Europe Digital TV News

Telekom Slovenia exceeds 100k video subscribers
May 29, 2009 – Telekom Slovenia [Ljubljana:TLSG] has reported result for the period January to March 2009. The growth of IPTV (SiOL TV) continued with connections reaching 95,331. Cable television connections stood at 6,555 at the end of March 2009.
News categories: Telekom Slovenia, Cable TV, IPTV, Results, Slovenia, Subscribers

BSkyB and Microsoft Join Forces to Offer TV through Xbox
May 29, 2009 – Sky (LSE:BSY) and Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT) have announced that from this autumn, millions of Xbox owners in the UK and Ireland will have the opportunity to access Sky Player, Sky's online TV service, through their broadband-enabled games consoles.
News categories: BSkyB, Xbox, Digital TV, Gaming, Ireland, Media Player, Satellite, Streaming, UK

Tele Columbus and PrimaCom Select NDS XTV™ For Cable HD DVR Service
May 28, 2009 – NDS has announced that the two largest independent German cable operators, Tele Columbus and PrimaCom, have selected NDS' secure, integrated DVR solution XTV™ to launch Germany's first cable high definition (HD) DVR service across their networks.
News categories: NDS Group, Tele Columbus, PrimaCom, ANGA COM, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Germany, Middleware

More than 50% of Mobile TV Subscribers from APAC by 2013
May 27, 2009 – According to research from RNCOS, the Asia-Pacific region will account for more than 50% of global Mobile TV subscribers by the end of 2013 due to the rapid technological developments in countries like China, Japan, South Korea and India.
News categories: RNCOS, 5G, China, Digital TV, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Market Research, Mexico, Mobile, Russia, Spain, UK, USA

2.1 million digital TV RGUs for KDG at end-March '09
May 26, 2009 – Germany's largest cable network operator Kabel Deutschland (KDG) has announced results for its fiscal year ended March 31, 2009. The overall number of digital TV RGUs amounted to 2.1 million (1.6 million thousand in the previous year).
News categories: KDG, Cable TV, DVR, Germany, Results, Subscribers

COMSTAR pay-TV subscribers exceed 2 million in 1Q09
May 26, 2009 – Comstar (LSE: CMST) has announced its results for the three months ended March 31, 2009. Comstar had 1.9 million pay-TV subscribers in Russia's regions and more than 0.1 million in Moscow at the end of March 2009.
News categories: COMSTAR, Cable TV, IPTV, Results, Russia, Subscribers

Bulgaria's M-Tel to launch QUARTO digital TV
May 26, 2009 – Bulgaria's M-Tel is planning to launch an IPTV service called QUARTO to add to its offerings of mobile and fixed telephony and broadband. The service will launch in Sofia, Varna and Burgas with coverage to be extended nationally in stages.
News categories: M-Tel, Bulgaria, Digital TV, IPTV

S&T and Humax unveil MHEG-enabled online video streaming to TV
May 26, 2009 – Strategy & Technology, in collaboration with Humax, has developed the first applications to be shown to bring streaming video from the internet to the TV under broadcaster control using the latest MHEG-5 middleware specifications.
News categories: Strategy & Technology, Humax, ANGA COM, Digital TV, MHEG-5, Middleware, Set Top Box, Streaming, UK

Kabel BW Selects NDS Middleware, XTV™ DVR and VOD Solutions
May 26, 2009 – NDS has announced that Kabel BW has chosen NDS' MediaHighway® set-top-box middleware, NDS XTV™ DVR technology and a VOD solution from NDS to extend the capabilities of Kabel BW's service offering and technology infrastructure.
News categories: NDS Group, Kabel BW, ANGA COM, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Germany, Middleware, Set Top Box