The OIPF is pleased to announce that another four significant new members were welcomed to the Forum during its recent meeting in Santa Clara, USA. D-Link Corporation, DTS Digital, Dolby and SecureMedia have all joined the effort to develop open, end-to-end specifications for IPTV based on existing technologies and open standards. The announcement coincides with [...]

The Open IPTV Forum, the pan-industry initiative that was established to take IPTV to the mass market, has published the detailed system and protocol specifications – Release 1 IPTV Solution Specifications – which will enable the widespread deployment of IPTV services.
IPTV – digital television received through the same technologies used for computer networks, using Internet [...]

More companies join the push to deploy Interactive Personalised TV
Efforts to accelerate the deployment of IPTV by combining the expertise of key telecom operators, consumer electronics manufacturers and network infrastructure providers in the Open IPTV Forum are gathering further momentum, and the first release of the specifications that will allow IPTV to develop into [...]

Widespread deployment of IPTV services is currently hampered by a lack of interoperability among products. The Open IPTV Forum, the pan-industry initiative that was established to produce an end-to-end solution, is now fulfilling that promise. The Forum is pleased to announce that a number of detailed system and protocol specifications for Release 1 have been [...]

MPEGIF and Open IPTV Forum presenting unique conference session on 11 September 2008
IBC 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 4 September 2008 – The MPEG Industry Forum (MPEGIF), the largest advocacy group for MPEG technologies in the world, in cooperation with the Open IPTV Forum, are presenting a free full day MPEGIF Master Class titled “The Transition [...]

Opera Software today announced that it has joined the Open IPTV Forum. This global organization is comprised of key IPTV and TV stakeholders working to produce end-to-end specifications to take the next generation of IPTV services into the mass market.
As a part of the Forum, Opera will team up with other members, such as Samsung, [...]

IPTV is coming…
Efforts to accelerate the deployment of IPTV by combining the expertise of key telecom operators, consumer electronics manufacturers and network infrastructure providers in the Open IPTV Forum are gathering further momentum, and the first release of the specifications that will allow IPTV to develop into a mass market service is close to completion.
At [...]

The Open IPTV Forum is working towards an end-to-end specification to allow any consumer end device, compliant to the Open IPTV Forum specifications, to access enriched and personalized IPTV services.
As a consequence of this initiative the following first important results have been achieved:
The first version of the Service and Platform Requirements document, for both Managed [...]