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BRITISH <strong>TELE</strong>COM TO PROVIDE HD CONTENT<br />
BT is to offer High Definition (HD) content to users of its V-box Personal<br />
Video Recorder using their IPTV (basically TV over broadband)<br />
‘Vision’ service. BT Vision is a digital TV service that offers<br />
DTT, a DVR (their V-Box), and supports TV and video content that’s<br />
accessed on-demand over a BT Broadband connection. BT has<br />
announced an agreement with NBC Universal to include a selection<br />
of feature films in High Definition (1080i) format from the NBC Universal<br />
catalogue. Current films will cost £4.95 while older library titles<br />
will sell for £2.95. Films will have a 48 hour time limit for viewing.<br />
ORANGE TO OFFER ON DEMAND MOVIES ON IPTV SERVICE<br />
Orange is likely to build its IPTV service around on-demand films<br />
when it eventually launches a home TV service to take on Sky, Virgin,<br />
Freeview and BT Vision, late this year or the early part of next year.<br />
Nationwide trials for the TV service have been running in earnest,<br />
with trialists using the on-demand film service only in Leeds.<br />
SKY ADDS NEW CHANNELS<br />
Seven new HD channels will launch on the Sky+ HD service in October<br />
2008, including six genre-themed Sky Movies channels in HD<br />
and a new HD version of Sky Real Lives. The addition of the new<br />
channels in October will increase the total number of HD channels<br />
on the Sky platform to 26, compared with nine channels when Sky+<br />
HD made its debut in May 2006. The number of hours of native high<br />
definition content on the Sky platform will increase to around 10,000<br />
per month, more than 2.5 times the amount of standard definition<br />
content offered by the five main terrestrial channels combined.<br />
N O R T H A M E R I C A<br />
GALAXY 19 LAUNCHES SUCCESSFULLY<br />
Intelsat’s Galaxy 19 <strong>satellite</strong> was successfully launched on September<br />
24 aboard a Sea Launch Zenit-3SL rocket. The <strong>satellite</strong>,<br />
built by Space Systems/Loral, will operate from 97 West, replacing<br />
the Galaxy 25 spacecraft. Galaxy 19 will provide 50-state<br />
coverage, in addition to reaching the Caribbean, Canada and<br />
Mexico, to video, government and network customers.<br />
CANADA<br />
MTS ALLSTREAM TO USE ETI OSS<br />
MTS Allstream will use ETI’s Triad OSS to integrate Microsoft’s<br />
Mediaroom IP video technology to their CRM and billing infrastructure.<br />
Triad completely automates the provisioning of IPTV services<br />
to MTS Allstream’s expanding subscriber base. Operating under the<br />
MTS brand in the province of Manitoba, the division offers consumers<br />
next generation wireless, high-speed Internet and data, digital television<br />
and wireline voice services, as well as home security services.<br />
NIMIQ 4 SATELLITE SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHED<br />
Telesat, which is 64 percent owned by Loral and the world’s fourth largest<br />
fixed <strong>satellite</strong> services operator, has successfully launched its state-ofthe-art<br />
Nimiq 4 <strong>satellite</strong>. Nimiq 4 is fully leased to Bell TV, and will enable<br />
Bell TV to expand its advanced digital <strong>satellite</strong> television services over<br />
Canada by offering more HDTV, specialty channels and foreign-language<br />
programming. The <strong>satellite</strong> will be located at 82 degrees West.<br />
UNITED STATES<br />
HOTWIRE SELECTS MOTOROLA FTTH SOLUTION<br />
Hotwire Communications is using Motorola’s gigabit passive optical<br />
networking fibre to the home solution, MPEG-4 high-definition encoder<br />
and IP set-top box offerings to support IPTV and other services. Hotwire,<br />
which focuses on delivering fibre-based broadband to multi-family communities<br />
and home developments, student dormitories and military housing,<br />
serves customers in parts of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North<br />
Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York.<br />
AT&T IPTV ARRIVES TO MICHIGAN AND ARKANSAS<br />
AT&T Inc. has launched the company’s integrated suite of AT&T Uverse(SM)<br />
services, including AT&T U-verse TV, AT&T U-verse High<br />
Speed Internet and AT&T U-verse Voice in Michigan and Central Arkansas.<br />
AT&T is the only national service provider to offer a 100 percent<br />
IPTV service which includes more than 45 High Definition channels.<br />
HILL COUNTRY SELECTS INFINITE VIDEO IPTV PLATFORM<br />
Texas-based Hill Country Telephone Cooperative has selected an<br />
IPTV platform from Infinite Video, a subsidiary of Canadian firm Even