Features

March April 2008


Mr convergence
Eric Cooney has driven Tandberg's revenues and market extension, but what does the future hold in the post-Ericsson era? Goran Nastic finds out


A look inside DVB-T2
The new standard will empower DTT broadcasters and help them fight back against competing platforms, but many compromises are involved, says Goran Nastic


A question of scale
David Adams explores the network architecture options open to cable and IPTV operators as VoD
subscribers and services begin to scale


Whose search is it anyway?
Does internet TV threaten a quiet EPG revolution, asks Philip Hunter


Beyond the dumb pipe
The emergence of VoD wholesale will help drive the VoD market and keep value in the bandwidth chain, says Farah Jifri
Storage trends
Does the move to start-over and other real-time applications mean that VoD servers will all move to flash-based systems? Nick Flaherty examines the arguments

Lighting up Europe
VoD and HD, especially multi-room, will drive telco FTTH deployments. Goran Nastic reports on the FTTH Council Europe Conference held in February in Paris
Can 2008 be HDTV's year of progress?
The Beijing Olympic Games, combined with the Euro 2008 football tournament, should help push HDTV this year - even with public broadcasters, says Chris Forrester
Opening a box of opportunity?
As more and more features make their way onto the set-top box, Philip Hunter wonders if the STB is about to break free from the shackles of the operator

Realistic expectations?
Chris Forrester reports on recent developments in the Indian DTH market
IP and content delivery
Maurizio Cimelli discusses the way in which IP delivery adds flexibility to the broadcast portfolio