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More than 50% of Mobile TV Subscribers from APAC by 2013
May 27, 2009 – According to research from RNCOS, the Asia-Pacific region will account for more than 50% of global Mobile TV subscribers by the end of 2013 due to the rapid technological developments in countries like China, Japan, South Korea and India.
News categories: RNCOS, 5G, China, Digital TV, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Market Research, Mexico, Mobile, Russia, Spain, UK, USA

Internet-Video-Capable CE Shipments to Nearly Quintuple by 2013
May 27, 2009 – Driven by the broadband access boom, global shipments of consumer-electronics devices capable of supporting Internet video are set to rise by nearly a factor of five from 2009 to 2013, according to iSuppli Corp.
News categories: iSuppli, Blu-ray, Digital TV, Gaming, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Streaming

Latin America dances to a digital tune
May 27, 2009 – Research from Informa Telecoms & Media shows that digital TV will make significant progress in Latin America over the next five years. Digital TV households will more than treble in that time - from 12.2 million at present to 37.1 million by 2014.
News categories: Informa Telecoms & Media, Argentina, Brazil, Cable TV, Canada, Chile, Digital TV, Market Research, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Satellite, Subscribers, USA, Venezuela

Service Provider In-Home Networks Using Coax/Phone Wire Growing
May 27, 2009 – By 2013, the average household will have 2.5x as many digital media devices in use as in 2008, according to In-Stat. Networking over wiring in homes is becoming increasingly important, particularly for service provider entertainment networks.
News categories: In-Stat, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Gateway, IPTV, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart Home

2.1 million digital TV RGUs for KDG at end-March '09
May 26, 2009 – Germany's largest cable network operator Kabel Deutschland (KDG) has announced results for its fiscal year ended March 31, 2009. The overall number of digital TV RGUs amounted to 2.1 million (1.6 million thousand in the previous year).
News categories: KDG, Cable TV, DVR, Germany, Results, Subscribers

COMSTAR pay-TV subscribers exceed 2 million in 1Q09
May 26, 2009 – Comstar (LSE: CMST) has announced its results for the three months ended March 31, 2009. Comstar had 1.9 million pay-TV subscribers in Russia's regions and more than 0.1 million in Moscow at the end of March 2009.
News categories: COMSTAR, Cable TV, IPTV, Results, Russia, Subscribers

KPN's Digitenne DTT succeeds with Conax content security
May 26, 2009 – Digitenne, the DTT service from KPN (Amsterdam:KPN), is a Netherlands success story with over 800,000 broadcast subscribers. Launched in 2003, the DTT platform protects its digital revenues with content protection from security provider Conax.
News categories: Conax, KPN, ANGA COM, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Netherlands, Subscribers, Terrestrial

Australia releases Digital Tracker survey report
May 22, 2009 – The Digital Tracker Survey measures the national uptake of digital television and Australians' awareness and attitudes towards the switchover to digital TV.
News categories: Digital Switchover Taskforce, Australia, Digital TV, DVR, Market Research, Optical Disc Recorder, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

Portugal's pay TV subscribers reached 2.3 million in 1Q09
May 22, 2009 – According to Portugal's ANACOM, at the end of March 2009 the total number of subscribers to pay TV in the country reached 2.3 million, 39 thousand more than in the previous quarter and up 257 thousand from the same quarter of 2008.
News categories: ANACOM, Cable TV, IPTV, Market Research, Portugal, Satellite, Subscribers