Finding and identifying companies that provide specific types of IPTV products and services in the fast growing IPTV indutry is rather difficult. More and more new companies or divisions of large companies enter the IPTV market, whose products and services and even company categories are rather unknown. Thus it becomes difficult to find information through generic searches on the Internet.

To produce relief, Althos Publishing Group will release - in parallel to Lawrence Harte's new book "IP Television Basics" - its "IPTV Industry Directory" with information about over 600 companies providing products and services to the IPTV industry. Amongst others, the directory includes a listing of companies in indexes of IPTV product and service classifications and accurate contact information such as physical addresses, names, phone and fax numbers.

The categories of companies include:

- IP Set Top box Manufacturer
- IP Televisions
- Media Servers
- Media Editing Tools
- Media Access Nodes or TV Gateways
- Middleware
- Digital Rights Management (DRM)
- Billing Systems
- IT Training Companies
- Ultra Broadband
- Chip and Component Manufacturers
- Trade Shows
- Mobile Video Gateways
- Mobile Video Telephones
- Media Viewers
- Headend Media Equipment
- Program Content Providers
- Program Content Aggregators
- IPTV Headhunters
- IPTV Schools
- IPTV Consultant Companies
- Multicast Distribution Equipment
- Premises Distribution Equipment
- IPTV Industry Standards and Associations

The book will be available at the end of June 2005 and can be ordered online.