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Putting Your IPTV Eggs in Lots of X-Boxes 26/02/08 BY Adam Davies

Multi-channel delivery of IPTV and entertainment on-demand services is now happening. Why? Well, because if you want to reach the most possible customers you have to be the most flexible service provider on the block. A great example of this is BT Vision (an AssetHouse customer), who recently announced that it’ll be extending the reach of its service to X-Box users in order to drive up both network usage and digital product sales…

Middleware is IPTV’s Reluctant Hero 25/02/08 BY Sandip Sarda

Now more than ever, IPTV middleware should be so such more than just an application layer to help you publish your content. It needs to be the core architecture of an IPTV service, such that it enables service providers to integrate quickly and easily all the other systems (including 3rd party systems) needed to create an all singing and dancing entertainment on-demand offering…

Entertainment in a 2.0 world - new white paper available 14/02/08 BY Jonathan Callcut

We published a new white paper this morning entitled “Build it and they might not come: getting the delivery infrastructure right for TV 2.0.” It deals with the some of the religious platform and user experience debates that lie ahead of us in this brave new world of ‘TV 2.0’. To this end, I’d encourage you to read it if you’re about to embark on a project to build a new IPTV or ‘entertainment on-demand’ service…

IPTV 1.0 vs IPTV 2.0 05/02/08 BY Jonathan Callcut

If you want to deliver your on-demand entertainment / IPTV services into a multitude of store fronts then do you choose an IPTV 1.0 solution or an IPTV 2.0 solution…?

The entertainment on-demand ‘Action Quadrant’: how the infrastructure scene is shaking out 04/02/08 BY Jonathan Callcut

Each time I speak to a customer, a partner or anyone else that plays in the IPTV / entertainment on-demand space, I find myself reaching for a ballpoint pen and a napkin in order to describe the technical landscape…