Asia Digital TV News

China Drafting Standard for Terrestrial Digital Televisions
Jun 30, 2008 – The China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC) has revealed that a draft standard for terrestrial digital television sets is circulating among related enterprises and municipal broadcasting bureaus.
News categories: China, Digital TV, Smart TV, Terrestrial

Korea - IPTV Broadcast to Start in Fall
Jun 27, 2008 – The Korea Communications Commission (KCC) fixed its guideline for new TV broadcasting channels to be delivered via broadband Internet, paving the way for private firms to start this service around this fall.
News categories: Korea Communications Commission, Digital TV, IPTV, Korea, Regulation

CMMB to Be Combined with TD-SCDMA
Jun 27, 2008 – The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT)'s Administrative Bureau of Radio Stations has revealed that SARFT and China Mobile (NYSE: CHL; 0941.HK) are conducting joint research on the combination of CMMB and TD-SCDMA modules.
News categories: SARFT, China, Mobile

Teleste receives an order from Digicable, India for their Pan India IP-based digital television platform
Jun 26, 2008 – Teleste (Helsinki: TLT1V) has been selected by Digicable Network (India) Pvt Ltd to deliver their new compact IP-based digital television platform. The value of the initial order is 12 million euros.
News categories: Digicable, Teleste, Cable TV, Content Distribution, India, IPTV

Analysys International Says China DTV Subscribers Reached 30 mln in Q1 2008
Jun 25, 2008 – Analysys International says in its recently released report China DTV Market Quarterly Tracker Q1 2008, that China DTV subscribers have reached 30.04 million increasing 22% quarter-on-quarter in the first quarter of 2008.
News categories: Analysys International, Cable TV, China, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Market Research

Japan - 35% DTT penetration
Jun 25, 2008 – According to a report issued by the National Association of Commercial Broadcasters (NAB), 43.3% of households are equipped to receive DTT services.
News categories: National Association of Commercial Broadcasters, Digital TV, ISDB-T, Japan, Market Research, Terrestrial

OpenTV and FOXTEL launch quad tuner high definition PVR
Jun 25, 2008 – OpenTV (NASDAQ: OPTV) has announced the launch of the new FOXTEL iQ2 High Definition PVR, a quad tuner set-top box that has almost double the recordable capacity of the current FOXTEL iQ and provides an HD platform to FOXTEL subscribers.
News categories: OpenTV, FOXTEL, Australia, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Middleware, Satellite, Set Top Box

Siano Launches Integrated Receiver Chip for Chinese Mobile TV
Jun 25, 2008 – Siano Mobile Silicon has announced the official launch of its new Mobile Digital TV (MDTV) receiver chip, the SMS118X, targeting China's domestic mobile TV market. The chip supports the Chinese MDTV standard - CMMB.
News categories: Siano Mobile Silicon, China, Digital TV, ICs, Mobile, Semiconductor

Sigma Media Processors Power Advanced Communications' IPTV Set-top Boxes Across Japan
Jun 25, 2008 – Sigma Designs (NASDAQ:SIGM) and Advanced Communications (Adcom) have announced that Sigma's SMP8654 media processors will be used to power Advanced Communications' IPv6 set-top boxes (STBs) currently being deployed throughout Japan.
News categories: Sigma Designs, Adcom, Digital TV, IPTV, Japan, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Streaming