IneoQuest Technologies and TANDBERG Television announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding at Supercomm that will strengthen the adoption of Video over IP technology for today's converged networks.

Nagravision, the world's leading independent provider of value-added content protection solutions, announced it will provide Germany’s first content protection solution for video-on-demand over IP on cable operator ish’s network. Ish will be carrying out a technical trial to explore the possibilities of IPTV services over a cable network.

TANDBERG Television announced that it has commenced the installation of an end-to-end IPTV delivery system for the commercial roll-out of the Swisscom/Bluewin triple play service. Swisscom has chosen the TANDBERG Television professional hardware encoding solution for Windows Media Video 9 (Microsoft's implementation of VC-1, the proposed SMPTE standard) following a competitive tender process. As part of the new contract TANDBERG Television will provide a number of its EN5920 encoders, TT1260 MPEG-2 professional receivers and an nCompass control and monitoring system and also support Swisscom’s engineering team with the integration of the video head-end with the Microsoft TV IPTV platform, set-top-boxes and other third party equipment.

NuTech Digital, Inc. announced a multiyear agreement to deliver NuTech's High Quality productions via the CinemaNow digital video-on-demand service, www.cinemanow.com. CinemaNow enables NuTech Digital to increase the reach of its content within the home and on the growing number of portable entertainment devices. As part of the agreement, CinemaNow will license NuTech Digital's Windows Media® Digital Rights Management (DRM) protected High Quality productions.

After agreements with several other national and international media companies such as Constantin Film AG of Germany, Twentieth Century Fox, and MGM International Television Distribution, T-Online has gained another prestigious partner for its Video on Demand service with CBS Paramount International Television. The major Hollywood studio will expand the online film range of T-Online Vision with its cinema and TV productions at www.vod.t-online.de. In recent months, T-Online has concluded similar agreements with international and national studios and media companies that offer cinema blockbusters, top quality feature films and interesting documentaries.

Telecom Video Europe, Amsterdam, May 10, 2005: BitBand Technologies and Amino Communications announce the successful completion of the integration between BitBand's Video On Demand solutions and Amino's IPTV set-top box. This joint offering by the two market leading companies is already successfully deployed at customers' sites, including the first IPTV deployment in Ireland, by digital services provider Magnet Networks.

Entone Technologies, a leading provider of personal video content delivery solutions, announced that Pioneer Long Distance (PLD), a subsidiary of Pioneer Telephone Cooperative, Inc., has selected Entone's carrier-class video on demand (VOD) and content ingest workflow solutions to support its IP television (IPTV) service launch. PTC's IPTV rollout covers its entire network of 72 exchanges across the state of Oklahoma, providing up to 33,000 homes with IPTV and VOD services.

If you haven't yet read your daily cartoon, an article written in the USA Today will definitely suffice. Kevin Maney writes an article titled, "Pro players + tech gurus = Chinese stew."

Forget the velvet rope. No talkin' your way onto the VIP list. In fact, leave the guest passes at the door. Backstage access to today's hottest artists isn't invite-only anymore.

Striking a harmonious chord with music enthusiasts, SBC Communications Inc. announced the debut of the SBC Blue Room, the company's Web site featuring exclusive musical content, in-studio interviews, live performances and unedited commentary of chart-topping artists. Visitors to the site, http://blueroom.sbc.com, will be treated to fresh new content each week of the biggest names in rock, alternative rock, country, and hot adult contemporary.

CinemaNow Inc., announced it has entered into an agreement with Sundance Channel LLC., to offer films from Sundance Channel Home Entertainment for download or streaming via the CinemaNow Web site, www.cinemanow.com. Users will be able to rent each title on a pay-per-view basis or watch it as part of CinemaNow's Premium Pass subscription.

Cinema on Web has chosen Globix Corporation for its media encoding and hosted media-on-demand services for the Internet release of Bollywood movies, coinciding with the Indian Theater premiere.

Cinema on Web, also known as GO COW GO (COW), was created by Media Bazaar LLC, a Global online multiplex broadcasting network for duly licensed, encrypted and protected cinema quality film and TV content. COW allows you to web broadcast your recorded and live cinematic content globally without the expense of satellite, cable or dish.

Movielink and Verizon announced the launch of a co-branded movie downloading service for Verizon Online’s consumer broadband subscribers. Verizon Online’s consumer DSL and FiOS Internet Service customers can now purchase and download movies to watch at home or on-the-go through this special agreement with Movielink.

IDV GMOD subscribers will be able to access entertainment and educational programs from around the world and play the most advanced video games from any publisher. U.S. citizens will be able to tune in Jay Leno's "Tonight Show" monologues from wherever there is broadband access; basketball fans in China or anywhere in the world will be able to pull up a Yao Ming game they missed or want to see again; foreign nationals will be able to watch programming anywhere in their native language.