Indian Firm To Bring Internet TV To Thailand

[Jai Dee]

Goldstone partners Synap Media for IPTV in Thailand

MUMBAI - Software services firm Goldstone Technologies Ltd said on Thursday it has launched Internet protocol television (IPTV) services in Thailand in partnership with Synap Media & Infotech Co Ltd.

It also signed IPTV distribution agreements for France, Belgium, Spain, Morocco and Malaysia, the company said in a statement. It offers IPTV services in India with state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.

"The focus for the IPTV services in Thailand would be on tourism and hospitality industry to leverage the growing travel by Indians to the South East Asian kingdom," Chairman Nandan Kundetkar said.

It broadcasts 20 television channels along with movies in Hindi, English and several regional languages through the Internet and has its network operating centre in Thailand.

Goldstone is also in talks for similar distribution agreements for Israel, Australia, Philippines, Singapore, Japan, the Netherlands and the U.K.

"IPTV services will be a key growth driver for Goldstone Technologies in the years ahead and we are hoping to launch commercial services in 10 countries by June this year," Kundetkar said.

Shares in the company rose 1.3 percent to 220.30 rupees in the Mumbai market.

Source: Reuters - 22 February 2008

[Jai Dee]

Goldstone Tech kickstarts IPTV operations in Thailand

Goldstone Technologies launched commercial operations of its IPTV Services in Thailand, in partnership with Synap Media & Infotech.

The company has also signed distribution agreements for France, Belgium, Spain, Morocco and Malaysia.

Goldstone Tech is a global IT services company offering business and technology solutions. The company provides services like IPTV, technical support outsourcing, Forte (UDS) migration, business integration, application development, application maintenance and consulting services.

Shares of the company were last trading up Re 1, or 0.46%, at Rs 218.50. The total volume of shares traded at the BSE was 19,523. (12.16 p.m., Thursday)

Source: IRIS - 22 February 2008

[Jai Dee]

Indian firm to bring Internet TV to Thailand

Indian information technology services firm Goldstone Technologies will launch Internet Protocol television (IPTV) services in Thailand in collaboration with Synap Media and Infotech Limited, news reports said Thursday. "The focus for the IPTV services in Thailand would be on tourism and hospitality industry to leverage the growing travel by Indians to the southeast Asian kingdom," Goldstone Technologies chairman Nandan Kundetkar was quoted as saying by IANS news agency.

The company, headquartered in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, has already received orders for 3,000 set-top boxes to be supplied to subscribers in Thailand over the next four months. "The company is expecting to sign up about 75,000 subscribers in the first full year of operations of its IPTV services," Kundetkar said.

More from the Bangkok Post here.

[toptuan]

Considering the dismal state of broadband speed in Thailand and the seemingly unsolvable bandwidth bottlenecks to servers outside Thailand, do they know something we don't?

[Thaddeus]

Considering the dismal state of broadband speed in Thailand and the seemingly unsolvable bandwidth bottlenecks to servers outside Thailand, do they know something we don't?

It's more plausible that they have been promised something they are not going to get

[Plus]

If they broadcast from local servers it will work reasonably well. At 1mbps you can get a very good quality picture, and every one can get 1mbps within Thailand.

[Totster]

Doesn't the bt10,000 satellite package from the local shop contain free Indian programming ? From what I saw on a friends system most of it is Indian.

Totster

[Seneque]

If they broadcast from local servers it will work reasonably well. At 1mbps you can get a very good quality picture, and every one can get 1mbps within Thailand.

Everyone ! at 2 am ...

[jayjayjayjay]

Considering the dismal state of broadband speed in Thailand and the seemingly unsolvable bandwidth bottlenecks to servers outside Thailand, do they know something we don't?

That's what we really need heaps of new Bollywood movies to surf over before finding something decent to watch!

Waste of time,,,,,,,,,

[mellow1]

If they broadcast from local servers it will work reasonably well. At 1mbps you can get a very good quality picture, and every one can get 1mbps within Thailand.

125Kbts here

[Tony Clifton]

If they broadcast from local servers it will work reasonably well. At 1mbps you can get a very good quality picture, and every one can get 1mbps within Thailand.

Everyone ! at 2 am ...

Very true.

For months now I've only been able to watch streaming video, like Youtube, after 1 or 2 am only, sometimes I check early morning around 6 or 7 and it's still feasible. Forget that after 8 am.

[hansnl]

If they broadcast from local servers it will work reasonably well. At 1mbps you can get a very good quality picture, and every one can get 1mbps within Thailand.

It is like the weather forecast on Dutch TV, here and there some rain.

When that is said, it will probably rain all day, here, that is

For Internet Broadband only, for Thailand it should be not here nor there, but mainly not here.

[naka]

Considering the dismal state of broadband speed in Thailand and the seemingly unsolvable bandwidth bottlenecks to servers outside Thailand, do they know something we don't?

That's what we really need heaps of new Bollywood movies to surf over before finding something decent to watch!

Waste of time,,,,,,,,,

300 people dancing like dervishers on a Kashmiri mountainside while perving

on a couple having a kiss is not my idea of entertainment

Naka.

[Plus]

Hey guys, I said local servers within Thailand.

Any time of the day you can get 1mbps, you actually should get something very close to advertised speed.

I can't give you test servers off the top of my head, for folks on True, just fire up their Hi Speed navigator and run local tests from there.

You can try downloading Opera from a Thai server, too, and there are some Linux distributions hosted in Thailand if you want to see how big files go.

[chiang mai]

Hey guys, I said local servers within Thailand.

Any time of the day you can get 1mbps, you actually should get something very close to advertised speed.

I can't give you test servers off the top of my head, for folks on True, just fire up their Hi Speed navigator and run local tests from there.

You can try downloading Opera from a Thai server, too, and there are some Linux distributions hosted in Thailand if you want to see how big files go.

And you think this Indian company, offering the exact same service to other countries such as Australia and Morrocco is going to be broadcasting from separate servers in each of those individual countries?

The word "server" springs to mind!

[Plus]

Of course they should broadcast from Thai servers. They'd be stupid to run everything from India or any other single place. By running servers in each country they can solve the problem of time zones and even provide audio dubbing and other country specific programming, not to mention solving international bandwidth problem.

The real problem is who wants to pay for watching their dreadful songs.

[funfun]

Of course they should broadcast from Thai servers. They'd be stupid to run everything from India or any other single place. By running servers in each country they can solve the problem of time zones and even provide audio dubbing and other country specific programming, not to mention solving international bandwidth problem.

The real problem is who wants to pay for watching their dreadful songs.

well somtimes when im in a curryhouse waiting on my chicken bhuna with chips, and 3 chapatis, and im listing to the lovely music in the background, watching the cook pluck his beard and nose it may be nice to watch them people dancing funnily on a tv, i for one wouldnt mind them putting up the price of a tandori coranation street deieredre to cover the cost!

and i mean it!

[astral]

I feel sure that IPTV was first announced in 2004-2005...................

available from Satellite.

The comments about available bandwidth are very valid and cast doubt on the whole idea.

[Plus]

Both True and Ais were talking about IPTV (I think True already sells it), another company jumping in is not a surprise.

[gunnyd]

It took a couple of years here in Phoenix Arizona to get the bandwidth necessary to broadcast video over IP. Qwest Choice TV runs VDSL at 11MBs. The fastest I have ever gotten in BKK is 30KBs and that is very spotty at best. There is no way they could deliver standard definition TV even 1 channel IMHO over the internet infrastructure in Thailand.

[gmac]

If they broadcast from local servers it will work reasonably well. At 1mbps you can get a very good quality picture, and every one can get 1mbps within Thailand.

Everyone ! at 2 am ...

Yeah, and everyone as his dog was on at 2am last night and I couldn't get a decent speed even at that time!

[Plus]

Was it international or domestic connection? There's a big difference. I've repeated it several times on this page but it doesn't seem to register.

Standard definition TV is encoded in decades old mpeg2 format, there are standards better than that. Typical DivX movie has around 1MBps bitrate, ten times less than UBC digital broadcasts.

Have you ever tried the likes of Sopcast? Regular football games that look quite ok on TV have bitrates around 400KBps, on a good day they are perfectly watchable even if all your peers are some Chinese dudes. There are plenty of programs like that, some let you watch streams off their Chinese servers, not through p2p network, and they work ok.

Local speeds are fast enough for IPTV trials, the only problem no one wants to pay for it, I think.