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Chunghwa Video Services Demand Explodes with Premium HD and Olympics Content Secured By Widevine
Aug 6, 2008 – Widevine Technologies has announced that Chunghwa Telecom (NYSE: CHT) has purchased an additional 450,000 Cypher® Virtual SmartCard™ clients from Widevine to accommodate rapid expansion and in-home network proliferation with existing subscribers.
News categories: Widevine, Chunghwa Telecom, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, IPTV, Smart Home, Subscribers, Taiwan

HDTV Silicon Sub-Component Revenues Anticipated to Grow from $5.48 billion in 2008 to more than $6.71 billion by 2011
Aug 6, 2008 – Display Insights' recently introduced 2008 report 'The HDTV Silicon Ecosystem Revealed' has uncovered a powerful inflection point among the 4 competing HDTV silicon sub-architectures that could dramatically alter current leadership positions.
News categories: Display Insights, Digital TV, Market Research, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Terrestrial

MPEG Video IC Market in Mobile Devices Outpaces Tethered Products
Aug 6, 2008 – The first MPEG video ICs were designed for tethered devices that were powered via a wall outlet. Today the market for mobile MPEG video ICs in battery powered devices is greater than that of the market for MPEG video ICs in tethered devices.
News categories: In-Stat, Blu-ray, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVD, IPTV, Market Research, Mobile, Peripherals / Accessories, Portable, Satellite, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

Bell Aliant Reports Second Quarter Results
Aug 5, 2008 – Bell Aliant (TSX: BA.UN) has reported distributions to its unit holders of $92.1 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2008. For Aliant TV, the IPTV service, subscribers increased by almost 25 per cent in the quarter to just over 17,000 customers.
News categories: Bell Aliant, Canada, DVR, Fibre, IPTV, Results, Subscribers

Quebecor (Videotron) reports consolidated results for second quarter 2008
Aug 5, 2008 – Quebecor (Toronto: QBR.A; QBR.B) has reported results for second quarter 2008. The number of subscribers to Vidéotron's illico Digital TV stood at 830,500 at quarter-end, overtaking the number of subscribers to analog for the first time.
News categories: Vidéotron, Cable TV, Canada, Results, Subscribers

Liberty Global Reports Second Quarter 2008 Results
Aug 5, 2008 – Liberty Global (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB, LBTYK) has announced results for Q2. At June 30, 2008, Liberty Global's 14.7 million video subscriber base consisted of 9.5 million analog cable and MMDS and 5.2 million digital cable and DTH subscribers.
News categories: Liberty Global, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Cable TV, Chile, Czech Republic, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, MMDS, Netherlands, Poland, Puerto Rico, Results, Romania, Satellite, Slovakia, Slovenia, Subscribers, Switzerland

Charter Reports Second Quarter Financial and Operating Results
Aug 5, 2008 – Charter Communications (NASDAQ: CHTR) has reported its second quarter and six-month 2008 financial and operating results. Digital video customers increased by approximately 33,900 to 3,056,900 during the second quarter.
News categories: Charter Communications, Cable TV, Results, Subscribers, USA

Western Europe smashes through 100 million digital homes barrier
Aug 5, 2008 – Research published by Informa Telecoms & Media shows that digital TV penetration of Western European households broke the 50% barrier in 2007. Informa forecasts that digital homes in the region will reach 104 million by the end of 2008.
News categories: Informa Telecoms & Media, Austria, Belgium, Cable TV, Denmark, Digital TV, Finland, France, Germany, IPTV, Ireland, Italy, Market Research, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Satellite, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Terrestrial, UK

Telenet announces First Half 2008 results
Aug 5, 2008 – Telenet (Brussels: TNET) has announced its consolidated results for the six months ended June 30, 2008. As of June 30, 2008, Telenet had 479,000 subscribers to its digital TV service, a net increase of 88,000 subscribers for the first half of 2008.
News categories: Telenet, Belgium, Cable TV, Results, Set Top Box, Subscribers