Eight more companies join Open IPTV Forum

The addition of the companies brings the forum’s membership total to 26.

Author:: TVTechnology
Publish date:: Mar 11, 2008

The number of members of the Open IPTV Forum rose last week to 26 with the addition of Accenture, ANT Software, Funai Electric, Quative - Kudelski Group, SES-Astra, Sharp, Sun Microsystems and Toshiba.

The Open IPTV Forum is developing an end-to-end specification to allow compliant devices to access enriched, personalized IPTV services.

For more information, visit: www.openiptvforum.org.

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