Europe Digital TV News

ST and Fraunhofer HHI Demonstrate World's First Standard-Based 3D Adaptive Video-Streaming Software Receiver
Sep 28, 2011 – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) and Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI) have unveiled the industry's first 3D video receiver based on the new MPEG-DASH standard for dynamic and adaptive HTTP streaming.
News categories: STMicroelectronics, HHI, Digital TV, EU, Media Player, Metaverse, Semiconductor, Streaming

IPTV will reach 60 million subscriptions in the EU by 2020
Sep 28, 2011 – As broadband subscriptions continue to grow in the EU27, Point Topic has announced analysis on how many subscribers there will be and how many will take an IPTV service as well. According to the analyst firm, IPTV is set to treble by 2020.
News categories: Point Topic, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, Estonia, EU, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, IPTV, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Market Research, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Subscribers, Sweden, UK

IPTV Now Serves More Than 50 Million Customers Worldwide
Sep 27, 2011 – The Broadband and IPTV Growth Report presented at the Broadband World Forum in Paris, shows that 51M customers now subscribe to IPTV services worldwide, with France in the lead as top IPTV country.
News categories: Broadband Forum, BBWF, Belgium, Broadband, China, Digital TV, Fibre, France, Germany, IPTV, Japan, Korea, Market Research, Netherlands, Spain, Subscribers, Taiwan, USA

YouView User Interface and Search Policy Consultation
Sep 26, 2011 – YouView, the proposed UK connected TV platform, has published its draft User Interface and Search Policy for consultation with industry, setting out how content will be presented to viewers in a way that makes it easy for them to discover.
News categories: YouView, Digital TV, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Streaming, UK

Portugal's subscription TV market grows in Q2 2011
Sep 21, 2011 – According to Portugal's Autoridade Nacional de Comunicações (ANACOM), in June, the total number of pay TV subscribers in Portugal reached about 2.85 million, increasing by 197 thousand compared to the 2nd quarter of 2010.
News categories: ANACOM, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Mobile, Portugal, Satellite, Subscribers

French TNTSAT: Three Million Receivers Sold
Sep 21, 2011 – SES (Paris; Luxembourg: SESG) has announced that the French digital terrestrial offer on satellite, TNTSAT, broadcast via ASTRA, reached a total of three million receivers sold at the end of August. The TNTSAT offer was launched in March 2007.
News categories: TNTSAT, SES S.A., Digital TV, France, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box

Digital TV in 36.3% of TV households in Lithuania
Sep 14, 2011 – According to market research firm TNS, at the end of the first half of 2011, multi-channel TV was being received in 69.4% of Lithuanian TV households up 7 percentage points since the beginning of the year.
News categories: TNS, Cable TV, IPTV, Lithuania, Market Research, Satellite, Terrestrial

Croatia issues DTT receiver minimum specification
Sep 14, 2011 – The Croatian Post and Electronic Communications Agency (HAKOM) has issued minimum technical requirements for DVB-T and DVB-T2 receivers in the Republic of Croatia.
News categories: HAKOM, Croatia, Digital TV, DVB-T2, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

Georgia's Silknet Launches Subscription TV Offering with Orca Interactive
Sep 12, 2011 – Orca Interactive (Paris: FTE; NYSE: FTE) has announced that Georgia-based SilkNet has selected Orca Interactive to supply its RiGHTv middleware and COMPASS Content Discovery and Recommendations platform for their subscription TV service.
News categories: Orca Interactive, SilkNet, Digital TV, DVR, Georgia, Middleware, Set Top Box