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SageTV Media Center becomes the first full- featured personal video recorder/media center software product to offer placeshifting capabilities enabling users to access their live or recorded TV, music and photos on any PC when they are away from home. The integration of PVR and placeshifting functionality in a single system yields better video quality and faster navigation than a separate placeshifting box connected to a PVR while also costing significantly less than purchasing two separate solutions.

Ars Technica has an article entitled, "Will Hollywood sue the SlingBox out of existence?"

The Slingbox is a piece of equipment that allows users to watch live television wherever they go as long as they have an Internet connection. You simply hook the candy bar sized piece of equipment up to your broadband connection and television signal at home. You then have full control of your television over the Internet from anywhere in the world. The Slingbox also connects to other devices such as DVRs and TiVo.

The content companies are not happy about it though as Ars Technica writes. "Jim Goodmon, president of Capital Broadcasting, is surprised that Sling has not been sued out of business already. He claims that the issue does not involve recording but retransmission agreements, which Sling has not signed with anyone."

By Alexander Cameron, Managing Director, Digital TX Ltd.

The government had its heart in the right place in consolidating all the major communications agencies into one. Broadly speaking, Ofcom has done relatively well, whether their palace of a reception area cost half their yearly budget or not. LLU lines are growing rapidly, our digital television market is the most developed in the world, and a sensibly conservative attitude to new technologies is being enforced. Generally the regulator has been sensitive to commercial interests, but it could do so much more.

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Sling Media, Inc., a digital lifestyle consumer electronics products company, today announced the first official release of SlingPlayer Mobile for Slingbox owners. SlingPlayer Mobile is a new software package that gives Slingbox owners the ability to watch and control their home TV from any network-enabled mobile phone or handheld computer (PDA) powered by Windows Mobile. The SlingPlayer Mobile software available today is compatible with devices that run Windows Mobile Pocket PC 5.0 and 2003 Second Edition. Sling Media will deliver a version for non-touchscreen devices based on Windows Mobile Smartphone later this quarter.

thebrainbehind and Sapient are pleased to introduce a detailed study on IPTV including a benchmark analysis of international IPTV solutions and an overview on the global IPTV market.

Deutsche Telekom AG and Cisco Systems, Inc. announced that T-Online, a division of Deutsche Telekom, is driving growth of its "T-Home" service, a converged data, voice and video (triple-play) service delivered over T-Com's broadband network. This network is based on Cisco Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) architecture and the "T-Home" service is delivered with Cisco IP set-top boxes (STBs) supporting the Microsoft TV IPTV Edition software platform.

Hong Kong based Broadband Network Systems Ltd (BNS) is working with True IPTV, the H.264-IPTV service of True Corporation Plc in Thailand, to acquire key lifestyle content for its IPTV platform.

Service providers around the globe see triple play services not merely as a means of increasing top-line revenue, but as a means of self-preservation, says a new study by Infonetics Research. Network operators are redefining and realigning themselves to be the one-stop shop for all things digital for residential and enterprise subscribers, and they believe triple play services will give them the competitive edge they need to succeed.

Brightcove, a pioneer in Internet TV, announced it is making the standard edition of its Internet TV service available through a free, open commercial preview. The Brightcove Internet TV service gives anyone with video content from independent producers to major media companies to marketing teams the ability to easily build broadband TV channels and distribute their video through the Internet. The open commercial preview will offer individuals and organizations the ability to use Brightcove in advance of the full commercial release at no cost.

The first French operators to have understood the importance of the telephone line as a new method of distribution and to have launched pay IPTV in December 2003, France Telecom and TPS find themselves yet again at the heart of technical innovation.

DASAN Networks, Inc, one of Korea's largest networking equipment companies, this week announced that it will launch a new IP set-top box, the H920, supporting HD H.264 based on Sigma Designs' SMP8634, media processor.

Accedo Broadband, a leading aggregator of TV-centric applications distributed over broadband, and Espial, a leading provider of client IPTV middleware and applications have collaborated to deliver Accedo’s Application Portfolio to Espial’s software solutions including the Espial Escape browser and Espial Evo middleware and applications.

Alcatel and DiBcom today announced that, in the context of Alcatel's "Unlimited Mobile TV" project, the two companies have agreed on detailed cooperation plans to develop a new chipset. This new chipset will support advanced features for unprecedented quality of service and coverage on hybrid terrestrial and satellite architectures. Such capabilities are at the core of ongoing discussions for the evolution of the DVB-H broadcast Mobile TV standards. This evolution makes use of new spectrum in the S-band and improved DVBH-based signal processing techniques.

Alcatel and its partners welcome the recent decision by the French Agency for Industrial Innovation's (AII) Steering Committee to support the "Unlimited Mobile TV" program, one of the new AII-sponsored programs to boost industrial innovation.