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May 21, 2007
France’s Free IPTV switched to MPEG-4
France-based Iliad Telecom has announced it will now use MPEG-4 to encode channels for its IPTV service, Free. The upgrade will allow Free to further compress video to allow delivery of Iliad’s full channel suite to all broadband subscribers on its network where previously it required speeds of at least 3.5MB/s. Click here for complete coverage of the multichannel market in France.
The move to MPEG-4 will also provide extra bandwidth for advanced services such as HDTV. France has been one of the leading proponents of HDTV, already launching on DTH provider Canalsat and France Telecom’s Malign TV. Kagan believes the real boost to HDTV in the country will come from DTT, which is already slated to carry HD signals and is heavily supported by both the government regulator Conseil Superieur d'Audiovisuel (CSA) as well as local and national broadcasters.
Posted by Kagan Global Research Team at May 21, 2007 08:06 PM