EU (European Union) Digital TV News

Dutch digital TV market to grow to over 6 million subscribers in 2011
Mar 10, 2011 – The number of digital TV connections in the Netherlands grew by 3.4 percent or 177,200 net additions during the fourth quarter of 2010 to 5.44 million on 31 December, according to Telecompaper's quarterly Dutch Television Subscribers report.
News categories: Telecompaper, Cable TV, IPTV, Market Research, Netherlands, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial

Tivù and Intertrust to Provide Marlin DRM Services for the Italian Internet TV Market
Mar 8, 2011 – Tivù and Intertrust have announced a partnership to create Marlin Digital Rights Management (DRM) based services for Italian broadcasters wishing to create 'over the top' Internet TV channels.
News categories: Intertrust, Tivù, Content Protection, DRM, DVB-MHP, Italy, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Streaming

German Consumer Electronics market shows value growth of 6.2% in 2010
Mar 4, 2011 – Results from Q1-Q4 2010 of the Consumer Electronics Market Index (CEMIX), a German market indicator for CE markets, are available for download on the websites of gfu, BVT and GfK Retail and Technology.
News categories: GfK, Digital TV, DVD, Gaming, Germany, Market Research, Peripherals / Accessories, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV

Starmax HD, Spain's New HDTV Platform, Launches With GlobeCast
Mar 1, 2011 – Starmax HD has chosen GlobeCast to provide aggregation, encryption, and delivery of the full bouquet of channels broadcast to households across Spain. The Starmax platform uses set-top boxes from Ferguson, and viewer access cards from Conax.
News categories: GlobeCast, Starmax HD, CAM, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Satellite, Set Top Box, Spain

NDS Powers Hybrid VOD Service at Kabel BW
Mar 1, 2011 – NDS has announced that Kabel BW's new DVB-C-based VOD system is based on NDS' MediaHighway® set-top box (STB) software and VOD technology.
News categories: NDS Group, Kabel BW, Cable TV, Digital TV, Germany, Middleware, Set Top Box

Deutsche Telekom and SES ASTRA Cooperate in Combined Satellite-DSL Offer
Feb 28, 2011 – SES ASTRA (Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG) has announced a cooperation with Deutsche Telekom (Frankfurt: DTE)(NYSE:DT) in Germany to combine ASTRA's broad satellite free-TV offer including HD+ with Deutsche Telekom's IPTV product Entertain.
News categories: SES ASTRA, Deutsche Telekom, Digital TV, Germany, IPTV, Satellite

1 million HD customers for Sky Deutschland
Feb 27, 2011 – In its Q4 2010 results Sky Deutschland (XETRA: SKYD.DE) announced that it had an HD viewing customer base of over 900,000 at the end of 2010. Sky has now announced that this total has passed the 1 million mark.
News categories: Sky Deutschland, Germany, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers

Technicolor wins Orange set-top box tender
Feb 23, 2011 – According to Le Figaro, Technicolor (Paris: TCH; NYSE: TCH) has won the tender launched by France Telecom (Paris: FTE; NYSE: FTE) for its next generation of set-top boxes for France.
News categories: Technicolor, France Telecom, Digital TV, France, Set Top Box

MTG launches 'Viaplay' multi-screen on-demand pay-TV service
Feb 23, 2011 – MTG (OMX: MTGA, MTGB) has announced that it will launch an on-demand pay-TV service in Scandinavia in March. The service - Viaplay - will enable a subscriber to use a single ID and password to access Viasat pay-TV content on any internet-connected device.
News categories: MTG, Denmark, Digital TV, Mobile, Moldova, Smart TV, Streaming, Sweden