Asia Digital TV News

UTStarcom and Optibase Deploy IPTV Solution with AKSH in India
Jun 1, 2007 – Optibase (NASDAQ:OBAS) has announced that UTStarcom (Nasdaq: UTSI) will integrate Optibase’s H.264 Media Gateway (MGW) 5100 IPTV encoding platforms in its end-to-end IPTV solution for deployment with AKSH in India. More …
News categories: Digital TV, India, IPTV

China STB makers face DVB-T patent fees in Europe
May 31, 2007 – It seems patent fees are fast becoming a big headache for China tech companies who ship products to Europe, according to a CCID Consulting report. More …
News categories: China, Digital TV, Europe, Patent, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

IPTV Expected to Make Big Gains in Asia
May 29, 2007 – Competition between IPTV and cable/satellite TV is heating up in Asia, with IPTV poised to gain significant market share over the next several years, reports In-Stat.
News categories: In-Stat, Asia, Digital TV, Hong Kong, IPTV, Japan, Market Research

Vivace And IGRS Engineering Lab To Develop IGRS-Compliant Multimedia Chips, Vivace Joins IGRS Home Networking Standards Effort
May 29, 2007 – Vivace Semiconductor has announced it has signed an agreement with the IGRS Engineering Lab, Ltd. to jointly develop reference designs based on Vivace's chips that can be used to develop products that are compliant with the new home networking standard.
News categories: IGRS, Vivace Semiconductor, China, Digital TV, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Smart TV, Tablet

Digital cable TV heats up in China, but challenges loom
May 29, 2007 – Subscribers to digital cable TV in China hit 14.2 million in the first quarter, driven by interest in Beijing, Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Sichuan, according to a report from market researcher Analysys International. More …
News categories: Cable TV, China, Digital TV, Market Research, Semiconductor, Subscribers

UTStarcom Led China IPTV Market in Q1 2007
May 29, 2007 – Analysys International says in its recently released report that the total amount of IPTV users has reached 612,000 by the first quarter of 2007 in China, increasing 36.3% quarter-on-quarter. More …
News categories: China, IPTV, Market Research

India - Reliance Bluemagic gets DTH licence
May 27, 2007 – Anil Ambani group firm Reliance Bluemagic today became the fourth private player to secure licence to offer direct to home (DTH) services and plans to start operations by the fourth quarter of this year. More …
News categories: Digital TV, India, Satellite

Pakistan - PTCL set to launch 'triple-play' service
May 27, 2007 – The Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited will soon launch a 'triple play' service, enabling its customers to access more than 100 TV channels, digital subscriber line (DSL) Internet connection and a regular phone service on a single phone line.
News categories: PTCL, Broadband, Digital TV, IPTV, Pakistan

Ninth Conference of the ASEAN Ministers Responsible for Information concludes
May 24, 2007 – The Ministers endorsed DVB-T as the common digital terrestrial television broadcasting standard for ASEAN and took note of the proposal by some ASEAN Member Countries for ASEAN to work towards 2015 as a common switch-off date.
News categories: Asia, Brunei, Cambodia, Digital TV, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Terrestrial, Thailand, Vietnam