Show highlights inlcude:

• Learn how content providers and broadcasters plan to monetize video content over the unmanaged internet
• Featuring platform operators discussing how to integrate internet TV into their existing pay-TV service
• Understand the role of DRM to enable peer-to-peer and download-to-own premium content services.
• Listen to leading online aggregators discussing the current and future role and impact of internet TV
• Cohosting and coexhibiting six leading conferences: IPTV World Forum Asia, The Connected Home Asia, IP Cable Asia, MEM Asia, Messaging Asia, Mobile TV Asia Summit
• Over 300 speakers from telecoms, cable and mobile operators and leading content owners
• Asia's leading IPTV event - with over 4000 visitors anticipated to attend and over 150 exhibitors (over 1500 people and 80 exhibitors at the 2nd IPTV Asia Forum 2006)
• Industry party in one of Singapore's leading venues - Forbidden City, Clarke Quay
• Free exhibition only passes available

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Getting ready for the online video boom

A combination of higher broadband penetration, rapidly improving broadband speeds and the willingness of major content owners to make their premium movies and shows available online has created the conditions for a dramatic expansion in Internet TV. Informa Telecoms & Media predicts that legitimate online TV and video services will generate US$6.3 billion in revenues in 2012 – almost ten times the
2006 figure.

The business intelligence and research company attributes US$510 million revenues to Japan in 2012, $76 million to South Korea and $59 million to China but it seems the bulk of the money will accrue to the US thanks to the dominance of Hollywood studios in mass-market content. The figures are more revealing when compared to 2006 revenues of US$24 million in Japan, $5 million in South Korea and $3 million in China.

Each of these markets significantly exceeds the overall worldwide growth rate, with Japan growing 21-fold in the five year forecast period, South Korea expanding 15 times and China expected to witness a 20-fold growth in online video revenues.

In-Stat, another respected research group, estimates that just over 23 per cent of total broadband subscribers in the Asia-Pacific region are currently paying for online video content. The company put the 2006 revenues in the region at US$736. In-Stat predicts that by 2011, 35 per cent of broadband users will be paying for video online – bringing revenues of $2.87 billion. The company attributes the rise to increasing broadband bandwidth and growing consumer awareness of online video services.

Internet TV, TV-over-Net, Web TV or Online TV – whichever definition you prefer – is clearly a dramatic growth market. One of the major questions for the digital media and entertainment industry as a whole is whether this is going to be largely new money, with a negligible impact on Pay TV subscriptions and uptake of on-demand services through cable and IPTV etc, or whether Internet TV will represent a shift of money from one place to another (including advertising dollars).

The early signs seem to suggest that just as newspapers survived radio, and radio survived television, so television will survive Internet TV. What is not so clear is how far television will have to adapt to encompass the 'me' focused attributes of Internet media, and to what extent online video and TV will cater for the super-scale, mass-market consumption requirements that traditional television has coped with so well.

TV-over-Net Asia is a new conference for the Asia-Pacific marketplace that will seek to unravel these and many other significant questions relating to the online video market. Co-located with IPTV World Forum Asia to take advantage of the obvious overlap in the interests of IPTV and Internet TV professionals, the one-day event will draw upon the experience of leading players from the worlds of online and traditional TV.

The conference will include content owners, aggregators, network operators,  analysts and technology specialists among its speakers, and will cover market prospects, business models and the practical application of video over the Internet.

TV-over Net Asia, together with IPTV World Forum Asia, is part of the IPTV World Series of events organised and marketed by Junction. These events, including IPTV World Forum, IPTV World Forum Latin America and IPTV World Forum Eastern Europe, are characterized by their high number of speakers from content owners, broadcasters and network
operators: the people who shape service deployments and business models and have valuable experience and insights to pass on. Delegate feedback is always extremely positive at these shows.

This one-day event will follow this established model to ensure another high-value conference from the organisers who bought you IPTV World Forum Asia in 2006 (in Shanghai) and 2005 (Hong Kong).