USTelematics released a revenue-producing affiliate agreement today with Netflix. Users of USTelematics’ Voyager Automotive Mobile IPTV, while using Voyager connected to the Internet, will become able to order DVDs for play on Voyager in areas of limited wireless coverage. The Netflix library consists of over 100,000 movie and video titles for physical delivery, either to home or a vacation destination.

Velocix and Kontiki are partnering to extend their market leading solutions for web delivery of large digital assets, including video, software and games. Under the terms of the partnership, Velocix will provide a hosted version of the Kontiki Delivery Management System within its Global Digital Asset Delivery Network, providing new deployment options for Kontiki customers and prospects.

As Kontiki's preferred CDN partner, Velocix will provide Kontiki customers with additional opportunity to subscribe to the Kontiki service, as an alternative to owning and operating the application and hardware themselves. This gives Kontiki customers flexibility and choice of deployment models in accessing the benefits of P2P web delivery.

Verimatrix and Motorola have entered into a comprehensive reseller agreement whereby the market-leading Verimatrix Video Content Authority System for IPTV has been integrated with Motorola's end-to-end IPTV solution. Motorola's advanced VIP series IP set-top boxes fully support the VCAS for IPTV solution and are deployed in IPTV systems around the globe. Motorola and Verimatrix are working together to integrate and certify new VIP set-top models.

Velocix has acquired an exclusive license for RawFlow's P2P Streaming technology. Under the terms of this agreement, Velocix now has sole responsibility for selling and supporting RawFlow's Intelligent Content Delivery solution.

Velocix will market ICD under the Velocix Live Streaming product family brand, adding a Hybrid-P2P Live Streaming option to a service line-up that already includes Live Video Streaming for Adobe Flash & Microsoft Windows Media, and Live Audio Streaming.

Faced with stiff competition in the cable market and from telcos vying for TV viewers, traditionally risk-averse cable operators are becoming increasingly “bipolar,” supporting a roadmap that may require the deployment of new STBs with more advanced features and functions, while also apparently aiming to drive the ubiquitous STB to extinction.

Meanwhile, STB vendors are offering a variety of new features to entice operators. When it comes to STBs, operators have traditionally tread carefully, and have largely been unwilling to “shop around” much for new technologies.

Move Networks has been chosen by Channel Bee to help broadcast a series of 10 live concerts in high definition via the Internet. Channel Bee’s daily programming is anchored by Lovejoy and includes original comedy sketches, celebrity interviews, reality television programs and live music shows. The new Internet television channel is produced in conjunction with Simon Fuller's 19 Entertainment.

Telcos that are investing heavily in IPTV infrastructure and services to drive new revenues also need to ensure that tools and technologies are in place to monitor their customers' quality of experience with their video services – but telcos aren't sure that today's IPTV QOE test and measurement tools provide the right level of service monitoring, according to a major new report from Heavy Reading.

IPTV Phase II: QOE Is Mission Critical identifies and analyzes the core issues involved in determining QOE for IPTV services. The report explores the issues that affect how to objectively determine QOE in a way that it reflects the subscriber's subjective point of view. It identifies and evaluates key standards and sets out the most likely timetable for the emergence of standards that would give service providers greater confidence in choosing solutions for measuring the quality of their TV services.

Host: Sam Masud, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading

Original Webinar Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Original Webinar Time: 2:00 p.m. New York / 7:00 p.m. London

Overview: Telcos are putting money on the table with high hopes of challenging the traditional TV providers. By delivering TV channels over an IP network, telcos expect to have a more cost-effective business model that will also result in increased revenues. But if they are to be successful, telcos will have to provide IPTV services that, at a minimum, are as good as what subscribers have become accustomed to. This is why IPTV vendors of all sorts are talking about Quality of Experience, or QOE.

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Mixer Info
Date: July 24, 2008
Time: 5:00 - 9:00PM
Location: Luxe Hotel, 11461 Sunset Blvd
Cost: $65.00 with dinner and program

• How does broadband advertising integrate with traditional TV and cable advertising models?
• If the video must be free, are short ads at the beginning or end of video clips and banner ads really the best way to grab viewers?
• Are the networks maximizing revenues with the advertising on their websites?
• And are all networks ready to follow Fox's example and share revenue with their affiliates from their Web and mobile content?

Program
Networking Nohost bar: 5:00-6:00pm
Panel: 6:00-7:00 pm
Focus Group: 7:00-7:45
Networking Dinner: 7:45-9:00 pm

Focus Group: LIVE USERS TELL YOU WHAT CONSUMERS REALLY WANT FRON ONLINE VIDEO

Dailymotion remains the most popular independent web video site globally, with over 37 million unique visitors worldwide according to global Internet information provider comScore. In addition, recently released comScore data shows that Dailymotion continues to have one of the fastest growth rates among major video entertainment sites in the United States. May 2008 data month-over-month growth shows Dailymotion growing 18% to 5.7 million unique visitors, with page views growing over 15% to 146 million.

SeaChange to provide an outsourced video-on-demand solution to the Hellenic Telecommunication. Greece’s largest telco with 5 million fixed lines and over 700,000 broadband customers, has plans to extend its service offering and roll-out IPTV services to its customer base.

U.K. based ODG is Europe’s leading video-on-demand content acquisition and management partner to operators including one of Europe’s largest cable operators, Virgin Media. ODG helped establish Virgin Media’s TV on-demand service, which now serves 3.2 million homes, and has been actively expanding in Europe, working in the Spanish, Italian, German and Austrian markets.

The Nielsen Company releases the first comparable U.S. figures showing video and TV usage across the 'three screens' - Television, Internet and Mobile devices.

Nielsen's findings show that screen time of the average American continues to increase with TV users watching more TV than ever before (127 hrs, 15 min per month), while also spending 9% more time using the Internet (26 hrs, 26 min per month) from last year. At the same time, a small but growing number of Internet and mobile phone users are watching video online (2 hrs, 19 min per month), as well as using their cell phones to watch video (3 hrs, 15 min per month).

American University’s Center for Social Media announces the release of a new code of best practices in fair use for creators in the burgeoning online video environment. The code, grounded in the practices of online video makers and in the law, was collaboratively created by a team of scholars and lawyers from leading universities. It was coordinated by American University professors Pat Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi.

The first of their kind, these best practices will allow users to make remixes, mashups, and other common online genres with the knowledge that they are staying within copyright law. The code identifies, among other things, six kinds of unlicensed uses of copyrighted material that may be considered fair, under certain limitations. Find more out after the jump.

Msnbc.com continues to dominate the online news landscape and get the top "vote" from consumers and the advertising community, alike. In May, msnbc.com underscored its leadership position by delivering over 125 million online video streams, more than any other news site. Since February, users have viewed over 100 million online video streams on msnbc.com each month. Industry experts have also "voted" for msnbc.com by awarding the site with a prestigious collection of accolades and honors, recognizing its world-class original journalism and innovative brand campaign, "A Fuller Spectrum of News."

The rapid growth in the consumption of broadcast content on devices other than the traditional TV screens is reflected across the exhibition, conference and business briefing programmes at IBC2008.

IBC covers all aspects of the creation, management and delivery of content. Recent years have seen a steady rise in attendance from the telecoms sector as carriers and mobile operators seek a better understanding of the broadcast sector and evaluate IPTV and mobile multimedia revenues as a supplement to stagnant or declining voice ARPU.

This year, the opening theme day of the IBC Conference on Thursday 11 September is dedicated to “Content Access via the Web” and will explore how consuming content across devices as diverse as mobile phones, PCs, multimedia players and games consoles is impacting the traditional broadcast value chain.