Europe Digital TV News

First Implementation of Dolby Digital Plus for HD Terrestrial TV
Oct 31, 2008 – Dolby Laboratories (NYSE:DLB) has announced that Dolby® Digital Plus and Dolby Digital have been chosen by France's new national HD terrestrial broadcasters for the Television Numerique Terrestre HD (TNT HD) platform, launched this week.
News categories: Dolby, Digital TV, France, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

BSkyB Results for the three months ended 30 September 2008
Oct 31, 2008 – In the three months to 30 September 2008 net British Sky Broadcasting (LSE:BSY) DTH growth was 87,000, taking the total base to over nine million customers (9.067 million).
News categories: BSkyB, DVR, Ireland, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers, UK

Meko Reports Cable Dominates European TV Format Through 2011
Oct 30, 2008 – At next week's DisplayForum 2008, Meko will reveal the findings of its DisplayCast Digital TV Report, indicating that in 2011, the most popular way of watching TV on a household's main set will still be via existing cable providers.
News categories: Meko, Cable TV, Digital TV, Europe, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Terrestrial

Cogeco Cable's continued organic growth and acquisitions contribute positively to the fourth quarter and 2008 year end results
Oct 30, 2008 – Cogeco Cable (TSX: CCA) has announced its results for the fourth quarter ended August 31, 2008. Canadian net digital TV additions stood at 16,150. The Cabovisão digital TV service in Portugal, had net additions of 9,982 customers in the quarter.
News categories: Cogeco, Cabovisão, Cable TV, Canada, Portugal, Results, Subscribers

France Telecom third quarter 2008 financial information
Oct 30, 2008 – France Telecom (Paris:FTE)(NYSE:FTE) group's revenue rose to 39.854 billion euros in the first nine months. ADSL digital TV services (IPTV) had a total of 1.746 million subscribers in Europe at 30 September 2008, a 72% increase in one year.
News categories: France Telecom, France, IPTV, Poland, Results, Satellite, Spain, Subscribers

ADB And Grundig Enable The Launch Of First Norwegian Push-VOD Offering By RiksTV
Oct 30, 2008 – Advanced Digital Broadcast (SWX:ADBN) has announced that it will supply its DVB-T PVR platform to the Norwegian market under its agreement with Grundig. The DTR 8860 VOD is the first-to-market to fully support RiksTV's push-VOD service.
News categories: Advanced Digital Broadcast, Grundig, RiksTV, Osmosys, Digital TV, DVR, Norway, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

Fibre To The Home (FTTH) is competitive with conventional Triple Play and already undercutting traditional ADSL+ services
Oct 29, 2008 – In a new report called FTTH Pricing in Europe 2009, Tariff Consultancy provides a unique survey of the main FTTH providers in 19 European countries - from Austria to the UK.
News categories: Tariff Consultancy, Austria, Belgium, Broadband, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, Fibre, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, IPTV, Italy, Lithuania, Market Research, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK

Telekomunikacja Polska Q3 2008 selected data
Oct 29, 2008 – Telekomunikacja Polska (Warsaw: TPS) has provided selected financial and operating data for the nine months ended September 30th, 2008. Broadband year-to-date revenue growth (+16%) was driven by the year-on-year increase of the subscriber base.
News categories: Telekomunikacja Polska, IPTV, Poland, Results, Subscribers

Telenor (Canal Digital) Third Quarter 2008
Oct 29, 2008 – Revenues for Telenor (Oslo:TEL) in the first three quarters of 2008 increased by NOK 2,094 million, or 3%. Revenues in the Canal Digital Group increased primarily due to higher sales of additional services to Cable TV subscribers.
News categories: Telenor, Cable TV, CAM, Conditional Access, Denmark, Norway, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden, Terrestrial