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strong market positions also in Eurasia, Russia and Turke

Sweden is the leading country in Europe in terms of broadband quality and is rapidly catching up with Japan and South Korea

share of DSL,

s falling.

100 Mbps downstream

163,000

ability to stream in HD quality has transformed the offering

“dumb” monitors

Retailers are looking to increase their margins

Media companies, too, are spreading their bets,

Netflix,

Technology companies aim to serve all sides

network equipment makers

fighting among themselves over standards.

Walmart bought the Vudu digital media servic

Sonic Solutions acquired DivX

Pace, the world’s biggest set-top box maker, is buying 2Wire to serve telcos

Google’s developer conference

Google, Intel, Sony, Logitech, Adobe, Dish Networks and Best Buy appeared on stage together to launch Google TV

experimentation.

competing services on the same device

etflix and Vudu streaming movies and Yahoo Widgets

, Google TV represents Google and Intel trying to simplify and spur mass adoption with their own content combinations, operating system and interface,

Google TV as a unifying solution

app developers to target a Google TV platform and end up on multiple devices

Google TV concept allows viewers to find the content they want through search, with results that mix regular broadcast programming with web content, recorded TV and personal media such as photos and music

Google’s Chrome browser is the interface to the web and there is a big-screen version of YouTube

“Google TV is not designed for local TV needs

“Different markets around the world have different requirements,

problem with innovation in the TV industry is the go-to-market strategy,

TV industry has a subsidised model that gives everyone a set-top box for free. So no one wants to buy a box. Ask TiVo… ask us… ask Google in a few month

NTSAT totaled 2.3 million households equipped.

CANALSAT or live on the web offers flexibility with the catch-u

CANAL + CANALSAT is also available on the mobile phone (3G

seven or eight products on sale in the United Kingdom

Every new Sony Bravia television screen and Blu-ray disk player has iPlaye

every PS3 ever sold in UK can already access iPlayer

TV Player, Demand Five and LoveFilm.

YouView can only justify itself, and survive commercially, if it delivers something significantly different and compelling into a market already

broadcast-centric way of presenting VOD

atform is designed and owned by companies that understand content’. I

At the outset, the Canvas project was put into the hands of many of the teams who had launched PC VOD ‘players’ for the broadcasters

Now it must be said that YouView is likely to be the only player in the short term with catch-up content from all the free-to-air broadcasters

Nigel Walley is the managing director of Decipher, an informitv partner.

Satellite television is shared between the two Nordic market operators Canal Digital and Viasat.

TeliaSonera has established itself as the leader on the IPTV market

350,000 subscribers at 30 June 2009

e public broadcaster’s catch-up television service of the SVT play registered 204 million views in 2008