Asia Digital TV News

Chip supports China's CMMB mobile TV
Apr 1, 2007 – A Chinese chip company announced that it has developed the first mobile TV chip based on a domestic specification called China Multimedia Mobile Broadcasting (CMMB). More …
News categories: China, Mobile, Semiconductor

Genesis Microchip and Legend Silicon DTV Platform for China
Apr 1, 2007 – Genesis Microchip and Legend Silicon have announced a market-ready DTV platform customized for TV manufacturers to deliver fully featured DTVs into the Chinese market quickly and cost-effectively. More …
News categories: ATSC 3, China, Digital TV, Semiconductor

Japan's SD-Enabled Phones Deliver Recordable Broadcast Mobile TV to Millions
Apr 1, 2007 – The SD Card Association has announced that the 5 million Japanese consumers who watch mobile TV programming on their phones – and can record the programming with SD memory cards – will more than double in 2007 to 12 million mobile TV viewers. More …
News categories: Digital TV, DVR, Japan, Market Research, Mobile

BigBand Announces Six Digital Video Customers in China
Apr 1, 2007 – BigBand Networks has announced that six Chinese cable operators are deploying the company’s Broadband Multimedia Services Router (BMR®) to process and deliver digital video. More …
News categories: Cable TV, CCBN, China, Digital TV, Router

China's digital cable TV subscribers to reach 20 mln by 2007
Apr 1, 2007 – The number of digital cable TV subscribers in China will rise by 66 percent to 20 million by the end of 2007, according to a prediction by STMicroelectronics. More …
News categories: Cable TV, China, Digital TV, Market Research, Subscribers

Malaysia adopts DVB-T standard for broadcasting transmissions
Mar 29, 2007 – The Malaysian government has approved the adoption of the Terrestrial Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB-T) standard for broadcasting transmissions, nearly a month ahead of the completion of its DVB-T trial in and around Kuala Lumpur. More …
News categories: Digital TV, Malaysia, Terrestrial

HDTV Content, Audience Growing Quickly in Asia/Pacific
Mar 29, 2007 – Over 9.9 million TV households in five Asia/Pacific countries – Australia, China, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore – received and watched HDTV programming by the end of 2006 reports In-Stat. More …
News categories: Asia, Digital TV, Market Research

PCCW reports Full Year Profit of HK$1,632 million for 2006
Mar 29, 2007 – Revenue in the TV & Content business segment surged 71 percent in 2006 to HK$739 million, driven by the growth of now TV, where the installed base reached 758,000 by the end of December, up 38 percent from a year earlier. More …
News categories: Digital TV, Hong Kong, IPTV, Results, Subscribers

ACMA extends datacasting trial and approves new mobile television trial in Sydney on channels A and B
Mar 28, 2007 – ACMA has approved an application by Irdeto Access to conduct a digital video broadcasting-handheld (DVB-H) mobile television trial in Sydney. Using channel 29, this trial will be for a 'one-off' three month period commencing early April.
News categories: ACMA, Irdeto, Australia, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Mobile