Philip Hunter

MoCA, the Multimedia Over Cable Alliance, has been joined by NDS, the first major conditional access vendor to do so.

European operators are taking contrasting routes to OTT, with some using it for boosting footprint while others position it as a service extension just for existing customers.

Recent partnerships announced by Cisco and Alcatel-Lucent around multiscreen platforms add to choice, but also to confusion.

Consumer expectations allied to moves towards online distribution by content houses are forcing pay TV operators to embrace OTT delivery, whether they like it or not.

The UK’s Virgin Media plans eventually to migrate all of its pay-TV programming to TiVo and deliver it “through the middle” via reserved spectrum within its broadband Internet service.

As audience research data for last month's UK royal wedding came in, it became clear that with OTT, it is much harder to count viewer numbers.

CDNs may not be the universal panacea for wireline video delivery after all.

In the UK, BT regrets pulling out of cellular telephony a decade ago but believes mobile TV offers a way back.

Over-the-top services will overtake IPTV by 2013 and then leave it quickly behind, reaching a subscriber base of 380 million by 2015, according to research by Informa Telecoms & Media.

European cable will stay in rude health, providing it takes the right IP medicine, according to the Cable Congress consensus.

The Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group standard spearheaded by UK groups continues to gain ground in Asia.

An app revolution riding on smart TVs will be a major talking point at this year’s IPTV World Forum in London, March 22-24.

Bell Laboratories and others are proving that although fiber needs to be pushed deeper, new technologies will deliver multichannel HD IPTV services over copper for the last few hundred meters.

The new DVB-RCS2 standard for satellite return channels is designed specifically for IP-based interactive services.

BT and Intelsat are interconnecting their fiber-based networks to extend the reach of both.

Russia could be the next port of call for Netflix in its European expansion with Hulu also in the game.

The year 2011 was the first that the UK cable industry made a collective profit as the leading operator Virgin Media scored with its web connected service based on a TiVo DVR.

As in many other markets, satellite has been gaining market share from cable in Germany, with IPTV also on the rise.

Deutsche Telekom is one of a growing number of European service providers adopting Wi-Fi chips from Israeli semiconductor Celeno for broadcast distribution in the home.

The UK’s biggest pay-TV operator hopes call for probe will deflect attention from its own dominant position.

The European Broadcast Union’s core metadata standard provided the basis for the UK’s new file format.

The European Broadcast Union (EBU) will provide a free platform for its members to deploy HbbTV services during the 2012 London Olympics and Eurovision Song Contest.