Europe Digital TV News

Italy - November 2008 DTT decoder market report update
Jan 9, 2009 – The DGTVi publishes, in collaboration with GfK, a regular research report covering the development of the digital terrestrial market in Italy. The latest report is for the month of November 2008 with historical data back to February 2004.
News categories: DGTVi, GfK, Italy, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

LG Adopts Xceive Silicon Tuner for 2009 LCD and Plasma TVs
Jan 8, 2009 – Xceive has announced that LG has selected the XC5000 silicon tuner for its new lines of high-end flat panel TVs. Xceive's XC5000 is the first silicon TV tuner IC accepted into mainstream TV production for worldwide markets.
News categories: Xceive, LG Electronics, Australia, Digital TV, Europe, Korea, New Zealand, Semiconductor, Singapore, Smart TV, Taiwan, USA

Xceive's XC5000 Selected for New Mele PVR Product Line
Jan 8, 2009 – Xceive has announced that Mele has selected Xceive's XC5000 hybrid silicon tuner for its new line of HMC-3915T and HMC-S01BT personal video recorders (PVR), manufactured under the Emtec brand, for use in its Movie Cube product lines.
News categories: Xceive, Mele, Digital TV, DVR, Europe, Semiconductor, Terrestrial

UK - Freesat Sales Double In Last Quarter Of 2008
Jan 8, 2009 – By the end of 2008, Freesat had achieved over 200,000 sales since its launch in May 2008. Having reported sales of 100,000 in September 2008, total sales of Freesat doubled in the final quarter of 2008.
News categories: Freesat, Digital TV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Streaming, UK

Opera selected by ZyXEL Communications for new line of set-top boxes
Jan 8, 2009 – Opera Software has announced that ZyXEL Communications has selected Opera Devices 9.5 to bring the full Internet to its new Linux-based set-top box (STB) series.
News categories: Opera Software, ZyXEL Communications, Denmark, Digital TV, Finland, Iceland, Middleware, Norway, Set Top Box, Streaming, Sweden

IWEDIA at the heart of innovation providing connected services for TV sets
Jan 7, 2009 – IWEDIA Middleware has announced its active involvement in advanced R&D projects aimed at providing a variety of connected services for TV sets.
News categories: IWEDIA, France, Middleware, Smart TV, Streaming

Smart card chipmakers suspected of cartel
Jan 7, 2009 – European competition regulators have raided the premises of several manufacturers of chips used in 'smart cards', on suspicions of illegal cartel activity.
News categories: European Commission, CAM, Conditional Access, Europe, Regulation, Semiconductor

Poland's 'n' DTH platform client base exceeds 600,000 at year-end 2008
Jan 6, 2009 – ITI Holdings has announced 2008 results for 'n', Poland's next generation television. In just 27 months since launch, 'n' gained over 500,000 'n box' subscribers and over 92,000 'telewizja na karte' clients.
News categories: ITI Group, Digital TV, DVR, Poland, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers

BBC iPlayer delivers record end of year performance
Jan 6, 2009 – December 2008 saw 41 million requests to view BBC TV programmes via BBC iPlayer, the biggest month since launch in December 2007.
News categories: BBC iPlayer, Market Research, Streaming, UK