Asia Digital TV News

SkyLife Chooses TANDBERG Television for SD and HD Upgrade
Jun 13, 2007 – TANDBERG Television (TAT.OL) has announced that it is providing a satellite head-end system upgrade to Korea Digital Satellite Broadcasting Co. Ltd., more universally recognized under its ‘SkyLife’ brand name. More …
News categories: Digital TV, Korea, Satellite

Kazakhstan - Draft State Program for DTV transition to be prepared
Jun 12, 2007 – "A draft State Program for transition to a digital television will be prepared by July 1", Culture and Information Minister of Kazakhstan Yermukhamet Yertysbayev has said during the sitting of the Government of Kazakhstan.
News categories: Digital TV, Kazakhstan

Nokia N77 multimedia computer starts shipping
Jun 12, 2007 – Finland is the first to experience optimized mobile TV with the Nokia N77 multimedia computer. Later this month also Vietnam and India will start shipments of the Nokia N77. More …
News categories: Digital TV, Finland, India, Mobile, Taiwan, Vietnam

SoftBank Subsidiary Aims to Start MediaFLO Business in 2009
Jun 11, 2007 – Masahiko Yabuki, President of SoftBank's wholly-owned subsidiary Mobile Media Planning Corp., revealed its plan to start services in 2009 in a lecture at "MediaFLO Conference 2007" held in Tokyo on June 8, 2007.
News categories: SoftBank, Digital TV, Japan, Mobile, Smart TV

China - Telecom operators tilt to homegrown standard
Jun 11, 2007 – Chinese telecom operators are increasingly tilting toward a homegrown audio/video coding standard for broadcasting, which domestic developers have had a tough time selling to the industry.
News categories: BBWF, China, Digital TV, IPTV, Mobile

Intrinsyc Software Secures MDTV/GPS Phone Design Win
Jun 9, 2007 – Intrinsyc Software (TSX: ICS) has announced that it has signed an agreement to license its Soleus(TM) software platform to a leading Taiwanese manufacturer of computer hardware and consumer electronics products. More …
News categories: Digital TV, Middleware, Mobile, Taiwan

Alliance aims to standardize Taiwan's mobile TV
Jun 8, 2007 – Stepping up efforts to drive the standardization of mobile TV in Taiwan, Nokia, China Television and Cyberlink announced recently that they would be conducting a mobile tv commercial trial for the third quarter of 2007 in the country. More …
News categories: Digital TV, Middleware, Mobile, Taiwan

China - Domestic core technology for mobile TV
Jun 6, 2007 – The successful testing of IF101 core technology in a Lenovo mobile phone demonstrated that it is possible to efficiently receive and broadcast mobile video information. More …
News categories: China, Digital TV, Mobile, Semiconductor

China - Regulator urged to de-control IPTV
Jun 6, 2007 – China Telecom and China Netcom yesterday called for the deregulation of the IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) market, which could give a major boost to the broadband Internet business of these two fixed-line carriers.
News categories: BBWF, Broadband, China, Digital TV, IPTV