Saturday, June 10, 2006

IPTV & OpenSource Set Top boxes

This News item details IPTV's emergence as the next tech wave and the entry of big players such as SONY, HP, Motorola, CISCO and Scientific-Atlanta in this arena.

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/50807.html

Also, now Open source set top boxes seem to clear another hurdle on the cost front.

" ... Global IPTV revenues will top US$17 billion by 2010, TDG Research predicts. If those numbers hold up, then capitalizing on IPTV will be critical to the success of broadband providers and could offer an attractive opportunity to wireless providers. ...."