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ONO Fourth quarter and full year 2007 results
Mar 25, 2008 – ONO's cable television customers increased by 51,000 or 5.6% in the quarter to reach 960,000 as of 31 December 2007. At the end of the fourth quarter of 2007, 90% of our total television customer base enjoyed our digital offering.
News categories: Grupo Corporativo ONO, Cable TV, Digital TV, Results, Spain, Subscribers

Korea - Mobile TV Subscribers Reach 11 million
Mar 24, 2008 – According to telecomskorea.com, at the end of February, the number of mobile TV subscribers in Korea reached 11 million, with a split of 9.69 million subscribers to T-DMB and 1.31 million to S-DMB.
News categories: Digital TV, Korea, Mobile, Subscribers

SNL Kagan estimates over 71 million HD subscribers by 2012
Mar 24, 2008 – SNL Kagan's newest study, "Economics of High Definition Cable Networks," estimates that cable and satellite high definition subscribers will penetrate 65.7% of U.S. multichannel households by 2012, up from 18.8% in 2007.
News categories: Kagan, Cable TV, Digital TV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers, USA

25 Million Home Theater PCs Installed Worldwide by 2013
Mar 21, 2008 – While a multitude of non-PC devices will play a role in the connected living room of the future, that doesn't means the PC will fade away. In fact, according to a new study from ABI Research, PCs are destined to play an ever-increasing role.
News categories: ABI Research, Digital TV, Market Research, Smart Home, Streaming

OTE Group Reports 2007 Fourth Quarter Results Under IFRS
Mar 20, 2008 – Success of RomTelecom's direct-to-home TV service launched in November 2006 continued in the fourth quarter of 2007, with the acquisition of close to 100,000 new customers in the three months bringing the total number of subscribers to 390,000 at year end.
News categories: RomTelecom, OTE, Earnings Release, Digital TV, Results, Romania, Satellite, Subscribers

China Digital TV Announces Dongguan Broadcasting Network and Media Development Corporation's One Millionth Smart Card Purchase
Mar 19, 2008 – China Digital TV (NYSE: STV) has announced that Dongguan Broadcasting Network and Media Development Corporation has purchased their one millionth smart card from China Digital TV.
News categories: China Digital TV Holding, Cable TV, CAM, China, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Subscribers

IPTV and switched digital video equipment market to reach $9.8B in 2011
Mar 19, 2008 – The combined IPTV and switched digital video (SDV) market is forecast to grow in healthy double-digits annually to reach $9.8 billion worldwide, according to Infonetics Research's latest quarterly report.
News categories: Infonetics, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Middleware, Set Top Box, Subscribers

PMP Player Market Steps Up to the Expressway
Mar 18, 2008 – CCID Consulting (Hong Kong Stock Exchange: HK08235) releases its 2007-2008 Annual Report on China's PMP Player Market. The sales volume of China's PMP player market reached 1.212 million sets, up 129.1% over 2006.
News categories: CCID Consulting, China, Market Research, Tablet

Italy - January 2008 DTT decoder market report update
Mar 18, 2008 – The DGTVi publishes, in collaboration with GfK, a regular research report covering the development of the digital terrestrial market in Italy. The latest report is for the month of January 2008 with historical data back to February 2004.
News categories: DGTVi, GfK, Digital TV, Italy, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial