Asia Digital TV News

India - Bharti Teletech claims to be market leader in free-to-air digital set-top box
Jul 12, 2007 – BHARTI Teletech has announced that it has achieved market leadership in the free-to-air digital set-top box market in the country.
News categories: Bharti Teletech, Digital TV, India, Set Top Box

BPL Mobile is all set to launch Mobile TV this July
Jul 12, 2007 – BPL Mobile, Mumbai's leading cellular service provider is all set to roll out Mobile TV service this July for their valued customers. With this, BPL Mobile becomes one of the very few GSM operators to introduce Mobile TV in 2-2.5 G environment.
News categories: BPL Mobile, ZTE, Digital TV, India, Mobile

IPR at the heart of Vietnam pay-TV growth
Jul 11, 2007 – The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has reaffirmed regional television industry support for the remarkable growth of the Vietnam pay-TV industry - recently at more than 50% per year.
News categories: CASBAA, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial, Vietnam

Chinese IPTV targeting a million
Jul 11, 2007 – China's only IPTV service has 400,000 subscribers and is hoping to reach 1 million by the end of 2007.
News categories: China, Digital TV, IPTV, Subscribers

Europe and China co-operate on development of DMB for mobile TV
Jul 10, 2007 – A 2-year European Union funded project, MODIBEC, aims to build further co-operation between Europe and China, particularly in the area of digital broadcasting and convergence with mobile communication. More …
News categories: China, Digital TV, Europe, Mobile

Hisense and Metalink 802.11n Multimedia Home Networking for China
Jul 9, 2007 – Hisense and Metalink (NASDAQ: MTLK) have announced their collaboration to offer innovative and cost-effective solutions for delivering high-definition (HD) multimedia over wireless home networks.
News categories: ATSC 3, China, Digital TV, DVR, Gateway, Router, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Streaming

IGRS and Metalink Wireless HDTV Platform for China TV Vendors
Jul 9, 2007 – IGRS, the Intelligent Grouping and Resource Sharing working group, and Metalink (NASDAQ: MTLK) have announced that they are working together to provide an advanced High Definition (HD) TV Decoder Platform for wireless home networks.
News categories: China, Digital TV, Gateway, IPTV, Router, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Smart TV, Streaming

Japan - Govt panel to submit plan for easing TV show recording rules
Jul 8, 2007 – The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry will ask TV stations and copyright organizations to ease dubbing restrictions to allow DVD recorders to record digital TV programs nine times instead of once, according to ministry officials. More …
News categories: Content Protection, Digital TV, DRM, DVR, Japan, Optical Disc Recorder

Korea Telecom IPTV Uses STMicroelectronics HD Digital TV Decoder Chips
Jul 6, 2007 – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) has announced Korea Telecom’s launch of its new IPTV service using high-definition (HDTV) set-top boxes based on ST’s STi710x family of highly integrated HDTV decoder chips. More …
News categories: Digital TV, IPTV, Korea, Semiconductor