Europe Digital TV News

Leading TV Manufacturers Rely on TC TrustCenter to Implement the CI Plus Standard in Europe
Feb 13, 2009 – CI Plus LLP has announced the publication of the new CI Plus Common Interface Standard. To implement the necessary content protection mechanisms that are based on digital certificates, CI Plus has signed an exclusive contract with TC TrustCenter.
News categories: CI Plus, TrustCenter, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Europe, Set Top Box, Smart TV

Continued growth for Com Hem in 2008
Feb 12, 2009 – Com Hem is continuing its strong growth in all three service areas. Digital TV is still strong: during the fourth quarter of 2008, the number of subscriptions increased by 4 percent to 468,000 subscriptions.
News categories: Com Hem, Cable TV, Results, Subscribers, Sweden

TeliaSonera January-December 2008
Feb 12, 2009 – TeliaSonera (Stockholm: TLSN) net sales increased 12.7 percent to SEK 28,096 million (24,921). The total number of TV subscriptions rose by 98,000 from year-end 2007 to 867,000, of which 477,000 were IPTV subscriptions, up 99,000.
News categories: TeliaSonera, Cable TV, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, IPTV, Lithuania, Norway, Results, Subscribers, Sweden

Mobiele TV Nederland gets DMB licence
Feb 12, 2009 – The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs has decided to issue a national DAB+DMB licence to Mobiele TV Nederland. The company plans to launch a mobile TV service in The Netherlands using the DMB standard.
News categories: MTVNL, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Digital TV, Mobile, Netherlands, Regulation

MTG (Viasat) Results for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2008
Feb 12, 2009 – MTG (OMX Nordic: MTGA, MTGB) has announced its results for the fourth quarter 2008. The number of subscribers with ViasatPlus Personal Video Recorders increased from 103,000 at the end of the third quarter to 115,000 at the end of the fourth.
News categories: MTG, Denmark, DVR, Finland, IPTV, Norway, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden, Ukraine

BT Group plc Results For The Third Quarter To 31 December 2008
Feb 12, 2009 – BT Group (LSE:BT.A)(NYSE:BT) revenue of £5,437m was 5% higher in the quarter, benefiting from favourable foreign exchange movements of £198m and the impact of acquisitions. The BT Vision customer base has now reached more than 398,000 customers.
News categories: BT Vision, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, Terrestrial, UK

Iliad (Free) 2008 Revenues
Feb 12, 2009 – Iliad Group (Paris: ILD)'s 2008 consolidated revenues were €1,565 million, a 29% increase compared to 2007. Free gained 485,000 new subscribers, net of churn, to a total of 3,389,000 subscribers at the end of 2008.
News categories: Iliad, France, IPTV, Results, Subscribers

Half a billion views for Virgin Media's on demand TV
Feb 12, 2009 – TV viewing habits on brink of major change Record-breaking year with 516 million on demand views in 2008 BBC iPlayer on Virgin Media approaching 100 million views 2008 was the year on demand television came of age with Virgin Media’s TV viewers watching over half a billion on demand programmes. With a record-breaking 56 million […]
News categories: Virgin Media, Cable TV, Streaming, Subscribers, UK

RTL to broadcast in MPEG-4 in Stuttgart
Feb 11, 2009 – From mid-2009, RTL, VOX, Super RTL and RTL II are expected to begin broadcasting via DVB-T in the Stuttgart region using MPEG-4 compression.
News categories: RTL, Digital TV, Germany, Set Top Box, Terrestrial