A survey by Eclipse Internet has found that 54% of employees in the UK plan to watch at least one World Cup game online when the tournament starts. The biggest hotspot for the UK Internet providers will come on 23 June when England play Slovenia as this is a 3 PM kickoff, the only midweek [...]

Richard Halton, the director of Internet TV programmes at the BBC, has reignited a discussion which appears to come and go on numerous occasions, i.e. IPTV. Internet TV is something which many people believe will be the main focus of the worldwide broadband market in the years ahead although unfortunately take up in the short [...]

News that US-based online broadband video provider, Hulu, has targeted the UK as its next major market could offer an interesting alternative to the ever popular BBC iPlayer. The IPTV company is backed by the likes of News Corp, NBC Universal and Disney suggesting there will be no funding issues even in the current economic [...]

The Broadband Forum has today announced a significant increase in IPTV viewing figures around the world. While IPTV has not really caught on in the UK as yet, there has been a significant increase in many areas of the world. Of particular interest is the North American IPTV market which more than doubled in 2008 [...]

The subject of IPTV has been in the headlines on and off for some time now and while it has suffered from a number of false starts it appears as though the BBC is set to pick up the baton and take it forward. The BBC Trust is currently debating a project named “Project Canvas” [...]

The recent publication of Lord Carter’s Digital Britain report, while centring upon the creation of a countrywide broadband service, has also opened up an interesting debate about television broadcasting in the future. While historically the UK has offered a very high quality TV service to viewers, increased competition in the sector and rising costs have [...]