Asia Digital TV News

Suzhou Selects Nagravision CA To Migrate From Analog To Digital
May 24, 2007 – Nagravision (SWX:KUD.VX) has announced that Suzhou Digital Television Company has selected Nagravision conditional access for the launch and transition of the digital cable TV services from analog for its subscribers in Suzhou. More …
News categories: Cable TV, China, Conditional Access, Digital TV

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

China's SMG to launch mobile TV
May 23, 2007 – Shanghai Media Group, China’s second-largest media group by revenue, is expected to launch next week the country’s first TV service broadcast directly to mobile phones. More …
News categories: 5G, China, Digital TV, Mobile

Japan - One-Seg to ship 20m handsets?
May 22, 2007 – Japan’s operators are expected to ship a combined 20 million One-Seg broadcast TV phones in fiscal 2007. More …
News categories: Digital TV, Japan, Mobile

3 Italia exports its DVB-H know-how to Malaysia
May 22, 2007 – 3 Italia, Maxis Communications and Astro have announced the launch of a 3 months DVB-H Digital Mobile TV trial in Malaysia. More …
News categories: Digital TV, Italy, Malaysia, Mobile

China Launches CDMB Mobile TV Technology Standard
May 22, 2007 – The China Association for Standardization has approved and issued the China Digital Multimedia Broadcast mobile TV handset standard as the association standard, CSA158-2007. More …
News categories: China, Digital TV, Mobile

NSCC AVS IPTV Set Top Box Based on TI's DaVinci(TM) Technology
May 21, 2007 – Texas Instruments (TI) (NYSE: TXN) and National Source Coding Audio & Video Technologies (Beijing) Co., Ltd. (NSCC) have announced the delivery of the industry’s first single-chip IPTV set-top box (STB) solution enabling dual decoding of AVS and H.264. More …
News categories: ATSC 3, China, IPTV, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

Maxscend Technologies Announces the World Smallest DAB/T-DMB Demodulator
May 18, 2007 – China based mobile TV fabless design start-up Maxscend Technologies Inc. announced today the industry's smallest DAB/T-DMB demodulator with lowest power consumption, MXD0120.
News categories: China, Digital TV, ICs, Mobile, Semiconductor

Japan - Broadcasting Technology Study Group Invites Public Comment
May 16, 2007 – MIC organized its Study Group on Next-Generation Broadcasting Technology in September 2006. MIC invites public comment thereon, from Friday, May 11 to Monday, June 11, 2007, for reflection in a report by this study group. More …
News categories: Digital TV, Japan