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11 unusual facts about IPTV


Ahmed Tamjid Aijazi

During this time, he contributed extensively to the largest IT magazine of Pakistan, Spider and did cover stories on YouTube Censorship in Pakistan, IPTV and Home Automation.

Alena Gerber

After numerous appearances on German IPTV channels she started hosting the Zurich Nightlife show usgang.tv (usgang means "going out"/"clubbing" in Swiss German).

Home wiring

IPTV is television delivered to the home over the Internet.

Internet in Portugal

Taking advantage of the increased bandwidth provided by their ADSL2+ network, Sonaecom announced in June 2006 the launch of their IPTV service, dubbed SmartTV.

KDAZ

KDAZ can also be heard on the Sky Angel television programming service, located on channel 9773 over satellite and channel 229 over IPTV.

Kreatel

Kreatel Communications AB was a Swedish technology company, based in Linköping, that provides set-top boxes and software platforms for IPTV systems.

Multichannel television in Canada

The introduction of IPTV services by telephone providers such as Bell (Fibe TV), MTS (MTS TV), SaskTel (MaxTV), and Telus (Optik TV) brought additional competition to the multichannel television industry in Canada as an alternative to incumbent cable providers.

Oklahoma Lottery

Powerball numbers now are televised via Chicago-based cable superstation WGN America (available on most cable, IPTV and satellite providers in the state; it also carries Mega Millions due to the Illinois Lottery's participation in both games) or on the lottery's website.

Viewers Choice

Although Viewers Choice (and pay-per-view services in general) continue to be a main provider of big-ticket live events, much of their movie content has been duplicated by video on demand (VOD) services operated by cable and IPTV companies (and as noted below, Viewers Choice is not currently available on any Canadian satellite provider).

Westpark Foundries

In 2004, Westpark began to represent programming in the IPTV sector.

Yupptv

YuppTV is an Atlanta-based IPTV provider, operating a Free and Subscription television service over a user's regular Internet service.


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Ambit

Ubee Interactive (Formerly: Ambit Broadband), a producer of cable modem, ADSL, and IPTV products.

ANT Software Limited

The ANT Fresco browser was used in early internet TV products and IPTV deployments.

GameTree.tv

In April 2011, the GameFree TV service was launched by Free, a French Internet service provider, on its high-end IPTV set-top-box called Freebox Revolution.

HanaTV

BTV (formally HanaTV) is an IPTV service in South Korea provided by SK Broadband.

Media of Malaysia

HyppTV by UniFi is one of Malaysia's IPTV provider but in order to take the TV package, the customer must select at least one internet package, from RM 149 per month to RM 350 per month.

Neko Rahmen

The series is also noted for being the first anime series to be licensed exclusively by a US IPTV company, Vuze, and made available as a free download without digital restrictions.

Sebastian Rupley

From March 2006 until May 2010, Rupley had served as co-host (introduced as "co-crank"), alongside PC Magazine columnist John C. Dvorak, on Mevio's popular weekly IPTV show Cranky Geeks.

Selectable Output Control

The approved output devices are HDMI, all digital outputs that CableLabs has approved for unidirectional digital cable products, or any MVPD-approved protected output for Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) or Satellite Broadcasters.

Sigma Designs

The company develops products for the following connected media platforms: IPTV (video over IP) set-top boxes, TV media players (such as Blu-ray), HDTVs, multimedia players, digital media adapters, portable media players, and home networking products, such as HomePlug AV, HomePNA and G.hn.

Sky Angel

In 2009, C-SPAN was pulled from Sky Angel after being on its IPTV service for 2 days.

After the company passed on investing close to $400 million in manufacturing a replacement for the aging EchoStar III satellite, Sky Angel partnered with NeuLion in 2007 to develop a new over-the-top IPTV-based platform for the service.

SureWest

Services provided are telephone, voice over IP, DSL (15 Mbit/s/1 Mbit/s, 10 Mbit/s/768 kbit/s, 6 Mbit/s/768 kbit/s, 3 Mbit/s/768 kbit/s, 1 Mbit/s/128 kbit/s), FTTH for competitive local exchange carrier areas up to 50 Mbit/s data both ways, IPTV in HD for copper customers with a bonded DSL modem, and IPTV in HD for FTTH customers.

Television in Malaysia

However, Astro is the first broadcast company in Malaysia that introduce the IPTV services, branded as Astro B.yond IPTV in collaboration with Maxis and Time.

Tiscali

Between 2007 and 2008, Tiscali briefly operated an IPTV service in Italy (available in the cities of Bologna, Cagliari, Florence, Genoa, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Rome, Turin and Trieste).

UTStarcom

UTStarcom sold its Personal Communications Division to AIG Investments in July 2008 2 and has restructured UTStarcom around three core areas : IPTV, Broadband and NGN.

Its core markets are IPTV and broadband, It also sells handsets and other consumer products including DSL Modems and VoIP terminal adapters.