Europe Digital TV News

Canal+ converts 240,000 to digital in 1st half 2009
Sep 1, 2009 – Vivendi (Paris: VIV) has released results for the first half of 2009. Canal+'s migration of analog subscribers accelerated over the past six months with nearly 240,000 upgrades to digital since January 2009, ahead of targets.
News categories: Vivendi, Canal+ Group, SFR, France, IPTV, Poland, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Vietnam

PrimaCom releases 1st Half 2009 Interim Report
Aug 31, 2009 – PrimaCom (Frankfurt:PRC) has reported results for the period January to June 2009. The average number of digital TV subscribers in the first half of 2009 was 46,302 compared with 13,401 in the first half of 2008.
News categories: PrimaCom, Cable TV, Germany, Results, Subscribers

Austria subsidises HD cable receivers
Aug 31, 2009 – The majority of homes in Austria have already converted to digital TV. However, cable TV, used by 43% of Austrian households, is only 16% digital. For this reason, RTR has set up a €2 million fund to subsidise the purchase of cable TV receivers.
News categories: Rundfunk und Telekom Regulierungs, Austria, Cable TV, Digital TV, Market Research, Set Top Box

Slovenia's SiOL TV reaches 101k subscribers at end-2Q09
Aug 28, 2009 – Telekom Slovenia (Ljubljana:TLSG) has reported results for the first six months of 2009. The number of IPTV subscribers has increased by 71% within one year to almost 102,000 at the end of June 2009.
News categories: SiOL TV, Aneks, Ipko, Telekom Slovenije, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cable TV, IPTV, Kosovo, Results, Slovenia, Subscribers

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

KDG digital video RGUs up 49k in 2Q09
Aug 27, 2009 – Kabel Deutschland (KDG) has announced its results for the quarter ended June 30, 2009. Kabel Digital pay TV RGUs coupled with Digital Access RGUs contributed to a total of 2.1 million digital video RGUs at the end of the period.
News categories: KDG, Cable TV, DVR, Germany, Results, Subscribers

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

Comstar 2Q09: Pay TV subscribers down in Moscow; flat in the Regions
Aug 27, 2009 – COMSTAR (LSE: CMST) has announced its results for the quarter ended June 30, 2009. In Moscow, the number of triple-play subscribers decreased by 3% quarter-on-quarter to 133 thousand. In the Regions subscriber numbers were flat at 1.953 million.
News categories: COMSTAR, Cable TV, IPTV, Results, Russia, Subscribers

P&TLuxembourg chooses ATEME IPTV Headend for HD
Aug 26, 2009 – ATEME has announced that P&TLuxembourg is deploying ATEME's IPTV headend, which includes HD MPEG-4 AVC encoding. This solution will enable P&TLuxembourg to launch HDTV linear broadcast television services in 2009.
News categories: ATEME, P&TLuxembourg, Content Distribution, IBCShow, IPTV, Luxembourg