Asia Digital TV News

Motorola Mobility Powers ABN's New Digital Cable Network in Malaysia
Jan 17, 2012 – Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI) will provide Malaysia's Asian Broadcasting Network (ABN) the equipment and services to launch the country's most advanced digital cable TV network in the second quarter of 2012.
News categories: Motorola, Asian Broadcasting Network, Cable TV, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Malaysia, Set Top Box

Standard definition switch off looms
Jan 15, 2012 – HDTV household penetration will soon be high enough in developed countries for broadcasters and pay TV operators to consider ending their Standard Definition transmissions, according to a new report from Digital TV Research.
News categories: Digital TV Research, Brazil, Canada, China, Digital TV, DVR, Finland, Japan, Market Research, Metaverse, Russia, Smart TV, Terrestrial, UK, USA

Global IPTV subscribers up 6% in 3Q 2011 to 54.4 million
Jan 12, 2012 – Latest broadband and IPTV figures published by the Broadband Forum show that IPTV subscribers grew by 6.06% in the third quarter of 2011 and now total 54.4 million globally. Asia is the fastest growing region for IPTV.
News categories: Broadband Forum, Point Topic, Belgium, Broadband, China, Digital TV, Fibre, France, Germany, IPTV, Japan, Korea, Market Research, Netherlands, Russia, Subscribers, Taiwan, USA

TCL and SENSIO announce planned integration of SENSIO® Hi-Fi 3D technology in 3DTVs
Jan 10, 2012 – TCL (SZSE: 000100) and SENSIO (TSX-V: SIO) have announced the signing of a letter of intent (LOI) to work together towards the integration of the SENSIO® Hi-Fi 3D technology in TCL 3DTVs.
News categories: SENSIO, TCL Corp, China, Digital TV, Metaverse, Smart TV

Lenovo K91 -- the World's First Smart TV to Run Android 4.0 OS
Jan 9, 2012 – Lenovo (HKSE: 0992) (PINK SHEETS: LNVGY) has unveiled its 'Personal Cloud' vision, marking the transformation of the company from a 'personal computer' manufacturer to a 'personal cloud solution' provider.
News categories: Lenovo, CES2025, China, Digital TV, Middleware, Smart TV

VIA Platform to Power Lenovo and BesTV Smart TV Solution
Jan 5, 2012 – VIA Technologies has announced that BesTV New Media, a subsidiary of Shanghai Media Group (SMG) and Lenovo Group in Shanghai have adopted the VIA Nano processor to power the Lenovo A30 Internet TV Set Top Box.
News categories: VIA Technologies, SMG, Lenovo, China, Digital TV, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Streaming

ViXS® and iPanel® collaborate on multi-screen streaming platform for China
Jan 5, 2012 – ViXS Systems and iPanel have teamed up to provide the first Multi-screen, know as n-Screen, multimedia platform for commercial deployment in China.
News categories: iPanel, ViXS Systems, Cable TV, China, Middleware, Semiconductor, Smart Home

Connected TVs and Smartphones Providing Polar Opposite Challenges for CDNs
Jan 3, 2012 – In the next five years CDNs are going to be faced with the challenge of delivering increasingly large volumes of OTT video. In 2011 Informa expects OTT video will account for 32.6 Exabytes (EB) of network traffic over fixed line broadband in Asia alone.
News categories: Informa Telecoms & Media, Asia, Market Research, Mobile, Smart TV, Smartphone, Streaming, Tablet

TRAI issues consultation paper on digital addressable cable TV implementation
Dec 22, 2011 – The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released a consultation paper on 'Issues related to implementation of Digital Addressable Cable TV Systems'.
News categories: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, Cable TV, India, Regulation