Asia Digital TV News

Jiangsu Cable Selects BigBand Digital Video Networking Platform For Growth Of Digital TV Services
Sep 10, 2008 – BigBand Networks (NASDAQ: BBND) has announced that Jiangsu Cable is deploying its Broadband Multimedia-Service Router (BMR®) to process and deliver digital television services, including high definition (HD) and interactive television.
News categories: BigBand Networks, Cable TV, China, Content Distribution, Subscribers

Gemalto Powers World's First SIM-Based Mobile TV Trial in Singapore with Media Corp, MobileOne, SingTel and StarHub
Sep 9, 2008 – Gemalto (Euronext NL 0000400653 GTO) has announced that the world's first OMA Smart Card Profile compliant mobile TV trial in Singapore is to be enabled by Gemalto's UpTeq™ mobile TV Subscriber Identity Module and viewership measurement service.
News categories: Gemalto, CAM, Content Protection, IBCShow, Mobile, Singapore

Newport Media Unveils World's First 65nm System-on-Chip (SoC) for Japan/Brazilian ISDB-T Mobile TV
Sep 9, 2008 – Newport Media has unveiled the world's first complete 65nm CMOS single-chip solution for the mobile version of Japan's Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting-Terrestrial (ISDB-T) digital television standard.
News categories: Newport Media, Brazil, Digital TV, ICs, ISDB-T, Japan, Mobile, Semiconductor

TiVo Chooses Wipro's DVB-T Middleware to Build HD DVRs
Sep 9, 2008 – Wipro Technologies (NYSE:WIT) has announced that TiVo (NASDAQ:TIVO) has adopted Wipro's DVB-T and Common Interface (CI) software stacks for its solutions targeting Australian and European markets
News categories: Wipro, TiVo, Australia, Digital TV, DVR, Europe, Middleware, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

Netris Partners with SecureMedia to Deliver Leading Edge IPTV Systems to JSC Kazakhtelecom
Sep 9, 2008 – Netris and SecureMedia have announced an end-to-end IPTV installation under a contract with JSC Kazakhtelecom. The rollout will take place this year in the capital Astana, and will then extend to other major cities throughout Kazakhstan.
News categories: Netris, SecureMedia, Kazakhtelecom, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, DRM, IBCShow, IPTV, Kazakhstan, Middleware

Korea - KT, LG Dacom and Hanaro Telecom Granted IPTV Service Rights
Sep 8, 2008 – Korea's three leading communication service providers (KT, LG Dacom and Hanaro Telecom) have won the right to provide IPTV services. Commercial IPTV services are expected to begin next month.
News categories: Korea Communications Commission, Digital TV, IPTV, Korea, Regulation

Half the world's homes to have digital TV by 2013
Sep 8, 2008 – Digital TV growth continues apace, with Informa Telecoms and Media forecasting 67 million households to be added in 2008. This figure from Informa's Global Digital TV 8th edition report will bring the worldwide total to 343 million.
News categories: Informa Telecoms & Media, Asia, Cable TV, China, Digital TV, Europe, IPTV, Latin America, Market Research, Middle-East, North America, Satellite, Terrestrial, USA

Zoran Announces New SupraTV® 260 Processor Family Optimized for Pay Satellite and Cable Set-Top Box Markets
Sep 8, 2008 – Zoran (NASDAQ: ZRAN) has announced that its new SupraTV® 260 family of processors for pay cable and satellite set-top boxes is now sampling. The SupraTV® 260 processor is used in a new family of China Cable STBs from DVN (SEHK: 500).
News categories: Zoran, DVN, Cable TV, China, Conditional Access, Digital TV, IBCShow, ICs, Satellite, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

From 26.3 Million Mobile TV Users in 2007 to 51.6 Million at the End of 2008
Sep 4, 2008 – On the basis of monthly adoption data for all commercial broadcast Mobile TV networks, Issue No 5 of the quarterly TeleAnalytics Mobile TV Tracking Service calculates that the end 2008 Mobile TV user count will be 51.6 million.
News categories: TeleAnalytics, Austria, Brazil, China, Digital TV, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Market Research, Mobile, Netherlands, Peripherals / Accessories, Smart TV, Subscribers, Switzerland, USA