Asia Digital TV News

Singtel adds 20,000 mio TV subscribers in 2013
Feb 13, 2014 – SingTel has reported results for its third quarter (Q3 FY2014) ended December 31, 2013. The company ended 2013 with 418,000 'mio TV' IPTV subscribers, up from 398,000 at the end of 2012.
News categories: SingTel, IPTV, Results, Singapore, Subscribers

Envivio selected for Blink multiscreen OTT service in the Philippines
Feb 11, 2014 – Envivio (Nasdaq:ENVI) has announced that Envivio Muse encoders and Envivio Halo network media processors have been deployed by Omni for live streaming of content as part of the new blink TV service in the Philippines.
News categories: Envivio, Blink, Joemar Tiano, Julien Signès, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Mobile, Philippines, Streaming

Internet capable TVs in 22% of Australian homes
Feb 7, 2014 – OzTAM has announced the release of its Q313 Australian Multi-Screen Report. Internet capable TVs are now in 22 per cent of homes. With the analogue switch-off imminent, 99 per cent of homes had converted to DTT by Q3 2013.
News categories: OzTAM, Australia, Digital TV, DVR, Market Research, Mobile, Smart TV, Streaming, Terrestrial

SKY PerfecTV! loses 95,000 subscribers in 2013
Feb 6, 2014 – SKY Perfect JSAT Group has released results for the quarter ending December 31, 2013. The company finished the year with a total of 3.706 million pay TV subscribers, 95 thousand down from 3.801 million at the end of 2012.
News categories: SKY PerfecTV, IPTV, Japan, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

StarHub pay TV subscribers down 2,300 in 2013
Feb 6, 2014 – StarHub has announced results for the fourth quarter and full year ended 31 December 2013. The Pay TV customer base was higher at 533,000 and the average monthly churn was lower at 0.8% for the quarter.
News categories: StarHub, Cable TV, Results, Singapore

Rovi to launch HTML5 Electronic Program Guide for J:COM
Jan 31, 2014 – Rovi (NASDAQ: ROVI) has announced that its G-Guide HTML is planned to be launched on the new set-top box 'Smart J:COM Box' developed by Jupiter Telecommunications (J:COM) in Japan.
News categories: Rovi Corp, Jupiter Telecommunications, Kazumasa Watanabe, Chong-Ho Choi, Cable TV, Digital TV, Japan, Middleware, Set Top Box

Airtel Digital TV adds 913,000 subscribers in 2013
Jan 29, 2014 – Bharti Airtel has announced results for the quarter ended December 31, 2013. At year-end, the company had 8.8 million customers, an increase of 11.6% as compared to the corresponding quarter of the previous year.
News categories: Bharti Airtel, India, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Chunghwa Telecom adds 15,000 IPTV subscribers in 4Q 2013
Jan 29, 2014 – Chunghwa Telecom (TAIEX: 2412, NYSE: CHT) has reported results for the fourth quarter of 2013. Chunghwa served approximately 1.240 million Multimedia on Demand customers at year-end.
News categories: Chunghwa Telecom, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, Taiwan

VIDEOCON d2h connections reach 10 million in India
Jan 28, 2014 – Videocon d2h has announced that it now has more than 10 million connections. Videocon d2h credits this growth to the wide range of channels and services, high definition and a focus on customer service.
News categories: Videocon d2h, Saurabh Dhoot, Anil Khera, Digital TV, India, Satellite, Subscribers