Asia Digital TV News

Jupiter Telecommunications Consolidated Semi-annual Financial Results
Jul 29, 2008 – The cable television subscribers of Jupiter Telecommunications (JASDAQ: 4817) have grown by 107,900 households (5%) since June 30, 2007 to 2,245,500 households as of June 30, 2008.
News categories: Jupiter Telecommunications, Cable TV, Digital TV, Japan, Results, Subscribers

Toshiba to end direct-to-handset satellite broadcasts
Jul 29, 2008 – Toshiba will end its direct-to-handset satellite broadcasting service in Japan in March next year after several years of losses caused by poor consumer acceptance.
News categories: Toshiba, MBCO, Digital TV, Japan, Mobile, Satellite

China to launch CBHD high-definition disc format
Jul 28, 2008 – Shanghai United Optical Disc has completed its first production line for CBHD (China Blue High-definition Disc), China's self-developed high-definition optical disc format, and will start volume production in the fourth quarter of 2008.
News categories: Blu-ray, China, Digital TV, DVD

Korea Telecom MegaTV reaches 700,000 subscribers
Jul 25, 2008 – KT Corporation (Seoul:030200)(NYSE:KTC) has published its second quarter 2008 business report. KT reached 705,856 subscribers for its 'MegaTV' IPTV service at the end of the quarter, up from 567,230 at the end of March.
News categories: KT Corp, Digital TV, IPTV, Korea, Results, Subscribers

MediaCorp spearheads mobile TV trial with M1, StarHub and SingTel
Jul 25, 2008 – Singapore's three telecommunications service providers M1, SingTel and StarHub, together with the national broadcaster MediaCorp, will jointly conduct a consumer mobile TV trial using DVB-H technology next month.
News categories: MediaCorp, M1 Limited, SingTel, StarHub, Digital TV, Mobile, Singapore

TRAI sets a time frame of five years for Cable TV to go digital
Jul 25, 2008 – TRAI has sent its final recommendations on 'Restructuring of Cable TV Services' to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The recommendations require an upgrading of present Cable TV Networks to two-way digital cable networks.
News categories: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, Broadband, Cable TV, Content Distribution, Digital TV, India, Regulation

i-Vision China - First To Release CMMB Mobile Multimedia Player on MIDs
Jul 23, 2008 – At the China SARFT CMMB Administrative Bureau press event with Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and mobile device manufacturers, i-Vision demonstrated its latest CMMB device software and the various TV applications that it supports on MIDs, Netbooks and UMPCs.
News categories: i-Vision, China, Digital TV, Media Player, Middleware, Mobile, Tablet

Asia-Pacific Continues to Lead in FTTH Market Penetration
Jul 23, 2008 – Asia consolidated its position as the global leader in next-generation broadband while the United States and Europe also continued to experience robust growth in FTTH, according to the FTTH Councils of Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America.
News categories: FTTH Council, Broadband, China, Denmark, Fibre, Hong Kong, Iceland, IPTV, Italy, Japan, Korea, Market Research, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Slovenia, Subscribers, Sweden, Taiwan, USA

June 2008 Japan Domestic Shipments of Major CE Products
Jul 23, 2008 – Japan Domestic Shipments of Major Consumer Electronic Equipment (June 2008) - DVD players/Recorders, HD DVD/Blu-ray, Camcorders, Satellite Tuners, ...
News categories: JEITA, Blu-ray, Camcorder, Digital TV, DVD, Japan, Market Research, Optical Disc Recorder, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV