OK, good to see these forums underway.
Given the recent spate of announcements (BT/Microsoft, Telewest, Sky, France Telecom) around planned IPTV deployments in the UK, what do forum members feel as to the likely impact on the UK Digital TV market? Will 'Pure Play' IPTV become a fourth delivery channel for Digital TV (alongside DTT, DSAT and Cable) in its own right, or will IPTV delivery emerge as part of a Hybrid solution? Will it follow the emergent French and Italian models? Or will it fail to make an impact altogether? And on what timescales?
I raised some of these points, and offered an opinion that a hybrid model will ultimately emerge in a recent presentation to the EBU (reproduced at http://www.ebu.ch/trev_home.html - lots of good, if rather technical stuff in here).
Thoughts and views?
Andrew Fawcett
andrew.fawcett@kcom.com