Asia Digital TV News

Skycast and Quincy Digital Select Mirics OneSeg Receiver
Aug 10, 2009 – Mirics Semiconductor has added ISDB-T OneSeg support to its FlexiTV multi-standard PC TV receiver and struck agreements with PC TV accessory providers Quincy Digital of Korea and Skycast of Brazil.
News categories: Mirics, Quincy Digital, Skycast, Brazil, Japan, Mobile, Peripherals / Accessories, Semiconductor, Software

China, India, and US Continue to Drive 2009 Set-top Box Shipments
Aug 6, 2009 – Shipments of digital terrestrial (DTT) and satellite (DTH) set-top boxes to China, India, and the United States accounted for more than 60% of total worldwide STB shipments in 2008, and are expected to reach 70% of worldwide shipments in 2009.
News categories: IMS Research, China, Digital TV, India, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial, USA

Tata Sky Achieves Four Million Connections in India
Aug 6, 2009 – NDS has recognised India's Tata Sky as having achieved a remarkable milestone in reaching four million connections in under three years since launch. The latest one million subscribers were gained in just over seven months.
News categories: Tata Sky, NDS Group, Digital TV, India, Satellite, Subscribers

China Telecom Opens IPTV Set-top Box Tender
Aug 5, 2009 – China Telecom (NYSE: CHA; Hong Kong:0728) has officially opened bidding for procurement of set-top boxes compliant with the company's IPTV V2.0 technology standard.
News categories: China Telecom, China, Digital TV, IPTV, Set Top Box

Liberty Global adds 370k digital cable subscribers in 2Q09
Aug 4, 2009 – Liberty Global (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB and LBTYK) has announced results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2009. Digital cable remains the strongest of segment, with the addition of 370,000 subscribers in the three months ended June 30, 2009.
News categories: Liberty Global, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Cable TV, Chile, Czech Republic, DVR, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, MMDS, Netherlands, Poland, Puerto Rico, Results, Romania, Satellite, Slovakia, Slovenia, Subscribers, Switzerland

SK broadband IPTV subscribers up 19k in 2Q09
Jul 31, 2009 – SK broadband (KOSDAQ: 033630) has announced results for the second quarter of 2009. Subscribers to SK broadband's broad&tv IPTV service increased by 19,000 in the quarter to reach 775,000 at the end of the period.
News categories: SK broadband, broad&tv, IPTV, Korea, Results, Subscribers

Reliance Big TV has 1.7 million subscribers
Jul 31, 2009 – Reliance Communications (Bombay:532712) has released its results for the quarter ended June 30, 2009. Reliance Big TV has 1.7 million subscribers, about 12% of the Indian DTH market. The fastest ramp up ever achieved by any DTH operator in the world.
News categories: Reliance Communications, Big TV, India, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

J:COM adds 93k digital cable subscribers in 2Q09
Jul 30, 2009 – Jupiter Telecommunications (JASDAQ: 4817) has announced results for the first half of the fiscal year ending December 31, 2009. The number of J:COM TV Digital subscribers rose by 538,100 households year-on-year to 2,178,400 households.
News categories: J:COM, Cable TV, Japan, Results, Subscribers

China Plans Second-Round Of Satellite STB Bidding
Jul 30, 2009 – China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) has held meetings with 24 IC and set-top box (STB) manufacturers with second-round satellite STB bidding likely to begin after October.
News categories: SARFT, China, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Satellite, Semiconductor, Set Top Box