China (中国) Digital TV News

China Digital TV Reports Third Quarter 2007 Financial Results
Nov 15, 2007 – China Digital TV shipped 1.9 million cards in the third quarter of 2007, a 32.9% increase over the number of cards shipped in the same period of 2006 and a 23.6% increase over the second quarter of 2007.
News categories: China Digital TV, Earnings Release, Cable TV, China, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Results

Report Presents The Development of STB Markets in China and Abroad and Also Studies the STB Application Market
Nov 15, 2007 – According to ResearchInChina, global sales of set-top boxes reached over 70 million units in 2005, of which satellite STBs were 60%. In China, digital cable TV set-top box sales volume will reach 25 million units by 2008.
News categories: ResearchInChina, Cable TV, China, Conditional Access, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Market Research, Middleware, Satellite, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

Chinese digital cable growing quickly
Nov 15, 2007 – China will have a whopping 84 million digital-cable subscribers by 2010, according to new figures from research outfit Media Partners Asia (MPA).
News categories: Media Partners Asia (MPA), Cable TV, China, Digital TV, Market Research, Subscribers

China Makes Breakthrough In RF Chip
Nov 13, 2007 – The world's first WLAN IEEE802.11a/b/g + DVB-H radio frequency chip has reportedly been developed at the Suzhou Chinese Academy of Sciences Semiconductor Integration Research and Development Center
News categories: China, Mobile, Semiconductor, Smart Home

T-MMB makes bid to be China's mobile TV standard, aims to serve Olympics
Nov 8, 2007 – The T-MMB (terrestrial-mobile multimedia broadcasting) mobile TV standard is in the running to be adopted nationally, while its developer, Beijing Nufront Software Tech Co. Ltd., hopes it could be in place in time for the Beijing Olympics, an official from the company said yesterday.
News categories: China, Digital TV, Mobile

SAC to set China's national mobile TV standard by year's end
Nov 5, 2007 – The Standardization Administration of China (SAC) will test five domestically developed mobile TV standards this month and is expected to announce a national mobile TV standard before the end of this year.
News categories: Standardization Administration of China, China, Digital TV, DTMB, Mobile

Asia-Pacific Pay-TV piracy tops US$1.5 billion for 2007
Nov 2, 2007 – In the latest survey of revenue leakage over the last 12 months to the regional pay-TV industry, conducted by the Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) and Standard Chartered Bank, the losses are conservatively estimated to stand at US$1.54 billion, as compared to US$1.13 billion in 2006.
News categories: CASBAA, Standard Chartered, Australia, Cable TV, China, Content Protection, Digital TV, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Market Research, Pakistan, Philippines, Satellite, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, TV Services, Vietnam

CCID Consulting Analyzes the Mobile TV Industry in China
Oct 31, 2007 – At present, the digital mobile TV industry is confronted with three problems. Firstly, there is no uniform operating procedures. Secondly, there are still technical bottlenecks. Thirdly is its content.
News categories: CCID Consulting, China, Digital TV, DTMB, Market Research, Mobile

CDMB mobile TV standard seeks convergence with SARFT's CMMB
Oct 30, 2007 – An official from the China Association for Standardization (CAS), which advocates the CDMB standard, said yesterday that CDMB can be combined with CMMB (China's Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting), a standard backed by China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT).
News categories: China Association for Standardization (CAS), State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT), China, Digital TV, Mobile, TV Services