Asia Digital TV News

Shanghai has 800,000 IPTV subscribers
May 12, 2009 – Statistics from Shanghai Telecom and Shanghai-based cable TV operator Oriental Cable Network (OCN) show that through the end of 2008 Shanghai had almost 800,000 IPTV subscribers and nearly 600,000 cable DTV subscribers.
News categories: Shanghai Telecom, Oriental Cable Network, Cable TV, China, IPTV, Subscribers

MTS Uzbekistan launches Mobile TV service
May 12, 2009 – MTS Uzbekistan (NYSE: MBT) has announced that the company is the first in Uzbekistan and one of the first in the CIS to launch a commercial mobile TV service. The company has launched the 3G service after a successful technical trial.
News categories: Mobile TeleSystems, 5G, Mobile, Uzbekistan

Thomson provides new form factor STBs to Malaysia's Astro
May 11, 2009 – Thomson (Paris:18453; NYSE: TMS) has won a further contract from Astro, Malaysia's leading integrated cross-media group. The new contract is for the ongoing delivery of standard definition basic set-top boxes in a new form factor.
News categories: Thomson, ASTRO TV, Digital TV, Malaysia, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers

StarHub TV launches Catch Up feature on HubStation
May 11, 2009 – StarHub TV customers can now catch up on programmes they have missed with two HubStation services: On Demand Channels for catching up on completed shows, and a 'Start Over' feature that allows the re-start of a programme during its first telecast.
News categories: StarHub, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Set Top Box, Singapore

OzTAM estimates Australia's DTT capable households
May 11, 2009 – OzTAM has released estimates for the percentage of households in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth - as well as a five-city figure - that can receive standard definition or high definition free-to-air digital television.
News categories: OzTAM, Australia, Market Research, Terrestrial

More than 10% of US and Japanese households will be '3D enabled' by 2012
May 8, 2009 – A newly-released report from Futuresource Consulting reveals studios, consumer electronics companies, broadcasters, video game vendors and network operators are all poised to power 3D through the consumer diffusion curve.
News categories: Futuresource, Blu-ray, Digital TV, Europe, Japan, Market Research, Metaverse, Smart TV, USA

SARFT and China Mobile to promote TD-SCDMA handsets with CMMB
May 8, 2009 – China's SARFT, through its China Satellite Mobile Broadcasting Corporation (CSMBC), has signed an agreement with China Mobile (NYSE: CHL; Hong Kong:0941) to promote the development of TD-SCDMA handsets with integrated CMMB mobile TV reception.
News categories: SARFT, China Mobile, China, Digital TV, Mobile

StarHub digital TV subscribers up 13k in Q1
May 7, 2009 – StarHub (Singapore: CC3) has reported results for the first quarter of 2009. StarHub's pay TV customer base increased 4% to 527,000. Digital customers now constitute 98% of the total pay TV customer base.
News categories: StarHub, Cable TV, Results, Singapore, Subscribers

SK broadband broad&tv subscribers down 19.3k in Q1
May 6, 2009 – SK broadband (KOSDAQ: 033630) has announced results for the First Quarter of 2009. broad&tv IPTV subscribers were down 19.3 thousand in the quarter, and down 126.3 thousand year-on-year, to give 756,092 at quarter-end.
News categories: SK broadband, IPTV, Korea, Results, Subscribers