Europe Digital TV News

Norway Mobile TV DMB service to launch
May 14, 2009 – South Korean technology will be used in Norway to provide a digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) mobile television service. The service is to be launched in Oslo this week by Norsk mobil-TV AS (NMTV).
News categories: Korea Communications Commission, MiniTV, Digital TV, Mobile, Norway

1.3 million digital cable subscribers for Unitymedia
May 14, 2009 – Unitymedia has announced results for the quarter ended March 31, 2009. Unitymedia increased the digitisation of its cable subscriber base to 29% in the quarter. Take-up for the new PVR was encouraging even before the full marketing campaign in Q2.
News categories: Unitymedia, Cable TV, DVR, Germany, Results, Subscribers

Telefónica pay TV accesses exceed 2.3 million
May 13, 2009 – Telefónica (Madrid and NYSE: TEF) has released its first quarter 2009 results. Pay TV accesses exceeded 2.3 million by the end of March, almost 25% more than a year ago. However, subscriber numbers in Spain fell by 7,700 in the quarter.
News categories: Telefónica, Brazil, Cable TV, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, IPTV, Peru, Results, Satellite, Spain, Subscribers, Venezuela

Cabot middleware to support Freesat
May 13, 2009 – Cabot is extending its middleware suite to support Freesat, the first British free-to-air satellite service which provides around 200 television and radio channels, including High Definition (HD) broadcasts.
News categories: Cabot, Freesat, Digital TV, DVR, MHEG-5, Middleware, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV, UK

Six candidates for Bulgarian DTT
May 13, 2009 – Bulgaria's Communications Regulation Commission (CRC) has received six applications in response to its DTT tender for the first phase of digital switch over in the country. The deadline for applications was May 12th.
News categories: Communications Regulation Commission, Bulgaria, Digital TV, Terrestrial

Russia's Set-top Box Market Set to Boom
May 13, 2009 – According to IMS Research, over the next 5 years, an estimated 50 million set-top boxes (STBs) will be needed to supply the Russian DTV market, generating well over US$1 billion in STB revenues by 2014.
News categories: IMS Research, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Russia, Satellite, Set Top Box

Motorola Supplies 150,000 IPTV Set-Tops to Portugal Telecom
May 13, 2009 – Motorola (NYSE: MOT) has announced that it has delivered 150,000 IPTV set tops to Portugal Telecom (Lisbon: PTC; NYSE: PT) for its 'meo' triple play service. At 31st of December of 2008, the operator had 312,000 customers for the service.
News categories: Motorola, Portugal Telecom, meo, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Portugal, Set Top Box, Subscribers

Elonics secures additional $1.1m equity finance as markets develop
May 12, 2009 – As market demand increases for Elonics products, investors have contributed a further $1.1m to develop the sales and operational support infrastructure now required for its growing global customer base.
News categories: Elonics, ISDB-T, Mobile, Semiconductor, Terrestrial, UK, Venture Capital

Cyfrowy Polsat reaches 2.8 million subscribers
May 12, 2009 – Cyfrowy Polsat S.A. (Warsaw: CPS), the largest provider of pay DTH satellite television broadcasting services in Poland, had 2,802,056 subscribers as of 31 March 2009, 28.1% more than as at 31 March 2008.
News categories: Cyfrowy Polsat, Poland, Results, Satellite, Subscribers