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Paraguay DTT standard recommendation expected in May
Mar 8, 2010 – Paraguay's telecoms services regulator CONATEL expects in May to issue a recommendation to the executive branch regarding which digital standard the country should adopt, local newspaper Última Hora reported.
News categories: Conatel, Digital TV, Paraguay, Terrestrial

Malta pay TV subscriptions up 6.6k in 4Q09
Mar 8, 2010 – Malta's National Statistics Office has published Post and Telecommunications numbers for the fourth quarter of 2009. With 110,659 cable and terrestrial subscriptions, digital amounted to 79.4 per cent of all pay TV subscriptions.
News categories: National Statistics Office, Cable TV, Malta, Market Research, Terrestrial

Vietnam publishes draft plan to move to digital TV and radio
Mar 2, 2010 – A draft plan to digitalise radio and television broadcasts at a cost of roughly 4.4 trillion VND (231.2 million USD) has been published by Vietnam's Ministry of Information and Communications.
News categories: Ministry of Information and Communications, Digital TV, Terrestrial, Vietnam

Freeview NZ Adopts MHEG Interaction Channel For Hybrid Services
Feb 25, 2010 – IMPALA, the International MHEG Promotion Alliance, has announced that Freeview NZ has adopted the MHEG Interaction Channel (MHEG-IC) from the D-book 6.1 as part of an upgrade to its MHEG Country Profile that will allow hybrid services to be provided.
News categories: IMPALA, Freeview NZ, Digital TV, DVR, MHEG-5, New Zealand, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

More Australians making the switch to digital TV
Feb 25, 2010 – The number of Australians who have converted to digital television grew steadily during 2009. The latest results of the Digital Tracker survey found 61 per cent of Australian households had converted to digital TV by the end of 2009.
News categories: Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Australia, Digital TV, Market Research, Terrestrial

Conax claims 15% DVB and 40% DTT market shares
Feb 24, 2010 – Conax (Oslo:TEL) exhibited continued market growth in 2009 cultivating a 15% market share in the global DVB market and winning most new contracts. Conax is also a leader within content security for DTT, capturing 40% of the DTT market.
News categories: Conax, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, Market Research, Terrestrial

Abertis Integrates Irdeto to Strengthen its TDT Premium Digital Content Security
Feb 24, 2010 – Irdeto (JSE: NPN) and Abertis Telecom (Madrid: ABE) have worked to validate the Irdeto Conditional Access System (CAS) integration into Abertis Telecom's open digital terrestrial TV TDT Premium platform.
News categories: Irdeto, Abertis Telecom, CAM, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Spain, Terrestrial

NCC to propose STB subsidy for DTT in Taiwan
Feb 23, 2010 – Taiwan's National Communications Commission (NCC) is scheduled to submit two subsidy proposals to the Cabinet by April to help facilitate the switch from analog to digital for terrestrial TV services.
News categories: NCC, Regulation, Set Top Box, Taiwan, Terrestrial

S&T brings interactive content to Freeview HD with Humax
Feb 22, 2010 – Strategy & Technology (S&T) has announced that its RedKey™ 2 MHEG engine is powering the text and interactive services in the new Humax Freeview HD set-top box.
News categories: Strategy & Technology, Humax, Digital TV, MHEG-5, Middleware, Set Top Box, Terrestrial, UK