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MultiMedia Intelligence Identifies Digital Watermarking & Fingerprinting As Key New Technology Opportunities to Monetize Digital Media
Jan 21, 2008 – MultiMedia Intelligence reports that applications leveraging content identification technologies such as digital watermarking and fingerprinting are growing rapidly and could surpass US$500 million worldwide by 2012.
News categories: MultiMedia Intelligence, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, DRM, Market Research, Streaming, Watermarking

Comstar Adds the 100,000th Pay-TV Subscriber in Southern Russia
Jan 21, 2008 – COMSTAR-United TeleSystems JSC (LSE:CMST) has announced that the cable TV residential subscriber base of its Digital Telephone Networks South (DTN) subsidiary reached 100,000 by the end of 2007.
News categories: Comstar, Cable TV, Digital TV, Russia, Subscribers

Italy - November 2007 DTT decoder market report released
Jan 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 November 2007 with historical data back to February 2004.
News categories: DGTVi, GfK, Digital TV, Italy, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

400,000 customers for Telenet Digital TV
Jan 18, 2008 – Telenet has announced that it has passed the milestone of 400,000 digital television customers. This success is partially boosted by a strong year-end campaign.
News categories: Telenet, Belgium, Cable TV, Digital TV, Subscribers

Xining Converts 100,000 Households to Two-way DTV
Jan 18, 2008 – By the end of 2007, Xining had completed the migration of over 100,000 households to bi-directional DTV.
News categories: Cable TV, China, Digital TV, Subscribers

Rental to Lead the Over-the-Top Online Video Pay Market
Jan 17, 2008 – As new solutions for bringing online video to the TV flourish, ABI Research believes that rental, download to own and subscription models will all see significant traction. However, the greatest number of downloads will be through rental, in particular for online movie rentals.
News categories: ABI Research, Broadband, Digital TV, Market Research, Streaming

In Europe, IPTV grows stronger in less 'cabled' TV markets
Jan 16, 2008 – According to the newest edition of TV Markets Quarterly Monitoring from InfoCom, during 2Q07 most of the television viewers in Western Europe still prefer receiving television service over terrestrial.
News categories: InfoCom GmbH, Austria, Belgium, Cable TV, Denmark, Digital TV, Europe, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, IPTV, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Market Research, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Satellite, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Terrestrial, UK

SFR finishes 2007 with more than 350,000 3G/3G+ mobile TV subscribers
Jan 16, 2008 – In late December 2007, SFR crossed the milestone of 350,000 subscribers to its 3G/3G+ TV-on-mobile service.
News categories: SFR, 5G, Digital TV, France, Mobile, Subscribers

Comstar Broadband Internet Subscriber Base Almost Doubles to 695,000 in Moscow
Jan 16, 2008 – The number of pay-TV subscribers increased by 36,100 year on year to 119,400 subscribers in Moscow by the end of 2007.
News categories: Comstar, Broadband, Digital TV, IPTV, Russia, Subscribers