Asia Digital TV News

Japan favours ISDB-Tmm over MediaFLO for mobile TV
Sep 8, 2010 – A government advisory panel in Japan has selected NTT DoCoMo (Tokyo:9437) who proposed the use of ISDB-Tmm, over KDDI (Tokyo: 9433) whose system is based on MediaFLO, to provide a mobile TV service for the country starting in 2012.
News categories: NTT DoCoMo, KDDI, Digital TV, Japan, Mobile, Regulation, Smart TV

Latens and Indieon - A unique STB and Middleware proposition to a leading DTH operator in Nepal
Sep 6, 2010 – Latens has announced a partnership with Indieon Technologies, the premier (STB) and middleware manufacturer for a secure, cardless one-way broadcasting solution for DTH broadcasters globally.
News categories: Latens, Indieon, Conditional Access, IBCShow, Middleware, Nepal, Satellite, Set Top Box

MediaTek, ZTE and China Mobile to cooperate on China mobile TV
Sep 3, 2010 – MediaTek (Taipei:2454), ZTE (SEHK:0763; Shanghai:000063) and China Mobile (NYSE:CHL; SEHK:0941) have announced that they will work together to tap mainland China's mobile-TV market.
News categories: MediaTek, ZTE, China Mobile, China, Mobile

NETGEAR® Launches NeoTV™ HD Media Players
Aug 31, 2010 – NETGEAR® (NASDAQGM: NTGR) has announced the NeoTV 350 HD and NeoTV 550 Ultimate HD Media Players, enabling users to play their videos, photos, or music directly on their HDTVs whether the media is stored locally, on the home network, or the internet.
News categories: NETGEAR, Australia, Canada, Europe, Media Player, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Streaming, USA

IPTV and 3D TV Confirmed as Greatest Opportunities for Asian Pay TV Operators
Aug 31, 2010 – Asia's Pay-TV industry players say new technologies such as IPTV and 3D TV offer the greatest untapped opportunity, according to the 2010 Asia-Pacific Pay TV Operators Survey jointly produced by Global Intelligence Alliance (GIA) and ContentAsia.
News categories: Global Intelligence Alliance, Australia, Brunei, Hong Kong, India, IPTV, Japan, Market Research, Metaverse, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Vietnam

Uzbekistan opens set-top box factory
Aug 28, 2010 – Telecom Innovations Ltd, a company jointly owned by Servetechno of Singapore and local companies Uzbektelecom and Telmax Elektroniks, has begun production of set-top boxes in the Navoi free trade zone of Uzbekistan.
News categories: Uzbektelecom, Telmax, UzACI, Set Top Box, Terrestrial, Uzbekistan

SARFT plans China cable networks restructuring
Aug 25, 2010 – At the China Network Convergence Summit (CNCS2010) in Beijing, China's State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television (SARFT) announced plans to merge the country's cable television network operators into a single national company.
News categories: SARFT, Cable TV, China, Digital TV

Cambodia adopts Korea's T-DMB for mobile TV
Aug 25, 2010 – According to the Korea Communications Commission, Cambodia has adopted Korea's Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) standard, with a terrestrial mobile TV service due to be launched this year.
News categories: Korea Communications Commission, Cambodia, Digital TV, Mobile

Nepal's HomeTV Selects Latens CAS Solution To Secure Content And Revenues
Aug 24, 2010 – Latens has announced that Satellite Channel Pvt. Ltd Nepal, a Pay-TV provider in the South Asia region, has chosen Latens DTH software CAS for its HomeTV DTH system in Nepal.
News categories: Latens, HomeTV, Media Nucleus, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Nepal, Satellite