Asia Digital TV News

Alticast Middleware Utilized for Korea Telecom
Oct 13, 2007 – Alticast's IPTV middleware has been ported to hybrid IPTV-terrestrial set-top boxes from Samsung and that the combo has now been commercially launched by Korea's largest telecommunications operator, KT.
News categories: Alticast, Korea Telecom, Digital TV, IPTV, Korea, Middleware, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

Singapore - MediaCorp's HD channel - HD5 - lifts off
Oct 13, 2007 – MediaCorp has announced the official launch of its High Definition (HD) channel - HD5 - from Sunday, 11 November 2007.
News categories: MediaCorp, Digital TV, IPTV, Singapore, Terrestrial

AVS-based IPTV equipment from four manufacturers passes MII inspection
Oct 12, 2007 – IPTV system equipment developed by four manufacturers using China's homegrown Audio Video coding Standard (AVS) passed inspection by China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) this Tuesday, sources have said.
News categories: Ministry of Information Industry (MII), Audio and Video Coding Standard (AVS) Workgroup, China, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Set Top Box

MediaPhy Unveils All-Segment Single-Chip for Japanese Mobile TV Applications
Oct 10, 2007 – Following the launch of its multi-standard single-chip offering for global mobile TV applications last month, MediaPhy has introduced the second member of its product family, the J-Solo™, designed specifically to address the rapidly growing Japanese mobile TV market.
News categories: MediaPhy, Digital TV, ICs, ISDB-T, Japan, Mobile, Semiconductor

Korea - PS3 to Debut as IPTV Set-Top Box
Oct 9, 2007 – KT, Korea's dominant telecom operator, and Sony Computer Entertainment Korea (SCEK) will launch an Internet-based TV service in November that runs on the PlayStation 3 game console.
News categories: Sony Computer Entertainment, Korea Telecom (KT), Digital TV, Gaming, IPTV, Korea

China Digital Media Corporation Enters into a Memorandum of Understanding to Implement Digital TV Project with the City Network Company
Oct 9, 2007 – China Digital Media Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: CDGT) has announced that the Company has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with a city owned cable network company in the western part of Guangdong province to implement a digital TV digitalization project.
News categories: China Digital Media, Cable TV, China, Digital TV, Set Top Box

India's DishTV Targets 8 Million Users by 2011
Oct 9, 2007 – Essel Group promoted DishTV (BSE:532839) is expecting an over three-fold increase in its subscriber base to 8 million by 2011.
News categories: DishTV, Digital TV, India, Satellite, Subscribers

Triple-Play Bundles Work, but Quadruple-Play Packages are not yet Proven, says Analysys
Oct 8, 2007 – Experience demonstrates that triple-play bundles of TV, voice and broadband services have proven themselves as a means of increasing market share. Incumbent operators have used quadruple-play services as a defence against competitors' TV-based triple-play bundles, but without noticeable success.
News categories: Analysys, Australia, Austria, Czech Republic, Digital TV, France, Hong Kong, IPTV, Market Research, Mobile, Sweden, UK, USA

IPTV Deployments More Than Double In a Year as Broadband Continues to Achieve Strong Growth
Oct 8, 2007 – The DSL Forum today announced new broadband and IPTV statistics at the Broadband World Forum Europe in Berlin. The statistics, prepared for the DSL Forum by industry analyst Point Topic, show that the number of people using IPTV services increased by 179 per cent in the 12 months to 30 June 2007.
News categories: Point Topic, DSL Forum, Africa, Asia, BBWF, Broadband, Canada, China, Digital TV, DOCSIS, Europe, Fibre, France, Germany, IPTV, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latin America, Market Research, Middle-East, North America, Spain, Subscribers, UK, USA