Europe Digital TV News

Sales Of Freeview HD Passes 1 Million Milestone
Feb 2, 2011 – Freeview UK has announced that sales of Freeview HD TVs and boxes have reached 1.2 million. In the nine month period after launch, Freeview estimates that 642,000 homes are now watching Freeview HD.
News categories: Freeview, Digital TV, DVB-T2, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial, UK

Strong Growth for French TNTSAT on ASTRA
Feb 2, 2011 – SES ASTRA (Paris:SESG; LuxX:SESG) has announced that the French digital terrestrial offer on satellite, TNTSAT, broadcast via ASTRA, reached a total of 2.65 million receivers sold at the end of 2010.
News categories: SES ASTRA, TNTSAT, France, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV

New generation of TV services begin to close gap on cable
Feb 1, 2011 – Cable will retain dominance in the global multi-channel TV market over the next five years but the threat from the new generation of digital and internet protocol (IP) services will take its toll, predicts Ovum.
News categories: Ovum, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial, UK, USA

Viasat and Irdeto to Deliver Premium On-Demand Content to LG TVs
Feb 1, 2011 – Irdeto has announced that Viasat has expanded its Irdeto Broadband system to enable access to live and Video On Demand (VOD) content from its LG NetCast enabled connected TV platform.
News categories: Irdeto, Viasat, LG Electronics, Denmark, Digital TV, Norway, Smart TV, Streaming, Sweden

Verimatrix Provides Revenue Security for OViVO Personalized Video Service
Feb 1, 2011 – Verimatrix has announced that Russian service provider Personal Media Technology (PMT) has deployed the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS™) to protect its OViVO over-the-top (OTT) personalized digital TV service.
News categories: Verimatrix, Personal Media Technology, Conditional Access, Content Protection, CSTB, Digital TV, Russia, Streaming

FRANSAT set-top box shipments reach 800,000
Jan 27, 2011 – Eutelsat (Paris: ETL) subsidiary, FRANSAT, has reported that over 800,000 set-top-boxes have been shipped to receive Digital Terrestrial TV (DTT) channels by satellite via the FRANSAT platform.
News categories: FRANSAT, Eutelsat, Digital TV, France, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box

NDS Secures Sky Deutschland CI+ Modules
Jan 25, 2011 – NDS has announced that Sky Deutschland (XETRA: SKYD.DE) has launched Common Interface Plus (CI+) modules based on the NDS VideoGuard® conditional access (CA) system.
News categories: NDS Group, Sky Deutschland, Austria, Cable TV, CAM, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Germany, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV

IMS Research Study Finds Russian IPTV Market has Reached 374k Subs
Jan 20, 2011 – Preliminary results from the IMS Research study 'IPTV: A Global Market Analysis - 2011 Edition', reveal that the IPTV subscriber base in the emerging BRIC markets exceeds 8 million subscribers for 2010, with China dominating the figure.
News categories: IMS Research, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Russia, Subscribers

Amazon to Acquire LOVEFiLM International Limited
Jan 20, 2011 – Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) has announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire the remaining shares in LOVEFiLM International Limited.
News categories: LOVEFiLM, Denmark, Germany, MandA, Norway, Streaming, Sweden, UK