Asia Digital TV News

Asia-Pacific Pay-TV piracy tops US$1.5 billion for 2007
Nov 2, 2007 – In the latest survey of revenue leakage over the last 12 months to the regional pay-TV industry, conducted by the Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) and Standard Chartered Bank, the losses are conservatively estimated to stand at US$1.54 billion, as compared to US$1.13 billion in 2006.
News categories: CASBAA, Standard Chartered, Australia, Cable TV, China, Content Protection, Digital TV, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Market Research, Pakistan, Philippines, Satellite, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, TV Services, Vietnam

Sharp Passes 5-Million Mark for One-Seg Mobile Phone Shipments
Nov 2, 2007 – On October 31, 2007, Sharp Corporation passed the five-million mark for shipments of One-Seg-compatible mobile phones in Japan.
News categories: Sharp, Digital TV, ISDB-T, Japan, Mobile, Results

Imagination Technologies' Multi-Standard Receiver IP Core Family Extends Support to 1Seg, 3Seg and Full-Seg ISDB-T
Nov 1, 2007 – Imagination Technologies has announced that it has added wide support for the Japanese ISDB-T digital TV and radio standards to its licensable receiver IP core family.
News categories: Imagination Technologies, Embedded Technology (ET), Digital TV, ISDB-T, Japan, Mobile, Semiconductor, Silicon IP, Terrestrial

CCID Consulting Analyzes the Mobile TV Industry in China
Oct 31, 2007 – At present, the digital mobile TV industry is confronted with three problems. Firstly, there is no uniform operating procedures. Secondly, there are still technical bottlenecks. Thirdly is its content.
News categories: CCID Consulting, China, Digital TV, DTMB, Market Research, Mobile

CDMB mobile TV standard seeks convergence with SARFT's CMMB
Oct 30, 2007 – An official from the China Association for Standardization (CAS), which advocates the CDMB standard, said yesterday that CDMB can be combined with CMMB (China's Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting), a standard backed by China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT).
News categories: China Association for Standardization (CAS), State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT), China, Digital TV, Mobile, TV Services

Key Trends and Issues facing the China Multimedia Mobile Phone Market
Oct 30, 2007 – Reportlinker.com has announced that a new market research report "China Multimedia Mobile Phone Market Report, 2007," related to the Chinese IC technology industry is available in its catalogue.
News categories: Research In China, Reportlinker.com, China, Market Research, Mobile

Korea - 2.4 million HSDPA subscribers and 6.5 million mobile TV consumers
Oct 29, 2007 – The country is a frontrunner in the mobile TV market. There are two mobile TV systems in South Korea: S-DMB, launched in May 2005 by SKT subsidiary, TuMedia, and T-DMB, introduced by terrestrial TV channels in December 2005.
News categories: IDATE Consulting, Broadband, Digital TV, Korea, Market Research, Mobile

China's Tianjin Cable Network Chooses NDS Solution to Secure Its New Digital Cable Service
Oct 29, 2007 – NDS (NASDAQ: NNDS) has announced that Tianjin Broadcast & TV Network Co. Ltd has selected NDS VideoGuard® conditional access to protect its new digital cable service.
News categories: NDS Group, Tianjin Broadcast & TV Network, Cable TV, China, Conditional Access, Digital TV, DVR

New Report Predicts 500,000 Mobile TV Users in China by 2008
Oct 28, 2007 – Research and Markets has announced the addition of China Mobile TV Industry Report, 2007 to their offering.
News categories: Research In China, Research and Markets, China, Digital TV, Market Research, Mobile