Terrestrial Digital TV (DTT, DTTV, DTV, DVB-T, DVB-T2, …) News

TV 2 Selects Cisco to Launch HD Digital TV Across Norway
Sep 2, 2009 – Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) has announced that TV 2 Norway has selected a Cisco® MPEG encoding and Internet Protocol (IP) video system platform for its new high-definition digital terrestrial television (HD-DTT) play-out facility in Bergen, Norway.
News categories: Cisco Systems, TV 2 Norway, Content Distribution, IBCShow, Norway, Terrestrial

Sri Lanka allocates money for DVB-T transition
Aug 28, 2009 – Plans are being made by Sri Lanka's Mass Media and Information Ministry to introduce DTT in the country next year. Money has been allocated to both the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corp. (SLRC) and Independent Television Network (ITN) in the 2010 budget.
News categories: Mass Media and Information Ministry, Rupavahini, Independent Television Network, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Sri Lanka, Terrestrial

Kudelski completes transition of CA to a service model
Aug 28, 2009 – The Kudelski Group (SIX:KUD.VX) has announced its half year 2009 results. During this period, the Group started to reap the fruits of the migration of a significant share of its digital TV conditional access deployed base to the service model.
News categories: Kudelski, Advertising, Brazil, Cable TV, CAM, Canada, Conditional Access, Content Distribution, Content Protection, Germany, IBCShow, IPTV, Mexico, Middleware, Mobile, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Spain, Streaming, Subscribers, Terrestrial, USA, Vietnam

Australia passes key digital TV milestone
Aug 28, 2009 – More than half of all Australian households have now made the switch to digital television, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy has announced.
News categories: Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Australia, Digital TV, DVR, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

Rwanda to Have Digital Broadcasting Next Year
Aug 27, 2009 – Rwanda will fully start DVB-T digital terrestrial broadcasting by March next year. This means that the Office Rwandais d'Information, ORINFOR, a state owned information agency, will be able to provide up to eight different channels.
News categories: ORINFOR, Digital TV, Rwanda, Terrestrial

European Initiative Merges Television with the Power of the Internet
Aug 27, 2009 – A European consortium has announced the launch of 'Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV' or 'HbbTV', an initiative aimed at harmonising the delivery of content to the end consumer through TVs and set-top boxes with an optional web connection.
News categories: Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV, Cable TV, Digital TV, Europe, HbbTV, IBCShow, IFABerlin, IPTV, Middleware, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Streaming, Terrestrial

Argentina to go with ISDB-T for digital terrestrial
Aug 26, 2009 – According to statements made by Brazil's Communications Minister, Hélio Costa, the Japanese ISDB-T standard used in his country will also be adopted by Argentina.
News categories: Argentina, Digital TV, ISDB-T, Terrestrial

Set-Top Box Shipments Rise in 2009 Despite Economic Downturn
Aug 24, 2009 – Defying the current economic turmoil, global Set-Top Box (STB) shipments are expected to rise in 2009 due to rising demand from Asia and from products supporting High Definition (HD), Digital Video Recording and IPTV, according to iSuppli.
News categories: iSuppli, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

IP Set-Top Boxes to Generate More Than $3 Billion by 2014
Aug 24, 2009 – According to new set-top box market data from ABI Research, Motorola and Cisco continue to sit at the top of the cable STB vendor list in 2008. Thomson and Panasonic ranked highest in the DBS and DTT segments respectively in the same period.
News categories: ABI Research, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Terrestrial