Asia Digital TV News

Cisco to Acquire DVN Set-Top Box Business
Nov 2, 2009 – Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) has announced a definitive agreement to acquire the set-top box business of DVN (Holdings) Limited, (SEHK: 0500). DVN is a market and technology leader in digital cable solutions in China.
News categories: Cisco Systems, DVN, Cable TV, China, MandA, Set Top Box

Reliance Big TV reaches 1.95 million subscribers in latest quarter
Oct 31, 2009 – Reliance Communications (Bombay:532712) has announced its results for the quarter and half year ended September 30, 2009. Reliance Big TV currently has 1.95 million subscribers, about 13% of the DTH market in India.
News categories: Big TV, Reliance Communications, India, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Airtel Digital TV reaches 1.3 million customers in 3Q09
Oct 30, 2009 – Bharti Airtel (Bombay:532454) has announced results for its second quarter ended September 30, 2009. Airtel Digital TV, with a base of over 1.3 million customers, is available in over 5,000 towns and thousands of villages across India.
News categories: Airtel, India, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Minerva Platform Powers First IP Television Deployment in Vietnam
Oct 28, 2009 – Minerva Networks has announced that VTC Digicom, one of the largest telecommunications service providers, and the second largest TV network in Vietnam, has selected Minerva's iTVManager platform to deliver premium digital entertainment services.
News categories: Minerva Networks, VTC, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, Vietnam

J:COM adds 85k digital TV subscribers in 3Q09
Oct 28, 2009 – J:COM (JASDAQ: 4817) has announced results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2009. Year-on-year, the number of J:COM TV Digital subscribers rose by 495,900 (28%) to 2,263,500, accounting for 87% of all cable TV subscribers.
News categories: J:COM, Cable TV, DVR, Japan, Results, Subscribers

Q2-09 was a Record-Setting Mobile TV Quarter
Oct 28, 2009 – Issue No. 10 of the quarterly TeleAnalytics Mobile TV Tracking Service (TMTS) quantitatively substantiates the position taken back in Q3-08 that the worldwide Mobile TV adoption/sales would not be much upset by the financial crisis.
News categories: TeleAnalytics, 5G, Brazil, China, Digital TV, Europe, ISDB-T, Japan, Korea, Market Research, Mobile, Russia, SBTVD, USA

Dish TV India adds 407,000 DTH subscribers in latest quarter
Oct 27, 2009 – Dish TV India (BOM:532839) has announced its results for the second quarter of fiscal 2010 ended 30th September 2009. 0.41 Million new DTH subscribers were added during the quarter.
News categories: Dish TV India, India, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Skyworth Selects Entropic Communications Ethernet-Over-Coax for China MDUs
Oct 25, 2009 – Entropic Communications (Nasdaq:ENTR) has announced that Skyworth (Hong Kong: 0751) has selected Entropic's Broadband Access solution to develop Ethernet over Coax (EoC) connectivity to multiple dwelling unit (MDU) apartments in mainland China.
News categories: Entropic Communications, Skyworth, Cable TV, China, Content Distribution, Semiconductor, Smart Home

Cable STB IC from STMicroelectronics shipping in volume in China
Oct 22, 2009 – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) has announced that its highly integrated single-chip STi5197 cable STB decoder is now shipping in high volume to leading STB makers in China.
News categories: STMicroelectronics, Cable TV, China, Semiconductor