EU (European Union) Digital TV News

Poland - Second multiplex competition
Jul 4, 2008 – UKE and KRRiT have commenced preparation of the documentation for a second multiplex competition. Market expectations toward HD MPEG-4 will be taken into consideration in the competition, which will be held in the second half of 2008.
News categories: Urząd Komunikacji Elektronicznej, KRRiT, Digital TV, Poland, Regulation, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

Digital television now in 40% of Dutch households
Jul 4, 2008 – According to Stichting KijkOnderzoek (SKO) the rising penetration of LCD/plasma displays (28%) and hard drive recorders (13%) in Dutch households has been accompanied by a growth in digital television (from 35% to 40%) in the first half of 2008.
News categories: Stichting KijkOnderzoek, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVD, DVR, IPTV, Market Research, Netherlands, Optical Disc Recorder, Satellite, Streaming, Terrestrial

Slovakia - MPEG-4 AVC for DTT platform
Jul 3, 2008 – The Slovak Telecom Office (TU SR) has recommended the use of the MPEG-4 AVC compression format for the DTT platform.
News categories: TÚ SR, Digital TV, Regulation, Slovakia, Terrestrial

Samsung and SmarDTV bring pay-TV services to Italian televisions
Jul 3, 2008 – SmarDTV (SWX:KUD) has announced that Samsung will offer SmarCAM Italia together with its TV sets in Italy. SmarCAM Italia allows TV viewers who have purchased credit to watch programs directly on their TV sets without the use of an external set-top box.
News categories: SmarDTV, Samsung, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Italy, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

Sweden - Slight fall for Boxer in Q2
Jul 3, 2008 – On 30 June, Boxer had 701,000 digital TV subscribers, a fall of 8,000 during the second quarter this year, but still 23,000 more than on the same date last year.
News categories: Boxer, Denmark, Digital TV, Subscribers, Sweden, Terrestrial

Rubberduck Launches Mobile TV Services for Sonofon in Denmark
Jul 1, 2008 – Rubberduck Media Lab (Stockholm: ASP) has launched a comprehensive mobile TV service in Denmark for Sonofon A/S. Rubberduck will deliver and manage Sonofon's new mobile TV portal, providing live news and entertainment content using the 3G network.
News categories: Rubberduck, Sonofon, 5G, Content Distribution, Denmark, Mobile

Spain ends 2007 with 295,000 mobile TV subscribers
Jul 1, 2008 – According to the Comisión del Mercado de las Telecomunicaciones (CMT), the number of pay-TV subscribers in Spain at the end of 2007 was 3.98 million, while mobile TV, in its first year of introduction, acquired 295,246 subscribers.
News categories: Comisión del Mercado de las Telecomunicaciones, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Mobile, Satellite, Spain, Subscribers, Terrestrial

Widevine® Secures Viginta's One Way DTT Video Service
Jun 30, 2008 – Widevine has announced that leading Lithuanian multichannel television, telephone and internet service provider Viginta has selected Widevine Cypher to secure content delivered over DTT, hybrid QAM (cable) and IPTV deployments.
News categories: Widevine, Viginta, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, IPTV, Lithuania, Terrestrial

Preliminary decision awards victory in Portugal DTT contest
Jun 30, 2008 – Portugal Telecom (Lisbon: PTC; NYSE: PT) has announced that a preliminary decision of the Public Tender Committee has awarded PT the victory in the Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) pay-TV (Muxes B to F) public tender.
News categories: Portugal Telecom, Digital TV, Portugal, Regulation, Terrestrial