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From on-demand and interactive services, to linear channels and searchable content, TVA looks into Internet Protocol television.

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SingTel mio TV announces BBC & ITV content on-demand
iptv, 8 June 2009

Singapore - Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) will launch a slew of new British content on its mio TV platform from 15 July. Announcement comes immediately after news that three BBC Worldwide Channels will move from mio TV exclusively to StarHub TV from 1 August 2009. [...]

Slow and steady strategy for success in Japan
iptv, 1 June 2009

Talking to FremantleMedia Japan KK’s recently appointed president and representative director Shingo Ishiyama, one thing becomes patently clear – the necessity for a patient approach and long-term strategy in that particular market. “Because of the structure of Japanese companies, [...]

IPTV in practice – the Korean experience
iptv, 1 October 2008

According to the Korea Communications Commission (KCC), there were 1.345 million pre-IPTV (TV portal) service subscribers as of February 2008. In addition, telcos decided to make a large investment of 1.5 trillion KRW (US$1.5 billion US dollars) in 2008 on network, platforms, set-top [...]

New platforms & regions for KBS World
iptv, 3 September 2008

Seoul – TV channel KBS World launched on Vietnam’s digital terrestrial network VTC and on Guam’s only IPTV platform GTA as of September 1; and in Uzbekistan and Turkey as of Aug 1 and October 1 respectively. 2 million Vietnamese viewers can watch KBS World via VTC’s digital terrestrial [...]

New access technologies’ opportunities and challenges
iptv, 1 August 2008

Recently, when Television Asia Plus queried MediaCorp Technologies’ Managing Director Mock Pak Lum about emerging viewing options be it IPTV, mobile TV, and Web 2.0, he categorically stated, “Media owners have no choice but to jump onto the online and mobile bandwagon.” “Increasingly, [...]

Sony TV sets to get movie downloads
iptv, 30 June 2008

Tokyo – Sony movies are to be streamed via the Internet to its latest LCD sets, before their release onto DVD. Hancock, starring Will Smith, will be the first movie streamed over the Internet to Sony’s LCD sets; service is anticipated in the US this Autumn. The company also [...]

Bloomberg TV partners with Seoul Economic Daily
iptv, 24 June 2008

Seoul – Financial news channel Bloomberg Television has partnered with Korea's Seoul Economic Network (SEN). SEN, a television news unit of The Korea Times’ sister publication Seoul Economic Daily, will add Korean dubbing and subtitles to major Bloomberg programs and carry them [...]

ABS-2 reaches for the sky
iptv, 1 June 2008

What have been ABS’s most significant deals and developments in the past 6-12 months? In the past 12 months, ABS has seen unprecedented growth of our business. We achieved our fill factor from 50% to 90% and increased the amount of television channels available on our satellite [...]

High five for AsiaSat
iptv, 1 June 2008

“we have made some notable achievements over the past year. In the area of satellite transponder leasing, we renewed the contracts with several major customers and added new clients from the broadcast sector that successfully expanded the broadcast neighbourhood of our satellite [...]

Quality is key...
iptv, 1 June 2008

The launch of MEASAT-3 (M3) allowed MEASAT to support the growth of core DTH customers in Malaysia and Indonesia. In addition, towards the end of 2007 we reached agreement with Antrix, the commercial arm of the ISRO, to support the launch of the Reliance DTH platform in India. Reliance [...]