China (中国) Digital TV News

China Digital Media Corporation Enters into a Memorandum of Understanding to Implement Digital TV Project with the City Network Company
Oct 9, 2007 – China Digital Media Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: CDGT) has announced that the Company has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with a city owned cable network company in the western part of Guangdong province to implement a digital TV digitalization project.
News categories: China Digital Media, Cable TV, China, Digital TV, Set Top Box

Triple-Play Bundles Work, but Quadruple-Play Packages are not yet Proven, says Analysys
Oct 8, 2007 – Experience demonstrates that triple-play bundles of TV, voice and broadband services have proven themselves as a means of increasing market share. Incumbent operators have used quadruple-play services as a defence against competitors' TV-based triple-play bundles, but without noticeable success.
News categories: Analysys, Australia, Austria, Czech Republic, Digital TV, France, Hong Kong, IPTV, Market Research, Mobile, Sweden, UK, USA

IPTV Deployments More Than Double In a Year as Broadband Continues to Achieve Strong Growth
Oct 8, 2007 – The DSL Forum today announced new broadband and IPTV statistics at the Broadband World Forum Europe in Berlin. The statistics, prepared for the DSL Forum by industry analyst Point Topic, show that the number of people using IPTV services increased by 179 per cent in the 12 months to 30 June 2007.
News categories: Point Topic, DSL Forum, Africa, Asia, BBWF, Broadband, Canada, China, Digital TV, DOCSIS, Europe, Fibre, France, Germany, IPTV, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latin America, Market Research, Middle-East, North America, Spain, Subscribers, UK, USA

Synovate PAX media survey shows non-traditional television platforms are taking hold across Asia Pacific
Oct 4, 2007 – Synovate has released results from its PAX media survey showing that four in ten affluent Asians are watching television on the move: be it via their personal computers, mobile phones, MP4 players, while outdoors, or even in their cars.
News categories: Synovate, Asia, Australia, Automotive, Digital TV, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Market Research, Mobile, Philippines, Singapore, Streaming, Tablet, Taiwan, Thailand

Four Key Difficulties on the Road to Mobile TV Development
Sep 27, 2007 – Mobile TV is still in its infancy in China. CCID Consulting thinks that here are four speed bumps on the way to a steady stage of growth: national standards, lack of a solid profit model, low-quality user experience and terminal bottlenecks.
News categories: CCID Consulting, China, Digital TV, DTMB, Market Research, Mobile

Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) Selects MIPS32® M4K® Core for Next-Generation Video Processing
Sep 24, 2007 – MIPS Technologies (NASDAQ: MIPS) has announced that the Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited (ASTRI) has licensed the low-power MIPS32® M4K® processor core for the development of advanced H.264 video processing applications.
News categories: Applied Science and Technology Research Institute, MIPS Technologies, Digital TV, Hong Kong, Semiconductor, Silicon IP

Hangzhou to launch first digital terrestrial TV service based on two homegrown standards
Sep 21, 2007 – A digital TV operator in Hangzhou is about to launch the first digital terrestial TV service in China to be based on the government-approved digital terrestrial TV transmission standard and the Audio Video coding Standard (AVS).
News categories: Audio and Video Coding Standard Workgroup of China (AVS Workgroup), China, Digital TV, DTMB, Terrestrial, TV Services

China Digital TV Files for Initial Public Offering
Sep 21, 2007 – China Digital TV Holding Co., Ltd. is offering 12,000,000 American depositary shares, or ADSs, each representing one ordinary share and anticipates that the initial public offering price of the ADSs will be between $11 and $13 per ADS.
News categories: China Digital TV, China, Conditional Access, Digital TV, IPO

Hong Kong - Test Transmission of Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) Signals
Sep 11, 2007 – Field trials of DTT broadcasting will be conducted from now until 25 January 2008 in order to make tests, measurements and demonstrations preparing for the implementation of the DTT broadcasting network.
News categories: Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA), Digital TV, Hong Kong, Terrestrial, TV Services