Asia Digital TV News

Ericsson: World's biggest IPTV upgrade due for Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom
Sep 8, 2011 – Chunghwa Telecom (TAIEX: 2412, NYSE: CHT) has chosen Ericsson (STKM: ERIC, NASDAQ: ERIC) to deploy and integrate a new IPTV platform that will deliver multi-screen interactive multimedia services to more than 900,000 subscribers.
News categories: Ericsson, Chunghwa Telecom, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Smartphone, Tablet, Taiwan

Internode debuts fetchtv IPTV service over Australia's NBN
Sep 7, 2011 – Although the multicast service that's typically used to provide IPTV is not scheduled for release on the National Broadband Network (NBN) until mid-2012, Internode has designed a delivery system that allows it to provide fetchtv today.
News categories: Internode, Australia, Broadband, IPTV

Digital cable TV to reach 38 million subscribers in India by 2015
Sep 5, 2011 – The Indian television industry is estimated to generate revenue of $7B by the year-end with 14 per cent growth over 2010, industry body ASSOCHAM has said. There are 37 million digital homes in India and 28 million of these are on a DTH platform.
News categories: ASSOCHAM, Cable TV, Digital TV, India, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers

Videocon Doubles Subscriber Base in 8 Months Using Irdeto
Sep 1, 2011 – Just eight months after securing its first two million customers, Videocon d2h (Bombay:511389), a provider of DTH services for India, has reached four million subscribers. Videocon d2h implemented and launched their services using Irdeto's (JSE:NPN) pay-TV solution.
News categories: Irdeto, Videocon d2h, Conditional Access, India, Satellite, Subscribers

Australian households embrace digital TV
Sep 1, 2011 – An average of 82 per cent of households across the nation are already converted to digital TV, Australia's Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy has said.
News categories: Australia, Market Research, Terrestrial

India exceeds 100 million pay TV households
Aug 30, 2011 – India has just crossed the 100 million mark for pay TV subscribers, representing more than 70% of TV households. According to Digital TV Research, there is still plenty of growth to come, with 139 million pay TV subs forecast for 2016.
News categories: Digital TV Research, Cable TV, Digital TV, India, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers

Dish TV India launches conditional access module
Aug 25, 2011 – Dish TV India has launched 'Dish Freedom', a conditional access module device. 'Dish Freedom' will enable DTH customers to opt for the quality services of Dish TV instead of their existing DTH operator without having to change their set top box.
News categories: Dishtv, CAM, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, India, Satellite, Set Top Box

China's SARFT developing Smart TV middleware
Aug 24, 2011 – China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television's (SARFT) has announced that SARFT is currently developing smart TV operating system middleware called 'TV-OS'.
News categories: SARFT, China, Digital TV, Middleware, Smart TV, Streaming

eyeSight and Huan TV Partner to Provide Gesture Recognition-based Applications and Games to the Chinese Connected TV Market
Aug 23, 2011 – eyeSight Mobile Technologies, a developer of touch free interfaces for consumer electronics, has signed a partnership agreement with Huan TV, a Chinese provider of content for connected TVs, to offer gesture recognition-based content to Huan's subscribers.
News categories: eyeSight Mobile, Huan TV, China, Digital TV, Middleware, Smart TV, Streaming