EU (European Union) Digital TV News

UK leading internationally as a digitally advanced nation
Nov 20, 2008 – UK consumers are embracing new digital TV services, such as High Definition TV and Digital Video Recorders, alongside many other leading economies across the world, new Ofcom research reveals.
News categories: Ofcom, Cable TV, Canada, Digital TV, DVR, France, Germany, IPTV, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Market Research, Mobile, Netherlands, Poland, Regulation, Satellite, Spain, Streaming, Sweden, Terrestrial, UK, USA

ITI Group ('n') 2008 Nine months financial results
Nov 19, 2008 – ITI Holdings (Luxembourg: ITIH) has announced results for the nine months ended 30 September 2008. ITI Neovision launched its 'n' digital TV platform in October 2006. In just two years of operations 'n' has attracted more than 400,000 subscribers.
News categories: ITI Group, DVR, Poland, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers

Unitymedia Q3 2008 Financial Results
Nov 19, 2008 – Unitymedia and its subsidiary arena have announced results for the quarter ended September 30, 2008. In the coming months Unitymedia plans to introduce a DVR to further enhance the TV viewing experience of its customers.
News categories: Unitymedia, Cable TV, DVR, Germany, Satellite, Subscribers

German utilities Stadtwerke Sindelfingen/Boeblingen select Alcatel-Lucent's fiber-based triple play solution
Nov 18, 2008 – Alcatel-Lucent (Paris and NYSE: ALU) has announced that it has been selected by Stadtwerke Sindelfingen and Stadtwerke Boeblingen, utility companies near Stuttgart, for the deployment of a fiber to the home (FTTH)-based triple play solution.
News categories: Alcatel-Lucent, Stadtwerke Sindelfingen, Stadtwerke Boeblingen, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Fibre, Germany, IPTV

French Digital-TV-On-Satellite Offer TNTSAT Tops 750,000 Households
Nov 18, 2008 – SES ASTRA (Paris & Luxembourg: SESG) has announced that at end-October, 750,000 TNTSAT receivers had been distributed to French households. TNTSAT HD will be launched on 15 February 2009 with the free HD DTT channels available on ASTRA.
News categories: SES ASTRA, TNTSAT, Digital TV, France, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box

Com Hem to launch HD PVR
Nov 18, 2008 – On December 3rd, Com Hem will launch its recordable HD set-top box. The box - the HDPVR-1000C - is manufactured by Humax and has a 320GB hard disk and dual tuners.
News categories: Com Hem, Humax, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Set Top Box, Sweden

Telefónica earns €5,596 million to September and confirms all growth forecasts for 2008
Nov 14, 2008 – During the third quarter of 2008 Telefónica (Madrid, NYSE: TEF) maintained the intense commercial activity registered since the beginning of the year. Pay TV accesses stood at over 2.1 million at the end of the quarter, up 54.0% on the prior year.
News categories: Telefónica, Brazil, Cable TV, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, IPTV, Peru, Results, Spain, Subscribers, Venezuela

Italy - September 2008 DTT decoder market report update
Nov 13, 2008 – 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 September 2008 with historical data back to February 2004.
News categories: DGTVi, GfK, Digital TV, Italy, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

Com Hem January-September 2008 results
Nov 13, 2008 – In the first three quarters of 2008, Com Hem's revenues amounted to SEK 2,827 million. From the second to the third quarter of this year, the number of digital TV subscribers increased by over 5 percent to 450,000.
News categories: Com Hem, Cable TV, Results, Subscribers, Sweden