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Vietnam's AVG chooses Conax for its new DTH and DTT platform
Jun 21, 2011 – Conax has announced a contract with Audio Visual Global (AVG) to deliver a high-end security solution for AVG's new direct-to-home (DTH) satellite and digital terrestrial television service in Vietnam.
News categories: Conax, An Vien Group, BroadcastAsia, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Satellite, Terrestrial, Vietnam

Singapore to launch DVB-T2 trial network in summer 2011
Jun 20, 2011 – MEDIA BROADCAST has been selected by the Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA) to conduct a DVB-T2 technical trial in the city state.
News categories: MEDIA BROADCAST GmbH, Media Development Authority, BroadcastAsia, Content Distribution, Digital TV, DVB-T2, Singapore, Terrestrial

Digital TV homes to double within five years
Jun 20, 2011 – The number of digital TV homes will double between 2010 and 2016 to 1,189 million, according to a report from Digital TV Research. The report estimated that digital penetration will climb from 42.5% at end-2010 to 80.0% by 2016.
News categories: Digital TV Research Ltd, Brazil, Cable TV, China, Digital TV, France, Germany, India, IPTV, Italy, Japan, Market Research, Russia, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial, UK, USA

Global pay TV revenues reached US$155 billion in 2010
Jun 13, 2011 – About 338 million digital homes were added around the world between 2006 and 2010, according to a report from Digital TV Research. The Digital TV World Databook estimated that this took the digital TV household total for the countries covered to 576 million.
News categories: Digital TV Research Ltd, Bahrain, Belgium, Brazil, Cable TV, Canada, China, Croatia, Denmark, Digital TV, Finland, France, Germany, India, IPTV, Italy, Japan, Korea, Kuwait, Latvia, Market Research, Netherlands, Norway, Puerto Rico, Russia, Satellite, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Subscribers, Sweden, Switzerland, Terrestrial, Tunisia, UK, USA

Digital Terrestrial Set Top Box Unit Shipments to Reach 45 Million by 2015, Says In-Stat
Jun 13, 2011 – 2010 was a challenging year for the worldwide digital set top box market as total unit shipments decreased by 7%. It is likely that 2011 will also be a challenging year, but there is better news on the horizon, says In-Stat.
News categories: In-Stat, Digital TV, DVR, Market Research, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

New Zealand confirms digital switchover dates
Jun 10, 2011 – The final dates for New Zealand television going digital have been announced by New Zealand's Broadcasting Minister Jonathan Coleman. The switchover will occur in four stages.
News categories: Going Digital, Digital TV, New Zealand, Terrestrial

Multi-play Services Drive Global Pay-TV Service Revenue to $53 Billion in 1Q 2011
Jun 9, 2011 – The pay-TV industry continues to grow in both subscriber numbers and service revenue. At the end of first quarter of 2011, pay-TV revenue generated from satellite, cable, terrestrial and telco TV totaled $53 billion, according to ABI Research.
News categories: ABI Research, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Terrestrial

S&T provides MHEG interactive services for TV5 DVB-T2 trial in Thailand
Jun 8, 2011 – Strategy & Technology (S&T) has provided Army TV5 in Bangkok with its TSBroadcaster2 carousel system to play out MHEG interactive applications as part of their DVB-T2 trial that has been on-air for some months.
News categories: Strategy & Technology, Army TV5, VMedia-A, Digital TV, DVB-T2, MHEG-5, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial, Thailand

Panasonic Develops New UniPhier® System LSI for Smart TVs with Industry's Fastest CPU
Jun 8, 2011 – Panasonic (NYSE:PC; Tokyo:6752) has developed a new UniPhier® system LSI (MN2WS0220) for smart TVs. The system LSI has both a high quality AV processor and a high speed CPU on a single chip.
News categories: Panasonic, Digital TV, ICs, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Terrestrial