113-585: EE TV (formerly BT Vision and then BT TV until 2023) is a subscription IPTV service offered by EE ; a brand of British telecommunications company BT Group . It requires the signing up to and use of the EE Broadband internet and phone service, with connection via EE's official router, the EE Smart Hub . When British Telecom (BT) was privatised in 1984, it was barred from providing television broadcasts over its telecommunication network, which meant that it
226-433: A television programme could be squeezed into the limited telecommunication bandwidth of a copper telephone cable to provide a video-on-demand (VOD) television service of acceptable quality, as the required bandwidth of a digital television signal was around 200 Mbit/s , which was 2,000 times greater than the bandwidth of a speech signal over a copper telephone wire . VOD services were only made possible as
339-584: A TV anywhere they wanted - as long as they had a power outlet. Bell Fibe TV commercials would show young families watching TV outside on the couch with large 70+ inch LCDs and their Bell Fibe wireless PVR. In Brazil, since at least 2012, Vivo has been offering the service Vivo TV Fibra in 200+ cities where it has FTTH coverage (4Q 2020 data) . Since at least 2018, Oi has also been offering IPTV under its FTTH service "Oi Fibra". Also, several regional FTTH providers also offer IPTV along with FTTH internet services. In 2016, Korean Central Television (KCTV) introduced
452-447: A VOD content provider. Kingston was one of the first companies in the world to introduce IPTV and IP VOD over ADSL as a commercial service. The service became the reference for various changes to UK Government regulations and policy on IPTV. In 2006, the KIT service was discontinued, subscribers having declined from a peak of 10,000 to 4,000. In 1999, NBTel (now known as Bell Aliant ) was
565-520: A clear emerging technology for implementing IPTV networks. Satellite distribution can be included in an IPTV network architecture in several ways. The simplest to implement is an IPTV- direct to home (DTH) architecture, in which hybrid DVB-broadband set-top boxes in subscriber homes integrate satellite and IP reception to give additional bandwidth with return channel capabilities. In such a system, many live TV channels may be multicast via satellite and supplemented with stored video-on-demand transmission via
678-444: A competitive multi-channel TV service, a connection speed of 20 Mbit/s is likely to be required, but unavailable to most potential customers. The increasing popularity of high-definition television increases connection speed requirements or limits IPTV service quality and connection eligibility even further. However, satellites are capable of delivering in excess of 100 Gbit/s via multi-spot beam technologies, making satellite
791-428: A few. Hotel television systems are the in-suite television content presented in hotel rooms, other hotel environments and in the hospitality industry for in-room entertainment, as well as hospitals, assisted living, senior care and nursing homes. These services may be free for the guest or paid, depending on the service and the individual hotel's or hotel chain's policy. Generally, these services are controlled by using
904-418: A hundred new streamed channels via YouView. The Vision service that continued to be provided to Sky Sports customers closed entirely on 30 June 2014, with all customers getting a free upgrade to its modern YouView service. At the time of the rebrand, BT was also preparing to launch its BT Sport network, after the company had acquired a share of the rights to Premier League football television coverage for
1017-556: A joint venture between the BBC and Thames Television . It is one of the United Kingdom's largest television companies. UKTV's channels are available via a digital satellite or cable subscription in the UK and Ireland. The U&Dave , U&Drama , U&Eden , U&W and U&Yesterday channels are also available in the UK on Freeview and Freesat , two free-to-air television services in
1130-815: A larger server network. Distributed architecture requires intelligent and sophisticated content distribution technologies to augment effective delivery of multimedia content over the service provider's network. In many cases, the residential gateway that provides connectivity with the Internet access network is not located close to the IPTV set-top box. This scenario becomes very common as service providers start to offer service packages with multiple set-top boxes per subscriber. Networking technologies that take advantage of existing home wiring (such as power lines, phone lines or coaxial cables) or of wireless hardware have become common solutions for this problem, although fragmentation in
1243-415: A lifestyle channel for Freeview called UK Bright Ideas . However UK Bright Ideas was not created for the same reasons as UK Food and UK History to allow other UKTV channels to have more time to schedule other programming, but instead showed a mix of programming from UK Style and UK Food (and later UKTV Gardens) for Freeview viewers, to promote the lifestyle UKTV channels available on pay platforms. UK Gold 2
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#17330851296111356-519: A limited beta. By 2010, iiNet and Telstra launched IPTV services in conjunction to internet plans. In 2008, Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) launched IPTV under the brand name of PTCL Smart TV in Pakistan . This service is available in 150 major cities of the country offering 140 live channels. In 2010, CenturyLink – after acquiring Embarq (2009) and Qwest (2010) – entered five U.S. markets with an IPTV service called Prism. This
1469-464: A linear channel as well as on-demand and watch library programmes on-demand. On 1 March 2016, Fox was removed from the BT TV line-up. National Geographic Channel and Nat Geo Wild were also added in 2012. On 8 November 2012, BT signed a contract with British Eurosport to add British Eurosport 1 and 2 to its line-up of linear TV channels. The deal included sporting content to watch on demand. On-demand content
1582-674: A maximum of 60 percent. Scripps Networks Interactive's existing voting rights and board representation would be unaffected by this proposed arrangement, which would be subject to BBC Executive and BBC Trust approvals. On 22 March 2012, it was announced that BT Vision would offer UKTV original content on-demand from later in the day. As part of the deal, UKTV started streaming linear channels to BT Vision set-top boxes in late 2012. The first three were Watch , Gold and Alibi and it intended to add further channels such as Good Food, Eden and Home. Dave , Really and Yesterday were not expected to be included as they are already on Freeview , which
1695-533: A number of advertisers to measure the effect of reductions in advertising spots, programme trailers and the number of breaks overall. In February 2004, UKTV reduced the length of its advertising breaks in a bid to retain viewers and attract advertisers after results of its research show that shorter breaks produce higher advertising recall levels. From 8 March, interruptions were limited to a maximum of five minutes, with three-and-a-half minutes of commercial plus one-and-a-half minutes of promotional material, instead of
1808-514: A number of proprietary systems. One official definition approved by the International Telecommunication Union focus group on IPTV (ITU-T FG IPTV) is: IPTV is defined as multimedia services such as television/video/audio/text/graphics/data delivered over IP-based networks managed to provide the required level of quality of service and experience, security, interactivity and reliability. Another definition of IPTV, relating to
1921-616: A reduction in the length of break junctions would help it to keep viewers and provide advertisers with improved cut-through. UKTV's channels are available via satellite and cable in Ireland and the United Kingdom . In the UK, on digital terrestrial television, U&Yesterday , U&Dave , U&Drama , U&W and U&Eden are available on the Freeview platform. Selected parts of U&Gold , Home and Good Food were available through
2034-465: A result of two major technological developments: motion-compensated DCT video compression and asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) data transmission . Motion-compensated DCT algorithms for video coding standards include the H.26x formats from 1988 onwards and the MPEG formats from 1991 onwards. Motion-compensated DCT video compression significantly reduced the amount of bandwidth required for
2147-430: A single multicast group address. In standards-based IPTV systems, the primary underlying protocols used are: Local IPTV, as used by businesses for audio visual AV distribution on their company networks is typically based on a mixture of: Although IPTV and conventional satellite TV distribution have been seen as complementary technologies, they are likely to be increasingly used together in hybrid IPTV networks. IPTV
2260-441: A small number of programmes. Playout and other technical services are provided by SES. The UKTV channels have broadcast in 16:9 widescreen format since 31 January 2008, although some programmes originally made in 4:3 format are screened in the compromise 14:9 semi-letterbox format. UKTV started life as a single channel, UK Gold . The original partners behind the channel were the BBC's commercial arm BBC Enterprises and
2373-433: A standard seven-and-a-half minutes. UKTV's move was similar to a solution suggested by PHD executive strategy director Louise Jones at 2003 Marketing Week TV United Conference, with a view to cleaning up breaks. Her proposal was for broadcasters to reduce spots by 20 percent and to charge a corresponding price increase for them; the theory being clients would not have to boost their media spending, thus improving UKTV hopes
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#17330851296112486-514: A television signal, while at the same time ADSL increased the bandwidth of data that could be sent over a copper telephone wire. ADSL increased the bandwidth of a telephone line from around 0.1 Mbit/s to 2 Mbit/s, while DCT compression reduced the required bandwidth of a digital television signal from around 200 Mbit/s down to about 2 Mbit/s. The combination of DCT and ADSL technologies made it possible to practically implement VOD services at around 2 Mbit/s bandwidth in
2599-452: A two-year contract results in the organisation making a "significant loss on the service", allowing them to undercut the price charged by Sky to its own customers. As of 2011, BT Vision had 638,000 subscribers, whereas Sky TV had over 10 million and Virgin Media had 3.76 million. BT then made several deals to expand its offerings on BT Vision. UKTV original content on-demand from later in the day
2712-607: A year after BT stopped offering Setanta Sports 1 & 2 on Vision after Setanta lost the rights to broadcast Premier League football. The company announced the pricing of their Sky Sports packages in July 2010, following the outcome of Ofcom 's review into pay-TV pricing in March, which directed Sky to reduce the wholesale price it charges for the Sky Sports channels. The price charged to customers signing up for broadband, calls and TV with BT for
2825-486: Is a growing standardisation effort on the use of the 3GPP IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) as an architecture for supporting IPTV services in telecommunications carrier networks. Both ITU-T and ETSI are working on so-called "IMS-based IPTV" standards (see e.g. ETSI TS 182 027 ). Carriers will be able to offer both voice and IPTV services over the same core infrastructure and the implementation of services combining conventional TV services with telephony features (e.g. caller ID on
2938-511: Is a relatively simple and easy-to-manage solution. Because all media content is stored in centralised servers, it does not require a comprehensive content distribution system. Centralised architecture is generally good for a network that provides relatively small VOD service deployment, has adequate core and edge bandwidth or has an efficient content delivery network (CDN). A distributed architecture has bandwidth usage advantages and inherent system management features that are essential for managing
3051-472: Is a valuable asset for operators, so many have looked for alternative ways to deliver these new services without investing in additional network infrastructures. UKTV UKTV Media Limited , trading as UKTV , is a British multi-channel broadcaster, which, since 2019, has been wholly owned by BBC Studios (formerly BBC Worldwide ), a commercial subsidiary of the BBC . It was formed on 1 November 1992 through
3164-400: Is available daily from 7 am to 3 am on all platforms. It calls itself "the home of witty banter" and now uses Ralph Ineson and Phill Jupitus as announcers. On 16 July 2024, Dave rebranded to U&Dave . U&Dave currently broadcasts on channel 19 on Freeview and channel 157 on Freesat. Launched on 8 July 2013, U&Drama focuses itself as a home for British dramas from
3277-477: Is available through BT's hybrid IPTV/Freeview set-top boxes. UKTV announced on 18 March 2013 that it would reintroduce its company brand in celebration of its 21st year. The UKTV logo re-design went live across the identities of their channel network and programmes on Tuesday, 26 March 2013 for its 21st birthday. For almost three weeks in summer 2018, the UKTV channels were absent from Virgin Media . On 20 July 2018, it
3390-633: Is available throughout the country. Dialog TV has been available through the service since 2018. In Pakistan , IPTV was launched by PTCL in 2008, under the brand name of PTCL Smart TV . This service is available in 150 major cities of the country. In the Philippines , PLDT offers Cignal IPTV services as an add-on in certain ADSL and fiber optic plans. In Malaysia , various companies have attempted to launch IPTV services since 2005. Failed PayTV provider MiTV attempted to use an IPTV-over-UHF service but
3503-407: Is called "Internet Mode" on the new set-top boxes. Both rivals Sky and Virgin Media had at the time also launched full IPTV services called Stream In October 2023, it was announced that the service would be renamed to EE TV by December, adapting EE 's logo and name. It is not to be confused with a previous service under the same name that was launched by EE in 2014. Along with the rebrand, Apple TV+
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3616-605: Is distinct from over-the-top (OTT) services, which are based on a direct one-to-one transmission mechanism. IPTV methods have been standardised by organisations such as ETSI . IPTV has found success in some regions: for example in Western Europe in 2015, pay IPTV users overtook pay satellite TV users. IPTV is also used for media delivery around corporate and private networks. Historically, many different definitions of IPTV have appeared, including elementary streams over IP networks, MPEG transport streams over IP networks and
3729-451: Is largely neutral to the transmission medium, and IP traffic is already routinely carried by satellite for Internet backbone trunking and corporate VSAT networks. The copper twisted pair cabling that forms the last mile of the telephone and broadband network in many countries is not able to provide a sizeable proportion of the population with an IPTV service that matches even existing terrestrial or satellite digital TV distribution. For
3842-497: Is the piece of equipment that terminates the access link from the delivery network. Lastly, the user set-top box is the piece of endpoint equipment that decodes and decrypts TV and VOD streams for display on the TV screen. Depending on the network architecture of the service provider, there are two main types of video server architecture that can be considered for IPTV deployment: centralised and distributed. The centralised architecture model
3955-512: Is the service delivery of television over Internet Protocol (IP) networks. Usually sold and run by a telecom provider , it consists of broadcast live television that is streamed over the Internet ( multicast ) — in contrast to delivery through traditional terrestrial , satellite , and cable transmission formats — as well as video on demand services for watching or replaying content ( unicast ). IPTV broadcasts started gaining usage during
4068-433: The BBC held talks about a partnership to launch a new range of channels under the name UKTV. BSkyB tried to compete against Flextech for the right to develop the BBC channels, but the BBC were against inviting BSkyB to participate in the pay-TV venture. BSkyB would have sought a significant share in the planned channels, in exchange for agreeing to offer them to its 3.8 million direct-to-home satellite subscribers. It
4181-780: The Netflix player had been made available on BT & retail Humax YouView boxes. Sky Sports 1 & 2 were made available to YouView customers on Tuesday 16 December 2014 following an interim ruling from the Appeal Court backing Ofcom's ruling that YouView is to be included in the "Wholesale Must Offer" of the channels. BT TV initially provided three packages at launch: TV Essential , Essential Extra , and Unlimited Extra . On 24 April 2015 it revised its packages as follows (alongside additional unicast streaming bolt-ons for Netflix , BT Kids and BT Music, and multicast IPTV bolt-ons for Sky Sports and Movies): The American AMC channel launched for
4294-508: The Netherlands , Georgia , Greece , Denmark , Finland , Estonia , Czech Republic , Slovakia , Hungary , Norway , Sweden , Iceland , Latvia , Turkey , Colombia , Chile and Uzbekistan . The United Kingdom launched IPTV early and after a slow initial growth, in February 2009 BT announced that it had reached 398,000 subscribers to its BT Vision service. A free IPTV service by
4407-633: The set-top box called Manbang , reportedly providing video-on-demand services in North Korea via quasi-internet protocol television (IPTV). Manbang allows viewers to watch five different TV channels in real-time, and find political information regarding the Supreme Leader and Juche ideology, and read articles from state-run news organizations. The global IPTV market was expected to grow from 28 million subscribers at US$ 12 billion revenue in 2009 to 83 million and US$ 38 billion in 2013. Europe and Asia are
4520-485: The 1990s. The term IPTV first appeared in 1995 with the founding of Precept Software by Judith Estrin and Bill Carrico . Precept developed an Internet video product named IP/TV . IP/TV was an Mbone compatible Windows and Unix-based application that transmitted single and multi-source audio and video traffic, ranging from low to DVD quality, using both unicast and IP multicast Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) and Real time control protocol (RTCP). The software
4633-424: The 2000s alongside the rising use of broadband -based internet connections. It is often provided bundled with internet access services by ISPs to subscribers and runs in a closed network. IPTV normally requires the use of a set-top box , which receives the encoded television content in the MPEG transport stream via IP multicast , and converts the packets to be watched on a TV set or other kind of display. It
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4746-531: The 2010–11 season. Between August 2007 and June 2009, Setanta Sports was available through BT Vision, via DTT and a smart card, offering live Premiership and Scottish Premier League games, as well as other sporting events such as US PGA Tour Golf and Magners League Rugby. BT Vision made a deal with American sports TV company ESPN for carriage of its new channel which replaced Setanta on DTT. On 28 June 2010, BT and Sky signed an agreement where Sky Sports 1 and 2 will be available for BT Vision customers. This came
4859-631: The 2013–14 to 2015–16 seasons and an exclusive rights deal for the broadcast of Premiership Rugby from the 2013–14 season. For customers who didn't have access to BT's fibre-optic network, they could watch these channels via DTT on a Vision+ box, but on 24 January 2014 BT ceased to sell BT Sport via DTT, and subsequently ceased provision of BT Sport 2 via DTT on 1 January 2015, followed by BT Sport 1 closing on DTT on 2 June 2015. The carriage for Sky's Sky Movies (now known as Sky Cinema) channels and on-demand content became available to customers from 26 October. On 10 November 2014 BT and YouView announced that
4972-407: The BBC channels. The new graphics for the BBC and UKTV were both designed by the same company, Lambie-Nairn . Shortly before launch, it was decided the channel UK Living also owned by Flextech was to be renamed Living, instead of becoming part of the new UKTV network due to the similarity in programming between the channel and UK Style. On the same date, UK Gold celebrated its 5th anniversary. With
5085-453: The BBC. Later on, United Artists Holding Europe stepped in as part owner, and that ownership eventually became a part of Flextech, which was controlled by the US cable company Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI). A second joint-venture satellite channel, called UK Living , began broadcasting on 1 September 1993 with programming targeted at female viewers. Also in 1993, Flextech gained its first stake in
5198-555: The CEO of BT's TV division, Marc Watson, said that BT Vision will be rebranded as 'BT TV', together with the YouView service under an umbrella brand . BT aimed to offer sports on the YouView service. However, on 1 August 2013, BT was refused by rival BSkyB to broadcast Sky Sports on BT's YouView service. This meant that the Vision+ box would continue to be distributed for the purpose of Sky Sports and
5311-576: The Gold name used since the channel's creation, but the letters also made up the channels new slogan: 'Go On Laugh Daily'. As the UKTV network gradually rebranded from 2008, continuity announcers would usually say on each network ‘Created for the BBC, chosen by’ when a programme by the BBC was coming on (e.g. ‘Created for the BBC, chosen by G.O.L.D.). 2009 saw the rebranding of all of the remaining channels beginning in January with UKTV Documentary's rebrand to Eden ,
5424-445: The IP protocol to transport the audio, video and control signals. In contrast to video over the public Internet, with IPTV deployments, network security and performance are tightly managed to ensure a superior entertainment experience, resulting in a compelling business environment for content providers, advertisers and customers alike. Up until the early 1990s, it was not thought possible that
5537-816: The September 13th (2010) press release it would begin deploying fiber optic Ethernet to homes in Montreal and Toronto . Bell has since continued to install fiber optic Ethernet to homes (fibre to the home) across Ontario and Quebec , Bell Canada's two largest customer territories. Bell was very successful with the deployment of the Bell Fibe product offering. Many customers in Ontario and Quebec switched from legacy ( coaxial ) cable companies to Bell's Fibe product because of Bell's marketing around IPTV and their at-home wireless PVR offering. Bell's wireless PVR would permit customers to place
5650-552: The TV screen) will become straightforward. IPTV supports both live TV as well as stored video-on-demand. Playback requires a device connected to either a fixed or wireless IP network in the form of a standalone personal computer , smartphone , touch screen tablet , game console , connected TV or set-top box . Content is compressed by Video and audio codecs and then encapsulated in MPEG transport stream or Real-time Transport Protocol or other packets. IP multicasting allows for live data to be sent to multiple receivers using
5763-427: The UK, as well as on the catch-up service U . Unlike the BBC's main television channels, funded by the television licence , UKTV's channels and online services broadcast commercial advertising and sponsorships. Most programmes on the channels are repeat broadcasts of productions from the BBC archives, although the entertainment channels also feature some programmes produced by other companies and UKTV have commissioned
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#17330851296115876-644: The Virgin V6 box. In 2021, the TV Box Pro was launched which added Wi-Fi and HDR support. It has 1 TB of storage, double that of its predecessor. Following rebranding to EE TV, it is currently offering the EE TV Box Pro (a PVR), EE TV Box Mini (without recording capabilities), and it has also launched EE TV as an app for the Apple TV 4K . IPTV Internet Protocol television ( IPTV ), also called TV over broadband ,
5989-399: The arts, plus three other channels including BBC Catch-Up, for repeats of popular programmes within days of their original transmission, a dedicated BBC Sport channel, and a TV version of Radio 1 . Flextech wanted these channels to carry advertisements, but the BBC argued that BBC-branded services in the UK should not, as doing so would undermine the rationale of TV licensing . A compromise
6102-610: The ban was lifted. Despite the ban on BT offering cable services, it did offer to customers in the 1990s analogue satellite receivers compatible with the Astra satellite system (with built-in VideoCrypt decoders for receiving the Sky Multichannels package); these boxes were rebadged versions of receivers built by other companies, such as the BT SVS200 being a Cambridge ARD200. BT Vision
6215-436: The brand by then had become a household name. The 'UKTV' network launched on 1 November 1997 with three new channels; arts channel ' UK Arena ', lifestyle channel ' UK Style ' and documentary channel ' UK Horizons '. UK Gold retained its name but received a new look in line with the rest of the network. Although the new network didn't use the BBC name and logo, its graphics and branding was in other aspects similar to those used by
6328-422: The broadband connection. Arqiva ’s Satellite Media Solutions Division suggests "IPTV works best in a hybrid format. For example, you would use broadband to receive some content and satellite to receive other, such as live channels". Hybrid IPTV refers to the combination of traditional broadcast TV services and video delivered over either managed IP networks or the public Internet. It is an increasing trend in both
6441-402: The channel more popular, and on 30 September 2002 it was shut down. October saw the launch of the new free -to-view digital terrestrial platform Freeview replacing ITV Digital, and with it the new history channel ' UK History ', which was included in Freeview's licence to operate the platform. UK History took many of the history-related programming from UK Horizons. In January 2003, UKTV launched
6554-436: The channel's mascot was Blinky the eyeball, who was seen on the idents, logo, and website. A 2012 rebrand saw smoke, hairballs, crystals and liquid flying out of the logo. The channel was later rebranded as W in February 2016. In February 2022, Broadcast magazine reported that the channel will become a free channel to air in the spring, joining stablemates Dave, Yesterday and Drama as a Freeview service. In March 2022, this
6667-602: The consumer and pay TV markets. The growth of Hybrid IPTV is driven by two major factors. Since the emergence of online video aggregation sites, like YouTube and Vimeo in the mid-2000s, traditional pay TV operators have come under increasing pressure to provide their subscribers with a means of viewing Internet -based video on their televisions. At the same time, specialist IP-based operators have looked for ways to offer analogue and digital terrestrial services to their operations, without adding either additional cost or complexity to their transmission operations. Bandwidth
6780-518: The country under the trademark "Tivibu EV". Superonline plans to provide IPTV under the different name "WebTV" in 2011. Türk Telekom started building the fibre optic substructure for IPTV in late 2007. IPTV has been widely used since around 2002 to distribute television and audio-visual (AV) media around businesses and commercial sites, whether as live TV channels or Video on Demand (VOD). Examples of types of commercial users include airports, schools, offices, hotels, and sports stadiums, to name just
6893-447: The different IPTV services, such as the VOD catalogue. A delivery network is a packet-switched network that carries IP packets, including unicast and multicast streams. Endpoints refer to user equipment that can request, decode, and deliver IPTV streams for display to the user. This can include computers, mobile devices, and set-top boxes . At a residential IPTV user's home, the home TV gateway
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#17330851296117006-533: The extra linear channels, as long until these features would be finally available on BT YouView. BT started rebranding its TV services as BT TV between May and August 2013. On 9 August 2013, the 18 extra linear channels from BT Vision were successfully added to the BT YouView EPG and ready for streaming. Just two days prior to this, both BT and TalkTalk asked Digital UK to expand the streamed IP channel range from 400–499 to 400–599, as they both claim to launch over
7119-584: The first time in the UK exclusively for BT customers on 28 August 2015 and was also available to order free of charge on all EE TV packages and to Sky TV customers who also subscribe to the BT Sports Pack. In June 2018 it was announced that Amazon Prime Video would be available through BT TV, followed by Now TV in April 2020. In 2022, BT TV kicked off the transition of going fully IPTV with its aerial-based Freeview channels starting to be offered via broadband, which
7232-567: The first to commercially deploy Internet protocol television over DSL in Canada using the Alcatel 7350 DSLAM and middleware created by iMagic TV (owned by NBTel's parent company Bruncor ). The service was marketed under the brand VibeVision in New Brunswick , and later expanded into Nova Scotia in early 2000 after the formation of Aliant . iMagic TV was later sold to Alcatel . In 2002, Sasktel
7345-567: The home optical fibre network. In December 2010, Astro began trials with customers in high-rise condominium buildings around the Mont Kiara area. In April 2011, Astro commercially launched its IPTV services under the tag line "The One and Only Line You'll Ever Need", a triple play offering in conjunction with TIME dotCom Berhad that provides all the Astro programming via IPTV, together with voice telephone services and broadband Internet access all through
7458-426: The last 40 years. The channel became the fourth channel to launch on Freeview, after Yesterday, Dave and Really. On 16 July 2024, Drama rebranded to U&Drama . U&Drama currently broadcasts on channel 20 on Freeview and channel 158 on Freesat. U&W is a general entertainment channel, and is the flagship channel of the UKTV network. The channel launched as Watch on 7 October 2008. From launch until 2010,
7571-428: The launch of digital television in the UK brought about by Sky Digital and ONdigital in 1998, two new channels were launched to broadcast on the new platforms: ' UK Gold Classics ', a sister channel to UK Gold showing older shows previously shown on UK Gold, and ' UK Play ', a new comedy and music channel. UK Gold Classics was short lived however, and relaunched as UK Gold 2 in April 1999. The new channel time-shifted
7684-627: The leading territories in terms of the overall number of subscribers. But in terms of service revenues, Europe and North America generate a larger share of global revenue, due to very low average revenue per user (ARPU) in China and India, the fastest growing (and ultimately, the biggest markets) is Asia. Services also launched in Bosnia and Herzegovina , Bulgaria , Pakistan , Canada , Croatia , Lithuania , Moldova , Montenegro , Morocco , North Macedonia , Poland , Mongolia , Romania , Serbia , Slovenia ,
7797-472: The morning schedule of UK Gold from 7 pm for those who could not watch it at the original time. To boost its popularity, UK Play was renamed Play UK and given a new look and new style of logo in November 2000, which the rest of the UKTV channels would adopt the following May. In November 2001, UK Style's food programming was moved to a new channel named ' UK Food '. The rebranding of Play UK failed to make
7910-450: The name of the channel was chosen because "everyone knows a bloke called Dave". The rebrand included the channel being available free-to-air on Freeview , replacing UKTV Bright Ideas which only averaged a 0.1% audience share. The move to Freeview saw Dave launch in the bandwidth previously used by Yesterday (previously known as UKTV History) which now uses the time limited (07:00–18:00) bandwidth once occupied by UKTV Bright Ideas . Dave
8023-484: The name reflecting the nature programmes premiering on the channel. This was followed in February with UKTV People becoming Blighty , the new channel containing programming of the lives of the British population and the quirks of British society, and therefore explaining the slang name for Britain as the channel name. In March, UKTV History was rebranded as Yesterday , reflecting the channel's history-themed programming. This
8136-487: The national provider Kazakhtelecom JSC and content integrator Alacast under the "iD TV" brand in two major cities Astana and Almaty in 2009 and is about to go nationwide starting 2010. Australian ISP iiNet launched Australia's first IPTV with Fetch TV. In India , IPTV was launched by MTNL , BSNL and Jio in New Delhi, Mumbai and Punjab. APSFL is another IPTV provider in the state of Andhra Pradesh . In Nepal , IPTV
8249-450: The network. The name is said to be originated from the fact that "everyone knows a bloke called Dave", and that the name seems appropriate for a male-orientated channel. On 11 June 2008, UKTV announced that it was beginning the process of rebranding its channels from generic, UKTV-prefixed names to individual and separate brands, after the successful launch of Dave. The first stage of this rebranding began on 7 October 2008, when UKTV Gold
8362-449: The new name of "U". While the free-to-air channels, Dave , Drama , Yesterday and W , will become "U&Dave", "U&Drama", "U&Yesterday", and "U&W". All four channels were rebranded on 16 July. UKTV rebranded their pay channels to "U&Gold" and "U&Alibi" on November 7, and "U&Eden" became a free-to-air channel on October 7, and rebranded on October 16th. The “U” masterbrand made all of their channels be “U”nited under
8475-483: The newly launched YouView service. As of February 2024, these old boxes are no longer supported and cannot access internet-based content. A new upgraded and fanless box YouView+ (Humas DTR-2100) launched in early 2014. In 2017, the BT YouView+ Ultra HD box (technically a Humax HDR-T4000) was launched as part of the new generation of PVR set-top boxes, competing against its rivals's offerings namely Sky Q and
8588-407: The now defunct Top Up TV service. The logo on the UKTV branded channels has also now been replaced by a new design. UKTV's free-to-air channels are available on all platforms. U&Dave is a comedy-oriented entertainment channel. The channel originally came together after UK Gold 2, an evening timeshift service of UK Gold, was reinvented to aim towards a more younger 16-34-year-old audience and
8701-553: The outgoing ITV contractor Thames Television , although before the launch the American cable operator Cox Enterprises stepped in and took a majority share, 65 percent, in exchange for underwriting the costs of launching the channel. UK Gold launched on 1 November 1992, showing reruns of 'classic' archive programming from the archives of the BBC and Thames Television. In a sense, UK Gold succeeded British Satellite Broadcasting 's Galaxy channel that had originally held these rights from
8814-720: The public broadcasters was launched in 2024 named Freely . Claro has launched their own IPTV service called "Claro TV". This service is available in several countries in which they operate, such as Dominican Republic , El Salvador , Guatemala , Honduras , Nicaragua . IPTV is just beginning to grow in Central and Eastern Europe and Latin America, and now it is growing in South Asian countries such as Sri Lanka , Nepal Pakistan and India . but significant plans exist in countries such as Russia . Kazakhstan introduced its own IPTV services by
8927-414: The remote control. An IPTV head-end is a place where live TV channels and AV sources are encoded, encrypted, and delivered as IP multicast streams . Meanwhile, a video on demand (VOD) platform stores on-demand video assets and serves them as IP unicast streams when a user requests them. Sometimes, the VOD platform is located within the IPTV head-end. An interactive portal allows users to navigate within
9040-464: The rights to carry 242 same-day (but not live) Premier League football matches per season in a three-year deal covering the 2007–08, 2008–09 and 2009–10 seasons in a joint bid with BSkyB on 25 May 2006, prior to BT Vision's launch. BT Vision also have the right to offer on demand coverage of 125 matches each season from the Football League and League Cup . This service ceased prior to the start of
9153-403: The same fibre optic connection into the customer's home. In 2020, Astro launched "Plug-and-Play", which uses Unicast technology for streaming TV. In Turkey , TTNET launched IPTV services under the name IPtivibu in 2010. It was available in pilot areas in the cities of Istanbul, İzmir and Ankara. As of 2011, IPTV service is launched as a large-scale commercial service and widely available across
9266-491: The service failed to take off. HyppTV was supposed to use an IPTV-based system, but not true IPTV as it does not provide a set-top box and requires users to view channels using a computer. True IPTV providers available in the country at the moment are Fine TV and DETV . In Q2 2010, Telekom Malaysia launched IPTV services through their fibre to the home product Unifi in select areas. In April 2010, Astro began testing IPTV services on TIME dotCom Berhad's high-speed fibre to
9379-554: The seven entertainment-based UKTV channels for £173 million, along with the UKTV brand, and Discovery Inc. would acquire BBC Studios' stakes in the remaining channels Good Food, Home, and Really. The sale closed on 11 June 2019. The sale was part of a larger agreement between the two companies for international streaming rights to the BBC's natural history programming. In November 2023, it was announced that in Summer 2024, all of UKTV's free-to-air channels and UKTV Play would be rebranded with
9492-552: The station after acquiring TCI's TV interests in Europe. In 1996, it started discussions about increasing its stake to gain full control; at that point Flextech held 27% with Cox (38%), BBC (20%) and Pearson (15%). By the Autumn, Flextech held 80% of UK Gold. Flextech 's main reason for increasing its stake in UK Gold was in anticipation of new talks with the BBC. During 1996, Flextech and
9605-451: The telecommunications industry, is the one given by Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) IPTV Exploratory Group in 2005: IPTV is defined as the secure and reliable delivery to subscribers of entertainment video and related services. These services may include, for example, Live TV, Video On Demand (VOD) and Interactive TV (iTV) . These services are delivered across an access agnostic, packet switched network that employs
9718-561: The timeshift channel Dave ja vu broadcasting reduced hours of 02:00–04:00 on Freeview only to keep the EPG number available for future use. Really was the third of UKTV's ten brands to launch on Freeview. Virgin Media were in talks, with a number of interested parties, to sell its 50% stake in UKTV. Bidders included Scripps Networks Interactive (a spin-off of the E. W. Scripps Company 's cable television networks and online assets), Discovery Communications , ITV plc , and Channel 4 . Channel 4
9831-403: The transaction was contingent on regulatory approvals in Ireland and Jersey , which was received on 3 October 2011. Related to the transaction, Scripps Networks Interactive and BBC Worldwide are negotiated an agreement whereby, after completion, BBC Worldwide would have the option, via a combination of cash and a package of digital rights for UKTV, to increase its shareholding from 50 percent to
9944-603: The wired home networking market has limited somewhat the growth in this market. In December 2008, ITU-T adopted Recommendation G.hn (also known as G.9960 ), which is a next-generation home networking standard that specifies a common PHY/MAC that can operate over any home wiring (power lines, phone lines or coaxial cables). Groups such as the Multimedia over Coax Alliance , HomePlug Powerline Alliance , Home Phoneline Networking Alliance , and Quasar Alliance ( Plastic Optical Fibre ) each advocate their own technologies. There
10057-457: The “U” brand. In early July 2024, UKTV started to roll out a similar logo to its "U" masterbrand. The logo can be found on the corporate website and on "U". (UKTV Play) The rebrand was completed on 7 November 2024 with the addition of “U&GOLD” and “U&alibi”, uniting the entire network under the “U” brand. In 2003, UKTV announced plans of an experiment which examined the effect of different break patterns on advertising. UKTV teamed up with
10170-528: Was UKTV Food, on 22 June 2009 as Good Food , to tie in with the BBC magazine of the same name. In June 2009, a final major tweak to these new brands occurred when, for promotional purposes, trailers began to use the same style and all channels began to use a circle-shaped variation of their logo to show that they were part of one network, making cross-channel promotion easier than previously. On 14 June 2011, UKTV announced it would be launching Really on Freeview channel 20 on 2 August 2011. This resulted in
10283-612: Was added as part of a deal (featured programmes included James Martin's Mediterranean ( Good Food ), Choccywoccydoodah (Good Food), Extreme Makeover: Home Edition ( Home ), Celebrity Fantasy Homes (Home), Tool Academy ( Really ), Bridezillas (Really), Amazing Planet ( Eden ) and Life on Fire (Eden)). Linear channels from UKTV started streaming later in 2012, namely Watch , GOLD and Alibi , and later Good Food, Eden and Home. On 11 April 2012, BT and Fox International Channels announced that from late 2012, BT Vision customers would be able to watch FX (which became Fox ) as
10396-723: Was after successful test marketing in Florida. Later in 2010, Bell Canada (a major division, if not the largest division of BCE ) announced it would begin offering residential and business/commercial customers in Montreal, Quebec and Toronto, Ontario IPTV over a number of different modalities, including fibre to the home , fibre to the node and DSL . This flavour of IPTV would be packaged with other services and branded as "Bell Fibe," providing Canadian customers with everything from local analogue trunk connectivity ( POTS ), to DSL and fibre Internet to TV service via IPTV. Bell further announced in
10509-585: Was announced in 2008 that Motorola would be the new supplier of the boxes. The next generation shiny black Vision+ box was made by Pace and released in 2009. The original silver Vision+ boxes were of no use as of 30 June 2014; all customers received a free upgrade to YouView, worth £199, if they recontracted for 18 months. Users of the black Vision+ boxes were unaffected. BT released a Humax set top box (DTR-T1000) in late 2012 offering Freeview HD services, linear VOD HD channels through BT Infinity, and on-demand boxsets, catchup TV and other new features as part of
10622-534: Was announced that Virgin Media would stop broadcasting all of the UKTV channels from 22 July, amid a dispute over fees and the lack of on-demand content from the BBC. The companies were not able to agree terms and the channels ceased to be available at just after midnight on 22 July 2018. The channels returned to Virgin Media on 11 August 2018. On 1 April 2019, Discovery Inc. (formerly Discovery Communications, which had acquired Scripps Networks Interactive in 2018) announced that BBC Studios would acquire its stakes in
10735-517: Was believed at the time that if it were spurned, BSkyB could develop competing channels before the Flextech-BBC launch, particularly arts and documentaries, as a spoiling tactic. The deal between Flextech and BBC was completed and signed in March 1997. Initially it was assumed that the new channels would be BBC-branded: BBC Showcase, for entertainment; BBC Horizon, for documentaries; BBC Style, for lifestyle; BBC Learning, for schools, and BBC Arena, for
10848-508: Was closely followed in April by the re-brand of UKTV Style to Home , the new channel retaining the previous DIY shows and home makeovers and also including the programming from UKTV Gardens; however, this programming would follow a few weeks later in May, when UKTV Gardens was closed. Its channel slot was taken by Really , a new female crime medical and real life channel, similar to Virgin Media 's then named Living . The final channel to be rebranded
10961-558: Was confirmed by UKTV with the channel due to be launched on Freeview channel 25 from 28 March 2022. UKTV said that this female skewing channel would be still targeted at a 25 to 44 age range but introduced a new logo for the free-to-air era which included the letter W in a slanted rectangle. On 16 July 2024, W rebranded to U&W . U&W currently broadcasts on channel 25 on Freeview and channel 156 on Freesat. U&Yesterday focuses on history and archive programmes. It originally launched on 30 October 2002 as UK History, as part of
11074-405: Was due to launch in mid-2008 but never materialised. From late May 2008, BT Vision discontinued free access to BBC TV replay, instead requiring Vision users to take out a monthly subscription. However, in November 2010, BT announced that BT Vision subscribers would be able to access the BBC iPlayer from the end of June 2011. This service was built by Pushbutton for Microsoft Mediaroom . BT acquired
11187-418: Was first launched by NEW IT VENTURE CORPORATION called Net TV Nepal , the service can be accessed through its app, web app and Set-top boxes provided by local ISPs, another IPTV was started by Nepal Telecom called WOW Time in 2016 which can be accessed through its app. In Sri Lanka , IPTV was launched by Sri Lanka Telecom (operated by SLT VisionCom ) in 2008, under the brand name of PEO TV . This service
11300-567: Was later removed but re-added in mid 2018 following the signing of a new deal with Eurosport's current owners Discovery. On 21 September 2012, BT, one of the partners of YouView , announced that they would provide a free YouView box to its broadband subscribers. This new service will allow customers to access BT Vision's on demand content, YouView's EPG technologies such as 'scrollback', and Now TV . This came weeks after TalkTalk launched its new YouView-based TV service TalkTalk Plus TV . YouView from BT launched on 26 October 2012. On 27 June 2013,
11413-410: Was launched on 5 December 2006, competing with Sky , Virgin Media (then known as NTL:Telewest) and TalkTalk Plus TV (then known as Tiscali TV). Initial industry reaction was positive although there was some criticism that set up costs were expensive and it was noted that BT Group were entering a competitive market. In May 2007, BT Group launched a national advertising campaign for BT Vision. BT Vision
11526-685: Was launched on EE TV. The following is a list of live TV channels on the EE TV platforms with their EPG numbers, correct as of 11 February 2024. All channels are offered to the viewer via IPTV with the relevant subscription from EE TV: The very first BT Vision PVR ( personal video recorder ) in 2007, dubbed the "V Box" and combining IPTV and DTT , with a 160GB hard disk was grey and was initially made by Philips . The box can also access standard definition Freeview broadcasts where available. Similar to Sky+ and V+ it enabled 80 hours of television programmes to be recorded while watching other live programmes. It
11639-404: Was not possible for BT to provide a cable television service. The ban was designed to protect the new smaller telecommunications companies and the small cable television networks in the United Kingdom as it was felt that BT had an unfair advantage because its pre-privatisation monopoly meant that its equipment was already installed in virtually every home and business in the country. In January 2001,
11752-404: Was reached: BBC Showcase and BBC Learning, renamed BBC Choice and BBC Knowledge respectively before launch, would go ahead as BBC channels without commercials, while the deal with Flextech was passed to BBC Worldwide with control split 50/50, thus allowing the remaining channels to carry advertisements. The 'UK' prefix was chosen for these new channels to capitalise on the success of UK Gold, as
11865-410: Was relaunched as UK G2 on 12 November 2003, becoming the more "edgy and contemporary" counterpart to UK Gold. As with its predecessor, UK G2 only broadcast at night, from 8 pm-5 am. It later rebranded as UKTV G2 in March 2004, and soon expanded its hours to the daytime as well. On 15 October 2007, UKTV G2 rebranded as Dave, becoming the first in the network not to use UKTV or any UK branding. UKTV said
11978-405: Was relaunched with a completely new schedule and style as UKG on 12 November 2003, taking on some output similar to what used to be on Play UK before its closure, initially broadcasting from 8 pm each night before later expanding to daytime. On 8 March 2004, the network carried out a major rebranding scheme where all of the UKTV channels changed their prefixes from UK to UKTV . UK Horizons
12091-409: Was renamed G.O.L.D. (now U&Gold) and dropped its mixed entertainment schedule for pure comedy programming. UKTV Drama became the crime drama channel Alibi , and a new general entertainment channel called Watch (now U&W) was launched. It was with this rebrand that non-crime drama (such as Doctor Who and Jonathan Creek ) was transferred to Watch. G.O.L.D. was on one level a continuation of
12204-507: Was shut down in 2008. Internet radio company AudioNet started the first continuous live webcasts with content from WFAA -TV in January 1998 and KCTU-LP on 10 January 1998. Kingston Communications , a regional telecommunications operator in the UK, launched Kingston Interactive Television (KIT), an IPTV over digital subscriber line (DSL) service in September 1999. The operator added additional VOD service in October 2001 with Yes TV,
12317-441: Was split into two channels – UKTV Documentary and UKTV People . In 2005, the last new channel under the UKTV branding was launched, ' UKTV Style Gardens ', later renamed in 2007 to 'UKTV Gardens'. Like UK Food, it allowed UK Style to focus more on its more home-oriented programming. In 2007, UKTV G2 was renamed 'Dave' and began broadcasting on Freeview , replacing UKTV Bright Ideas, seen as an experiment in branding for
12430-484: Was the least interested party, and Discovery had made offers that had been rejected. BSkyB was also said to be interested. BBC Worldwide held first refusal rights and could exercise control over who bought the stake. On 15 August 2011, Virgin Media agreed to sell its 50% stake UKTV to Scripps Networks Interactive in a deal worth £339m. Scripps paid £239m in cash, and about £100m to acquire the outstanding preferred stock and debt owed by UKTV to Virgin Media. Completion of
12543-438: Was the second IPTV television platform in the UK, after Homechoice TV . The aim was to attract "hundreds of thousands" of customers by the end of 2007 and 2–3 million in the medium-term. However, adoption was slow and by February 2008 BT Vision had just 150,000 customers. On 7 January 2008, BT reached a deal with Microsoft where the latter's Xbox 360 console would have provided BT Vision's on demand content. The service
12656-762: Was the second in Canada to commercially deploy IPTV over DSL, using the Lucent Stinger DSL platform. In 2005, SureWest Communications was the first North American company to offer high-definition television (HDTV) channels over an IPTV service. In 2005, Bredbandsbolaget launched its IPTV service as the first service provider in Sweden . As of January 2009, they are not the biggest provider any longer; TeliaSonera , who launched their service later, now has more customers. In 2007, TPG launched their IPTV service in Australia after
12769-577: Was written primarily by Steve Casner, Karl Auerbach , and Cha Chee Kuan. Precept was acquired by Cisco Systems in 1998. Cisco retains the IP/TV trademark. Telecommunications company US West (later Qwest ) launched an IPTV service called TeleChoice in Phoenix, Arizona in 1998 using VDSL technology, becoming the first company in the United States to provide digital television over telephone lines. The service
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