EU (European Union) Digital TV News

SMiT to deliver a terrestrial HD STB operated by IWEDIA's Comedia middleware and secured by Viaccess' ACS 3.0
Sep 12, 2008 – SMiT, a provider of digital TV devices and a well-known supplier of Viaccess CAMs, has announced that it will be delivering a terrestrial high-definition set-top box operated by IWEDIA's Comedia middleware and secured by Viaccess' ACS 3.0.
News categories: IWEDIA, Viaccess, SMiT, Conditional Access, IBCShow, Middleware, Set Top Box, Sweden, Terrestrial

T-Mobile Selects SafeBSF from SafeNet for Mobile TV Platform
Sep 12, 2008 – SafeNet has announced that after extensive testing, T-Mobile Czech Republic has selected SafeNet's SafeBSF SIM-based authentication for its DVB-H mobile TV trial platform.
News categories: SafeNet, T-Mobile Czech Republic, Content Protection, Czech Republic, Digital TV, IBCShow, Mobile

Ericsson signs agreement with Sonaecom for world's first trial of IMS-integrated IPTV middleware
Sep 12, 2008 – Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) has announced that it has signed an agreement with Sonaecom (Lisbon:SNC) to provide and integrate its open, standards-based, end-to-end IPTV solution, including its new IMS-based IPTV middleware.
News categories: Ericsson, Sonaecom, Content Distribution, IBCShow, IPTV, Middleware, Portugal

Bouygues Telecom to launch IPTV in October
Sep 12, 2008 – According to news agency AFP, Bouygues Telecom (Paris:EN), France's third mobile operator, will launch its ADSL broadband TV service on October 20th, 2008.
News categories: Bouygues Telecom, Broadband, Digital TV, DVR, France, IPTV, Router, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

IBM and Widevine Help Skynet to Deliver Premium TV Content
Sep 12, 2008 – IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Widevine have announced that they are helping Skynet, the Internet Service Provider (ISP) arm of Penki Kontinentai group, to provide premium TV content to all 25,000 Skynet users in Lithuania.
News categories: Widevine, Penki Kontinentai, IBM, Penki TV, Skynet, Content Protection, IPTV, Lithuania, Streaming

Amino secures Estonia MPEG-4 HD PVR agreement
Sep 12, 2008 – Amino Technologies (LSE: AMO) has signed an agreement that will see Estonia's Elion use Amino's AmiNET530 Set-Top Box to offer premium services to its consumer and business IPTV subscribers.
News categories: Amino, Elion, Digital TV, DVR, Estonia, IPTV, Set Top Box

Irdeto Expands Set-Top Box Agreement with Cisco
Sep 12, 2008 – Irdeto (JSE: NPN) has announced further expansion of a set-top box license agreement with Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO). The agreement enables Cisco to integrate Irdeto's Conditional Access (CA) solution with its set-tops.
News categories: Irdeto, Cisco Systems, Ziggo, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Digital TV, DVR, IBCShow, Netherlands, Set Top Box

Portugal - 2.1 million pay TV subscribers in June
Sep 11, 2008 – According to Portugal's Autoridade Nacional de Comunicações (ANACOM), at the end of June, the total number of pay TV subscribers in the country reached 2.1 million, or approximately 20 subscribers per 100 inhabitants.
News categories: ANACOM, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Portugal, Satellite, Subscribers

The Kudelski Group continues its fight against piracy initiatives
Sep 11, 2008 – A court in Frankfurt-am-Main in Germany has prohibited Heinrich Zehnder from importing, possessing, or marketing a model of TV decoders containing an electronic mechanism that makes possible the circumvention of conditional access systems.
News categories: Kudelski, Heinrich Zehnder, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, Germany, Set Top Box