EU (European Union) Digital TV News

France: Digital TV market booming
Oct 4, 2007 – The French digital terrestrial system, "Television Numerique Terrestre", has been available since March 2005. Over the last two and a half years since its introduction, more than 2.5 million TV sets and 8 million digital receivers have been sold across the nation.
News categories: GfK, Digital TV, France, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

Digital TV increases to 41% of Dutch households
Oct 3, 2007 – In the Netherlands, the digitalisation of media and communication services continues at a fast pace. Digital TV now reaches 41% of all households, an increase of 50% compared with last year.
News categories: synovate/Interview NSS, Broadband, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Market Research, Netherlands, TV Services

Italy delays switch-off to 2012
Oct 1, 2007 – Italy's Minister of Telecommunications Paolo Gentiloni has confirmed that the country's analogue switch-off date will be put back four years, from December 2008 to 2012.
News categories: Digital TV, Italy, Terrestrial

Telecom Italia launches "UNICA", the first quadruple play offering
Oct 1, 2007 – Telecom Italia launches the first Quadruple Play offering "Unica", based on broadband and IP technology. The package allows users to make calls from the same telephone either through the fixed-line or mobile network, to surf the Internet and to access Alice Home TV content.
News categories: Telecom Italia, Broadband, Digital TV, IPTV, Italy, Mobile

Convergence Driving European TV Progress
Oct 1, 2007 – New research published today by Informa Telecoms & Media shows that digital TV penetration of Western European households will break the 50% mark by the end of this year.
News categories: Informa Telecoms & Media, Cable TV, Digital TV, Europe, France, Germany, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Terrestrial, TV Services, UK

Almost one-third of Dutch TV connections are digital
Oct 1, 2007 – The total number of Dutch TV connections stabilised at 7.027 million connections at the end of the second quarter of 2007, with the number of digital TV connections growing by 4.2 percent to 2.2 million, according to Telecompaper's quarterly update on the Dutch TV market.
News categories: Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Netherlands, Terrestrial

Smart Com Deploys Verimatrix Content Security for T-2 IPTV Service
Oct 1, 2007 – Verimatrix and Smart Com, the leading European IPTV middleware vendor and IPTV system integrator, have announced the successful deployment of Verimatrix's Video Content Authority System (VCAS™) for T-2's IPTV deployment.
News categories: Smart Com, T-2, Verimatrix, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, IPTV, Slovenia

Czech MPs approve amendment aimed to support TV digitalisation
Sep 27, 2007 – The Czech lower house has approved an amendment to several media laws in an effort to unblock the launch of digital terrestrial television broadcasting in the country.
News categories: Czech Republic, Digital TV, Terrestrial, TV Services

France - CSA opens consultation on local television services
Sep 27, 2007 – The broadcast regulator has opened a consultation on local television services on the DTT platform.
News categories: Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA), Digital TV, France, Terrestrial, TV Services