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CCID Consulting: Domestic Video MP3 Brands Seized First Opportunity in China First Half of 2007
Aug 17, 2007 – CCID Consulting's latest research report for July 2007 shows that thanks to continuous price drops, active promotion by all major firms and rising product performances, China's video MP3 player market continued to maintain a healthy growth momentum in the first half of 2007.
News categories: China, Digital TV, Market Research, Tablet

Insight Announces Second Quarter 2007 Results
Aug 16, 2007 – Insight Communications (Nasdaq: ICCI) has announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2007. Insight added a net 7,700 digital customers during the quarter to end at 661,500 customers.
News categories: Insight Communications, Cable TV, Digital TV, Results, Subscribers, USA

Jupiter Telecommunications Announces July 2007 Subscriber Figures
Aug 15, 2007 – Jupiter Telecommunications (J:COM; JASDAQ: 4817) has announced that the total subscribing households as of July 31, 2007 served by J:COM's 23 managed franchises reached approximately 2.71 million, up 477,200, or 21.4% since July 31, 2006.
News categories: Jupiter Telecommunications, Cable TV, Digital TV, Japan, Subscribers

Standards Battle Brewing In Wireless Interconnectivity
Aug 15, 2007 – With the promise of entirely wireless interconnections for PCs, standards and technology battles are looming, reports In-Stat. Most digital interconnects are first adopted in PCs and then by consumer electronics (CE), the high-tech market research firm says. "Like USB vs. 1394, the outcome of the battle between ultra wide band (UWB) solutions will be determined by the PC platform" says Qasim Inam, In-Stat analyst.
News categories: In-Stat, Digital TV, Market Research, Smart Home

LCD Continuing March Toward DTV Dominance
Aug 14, 2007 – LCD will continue its ascension to market dominance in the worldwide digital TV (DTV) market, reports In-Stat. LCD will have almost 75% of the market in 2011, with plasma fading to less than 15%, the high-tech market research firm says.
News categories: ATSC 3, Digital TV, Market Research, Smart TV, Terrestrial

Romania - Dolce tops 250,000-subscriber mark
Aug 14, 2007 – Speaking exclusively to Broadband TV News, the Romanian incumbent telco Romtelecom has revealed that its DTH platform Dolce had 250,000 subscribers at the end of last month.
News categories: Digital TV, Romania, Satellite, Subscribers

Thailand - TrueVisions subscriber number reaches 569,000
Aug 14, 2007 – Thailand's TrueVisions subscriber numbers have reached 569,000, with the business' mass market strategy having attracted more than 228,000 customers since its launch a year ago.
News categories: TrueVisions, True Corporation, Digital TV, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Thailand

Femtocells Will Boost Mobile Triple-Play Services
Aug 13, 2007 – The worldwide wireless market in the developed world is approaching saturation. Mobile triple-play services are the most likely solution to this situation, but only when cell operators first solve signal coverage and capacity issues.
News categories: Digital TV, Market Research, Mobile

Portugal - Subscription television signals distribution services by cable and satellite grow in second quarter
Aug 13, 2007 – At the end of June, in Portugal there were 1,897 million subscribers to the distribution of subscription television signals service supported by cable distribution networks or satellite (DTH), a year-on-year increase of 6.5% and a quarterly increase of 0.9%.
News categories: Cable TV, Digital TV, Market Research, Portugal, Satellite, Subscribers