Asia Digital TV News

Hong Kong Broadband to bundle TVB's OTT TV
Feb 17, 2016 – Hong Kong Broadband (HKBN) has announced that it has signed an MOU with TVB to introduce bundled services which combine its high-speed home broadband with TVB’s soon-to-be launched OTT content service, myTV SUPER.
News categories: HKBN, TVB, William Yeung, Cheong Shin Keong, Digital TV, Hong Kong, Streaming

Chips&Media licenses VP9/HEVC decoder IP to Nexell and five others
Feb 17, 2016 – Chips&Media has announced that six SoC makers have licensed its WAVE412 Multi-format Decoder IP. WAVE412 is world’s first VP9 and HEVC combo decoder IP in a single core with a super compact size.
News categories: Nexell, Chips&Media, Neo Kang, Digital TV, Korea, Media Player, Semiconductor, Silicon IP, Worldwide

India adds 1.31 million active DTH subscribers in 3Q 2015
Feb 16, 2016 – The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released telecom indicators for the quarter ended September 30, 2015. At the end of the period, the total numbers of registered and active DTH subscribers were 81.47 million and 41.05 million respectively.
News categories: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, Cable TV, Digital TV, India, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers

StarHub pay TV subscribers down 1.2% in 2015
Feb 16, 2016 – StarHub has announced results for the fourth quarter and full year ended 31 December 2015. On December 31, 2015, the company's Pay TV subscriber base was 536,000 down 6,200 in the quarter and down 6,500 YoY.
News categories: StarHub, Cable TV, Results, Singapore, Subscribers

EMedia Network builds ION OTT/IPTV service on Akamai
Feb 16, 2016 – Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM) has announced that eMedia Network is using Akamai's Media Delivery Solutions to deliver broadcast-quality video and radio content on its global OTT/IPTV platform, iON.
News categories: Akamai, eMedia Network, John Bishop, Mark Lobwein, Content Distribution, Europe, IPTV, North America, Oceania, Streaming

NTT develops LSI-based 8K HEVC real-time encoder
Feb 15, 2016 – Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) has developed the worlds’ best performance high-quality 8K HEVC real-time encoder through the use of dedicated LSI’s, which is the key to immersive high-quality 8K video services.
News categories: NTT, Hiroo Unoura, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Japan, Semiconductor, Worldwide

Singtel TV subscribers up 1% in 2015
Feb 12, 2016 – Singtel has announced results for its third quarter and nine months ended 31 December 2015. Singtel TV finished the year with 424,000 subscribers, up from 420,000 at the end of 2014.
News categories: Singtel, IPTV, Results, Singapore, Subscribers

'hayu' SVOD service to launch in UK, Ireland and Australia
Feb 11, 2016 – NBCUniversal International has announced the launch of hayu - a subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) reality service. The first all-reality service of its kind - curated and fully integrated with social media - will launch in March in the UK, Ireland & Australia on a full array of devices.
News categories: NBCUniversal, hayu, Kevin MacLellan, Australia, Ireland, Mobile, Streaming, UK

SES-9 launch expected on February 24, 2016
Feb 8, 2016 – SES (Paris; Luxembourg: SESG) has announced that it is targeting a 24 February 2016 launch date for its SES-9 satellite. SES-9 will be positioned at 108.2°E to provide capacity for a video neighbourhood over Asia.
News categories: SES S.A, Asia, Content Distribution, Indonesia, Philippines, Satellite