China (中国) Digital TV News

Shanghai Telecom at 850,000 IPTV users
Oct 13, 2009 – Shanghai Telecom has said that Shanghai is now home to 850,000 IPTV subscribers, with 70% of Shanghai IPTV subscribers active.
News categories: Shanghai Telecom, China, IPTV, Subscribers

Mirics and Shanghai HDIC deliver HD broadcast TV capability to PC users in China
Oct 12, 2009 – Mirics Semiconductor and Shanghai HDIC have announced the availability of a digital TV reference design targeting the full range of portable and desktop PC devices. The USB dongle reference design is compliant with China's DTTB standard.
News categories: Mirics, HDIC, China, DTMB, Peripherals / Accessories, Semiconductor, Terrestrial

weComm to power miniV mobile TV service in China
Oct 6, 2009 – miniV.tv, the first commercially available interactive mobile video service in China, has been set up to deliver Linear TV streams, Lottery and VOD services through mobile handsets. weComm is providing the applications software platform.
News categories: weComm, miniV.tv, China, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Mobile

Chongqing Cable TV Launches On-Demand TV Services With Espial MediaBase
Oct 6, 2009 – Espial® (TSX: ESP) has announced that Chongqing Cable TV Network has selected Espial MediaBase to power their on-demand services. Chongqing Cable TV is located in the southwest of China and provides TV services to 4.2 million subscribers.
News categories: Espial, Chongqing Cable, Huawei, Cable TV, China, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Middleware

Icareus games for Shanghai Telecom IPTV customers
Sep 30, 2009 – Icareus has signed a cooperation agreement with Shanghai Telecom. According to the contract, signed in September, Icareus Studios Ltd will offer IPTV games to Shanghai Telecom to be offered to their IPTV customers.
News categories: Shanghai Telecom, Icareus, China, IPTV, Middleware, Subscribers

China Television Technology to use Syabas OTT set-top platform
Sep 28, 2009 – Syabas has signed an MOU with China Television Technology (CTT). CTT will set up a High Definition content application in which the content is streamed over the internet and decompressed to HDTVs and home stereos using Syabas technology.
News categories: Syabas, CCTV, China, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Set Top Box, Streaming

CSMBC developing CMMB mobile TV browser
Sep 25, 2009 – SHANGHAI -- China Satellite Mobile Broadcasting Corp. (CSMBC), the national operator of China Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting (CMMB) mobile TV, is developing a mobile browser specifically designed for CMMB mobile TV.
News categories: Access Co., China, Digital TV, Middleware, Mobile

Samsung Announces New Single-Chip Front-End Receiver
Sep 22, 2009 – Samsung Electronics has unveiled the industry's first 65 nanometer (nm) channel decoder RF system-on-chip (SoC), the S3C4F71, targeted specifically at China's CMMB mobile TV broadcasting market.
News categories: Samsung, China, Digital TV, ICs, Mobile, Semiconductor

China Digital TV Selected to Provide CA For China's Mobile TV
Sep 18, 2009 – China Digital TV Holding (NYSE: STV) has announced that it had been selected by China Satellite Mobile Broadcasting Corporation (CSM), a company under China's SARFT, to provide CA systems to mobile TV networks throughout China.
News categories: China Digital TV Holding, SARFT, China, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Mobile