Japan Digital TV News

Jupiter Telecommunications Financial Results For the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2007
Oct 26, 2007 – Cable television subscribers increased by 381,700 households from September 30, 2006 to 2,159,700 households as of September 30, 2007. The digital conversion rate as of September 30, 2007 was 63%, an increase from 47% as of September 30, 2006.
News categories: Jupiter Telecommunications, Broadband, Cable TV, Digital TV, Japan, Results, Subscribers

Japan's NTT to offer high-definition digital TV via fiber optic lines
Oct 19, 2007 – Japan's Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp will start offering high-definition digital television broadcasting service in March by enhancing its fiber-optic network, the Nikkei business daily has reported.
News categories: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), Nikkei Net Interactive, Broadband, Digital TV, Fibre, IPTV, Japan

Jupiter Telecommunications Announces September 2007 Subscriber Figures
Oct 17, 2007 – Jupiter Telecommunications (JASDAQ: 4817) has announced that the total subscribing households as of September 30, 2007 served by J:COM's 21 managed franchises reached approximately 2.73 million, up 477,500, or 21.2% since September 30, 2006.
News categories: Jupiter Telecommunications (J:COM), Full Release, Cable TV, Digital TV, Japan, Subscribers

MediaPhy Unveils All-Segment Single-Chip for Japanese Mobile TV Applications
Oct 10, 2007 – Following the launch of its multi-standard single-chip offering for global mobile TV applications last month, MediaPhy has introduced the second member of its product family, the J-Solo™, designed specifically to address the rapidly growing Japanese mobile TV market.
News categories: MediaPhy, Digital TV, ICs, ISDB-T, Japan, Mobile, Semiconductor

IPTV Deployments More Than Double In a Year as Broadband Continues to Achieve Strong Growth
Oct 8, 2007 – The DSL Forum today announced new broadband and IPTV statistics at the Broadband World Forum Europe in Berlin. The statistics, prepared for the DSL Forum by industry analyst Point Topic, show that the number of people using IPTV services increased by 179 per cent in the 12 months to 30 June 2007.
News categories: Point Topic, DSL Forum, Africa, Asia, BBWF, Broadband, Canada, China, Digital TV, DOCSIS, Europe, Fibre, France, Germany, IPTV, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latin America, Market Research, Middle-East, North America, Spain, Subscribers, UK, USA

Synovate PAX media survey shows non-traditional television platforms are taking hold across Asia Pacific
Oct 4, 2007 – Synovate has released results from its PAX media survey showing that four in ten affluent Asians are watching television on the move: be it via their personal computers, mobile phones, MP4 players, while outdoors, or even in their cars.
News categories: Synovate, Asia, Australia, Automotive, Digital TV, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Market Research, Mobile, Philippines, Singapore, Streaming, Tablet, Taiwan, Thailand

ArcSoft Demonstrates High Definition Solutions at CEATEC Japan
Oct 2, 2007 – ArcSoft, Inc is demonstrating ArcSoft Digital Theatre™ and ArcSoft TotalMedia™ Extreme this week at CEATEC Japan 2007 in cooperation with Jungle, Japan's leading retail software developer and publisher.
News categories: ArcSoft, Jungle, Blu-ray, DVD, HD-DVD, Japan, Media Player, Software, Streaming

Panasonic Unveils Six New DIGA Blu-ray and DVD Recorders at CEATEC JAPAN 2007
Oct 2, 2007 – Panasonic has unveiled three new Blu-ray Disc (BD) recorders and three high-definition (HD) DVD recorders at CEATEC JAPAN 2007.
News categories: Panasonic, Blu-ray, DVD, DVR, HD-DVD, Japan, Optical Disc Recorder, Set Top Box

Imagination Technologies launches multi-standard mobile tv receiver core with 1-seg ISDB-T support
Oct 1, 2007 – Imagination Technologies (FTSE:IMG) has announced that it has added support for the Japanese 1seg ISDB-T mobile TV standard to its licensable mobile TV IP Core.
News categories: Imagination Technologies, Digital TV, ISDB-T, Japan, Mobile, Semiconductor, Silicon IP, UK