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ZON announces 1H08 Consolidated Results
Jul 30, 2008 – ZON Multimédia (Lisbon:ZON) has announced unaudited results for the First Half of 2008. During 1H08, ZON's Pay TV customer base grew by 9.9 thousand customers to 1,557 thousand.
News categories: ZON Multimédia, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Portugal, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Comcast Reports Second Quarter 2008 Results
Jul 30, 2008 – Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) added 320,000 digital cable subscribers during the second quarter. 7.0 million or 43% of digital cable subscribers have advanced services such as digital video recorders (DVR) and/or HD television services.
News categories: Comcast, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Results, Subscribers, USA

Telekomunikacja Polska selected operating and financial data 2Q 2008
Jul 30, 2008 – Telekomunikacja Polska (Warsaw: TPS) has provided operating data related to the activities of TP Group for the six months ended June 30, 2008. IPTV clients have more than doubled to 54,000 up from 19,000 one year ago.
News categories: Telekomunikacja Polska, Digital TV, IPTV, Poland, Results, Subscribers

Rogers Reports Second Quarter 2008 Financial and Operating Results
Jul 29, 2008 – Rogers Communications (Toronto: RCI.A; RCI.B) (NYSE:RCI) has announced its results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2008. The digital cable subscriber base grew by 16% to 1.431 million from June 30, 2007 to June 30, 2008.
News categories: Rogers Communications, Cable TV, Canada, DVR, Results, Subscribers

Jupiter Telecommunications Consolidated Semi-annual Financial Results
Jul 29, 2008 – The cable television subscribers of Jupiter Telecommunications (JASDAQ: 4817) have grown by 107,900 households (5%) since June 30, 2007 to 2,245,500 households as of June 30, 2008.
News categories: Jupiter Telecommunications, Cable TV, Digital TV, Japan, Results, Subscribers

Kabel Deutschland Presents Record Results
Jul 29, 2008 – Kabel Deutschland has significantly advanced digitization in its cable households: on March 31, 2008 the number of digital TV subscriptions increased to 1.7 million (previous year 1.2 million) including the 778,500 KDG pay TV RGUs.
News categories: Kabel Deutschland, Cable TV, Digital TV, Germany, Results, Subscribers

Microtune Surpasses 100 Million TV Tuner Chips Shipped
Jul 29, 2008 – Microtune (NASDAQ: TUNE) has announced that it has achieved a major corporate milestone with the shipment of more than 100 million silicon TV tuners.
News categories: Microtune, Cable Modem, Cable TV, Digital TV, Market Research, Peripherals / Accessories, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart TV

As Online Video Enters the Living Room, User Interfaces Begin the Transition to Web Based Technologies
Jul 29, 2008 – While the rest of the consumer electronics and pay-TV worlds are still stuck in more traditional native code environments, the push for online video and social communities in the living room has resulted in ever-increasing interest in HTML and other web-based technologies on consumer TVs.
News categories: ABI Research, Digital TV, Market Research, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Smart TV, Streaming

Zenith Converter Box Shipments Surpass One-Million Unit Milestone as Distribution Expands to Reach More Americans
Jul 29, 2008 – With this Friday marking the 200-day countdown to the end of full-power analog TV broadcasting in the United States, more than 1 million Zenith digital television (DTV) converter boxes already have been shipped to thousands of retail stores.
News categories: Zenith, ATSC 3, Digital TV, Market Research, Set Top Box, Terrestrial, USA