As one could have guessed, if Sling Media is not going to put out some sort of PVR for the Slingbox, then someone else surely will.

Thus, the company Applian Technologies has created Replay SlingCorder, which allows you to capture and record video being streamed from your Slingbox. The software records at a 320x240 resolution and saves the content as Windows Media files.

TANDBERG Television announced today that On Demand TV - a joint venture of NTT West (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corp.) and Itochu - will expand its deployment of TANDBERG Television's Mediaplex-20-based video headends to support MPEG-4 AVC technology for its nationwide IPTV rollout in Japan.

IMAKE Software, Inc., has unveiled OpenVision 4.0, its newest generation of products for VOD and IPTV. From content creation to asset management, entitlement/subscriber management to session management, from broadcast TV to Targeted Ad Insertion, OpenVision 4.0 provides the intelligence behind On Demand product and service delivery for telecommunication, cable, and content providers.

Telchemy, Incorporated, the global leader in Voice and Video over IP fault and performance management technology, announced that Shenick Network Systems, an award winning provider of high performance IP communications test systems, has licensed Telchemy's VQmon/SA-VM IPTV and VQmon/SA VoIP performance analysis software for use in its diversifEye Triple Play communications test system. Shenick customers can now test performance and quality issues for IPTV, VoIP, triple play, broadband services within a single system enabling service providers to offer a high quality, reliable IPTV service.

ANT plc, the market leading provider of software and solutions for the IPTV, hybrid TV and consumer electronics industries, announces that ANT Fresco has been selected for German telecommunications operator HanseNet’s DTT and IPTV hybrid deployment in Germany. The Fresco TV browser will be integrated into Advanced Digital Broadcast's ("ADB") ADB-3800TW High Definition-ready H.264 hybrid set-top box and ADB has licensed Fresco and Alcatel’s OMC software from ANT for this purpose.

Celrun Co., Ltd. has agreed to supply H.264HD level (MPEG4 AVC : Advanced Video Coding) IPTV set top box to Hanaro Media (former Celrun TV) amounting to the Kr 57 billion (based on fixed volume).

Celrun announced that it has entered the contract as above-stated with Hanaro Media, the IPTV service provider.

Celrun Co., Ltd., the IPTV specializing company, has announced on 4th day, that it determined to enter into Chinese IPTV service market through the supply contract with Totyu Japanese to supply IPTV solution.

Widevine Technologies, the leading provider of downloadable content protection and digital forensics solutions, announced that Pioneer Telephone Cooperative has fully deployed Widevine Cypher in order to acquire, protect and deliver secure premium broadcast and video-on-demand content from major studios and broadcasters for its Digital TV service.

Kasenna today announced an agreement under which it will license its PortalTV suite (including Kasenna LivingRoom and MediaBase XMP), to Ericsson AB for integration with Ericsson's broadband access products. Together, Ericsson’s networking products and Kasenna’s Portal TV suite will provide a fully-integrated, one-stop IPTV solution for service providers. The combined solution will provide an integrated network and IPTV infrastructure carriers need to deliver advanced TV services such as video-on-demand, network PVR, StartOver TV, and customizable electronic programming guides (EPGs).

NDS, the leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, today announced Synamedia Metro, a complete IPTV middleware solution for telecommunications companies (telcos) and broadband operators. The new full-feature product brings the world’s leading television technologies to the telecommunications industry, enabling telcos to offer the power of IPTV to their subscribers. The solution debuts this week at GlobalComm 2006.

Digital Fountain, Inc., the leading supplier of advanced FEC (forward error correction) technology for reliable communications, announced today the availability of the DF ToughStream Engine for streaming applications including IPTV and Internet TV. ToughStream provides application and equipment vendors with the easiest way to incorporate FEC technology into streaming applications. ToughStream "makes streams tough" protecting video and audio streams from common impairments including packet loss, latency and jitter and lost packets typical of IP networks, allowing reliable and efficient delivery to the end-user without interruptions.

mPhase Technologies today announced general availability of an integrated conditional access feature to its flagship IPTV platform, the mPhase TV+ System , incorporating content and revenue protection software from Latens, a leading provider of rights management and conditional access solutions. Latens' latest generation dynamic Conditional Access System (CAS) is a pure software security solution that protects operators' content and revenues.
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Stratacache today announced OmniCast for STB, a new software solution that facilitates delivery of set-top box (STB) software updates, digital rights management (DRM) upgrades, channel guides, advertising, middleware, and operating system updates. This product allows satellite, telco, cable, and wireless IPTV service providers to deliver software updates to residential STBs with higher efficiency and lower costs than ever before. By using OmniCast's unique compression and reliable multicast delivery technologies, OmniCast for STB dramatically reduces the time and network bandwidth required to push new or updated software to any number of STBs, and guarantees that all of a provider's STBs are up-to-date with the same versions of software.

Verimatrix, developer of the most widely deployed IPTV content protection system with tier one operators, today at Globalcomm 2006 announced that T2TV LLC and T2 Communications LLC have deployed the Verimatrix Content Authority System (VCAS) on its fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network in Holland, Mich. T2 turned to Verimatrix when one of its premium broadcast providers required a content protection solution to gain access to premium broadcast channels. Verimatrix was able to successfully install VCAS within 10 days of purchase.

Verimatrix, developer of the most widely deployed IPTV content protection system with tier one operators, today at Globalcomm 2006 announced that Arkwest Communications, headquartered in Danville, AR, has deployed the Verimatrix Content Authority System (VCAS) on its IPTV platform, making the provider the first to offer triple play services - voice, Internet and digital television - in Arkansas. Verimatrix was chosen as the preferred content protection solution that enabled Arkwest to receive premium Hollywood content and broadcast channels.