BEIJING, Oct. 23-- Blue Sea Strategy of IPTV! 2006 China Broadband Multimedia Forum & IPTV CHINA 2006/ Multiple Play CHINA 2006 will be held on November 9 - 10, 2006, at the State Guest Hotel, Beijing.
2006 China Broadband Multimedia Forum (CBMF) advances with time and keeps innovation and service as the purpose, brings valuable information to the industry and promotes the IPTV and broadband multimedia industry to grow harmonically, healthily and quickly. First of all, the contents of 2006 CBMF will be more authoritative, systematic, abundant and professional. The forum focuses on the following six core themes of the industry: strategically plan and industrial convergence, opportunity and challenge, standard and technical trend, core technology and successful applications, value-added service and service innovation, and terminal devices and consumer electronics. Then elites from industries of telecommunication, broadcast and TV, manufacture, financing and investment, and other industries will get together. (The Second China IPTV Forum held in April, 2005 attracted many top-level guests from the domestic and foreign industry, over 1400 people from telecommunication operators, broadcast and TV operators and equipment suppliers attended the forum, 45% of the audience were executives at different levels of various organizations.) They will jointly explore the current problems and challenge and opportunity in the field of broadband multimedia service: how to overcome excessive competition between the telecommunication industry and the broadcast and TV industry to open up a totally new market? How to draft relevant technical standards? What's the killer application and target market? What's leading- edge technology and trend? How to innovate new business models? How to grasp business chance of IPTV?
What's more, 2006 CBMF cooperates with mainstream media to conduct an awareness survey of China's IPTV service and brands, which is oriented to common consumers, with a purpose of understanding real situation of Chinese consumers' knowledge on broadband multimedia service and brands, relevant results of the survey and a study report will be issued on the site during the forum.
2006 CBMF is co-organized by China National Status Research Center and China Video Industry Association, jointly supported by the Ministry of Information Industry and the State Administration of Radio, Film and TV, sponsored by China Telecom, China Netcom, China Mobile, China Unicom, China Tietong, China Satellite Communication, ChinaCnTV.com and Shanghai Media Group, and managed by China Digital Media Industry Center and Norstar Media. Meanwhile, more than 100 Chinese business publications and websites of communication, broadcast and TV, and consumer electronics as well as general publications support the forum. The forum also invites over 400 overseas media to publicize it.
As the most authoritative and most influential conference of the industry, 2006 CBMF will be a grand ceremony of elites in related government agencies, industrial associations, research institutions, content providers, operators, and financing and investment circles. CBMF becomes a platform for enterprises in the broadband multimedia service industry to publicize their images to promote their technologies and products and to integrate education and transaction, it also serves as a bridge of marketing linking customers. So far, many internationally well-known vendors, such as UTstarcom will participate in the forum
Are you ready for the coming of an era of broadband multimedia service?
China National Status Research Center
China Video Industry Association
China Video Industry Association (CVIA) was founded on September 2, 1988, its predecessor was the National TV Industry Association established in 1979. The association is a nation-wide industrial organization and a government- approved body corporate for enterprises and business institutes involving in video production, research and development, and application to join in voluntarily.
China Digital Media Industry Center
Supported by the Ministry of Information Industry, the State Administration of Radio, Film and TV, and the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, China Video Industry Association, China National Status Research Center, China Association for Promoting Arts and Culture, ChinaCnTV.com and Hong Kong Star Media jointly set up China Digital Media Industry Center in August, 2005. The center serves the newly emerging digital media industry and provides assistance in seven key links of the industry including patent and standards, content provision and integration, network convergence, systems and devices and solutions, consumer electronic terminals, industrial research and consultancy, financing and investment. The center actively advocates convergence of broadband communication network, digital TV network and NGN as well as convergence of computers, communications, consumer electronics and contents.
