Asia Digital TV News

New MRG IPTV Global Forecasts 14.3 Million Subscribers in 2007 and 63.6 Million in 2011
Apr 16, 2007 – The steady growth of IPTV subscribers and service revenue continues on an upward trend in Europe and Asia and, to some extent, in North America, according to the new MRG report IPTV Global Forecast Report - April 2007.
News categories: Multimedia Research Group (MRG), Asia, Digital TV, Europe, IPTV, Market Research, North America, Subscribers

New Zealand - Kordia tests cellphone TV
Apr 16, 2007 – State-owned enterprise Kordia has carried out the first trial in New Zealand of DVB-H, an emerging technology that could bring mobile TV to the masses by delivering television to mobile phones and handheld TVs at no cost to viewers. More …
News categories: Digital TV, Mobile, New Zealand

Taiwan - NCC plans to issue new terrestrial digital TV licenses
Apr 15, 2007 – Taiwan’s National Communications Commission (NCC) plans to issue four new terrestrial digital TV operating licenses, each with a 6MHz radio frequency band, in the first phase and an operating license of a 12MHz TV transfer platform in the second phase. More …
News categories: Digital TV, Taiwan, Terrestrial

India - Envivio Mobile TV Headend Selected by Doordarshan
Apr 13, 2007 – Envivio has announced that Doordarshan of India has selected the Envivio® Mobile TV headend for its DVB-H pilot. More …
News categories: Digital TV, India, Mobile

STMicroelectronics Supports Chinese AVS Standard for IPTV
Apr 13, 2007 – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) has announced cost-effective support for the recently established Chinese AVS (Audio Video Standard), using its leading-edge TV STB decoder chips. More …
News categories: China, Digital TV, IPTV, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

China - CRI starts operating mobile phone TV
Apr 13, 2007 – China Radio International (CRI), the country’s only multi-language broadcaster, has begun providing mobile phone TV services. More …
News categories: China, Digital TV, Mobile

Dalian to start DAB multimedia broadcasting in June
Apr 11, 2007 – Dalian Radio, the state-owned radio station in the city of Dalian in China’s northeastern Liaoning Province, will start trial operations of digital audio broadcasting-based digital radio and mobile TV services in June. More …
News categories: China, Digital TV, Mobile

MaxLinear Smallest Silicon Tuner for Mobile TV Applications
Apr 11, 2007 – MaxLinear has announced the availability of MxL7001, the world's smallest silicon tuner for mobile TV based on the company's next-generation TV tuner platform.
News categories: Digital TV, ICs, Japan, Mobile, Semiconductor

Korea Telecom to Deploy DASAN STBs Powered by Sigma Media Processors
Apr 10, 2007 – Sigma Designs (Nasdaq:SIGM) and DASAN Networks have announced that Korea Telecom (KT) has selected DASAN Networks for deployment of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) equipment for their Megapass TV service.
News categories: Sigma Designs, DASAN Networks, Korea Telecom (KT), Megapass, ATSC 3, Broadband, Digital TV, Fibre, IPTV, Korea, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box