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

UK PlayTV™ shipments reach 85,000 in the first week
Oct 2, 2008 – New products from Sony (Tokyo: 6758; NYSE: SNE) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) allow customers to get Freeview via a PlayStation®3 (PS3) and via a Windows Media Center home PC. A successful trial of DVB-T2 brings HD a step closer.
News categories: Freeview, Sony Computer Entertainment, Microsoft, Digital TV, DVB-T2, Gaming, Market Research, Streaming, Terrestrial, UK

Spain - 37.4% of households have DTT reception
Oct 2, 2008 – According to Spain's Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), two years from analogue shutdown, planned for April 2010, only 37.4% of households have terrestrial digital television reception (DTT).
News categories: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Spain, Subscribers, Terrestrial

France - First digital TV survey results released
Oct 2, 2008 – France's digital TV 'Observatoire' has made public the results of its first half 2008 study. Nearly 30% of households are fully digital with digital terrestrial television providing most of the growth. TV over ADSL also made significant advances.
News categories: Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel, Médiamétrie, Cable TV, Digital TV, France, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial

Argentina follows Brazil with ISDB-T
Sep 30, 2008 – A delegation from Argentina is to travel to Japan in October to discuss adopting Japan's ISDB-T standard.
News categories: Argentina, Digital TV, ISDB-T, Regulation, SBTVD, Terrestrial

Mirics adds ISDB-T reception to its FlexiTV™ solution for TV on a PC
Sep 30, 2008 – Mirics Semiconductor will showcase an enhanced version of its Mirics FlexiTV™ broadcast receiver - a complete RF, host interface and software demodulation solution for the notebook PC platform - at CEATEC Japan.
News categories: Mirics, ISDB-T, Japan, Mobile, Peripherals / Accessories, Semiconductor, Software

Peru to choose digital TV standard in Q1 2009
Sep 30, 2008 – Peru's Ministerio de Transportes y Comunicaciones (MCT) will choose a digital TV standard for the country in the first quarter of 2009, based on the recommendation of the Multi-sector Commission which is due to report by the end of this year.
News categories: Ministerio de Transportes y Comunicaciones, Digital TV, Peru, Regulation, Terrestrial

Boxer MHEG Announcement Welcomed by IMPALA
Sep 29, 2008 – IMPALA, the International MHEG Promotion Alliance, has welcomed the recent announcement by Sweden-based pay-TV group Boxer that it has selected MHEG-5 as the interactive middleware to be included in all products marketed to receive its TV packages.
News categories: Boxer, IMPALA, Denmark, Digital TV, Ireland, MHEG-5, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Sweden, Terrestrial

20% of Hong Kong families watching digital TV
Sep 26, 2008 – More than 20% of Hong Kong families, or about 500,000 households, are watching digital terrestrial television via set-top boxes, integrated digital TV sets or computers, up 30% on the 15.6% take-up rate at the end of July.
News categories: Digital TV, DTMB, Hong Kong, Market Research, Terrestrial

Venezuela gets closer to ISDB-T
Sep 26, 2008 – Minister of Telecommunications and Information Systems of Venezuela Socorro Hernández has revealed that a technical mission is traveling to China within the next few days to assess digital TV standard DMB-T, and its mobile variant DMB-H.
News categories: Digital TV, DTMB, ISDB-T, Mobile, Terrestrial, Venezuela