Asia Digital TV News

Telekom Malaysia to launch High Speed Broadband Service on March 24, 2010
Mar 10, 2010 – Telekom Malaysia (TM) is set to launch its next-generation High Speed Broadband (HSBB) retail service on 24 March 2010. The HSBB retail packages will comprise triple-play services of voice, video (IPTV and Video on Demand), and high speed Internet.
News categories: Telekom Malaysia, Digital TV, IPTV, Malaysia

Microtune DTV Chipset Delivers Highest-Quality Reception to China's TV Manufacturers
Mar 10, 2010 – Microtune (NASDAQ: TUNE) has announced a digital TV receiver chipset compliant with China's GB20600-2006 National Standard for DTV broadcast. The chipset consists of Microtune's MT3141 RF receiver with one of its MT886x demodulators.
News categories: Microtune, CCBN, China, Digital TV, DTMB, ICs, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Terrestrial

SKY Television - New Zealand's First 'All Digital' Broadcaster
Mar 10, 2010 – SKY Television's analogue UHF pay TV network will shut down at midnight tonight which means that SKY will become New Zealand's first 'all digital' TV broadcaster.
News categories: SKY Television, Digital TV, New Zealand, Satellite, Terrestrial

LG Electronics 3D TV Enters India Market
Mar 9, 2010 – LG Electronics (Seoul: 066570) will introduce 3D LCD TVs in India via a partnership with Valuable Group. Valuable Group recently acquired the global broadcasting license for Indian Premier League, the country's professional cricket league.
News categories: LG Electronics, Valuable Group, India, Metaverse, Smart TV

PCCW now TV hits the 1 million subscriber mark
Mar 9, 2010 – PCCW (SEHK:0008) has reported results for the year ended December 31, 2009. PCCW's 'now TV' IPTV service hit its millionth mark during the year, with the installed subscriber base increasing by 5% to reach 1,001,000 at the end of December 2009.
News categories: PCCW, Digital TV, Hong Kong, IPTV, Results, Subscribers

Vietnam publishes draft plan to move to digital TV and radio
Mar 2, 2010 – A draft plan to digitalise radio and television broadcasts at a cost of roughly 4.4 trillion VND (231.2 million USD) has been published by Vietnam's Ministry of Information and Communications.
News categories: Ministry of Information and Communications, Digital TV, Terrestrial, Vietnam

ASTRO selects Pace set-top box for Malaysia's first HD service
Mar 2, 2010 – Pace (LSE:PIC) has announced that it is providing the set-top box technology to support the launch of Malaysia's first high-definition (HD) service. ASTRO has selected Pace for the premium service, which launched in December 2009.
News categories: Pace plc, ASTRO TV, Digital TV, Malaysia, Satellite, Set Top Box

Canal+ migrates 490k subscribers to digital in 2009
Mar 1, 2010 – Vivendi (Paris: VIV) has released results for 2009. In metropolitan France, 2009 was marked by the resumption of subscription take-ups in the fall. In total, 490,000 subscribers have transferred to digital since the beginning of the year.
News categories: Vivendi, Canal+ Group, GVT, Brazil, France, IPTV, Poland, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Vietnam

Increased dynamics of mobile broadcast TV around the world in 2009
Mar 1, 2010 – An updated bmcoforum report describes the recent regulatory framework and implementation status as of the beginning of 2010 in countries with existing mobile TV service offers.
News categories: bmcoforum, Austria, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Hong Kong, Hungary, Indonesia, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Mobile, Namibia, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Smart TV, South Africa, Switzerland, Taiwan, UAE, Uruguay, USA