Research and Markets has added Screen Digest's new report "IPTV Business Models: Profit and Loss in the Telco TV Space" to their offering. The report 'IPTV Business Models: Profit and loss in the telco TV space,' discusses the business models and strategies adopted by IPTV services across Europe. IPTV services are rapidly becoming commonplace across much of Europe, however many are struggling to generate subscriber revenues at sustainable levels. This report looks at some of the strategies adopted by European IPTV operators and also examines how the presence of IPTV has impacted the existing broadband business.

Consumers would prefer to bundle communications services with telecommunication companies by a 2 to 1 margin to cable companies if given the choice, according to the second annual Telecom-Cable Industry Satisfaction Study from CFI Group. However, cable companies still provide bundled communications to twice as many consumers surveyed as do telecom companies.

The survey of over 1,200 households, which examined customer satisfaction for video, broadband Internet access, and wireless communications using the methodology of the University of Michigan’s American Customer Satisfaction Index, found that customer satisfaction provides telecom companies with a competitive advantage. As the telecoms roll out high-speed fiber services across their networks, they will be able to challenge cable company dominance in bundles, high speed Internet and video.

Mind Commerce announces the release of IPTV Applications - Enhanced Television Applications as a Battleground for Customer Loyalty. While acknowledging the disruptive potential of IP technology in the Service Provider domain, this report also provides a practical roadmap establishing the types of IPTV Applications that can enhance customer loyalty among high value triple play customers. This report provides a categorization of Application types and their potential for IPTV providers and their competitors.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "IPTV Market Leaders Report - Issue 2 2008" report to their offering.

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This IPTV Market Leaders Report identifies which IPTV systems and software companies are leading each of the six IPTV market segments: Access, Video Headend, Video-on-Demand, Middleware, Set-top Box, and Content Protection/Digital Rights Management. We have identified and are tracking over 80 companies for this report. This report includes a breakdown of the four regional markets, Asia, Europe, North America, and Rest of the World regions, as well as global leaders. Market position is measured using estimates and actual numbers of active IPTV subscribers that are using (or being supported by) each company’s products for all segments except Video Headends. For the Video Headend category, we measure market position using the reported number of IPTV channels provided using each company’s products. Since a Video Headend may support two thousand or two million subscribers, the number of channels is a much better measure of a company’s market position.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "IPTV, IMS and the Emergence of Multi-Service Convergence" report to their offering. IPTV Operators are facing dramatically new challenges for them to create services and features that are relevant to a new generation of consumers, who crave to be in constant contact and share all manner of content over broadband networks to multiple devices.

Telcos are increasingly positioning their IPTV services as part of bundled broadband packages, and the services are gaining subscribers at a rapid pace. At year-end 2007, the global IPTV subscriber base reached 16m clients and is expected to grow five-fold in the next four years. Although regulations (such as those in China or Brazil) have played a role in limiting the scope of IPTV portfolios, it is the marketing strategy employed by each telco that is determining the pace of IPTV development in each market.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "2008 Digital Media Technologies - Digital TV, Mobile TV, IPTV, MPEG" report to their offering. This new biennial report is intended to support technical specialists and managers in understanding the major digital broadcasting techniques, and the sound and video compression technologies which underlie these techniques.

Research and Markets has added the "IPTV Launch Guide" report to their offering. IPTV Launch Guide is a flexible offering allowing you to leverage our experience and best-practices and implement them in your timeframe with your own resources. The Launch Guide is designed to save you time and money. Based on best-practices developed through hands-on trials and market implementations, our guide will eliminate costly trial and error implementations, provide consistency across your service provisioning workspace, and ensure the opportunity for continuous process improvement.

The Worldwide online video revenue is expected to eclipse US$4.5 billion by 2012, up from $1.2 billion in 2008, says In-Stat. Purchased/rented videos are expected to offer the most robust growth for online video in the near term, in large part due to an increase in subscription services such as Netflix, which charges a flat monthly fee to deliver an optimal combination of packaged goods and online content that can be viewed on home TV sets. Ad-supported professional video from major TV networks will become a strong revenue contributor by 2012.

With the 2008 Olympics underway in Beijing, Nielsen Online released U.S. Internet audience figures for the top 10 most visited Olympics-related content Web sites and traffic to NBC's online video content. With momentum building prior to the opening ceremonies, fans are now finding results, news and video online.

The broadcast, cable, and telco TV segments of worldwide video server markets are all growing at a healthy pace, and total revenues are expected to reach $1.5 billion in 2013. Of the three, the telco TV market is showing the strongest growth, with a compound annual growth rate of 28% over 2007-2013. Cable will experience a CAGR of about 13.5%, while broadcast markets show the slowest growth at 8%.

Italy and Spain are forging ahead of the US and other European countries in adoption of online and web TV services, according to “Internet TV : Southern Europe Leads The Way,” from the Strategy Analytics Digital Media Strategies service. The Strategy Analytics survey of 3500 Internet users found that 22% of Spanish respondents are regular users of streamed video from broadcaster websites, compared to 18% in the US and only 8% in Germany. This report estimates that 32 million people in the US and 34 million in Europe are now regular users of video streaming from broadcast network websites.

While the rest of the consumer electronics and pay-TV worlds are still stuck in more traditional native code environments, the push for online video and social communities in the living room has resulted in ever-increasing interest in HTML and other web-based technologies on consumer TVs.

The consumer-usable living room browser market is led by a few companies such as Opera and ACCESS, while other companies such as OpenTV, Oregan Networks and ANT Software are active in selling their browser products as part of a Web-based UI rendering solution. Nokia-owned Trolltech recently integrated Webkit into its “Qt” platform to allow CE developers to create mixed Web and native user interfaces. Lastly, the Consumer Electronics Association has developed the CE-2014 standard that leverages HTML to render user-interfaces in a connected living room, though vendor support for this effort appears limited at this time.

Ericsson ranked at the top of the latest Vendor Matrix released by ABI Research, maintaining the position it held in the last edition of this Matrix. Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia Siemens Networks claimed the second and third spots in the company’s new evaluation of worldwide IP Multimedia Subsystems infrastructure vendors. Alcatel-Lucent showed a stellar rise compared to its #6 rank in the previous Matrix, while Nokia Siemens held its previous position.

The Vendor Matrix is an analytical tool developed by ABI Research to provide a clear understanding of vendors’ positions in specific markets. Vendors are assessed on the important parameters of “innovation” and “implementation” across several criteria unique to each vendor matrix.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global - Digital Media - Broadband TV (IPTV) Overview" report to their offering.

In only a few instances do we see an opportunity for IPTV - the reality is that the telcos will find it pretty tough competing with cable and pay TV operators. However, as PCCW has shown, it can be done. In 2008 there are initial global standards and architecture specifications in place. Interesting developments are taking place in Europe, particularly France and Italy; as well as China, Hong Kong and the Netherlands. We estimate there will be around 25 million users by 2010. While there is no doubt that broadband video, as we prefer to call it, will eventually become successful; we see it as an incremental service that can be added onto Next Generation Networks. This report includes BuddeComm’s analysis of the IPTV market, including VoD in relation to TV. The report includes brief case studies, statistics and forecasts. See separate report for information on video services over the Web.