Entone and Conklin-Intracom announce the interoperability of Entone’s Hydra IP Video Gateway and Amulet IPTV Receiver with Conklin-Intracom’s fs|cdn fully integrated IPTV solution. The product offering has been successfully deployed in multiple U.S. customer environments. One such customer is Delhi Telephone in Delhi, NY.

Boxee and eGuiders announce the launch of a custom app for Boxee and their community of 600k users. Boxee is the easiest way for web content providers to bring their video into an interface optimized for a TV and remote. The new partnership brings eGuiders' innovative online video curation service to the living room and makes it easy to enjoy videos from the couch.

Tilgin announces a new release of its Service and Device Management software, VCM. Tilgin’s remote management solution enables the operators to expand their service offering of triple play services while keeping operating cost under control. The new VCM 5.6 introduces Remote Management of IPTV Set Top Boxes while also further improving its performance and High Availability characteristics.

Harmonic will showcase its comprehensive solution portfolio for video delivery to a variety of devices, including the TV, PC, iPhone and other mobile devices. Harmonic will introduce enhancements to its ProStream stream processing platform, Carbon Server transcoding software and MediaPrism software suite for multi-screen video delivery. Key demonstrations will also include Harmonic’s market-leading systems for broadcast contribution/distribution, encoding, and stream processing, as well as cable IPTV, universal edgeQAM and HFC access solutions. Taking place in Amsterdam from September 11-15, IBC is the leading television industry exhibition in Europe.

comScore released July 2009 data from the comScore Video Metrix service, showing that 158 million U.S. Internet users watched online video during the month, the largest audience ever recorded. Online video reached another all-time high in July with a total of 21.4 billion videos viewed during the month.

Time Warner Cable is working with numerous networks and network groups to provide its customers greater online access to high-quality programming. In upcoming trials of TV Everywhere, Time Warner Cable customers who subscribe to a video package containing the networks will have online access, at no additional charge, to a wide variety of content from participating programmers. They include TBS, TNT, HBO, CBS, Syfy, BBC America, AMC, WE tv, IFC, Sundance Channel, Discovery Communications and Smithsonian Channel.

Occam Networks announces Farmers Telephone Cooperative is now using the latest GigE and GPON FTTP options from Occam Networks to deliver IPTV to its deepest rural and highest density service areas. Since FTC’s deployment and installation of Occam’s BLC 6000 System, FTC has successfully served over 3,500 video subscribers with MPEG4-based Triple Play services including IPTV, while upgrading the company’s 450 remote cabinets using Occam retrofit kits. FTC is now adding fiber fed rural subscribers utilizing the Occam GPON technology integrated in its BLC 6000 System to access IPTV. This GPON deployment utilizes the same Ethernet based MSAP used in FTC’s initial MPEG4 deployment, eliminating the need for a new system while providing greater scalability and more simplicity.

The LifeLight Music Festival will broadcast its main stage concerts live online. More than 25 hours of streaming content over Labor Day Weekend will include such big names as Newsboys, Kutless, Superchick and Sanctus Real. The event is being broadcast on the state-of-the-art media platform of Endavo Media, an Atlanta-based company that provides online video and Internet TV solutions.

Iskon has deployed Edgeware's Orbit-2X server platform to deliver advanced on-demand IPTV services, including network Personal Video Recording, catch-up of live TV and Video-on-Demand. With Edgeware's Orbit-2X server platform, Iskon´s nPVR service allows subscribers to record up to ten hours of live TV in the network, with a catch-up TV service that enables viewers to replay the last 48 hours of broadcasts from the four most popular TV-channels in Croatia. Iskon.TV, Iskon Internet's IPTV service launched in April 2009, is now available in nine Croatian cities, offering over 40 TV channels and a number of converged triple play services.

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Truveo and Univision Interactive Media announce that Truveo’s video search capabilities are now available on Univision.com, allowing users to search and browse the most comprehensive global index of videos. The partnership with Univision Interactive Media provides integrated access to Truveo’s leading video search engine.

Falcon IP/Complete announces their partnership with Harmonic. The Falcon IP/Complete "bird to box" video solution and Harmonic's Direct-2-Edge cable IPTV solution provide a total cable IPTV solution. Falcon IP/Complete is a Harmonic authorized reseller for cable and telco operators in the United States.

AT&T U-verse TV customers can kickoff the football season with new content and features that make watching their favorite teams even better. AT&T announces the availability of "College Football Extras," a new On Demand category featuring content from several top college football programs, and the return of the Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Football application -- both available at no extra cost.

In line with the global phenomenon of switching over from analog to digital TV services, set-top boxes now have a more crucial role in the home for accessing of entertainment and information services provided by television service operators. This is especially apparent in mature high-speed Internet economies where service providers strive towards providing interactive bi-directional television, thereby leading to the growth of IP set-top boxes. According to new set-top box market data from ABI Research, IP STBs will generate a market value above $3 billion by 2014.

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