IPTV 2005, a one-day conference focused on emerging technology and product development in the IPTV industry, is scheduled for April 26 in San Jose, California. With IPTV poised for “explosive growth” over the next several years, component suppliers, OEMs, and telcos must place bets right now on the right technologies and standards for tomorrow, asserts conference producer S2 Data.

Unlike other conferences in the IPTV space that focus on business models for telcos, content acquisition, and customer outreach, IPTV 2005 is aimed at developers in all segments of the “technology ecosystem” including semiconductor companies, OEMs, software vendors, and telcos, S2 Data notes. The event is expected to cover the technology and market requirements for customer premise equipment; network access technologies such as ADSL 2+, VDSL2, and video compression technologies; and CPE platform strategies.

S2 Data lists several specific topics that will be addressed:

• HDTV Deployment: When will it happen? Where is the demand?
• PVR: In the home, or in the network? Implications for CPE vendors?
• Video Distribution: Centralized or Distributed? Wireless? Coax? Ethernet?
• AVC: Which codec(s) will win? H.264, VC1, others?
• Customer Premise Equipment: Can it do everything? and be under $100?
• Silicon: Is 2005 the year of the programmability? Or will the market 'wait and see'?
• Is DRM just a Telco issue? Impact on OEMS and semiconductor companies?
• Optimizing platforms for flexibility and cost effectiveness

Early registration is $375 until April 4, after which the fee is $500.

 
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