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

Spain - October DTT monthly update released
Oct 5, 2007 – Accumulated sales of DTT receivers in Spain, in the year to August, reached 6,111,859 units, close to the total number for the whole of 2006.
News categories: Impulsa-TDT, Digital TV, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Spain, Terrestrial

Kenya to switch to digital TV by 2012, says information minister
Oct 4, 2007 – On 17th June 2015 it will be mandatory that all TV stations countrywide switch from the current Analogue format to new digital broadcasting format.
News categories: Digital TV, Kenya, Terrestrial, TV Services

France: Digital TV market booming
Oct 4, 2007 – The French digital terrestrial system, "Television Numerique Terrestre", has been available since March 2005. Over the last two and a half years since its introduction, more than 2.5 million TV sets and 8 million digital receivers have been sold across the nation.
News categories: GfK, Digital TV, France, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

OSCE Presence to assist Albanian electronic media regulatory body draft national strategy
Oct 3, 2007 – The OSCE Presence in Albania will assist the National Council of Radio and Television (NCRT) in drafting an audio-visual strategy which will tackle issues such as the management of the transition from analogue to digital broadcasting.
News categories: OSCE, KKRT, Albania, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Terrestrial

Italy delays switch-off to 2012
Oct 1, 2007 – Italy's Minister of Telecommunications Paolo Gentiloni has confirmed that the country's analogue switch-off date will be put back four years, from December 2008 to 2012.
News categories: Digital TV, Italy, Terrestrial

Convergence Driving European TV Progress
Oct 1, 2007 – New research published today by Informa Telecoms & Media shows that digital TV penetration of Western European households will break the 50% mark by the end of this year.
News categories: Informa Telecoms & Media, Cable TV, Digital TV, Europe, France, Germany, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Terrestrial, TV Services, UK

Imagination Technologies launches multi-standard mobile tv receiver core with 1-seg ISDB-T support
Oct 1, 2007 – Imagination Technologies (FTSE:IMG) has announced that it has added support for the Japanese 1seg ISDB-T mobile TV standard to its licensable mobile TV IP Core.
News categories: Imagination Technologies, Digital TV, ISDB-T, Japan, Mobile, Semiconductor, Silicon IP, UK

Almost one-third of Dutch TV connections are digital
Oct 1, 2007 – The total number of Dutch TV connections stabilised at 7.027 million connections at the end of the second quarter of 2007, with the number of digital TV connections growing by 4.2 percent to 2.2 million, according to Telecompaper's quarterly update on the Dutch TV market.
News categories: Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Netherlands, Terrestrial

Sky announces details of proposed new entertainment and communications service
Oct 1, 2007 – Sky has announced further details of its plans to offer broadband, telephone and digital terrestrial television services under an entirely new brand - 'Picnic' - to customers across the UK.
News categories: BSkyB, Broadband, Digital TV, Terrestrial, UK