Asia Digital TV News

MediaCorp rolls out High-Definition TV (HDTV) channel
Jul 6, 2007 – MediaCorp plans to launch its HDTV commercial channel in the last quarter of 2007 and be the first broadcaster in Southeast Asia to roll out an HDTV channel on terrestrial platform.
News categories: Digital TV, Singapore, Terrestrial

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

New Zealand start-up close to IPTV network deal
Jul 5, 2007 – Kiwi company TargetCast is negotiating to provide a local TV network with a user-friendly broadband and IPTV platform technology solution, that is capable of providing TIVO-like functionality. More …
News categories: Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Middleware, New Zealand

Bharti Airtel's IPTV strategy to target high-end customers
Jul 2, 2007 – Telecom player Bharti Airtel will target high-end consumers of the top six to seven cities as part of its IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) strategy. More …
News categories: Digital TV, India, IPTV

HDTV Market to Cross 50 Million Units by 2008, According to New Report
Jun 28, 2007 – A new report titled "HDTV: A Global Strategic Business Report", has been released by Global Industry Analysts, Inc. The report primarily focuses on HDTV capable sets (displays only) and integrated HDTV sets (displays & tuners).
News categories: Global Industry Analysts, Asia, Canada, Digital TV, France, Germany, Italy, Latin America, Market Research, Smart TV, Spain, UK, USA

Sumitomo Chooses Intellon HomePlug for In-Home IPTV Services
Jun 26, 2007 – Intellon has announced that Sumitomo Electric Industries has chosen Intellon’s HomePlug-based INT6000 IC to enable in-home distribution of KDDI’s IPTV services in Japan. More …
News categories: Digital TV, IPTV, Japan, Semiconductor, Smart Home

Telecommunications Authority Promulgates the Receiver Specification for Digital Terrestrial Television
Jun 25, 2007 – The Telecommunications Authority has published a two-tier technical specification for DTT receivers so that consumer electronics manufacturers are able to produce and supply compliant DTT set-top boxes and integrated TV sets for the Hong Kong market.
News categories: Office of the Telecommunications Authority, Digital TV, DTMB, Hong Kong, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

Thailand - TT&T is launching Internet TV service
Jun 25, 2007 – TT&T Subscriber Services, a subsidiary of TT&T, has soft-launched the Internet Protocol (IP) television service MaxNet IPTV for selected broadband Internet subscribers to its group. More …
News categories: Broadband, Digital TV, IPTV, Set Top Box, Thailand

TTV Selects Zentek's DVB-MHP Set Top Box in Taiwan
Jun 22, 2007 – Taiwan Television Enterprise (TTV) has selected Zentek as its preferred provider for the first DVB-MHP Set Top Box. Taiwan terrestrial broadcasters have adopted DVB-MHP as the transmission standard for terrestrial broadcast. More …
News categories: Digital TV, DVB-MHP, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Taiwan, Terrestrial