DAVE.TV announced the launch of the DAVE.TV "MyTVBox" Embeddable Media Player. For the first time, using a single embeddable player with a multi-channel playlist, users have the ability to share and repost videos, photos, and MP3s directly on their own website, blog or social site, such as MySpace, rather than hosted through a central portal site. Members also have access to legal video content such as music videos, TV shows, films and documentaries from the hundreds of DAVE.TV channels from content partners. With the easy to use "MyTVBox" multi-channel media player users are essentially creating a personalized TV station and media player where they can express themselves through broadcasting unique media tastes.

Narrowstep Inc, the TV on the Internet Company, announced its partnership with Spanish new media specialists, Vivocom, to deliver a host of online channels via Narrowstep's proprietary technology platform, telvOS. These channels include PSOE TV for Spain's ruling political party, one of the first broadband channels dedicated to a political party.

SeaChange International and Integra5 announced full interoperability between SeaChange's TV Platform and Integra5's i5 Converged Services Delivery Platform (i5 C-SDP). The combined solution enables European IPTV operators to deliver an expanded portfolio of converged quad-play applications and services across multiple home devices, including TVs and PCs.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of Broadband Powerline Networking Gets a Jolt from IPTV to their offering.

Powerline networking offers a solution with some advantages over coax and twisted-pair cabling for in-home deployment, especially in regions with little existing coax or phone line jacks, such as in EMEA, China, and many Asia-Pacific countries. At this time, we do not believe that there will be one clear technology winner in the networking interface race between coax, phone line, and powerline; however, our current analysis points toward powerline as winning on a worldwide scale.

MatrixStream Technologies, Inc., has announced a new offering, an affordable high definition video on demand (VOD) and IPTV basic server package consisting of an IMX500 middleware server, an IMX 2410 XMS streaming server, and an IMX 4010 video encoder, capable of handling up to 500 concurrent users. The price set for this package is to be under $70,000 USD, which is a relative bargain compared to current cable or satellite offerings but the inherent value and costs savings are embedded in MatrixStream's proprietary XMS streaming technology.

Brix Networks and Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) announced a collaboration and development initiative designed to deliver pervasive IP endpoint service assurance management. The companies' collaboration will give service providers the ability to collect valuable performance information on an unprecedented scale, and provide crucial, last-mile visibility into the quality of experience of providers' revenue-generating offerings, including Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), IP television (IPTV), and advanced data services.

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OpenTV Corp., a leading provider of enabling technologies for advanced digital television services, and Innovative Systems, a leading supplier of advanced telephony technology and services, announced a strategic partnership to provide integrated, turn-key IPTV solutions for telcos. This solution will enable telcos to include advanced digital video, interactive television, and advanced telephony services as part of their offering.

Tuning in to popular TV programming while at home or on the go is now as simple – and ubiquitous – as powering up a broadband connection.

AT&T Inc. and MobiTV, Inc. announced an agreement to offer a mobile television service to broadband users in the United States, including AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet and AT&T WorldNet subscribers. The browser-based service, which will be called AT&T Broadband TV, will enable subscribers to use a computer to access a wealth of live programming while at home, at work, or on the go using wired and wireless broadband technologies.

WhiteBlox announced the release of a platform aimed at bringing traditional broadcast revenue models into the IPTV world of media distribution. The new platform combines media management software and a unique file format which allows content owners to package and deliver video-based media with an assortment of interactive management, revenue and licensing options.

With the new system, distributors can support their online content with traditional advertising models while giving audiences the convenience of on-demand viewing.

India Broadcast Live, LLC (IBL), a division of Archer Entertainment Media Communications Incorporated, which debuted the first Indian IPTV platform, www.IndiaTVLive.com on August 17th 2006 with 5 channels, has just added 5 additional channels, bringing the total to 10 live, streaming channels on its platform. This unique service carries these 10 channels directly from India, live and in real time, and delivers them worldwide, via broadband, to any web-enabled device -- PCs, Laptops, PDAs and cell phones.

Broadband powerline networking, a wired technology that does not require new cabling to be installed, is poised to emerge as a winner in the residential networking interface race on a worldwide basis, reports In-Stat. Powerline networking has advantages over coax and twisted-pair cabling for in-home deployment. This is especially true in regions with few existing coax or phone jacks, such as in EMEA, Asia, and Pacific Rim countries, the high-tech market research firm says.

Espial IPTV unveiled the latest version of the Evo service platform during IBC 2006 in Amsterdam this week. With new features and applications, Evo offers IPTV operators the fastest UI performance in the industry combined with an incomparably cool subscriber experience that is fully skinnable and brandable. In addition, Evo continues to be the IPTV industry benchmark for openness and flexibility, adding support for a range of new standards and customization tools such as HTML 4, JavaScript 1.5, AJAX, and Flash 7.

Shenick Network Systems announced video quality testing enhancements to its diversifEyeT IPTV and triple play test solutions. Shenick's diversifEye offers a full range of IP video quality testing on a passive (real-time), as well as an active (full reference) basis to determine quality of service (QoS) and quality of experience (QoE) right down to the individual viewer level. Shenick diversifEye is the first and only integrated test system that enables network service providers and equipment vendors to test the full range of triple play, IPTV, VoIP and high speed Internet services.

Tektronix, Inc., a worldwide provider of communications network management and diagnostics solutions, announced the availability of Spectra2|VQM (Video Quality Measurement) version 2.0 for the diagnosis and analysis of Internet Protocol TV (IPTV). Leveraging Tektronix' 60 year heritage in innovation and building on its industry leadership in video and IP network test, measurement and monitoring, Spectra2|VQM v2.0 is the next generation network test tool, providing the industry's most comprehensive real time video Control Plane and video media quality testing solution for network operators and network equipment manufacturers (NEMs). The solution provides a complete platform for Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE) metrics.