EU (European Union) Digital TV News

Philips and Canalsat join forces to accelerate European HDTV adoption
Sep 12, 2007 – Maintaining its leading position in driving availability of HDTV services across Europe, Philips has announced that it has been selected by Canalsat to supply high definition (DualS) set-top boxes to the French digital satellite operator.
News categories: Royal Philips Electronics, Canalsat, Digital TV, France, IBCShow, Satellite, Set Top Box

ADB Selected To Supply First DVR For Launch On Telefónica IPTV Network
Sep 10, 2007 – Advanced Digital Broadcast has announced that it has been selected to supply high definition, hybrid, digital video recorders (DVRs) to Telefónica in Spain. ADB's ADB-5810TWX platform has been launched at IBC2007 and Telefónica will be the first IPTV operator to deploy it in volume.
News categories: Advanced Digital Broadcast, Telefónica, Digital TV, DVR, IBCShow, IPTV, Set Top Box, Spain

Motorola Celebrates Shipping Two Million IP Set-Top Boxes
Sep 7, 2007 – Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) has announced that it has shipped its two millionth Internet Protocol (IP) set-top box. The milestone was reached just five months after the shipment of its one millionth IP set-top box.
News categories: Digital TV, IBCShow, IPTV, Results, Set Top Box, Sweden

Irdeto Digital TV Solution Chosen by NTF for New French Digital Terrestrial Pay Television Service
Sep 7, 2007 – Irdeto has finalized an exclusive customer agreement with Neotion TNT France (NTF) to provide its Irdeto Digital TV conditional access (CA) solution for NTF's new digital terrestrial television (DTT) pay TV service in France.
News categories: Irdeto, Neotion, Conditional Access, Digital TV, France, IBCShow, Terrestrial

Kudelski Group to Enhance and Secure New HDTV PVR and Push-Video-on-Demand Satellite Service for CanalDigitaal and TV-Vlaanderen
Sep 7, 2007 – The Kudelski Group (SWX Swiss Exchange: KUD) has announced that CanalDigitaal and TV-Vlaanderen have selected a suite of Kudelski Group products to enhance and secure their new high definition television (HDTV) subscription video-on-demand (S-VOD) service scheduled to launch in the first quarter of 2008.
News categories: Belgium, Conditional Access, Digital TV, DVR, IBCShow, Middleware, Netherlands, Satellite

Spain - September DTT monthly update released
Sep 5, 2007 – Digital terrestrial TV receiver sales in Spain have passed the 5.78 million unit mark, with 371,694 sold during the month of July, a new monthly record.
News categories: Impulsa-TDT, Digital TV, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Spain, Terrestrial

Verimatrix Secures VOLNÃ's New IPTV Service
Sep 5, 2007 – Verimatrix has announced at IBC2007 that its Video Content Authority System (VCAS™) has been deployed to secure VOLNÃ's new IPTV offering. VOLNÃ TV is using Verimatrix's VCAS for IPTV system to protect premium content on its TV service.
News categories: Broadband, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Czech Republic, Digital TV, IBCShow, IPTV

INDI Achieves 30% Penetration With Osmosys HD DVR Services
Sep 4, 2007 – Osmosys has announced that its end-to-end digital video recorder (DVR) software solution has enabled INDI to supply more than 30% of its cable TV subscriber base with a high definition DVR offering since it launched the service in June 2007.
News categories: Belgium, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVB-MHP, DVR, IBCShow, Middleware

Germany - Digitalisation Breakthrough in TV Households
Sep 4, 2007 – The digitalisation of TV-households is gathering momentum in Germany: 77 per cent of TV-households will be digitalised at primary reception by the end of 2012. This is the forecast of Goldmedia published in its latest study "The Future of TV-transmission", which analyses the development of broadcasting infrastructures in Germany.
News categories: Cable TV, Digital TV, Germany, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Terrestrial, TV Services