Asia Digital TV News

PlayStation 3 upgrade adds optimised BBC iPlayer
Aug 18, 2009 – Sony (SCEE) has announced that a PlayStation®3 (PS3™) system enhancement will give access to TV websites including the UK's BBC iPlayer on September 1st, followed shortly by Spanish, German, Dutch and Australian sites.
News categories: PlayStation, Australia, Gaming, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Streaming, UK

Thailand's TrueVisions adds 33k subscribers in 2Q09
Aug 17, 2009 – True Corporation (SET: True) has reported its performance for the three months to June 30, 2009. Despite the low season period and impact from the economy, TrueVisions' subscriber base grew 37% Y-on-Y to 1.6 million.
News categories: TrueVisions, True Corp, Cable TV, MMDS, Satellite, Subscribers, Thailand

FOXTEL Announces Solid Subscriber and Financial Growth in a Tough Environment
Aug 13, 2009 – FOXTEL has announced results for the year ended 30 June 2009. At end-June, FOXTEL had 1.63m direct and wholesale subscribers. FOXTEL managed subscribers increased by 110k (8%) over the previous year while wholesale subscribers fell by 15%.
News categories: FOXTEL, Australia, Cable TV, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

SingTel's mio TV IPTV adds 23k subscribers in 2Q09
Aug 13, 2009 – SingTel (Singapore: SGX; Australia: ASX) has announced results for its first quarter to June 30, 2009. At the end of June, mio TV had 101,000 customers after adding a record 23,000 customers in the quarter.
News categories: SingTel, IPTV, Results, Singapore, Subscribers

Powerline technology from DS2 and Comtrend for SingTel's mio TV
Aug 11, 2009 – DS2 and Comtrend have announced that Comtrend's Power Grid 902 adapter, based on DS2's Aitana powerline communication chipset, has been selected by SingTel (Singapore: SGX; Australia: ASX) to create a home network for its IPTV service, mio TV.
News categories: DS2, Comtrend, SingTel, IPTV, Semiconductor, Singapore, Smart Home

Hong Kong's i-CABLE adds 30k pay TV subscribers in 1H09
Aug 11, 2009 – i-CABLE Communications (Hong Kong:1097) has released its Interim Results Announcement for the six months ended June 30, 2009. Pay TV subscribers increased by 30,000 or 3% in the period to 947,000.
News categories: i-CABLE Communications, Cable TV, Hong Kong, Results, Subscribers

Japan's OESF plans Android extensions for Consumer Electronics
Aug 11, 2009 – The Open Embedded Software Foundation (OESF), an industry group based in Japan, has laid out details of its roadmap for developing Android software stacks for set-top boxes and other consumer devices.
News categories: OESF, Digital TV, Japan, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Smart TV, Software

India's DTH set-top boxes may have to be interoperable
Aug 11, 2009 – India's DTH operators could be asked to provide inter-operable set-top boxes with the Competition Commission of India (CCI) seeing prima facie merit in a complaint filed by a consumer organisation that it is in violation of competition laws.
News categories: Competition Commission of India, Digital TV, India, Regulation, Satellite, Set Top Box

New Demodulator Core for the China DTV Market from Iberium Communications
Aug 10, 2009 – Iberium Communications has announced the availability of its Paco digital demodulator core for the China DTV market. Paco is fully compliant with the DTMB standard (GB20600-2006), supporting all single-carrier and multi-carrier transmission modes.
News categories: Iberium Communications, China, DTMB, Semiconductor, Silicon IP, Terrestrial