Related links

For more information about IPTV, check out the standards development organizations that have been active in its development. This includes the ITU-T IPTV focus group (www.itu.int/itu-t/iptv), which led to the IPTV Global Standards Initiative (www.itu.int/itu-t/gsi/iptv); the Alliance for Telcommunications Industry Solutions IPTV Interoperability Forum (ATIS-IIF; www.atis.org/iif); European Telcommunications Standards Institute Telecom & Internet Converged Services & Protocols for Advanced Network (ETSI TISPAN; www.etsi.org/tispan); MultiService Forum (www.msforum.org); the Digital Video Broadcasting project (www.dvb.org); Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA; www.dlna.org); and the Broadband Forum (www.broadband-forum.org). In particular, we recommend the ITU-T IPTV focus group's proceedings—freely available for download at www.itu.int/publ/T-PROC-IPTVFG-2008/en.

Disclaimer: This list is part of the June 2009 IPTV theme. It will not be maintained by Computing Now.

Primary Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) working on IPTV

  1. International Telecommunications Union - Telecommunications Standardization (ITU-T)'s IPTV Focus Group (FG-IPTV) now transitioned to the IPTV Global Standards Initiative (IPTV-GSI) doing the work in ITU-T Study Groups 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, and 17 as directed and coordinated by the ITU-T IPTV Joint Coordination Activity (IPTV-JCA).
  2. http://www.itu.int/itu-t/iptv
    http://www.itu.int/itu-t/gsi/iptv
    http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/jca/iptv

  3. Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS)'s IPTV Interoperability Forum (ATIS-IIF)
  4. http://www.atis.org
    http://www.atis.org/iif

  5. Digital Video Broadcasting project (DVB)'s CM-IPTV and TM-IPI working groups who//what?// their standards through the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)
  6. http://www.dvb.org
    http://www.dvb.org/groups_modules/commercial_module/cmiptv/index.xml?groupID=49
    http://www.dvb.org/groups_modules/technical_module/tmipi/index.xml?groupID=14

  7. European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)'s Telecoms & Internet converged Services and Protocols for Advanced Services (ETSI-TISPAN)
  8. http://www.etsi.org
    http://www.etsi.org/tispan

Standards-development organizations and forums working on IPTV-related areas

Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC)

Association for Downloadable Media (ADM)

Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB)

Broadband Forum (previously known as the DSL Forum)

Broadband Services Forum (BSF)

Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA)

CableLabs' OpenCable, PacketCable, DOCSIS and other projects

Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) and their IPTV Oversight & Coordination Committee (IPTV OCC)

Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM)

Digital Audio Visual Council (DAVIC)—no longer active

Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA)—lead SDO for content distribution and IPTV within the home

Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA)'s P4PWG working group of ISPs and P2P vendors looking to leverage peer-to-peer protocols for IPTV content distribution

 

 

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Media BureauFiber to the Home Council

High-Definition Audio-Video Network Alliance (HANA)

Home Gateway Initiative (HGI)

HomePNA Alliance

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), which has numerous committees working on IPTV-related standards

International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)

International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), including the Audio/Video Transport (AVT), Multiparty Multimedia Session Control (MMUSIC), and Media Server Control working groups

Internet Protocol Detailed Record Organization (ipdr.org)

Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA)

IPsphere Forum (IPSF)

Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF)

Mobile DTV Alliance

 

Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG)

Multimedia Over Coax Alliance (MOCA)

MultiService Forum (MSF), who will be holding an IPTV interoperability testing event as part of GMI08

National Association of Broadcasters (NAB)

Nordic IPTV Standards Initiative (NIPSI)

Open IPTV Forum

Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)

Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE)

Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE)

Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP)

1394 Trade Association

UPnP Forum

Video Services Forum (VSF)

WiMedia Alliance

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

Research and newsletter sources on the Internet covering IPTV and digital video

Accenture

Advanced-television

America's Network

Bitpipe

Broadband Gear Report - Voice, Video, Data

Broadband Home (BBH)

Broadcast Engineering

Cable 360 Net, CableWorld, CableFAX, Communications Technology

Communications, Engineering & Design (CED) magazine and the Broadband Direct, IP and xOD Capsule newsletters

Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)

Digital Media

Digital TV Design Line

Digital Video Magazine

Digital Video Professionals Association (DVPA)

DSL Prime

 

Electronic Design, strategy and News (EDN)

Emerging Media Dynamics and the IP Media Monitor newsletter

FierceIPTV

Information Gatekeepers Inc (IGI)

International Engineering Consortium (IEC)

Internet Video Magazine

Informa Telecoms & Media

ipTV News

Lyra Research's DTV View

MRG Multimedia Research Group

Multichannel News

New Video Technology

OSP Magazine

Screen Digest

 

SNL Kagan

Streaming Media.com

Studio Daily

Telco Media News and The Bridge

Telecommunications Magazine

Telephony Online

The Carmel Group

The 451 Group

TVOver.net

TV Predications

TV Technology

This Week In Consumer Electronics (TWICE)

United States Telecom Association (USTA) and www.dailylead.com/news/USTELECOM/

Via Satellite

Viodi View Newsletter

"TV over the Internet" Web sites

ABC

Akimbo

AOL In2TV

AOL Video

Apple iTunes

Apple Trailers

Apple TV

Atom Films

AV arena

Babelgum

BBC

BBC's iPlayer

4oD

iTV

BitTorrent

Blinkx

Blip.tv

BMW

CBS

Channel Chooser

Cinemanow

CNN

CoolStreaming

Current

CWTV

 

DailyMotion

Dave.TV

DR

ESPN 360

ESPN Video

Fancast

Find Internet TV

FOX

GekTV

GONG

Google Video

Grid Networks

Grind TV

Guba

Hiro

Hulu

iTV

Joost

Justin TV

Livestation

Metacafe

Miro

mobuzzTV

Movielink

MSN TV

 

My Damn Channel

MySpaceTV

Naked Cowboy

Narrowstep

NASA TV

NBC

Netflix Watch Instantly

Open Hulu

PBS

PPLive

Revision3

Revver

Sail TV

SciFi Video

SelfastTV

Sharkle

Space Battles

SPIKE

Sputnik TV

Stage6

Strmz

Stupid Videos

TBS

Telegraph TV

The Daily Show

 

The HD Web

TNT

Totalvid

Travel Video

truTV

Truveo

Turn Here

TV Video

TV1.de

TVUnetworks

UVTV

VegTV

Veoh

Veveo vTap

Video Detective

Vimeo

Vongo

Vudu

Vuze

Web62.com

webTVlist

wwiTV

YouTube

zattoo

ZippyVideos