Arqiva announced yesterday that John Keeling, the former UKTV Controller and COO, will take on the position of Platform Controller for the company’s new VOD service.
Part of Keeling’s new job description will be overseeing marketing functions such as brand development for the VOD service as well as oversight of the programming for the new service. [...]

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Arqiva appoints new VOD boss

ANT announced this week that it will soon launch the ANT Galio Platform which is able to offer the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV services full support.
The HbbTV is a new open platform that is able to offer broadcasters on demand services that combine both broadband and broadcast services as a cost effective solution.
The HbbTV movement [...]

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Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV

BT will now carry a new VOD service that caters to Indians who live in the UK called Bolly & Beyond.
The subscription service will be now included on BT Vision for the next five years according to the terms of the exclusive agreement.
In order to watch the new channel or any other offering [...]

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BT goes Bollywood

A new study by Strategy Analytics predicts that by the year 2013 there will be an increase of IPTV subscriptions from the current rate of 5m up to approximately 15.5m.
This would be an increase of 13% by the time 2013 rolls around, which is much higher than the 5% increase seen in 2009.
With the introduction [...]

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More IPTV growth on the way

The Open IPTV Forum signed up three new members this week.
Cisco Systems, SmartLabs LLC and Bouygues Telecom joined the Forum, which brings together network operators, content and service providers, infrastructure providers, and consumer electronics manufacturers to develop open standards for IPTV technologies.
“The addition of high profile and influential US vendor Cisco and Russian technology provider [...]

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