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Sweden - Over 650,000 subscribers to the Boxer DTT platform
Jan 9, 2007 – The Swedish pay DTT service provider, Boxer, has announced that it had 654,000 subscribers to its service at the end of 2006. This represents a yearly growth of 23%.
News categories: Boxer, Digital TV, Subscribers, Sweden, Terrestrial

Boom Times Are Over For Consumer Electronics
Jan 8, 2007 – Strategy Analytics have announced that 2006 sales of digital consumer electronics reached $167 billion worldwide in 2006. But the outlook for 2007 is for a rapid slowdown as exploding demand for flat panel TV comes to an end.
News categories: Strategy Analytics, ATSC 3, CES2025, Digital TV, Market Research, Smart TV

Samsung Sells More Digital TVs Than Any Other Manufacturer in the US
Jan 8, 2007 – Samsung Electronics becomes the number one seller of digital televisions in the United States in 2006 (January through November), according to data from the NPD Group's Retail Tracking Service.
News categories: Samsung Electronics, ATSC 3, CES2025, Digital TV, Market Research, USA

Broadband-Enabled Televisions to Reach 162 Million by 2011
Jan 8, 2007 – A surge in the availability of high-quality web-based video content and the proliferation of solutions that network-enabled TVs will usher in a 'new wave' of television viewing.
News categories: The Diffusion Group, Broadband, Digital TV, Market Research, Streaming

DEG Year-End 2006 Home Entertainment Sales Update
Jan 8, 2007 – The home theater is one of consumers' preferred choices for enjoying entertainment as demonstrated by growing demand for high definition products in 2006, according to DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group in an announcement made at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
News categories: DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group, ATSC 3, CES2025, Digital TV, DVD, Market Research, North America, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial, USA

Sprint's Leadership in Mobile Video More Powerful Than Ever
Jan 5, 2007 – Sprint (NYSE: S) has become the first U.S. carrier to announce more than one million customers with mobile video capability across its nationwide Power Vision and Vision networks, which cover more than 8,700 cities and communities nationwide.
News categories: Sprint, CES2025, Digital TV, Mobile, Subscribers, USA

hanarotelecom Posts 200,000 Subscribers for hanaTV
Jan 4, 2007 – hanarotelecom (KOSDAQ: 033630) (NASDAQ: HANA) has announced that it achieved 200,000 subscriber sign-ups for hanaTV, a TV-Portal service that enables subscribers to watch any content they want on TV at their convenience.
News categories: Hanaro, Digital TV, IPTV, Korea, Subscribers

Sky+ breaks through 2 million boxes
Jan 2, 2007 – British Sky Broadcasting (Sky) has announced that the total number of Sky+ boxes installed in customers' homes has broken through 2 million for the first time.
News categories: BSkyB, Digital TV, DVR, Ireland, Satellite, Subscribers, UK

Global IPTV Subscribers to Hit 63 Million in 2010
Jan 2, 2007 – iSuppli has released a study that predicts that the number of subscribers to Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) services worldwide is expected to nearly triple in 2007.
News categories: iSuppli Corp, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research