EU (European Union) Digital TV News

Sweden - Strong competition for Boxer in Q3
Oct 7, 2008 – At the end of September, Sweden's Boxer pay DTT service had 696,000 subscribers, a decrease of 5,000 in the third quarter, though still 3,000 more than at the same date last year. Boxer has also approved its first terrestrial PVR (from Sagem).
News categories: Boxer, Sagem, Digital TV, DVR, Set Top Box, Subscribers, Sweden, Terrestrial

Greece - Soft launch of conn-x TV (IPTV) by OTE
Oct 7, 2008 – OTE (ASE: HTO, NYSE: OTE) has announced the soft launch, for a testing period, of conn-x TV (IPTV) to a limited number of existing clients at the following areas: Attiki, Thessaloniki, Patras, Larisa and Herakleion, Crete.
News categories: OTE Group, Digital TV, Greece, IPTV

TechniSat Digital supplies STBs for Pre-pay DTH for Poland
Oct 7, 2008 – Since 3rd October, Cyfrowy Dom has started offering viewers Telewizja na karte - TNK ('TV on card'). To receive TNK, viewers will be required to buy a decoder using Conax CA, supplied by TechniSat Digital.
News categories: TechniSat, Telewizja na karte, Digital TV, Poland, Satellite, Set Top Box

Tiscali Teams with Cisco for Launch of Innovative Tiscali.tv IP Television Service in Italy
Oct 7, 2008 – Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) has announced that it has signed an agreement with Tiscali (Italy: TIS) to supply Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) architecture and IP television (IPTV) headend technology for the Tiscali.tv IPTV service.
News categories: Cisco Systems, Tiscali, Content Distribution, IPTV, Italy

TechnoTrend supplies set-top-box for the TOPP project of KDL
Oct 6, 2008 – TechnoTrend is supplying receivers for the TOPP project of KabelDienstLeistungsgesellschaft (KDL). TechnoTrend is the first supplier of set-top-boxes for this offer aimed at independent cable network operators with integrated networks.
News categories: TechnoTrend, KDL, Cable TV, Digital TV, Germany, Set Top Box

Protection of pay-TV services: Europe-wide protection against conditional-access piracy still indispensable, says Commission report
Oct 6, 2008 – In a changing market, it remains essential for the roll-out of pay-TV services that conditional-access systems be protected at European level against piracy. This is the verdict of a report published today by the European Commission.
News categories: European Commission, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mobile, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Regulation, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Streaming, Sweden, TV Services, UK

Spain - 37.4% of households have DTT reception
Oct 2, 2008 – According to Spain's Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), two years from analogue shutdown, planned for April 2010, only 37.4% of households have terrestrial digital television reception (DTT).
News categories: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Spain, Subscribers, Terrestrial

France - First digital TV survey results released
Oct 2, 2008 – France's digital TV 'Observatoire' has made public the results of its first half 2008 study. Nearly 30% of households are fully digital with digital terrestrial television providing most of the growth. TV over ADSL also made significant advances.
News categories: Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel, Médiamétrie, Cable TV, Digital TV, France, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial

Premiere Releases Q3 Subscriber Figures
Oct 2, 2008 – Premiere AG (PRE.XE) has disclosed EBITDA guidance for 2008 and released Q3 2008 subscriber numbers using a new classification. 940,000 that would have been included using the previous subscriber classification have been excluded.
News categories: Premiere AG, Austria, Digital TV, Germany, Results, Satellite, Subscribers