Services
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| Motorola announced that it has been selected by two leading
| telecommunications providers to supply its Linux-based VIP range of
| IP set-tops for IPTV services.
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http://linux.sys-con.com/read/284402_p.htm
Electronics firms plan Internet televisions
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| The new televisions will use Linux operating systems instead of
| Microsoft Windows, it added. That feature is aimed at cutting the time
| needed to boot up and reducing the risk of virus infection.
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http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Parody_of_Al_Gore_Film_tied_0803.html#comments
TV Makers to Collaborate on Internet TV Standards
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| The new sets reportedly will be based on the Linux operating system.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/52614.html
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| The Japanese consumer electronics companies aim to develop
| broadband-enabled televisions that can download and display videos from
| the internet wihtout the need for a separate set-top box or computer.
|
| They plan to establish a common standard for aspects of internet TV,
| based on a Linux operating system.
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http://informitv.com/articles/2006/08/05/internettvplans/
BT Vision is go
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| "We think most people are well behind us," said BT retail CEO
| Ian Livingstone. It was even able to wheel out ever erudite
| Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to eulogise the importance of an
| event "that fundamentally changes how consumers are entertained".
| BT chose Microsoft to provide the software powering Vision.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/04/bt_vision_launch/
Beeb breaks out with Windows WMA protection
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| According to a press release from Sonos, the blokes over
| at the Beeb have decided to jump ship for relying on
| Realplayer for web content, and have switched over
| entirely to the Windows-friendly WMA format. Now
| that the BBC has made The Big Switch, BBC radio
| stations will be received automatically for users
| of wireless music and radio provider Sonos.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35282
French Broadcaster Chooses Windows Media
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| The initial, broadcast site delivers beautiful Windows Media Video
| streaming--and not in some little box. France24 shows how
| companies can innovate around Windows Media formats. I'm rather
| surprised there is no Microsoft press release trumpeting the
| Windows Media broadcasts.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/web_services_browser/french_broadcaster_chooses_windows_media.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
Nortel not the only winner at Telus IPTV deal
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| But now it is back as the main contractor in an IPTV deal at Telus - a move
| that sees the Alcatel system thrown out or sidelined, the Microsoft Alcatel
| partnership that is dominating tier one telcos, snubbed, and a number of
| the small fry of the IPTV market getting access to the tasty 5.5m Telus
| customers this system is aimed at.
|
| [...]
|
| Faultline gave a heads up about this contract in May, when we heard that
| Microsoft's solution was internally rejected.
|
| [...]
|
| "To facilitate the rapid adoption of additional third party applications
| as they emerge, it is imperative that the environment be open and
| standards-based."
|
| The significance of this contract is that all the big guns from
| Microsoft, Alcatel, Lucent and Siemens were in the bidding and fell by
| the wayside and that Nortel was able to leverage its strength as an
| IP player.
|
| [...]
|
| If that results in any new business for Cisco then acquisition of
| Minerva can't be too improbable, and then it would own an end to end
| IPTV system, with or without Microsoft middleware.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/24/nortel_telus_iptv_deal/
Intel Wants Its Cake Both Ways
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| I'm a big fan of open standards myself, and would be happy to see
| Apple's closed platform opened up so I could buy songs through iTunes
| and play them on my Creative (Nasdaq: CREAF) Zen media player. Intel
| is in a position to push Apple into licensing its FairPlay digital
| rights management scheme to Viiv devices. Giving Apple a free pass
| while everyone else is supposed to get in line makes Intel look like
| a wishy-washy turncoat that doesn't really believe in its own product.
|
| [...]
|
| ...Which will it be, Intel: open or closed? Standardized or
| proprietary? Chocolate or strawberry?
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http://www.fool.com/News/mft/2006/mft06101016.htm?source=eptyholnk303100&logvisit=y&npu=y
Microsoft partners with major players on IPTV Edition-powered SoC STBs
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| With Zune and Vista hogging all the headlines these days, you may
| have forgotten that Microsoft is also hard at work pushing its IPTV
| Edition software platform into living rooms around the world, so the
| software giant decided to take the Broadband World Forum Europe in Paris
| as occasion to remind us just how committed it is to TV over the
| internet.
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http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/microsoft-partners-with-major-players-on-iptv-edition-powered-so/
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