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Old 21-03-2009, 13:28   #16
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Re: Are VM and Avinity demonstrating "NGTV" at a trade show later this week?
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Then best you move then you will not have to worry about it will you.
Already underway! Being released from contract by CEO office as VM cannot supply the services advertised in my area due to oversubscription and they cannot say when an upgrade will happen.

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Already underway! Being released from contract by CEO office as VM cannot supply the services advertised in my area due to oversubscription and they cannot say when an upgrade will happen.

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Re: Are VM and Avinity demonstrating "NGTV" at a trade show later this week?
does anyone know where this demo can be seen online or has it not been released yet
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Old 25-03-2009, 16:10   #19
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Re: Are VM and Avinity demonstrating "NGTV" at a trade show later this week?
It's amazing how such positive news can turn into such negative posts!

I for one see this development as very positive and this partnership brings us one step nearer to my dream of being able to access programmes and films directly from the internet. We will eventually have an almost unlimited access to everything on our TV screens, although I dare say we will have to pay for most of it either by subscription or pay per view.

Brilliant! I can scarcely wait. And with the IPTV rollout due to be completed by sometime in 2010, this Utopia may come sooner rather than later. That really would be a coup for Virgin Media.
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And with the IPTV rollout due to be completed by sometime in 2010
What IPTV rollout?
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What IPTV rollout?
Wait...didn't you get that memo Ben?


No, neither did I.
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What IPTV rollout?
Who knows? I will say one thing though, some of Avinity's clients are Benelux IPTV operators, and the system is probably more suited to narrowcast than broadcast (because everyone using a RenderCast app needs their own private stream, and I'm not sure that VM's current VOD configuration has the capacity for that).

If VM can implement RC over DVB-C *and* IPTV, they could create a mostly unified TV platform both on- and off-net. Using RC to provide the entire platform has its own problems, however - like displaying graphics over locally recorded video.

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What IPTV rollout?
It's the new platform being introduced to replace the existing one. It was reported on Digital Spy last year.
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Re: Are VM and Avinity demonstrating "NGTV" at a trade show later this week?
You mean this article where it mentions IPTV trials? http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitalt...m-in-2009.html

Doesn't actually say the Next Generation TV platform will be IPTV based
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You mean this article where it mentions IPTV trials? http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitalt...m-in-2009.html

Doesn't actually say the Next Generation TV platform will be IPTV based
Well that's how I read it. What else is this article saying? Not sure I follow you, BenMcr.
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Re: Are VM and Avinity demonstrating "NGTV" at a trade show later this week?
Im saying that to deliver a full end to end IPTV service it would probably require new STBs - which considering they have just invested in the samsung V+ is probably not going to happen anytime soon
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Im saying that to deliver a full end to end IPTV service it would probably require new STBs - which considering they have just invested in the samsung V+ is probably not going to happen anytime soon
I don't think so, BenMcr. With the latest advanced video coding techniques, there should be no need to change the set top boxes.
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Re: Are VM and Avinity demonstrating "NGTV" at a trade show later this week?
But that isn't what IPTV is. IPTV is the transport protocol - not the encoding

You can carry any video encoding you like over IP, but as the STBs only decode MPEG2 you would have to use that
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But that isn't what IPTV is. IPTV is the transport protocol - not the encoding

You can carry any video encoding you like over IP, but as the STBs only decode MPEG2 you would have to use that
Well, I am not a techie, but I do understand that the H.264 standard for video compression allows operators to utilise their existing MPEG-2 and IP based networking infrastructures.

I don't know the detail of what VM are planning; they are very secretive about all of this. However, if they really know what they are doing (one can always hope!), the future for VM TV subscribers could be looking quite good in the medium term.
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But to decode H.264 requires new hardware - or transcoding back to MPEG2 for the STBs
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