From head-end to set top box, it all worked. All eyes were on the television in the living room of this Fairfield home when Auroras Entertainment successfully demonstrated its end-to-end MPEG-4 IPTV service. Delivered via 3 Rivers Communications DSL facilities, it confirmed what Auroras and 3 Rivers have long believed, that an aggregated MPEG-4 IPTV solution would work and would bring the benefits of IPTV to telco customers of both large and small telephone companies.

Amino, leading IPTV set-top box supplier, today confirms that it was selected by Siemens for the first IPTV deployment in Thailand. The deployment for ADC (Advanced Datanetwork Communication Co. Ltd) has been rolled out to a substantial number of homes in Thailand for several months adding on-demand and broadcast television channels to the company's existing broadband service offering. Over the last months, ADC has witnessed the proven reliability and high quality of the AmiNET set-top boxes.

Orca Interactive, a global market leader in developing middleware and applications for IPTV, announced today the launch of its Interactive Alliance to promote cooperation among IPTV industry leaders and provide comprehensive future-proof solutions.

Orca Interactive, a global market leader in developing middleware and applications for IPTV, announced today that it will exhibit at CommunicAsia with demonstrations that include a preview of its new RiGHTv IPTV middleware and presentations by company executives on strategies for IPTV and the user interface.

Subscribers to Verizon's fiber-optic FiOS TV service will be able to enjoy the rich diversity of high-definition, educational and children's programming provided by PBS and the nation's local public television stations under a major agreement announced today by the Association of Public Television Stations (APTS), PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) and Verizon. The agreement ensures that Verizon will carry local public television stations' digital programming.

Verizon introduced FiOS TV in the Town of Hempstead on Long Island, offering a true choice for subscription television and on-demand programming via the company's all-digital, fiber-optic network. Verizon is the first company to offer such a communications network, connecting homes and businesses directly to fiber optics on a widespread scale.

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. ("Huawei"), a leader in providing next generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world today announced that it has successfully deployed an end-to-end IPTV solution for Maroc Telecom. The system, solely engineered by Huawei, recently began commercial service in the Kingdom of Morocco. This marks yet another milestone following other successful implementations in Thailand, Ukraine, Serbia, Montenegro and China's Guangdong province.

Visitors to Broadcast Asia and CommunicAsia this month will be able to see an ascendant TANDBERG Television (TAT.OL), demonstrating a broader array of offerings for the digital media market. On its Broadcast Asia (#8C2-01) and CommunicAsia (#6F1-12) booths, TANDBERG Television will show its advanced solutions for HDTV, IPTV, on-demand and interactive entertainment. Combining the company's industry leading professional video compression technologies with its latest software solutions has enabled TANDBERG Television to move to the next level and to produce a unique combination of integrated compression, interactive and on-demand content solutions. The result has been a significant growth in the company's global presence and increasing market share in the Asia Pacific market.

CCTV uses new TANDBERG MPEG-4 AVC HD professional receiver and award-winning advanced encoding for contribution and distribution

Pyramid Research is proud to announce their Webinar "Transforming Fixed Markets with IMS, IPTV and FMC: Leveraging Technologies to Create Successful Business Models" that will be held on July 19th at 11am EST. Guy Zibi, Pyramid’s Director of the CMT Research Group, will host the event, which will bring industry professionals together to discuss fixed communications business models and the trend towards an application-centric world.

TechnoConcepts Inc. announced that it has completed its acquisition of the set-top box business from Shanghai Jinshilin Technologies Development Company, Ltd. (Jinshilin). Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, pending approval by the PRC government. Zuoping Zhang, former president of Shanghai Jinshilin Technologies Development Company Ltd., will join the new TechnoConcepts subsidiary as president and will direct its business operations in China.

Hundreds of billions of dollars and the future of dozens of promising digital entertainment markets are at risk unless concerned companies and industries can resolve their differences over Digital Rights Management (DRM) and Conditional Access (CA), iSuppli Corp. is warning.

Nielsen Media Research, a unit of VNU, N.V., today announced that it will provide integrated, all-electronic ratings for television regardless of the platform on which it is viewed. Under the Company’s Anytime Anywhere Media Measurement (A2/M2) initiative, Nielsen will develop and deploy technology to measure the new ways consumers are watching television, such as on the Internet, outside the home, and via cell phones, iPods and other personal, mobile devices.

EWAN 1 Inc. announced that an instant demonstration of the innovative new SecureKey, a miniature version of its set-top box which turns any computer into a TV, wherever the viewer may be on the planet, is now available by clicking on the link on the home page of its website, www.ewannetworks.com. As stated in a press release on June 11, it was revealed that PC Connection would be the first retailer to feature the device later this year.

Where does the telecom industry have to go once the impending mergers of AT&T and Alcatel are complete? A new report issued today by BIA Financial Network (BIAfn) and Telecom Pragmatics, Does Consolidation Mean the End of Innovation: