EU (European Union) Digital TV News

Nagravision hooks up with Vodafone Italy to protect new mobile TV service
Feb 5, 2007 – Nagravision has been selected by Vodafone Italy to protect the content rights for its Digital Video Broadcasting Handheld (DVB-H) mobile TV service - Vodafone SKY TV.
News categories: Nagravision, Vodafone, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Italy, Mobile

Austria - DVB-H Brings 'Hit Radio Ö3', ORF 1 and ORF 2 to the A1 Mobile Phone
Feb 4, 2007 – In Kitzbühel, mobilkom austria, ORF ON, Ö3 and ORS presented DVB-H, the next generation of mobile TV.
News categories: mobilkom austria, Austria, Digital TV, Mobile

Elion is the first to start transmission of new generation high-definition television in Estonia
Feb 1, 2007 – High-Definition TV or HDTV is a television transmission technology that provides picture quality that is five times sharper than standard-resolution television pictures, and which Elion will be the first to offer in Estonia.
News categories: Elion, Cable TV, Digital TV, Estonia

BSkyB - Results for the six months ended 31 December 2006
Jan 31, 2007 – BSkyB announces record sales and 20% increase in interim dividend. Net customer growth in the second quarter was 183,000 to 8.441 million.
News categories: BSkyB, Earnings Release, Digital TV, DVR, Ireland, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers, UK

Vivendi Full Year 2006 Revenues Reach 20 billion Euros
Jan 31, 2007 – Total subscriptions to Canal+ at the end of the year reached 5,14 million, which represents a net increase of 76,000 compared with year-end 2005. The proportion of Canal+ Le Bouquet subscriptions reached 61% of complete Canal+ portfolio, up from 52% a year ago.
News categories: Vivendi, Earnings Release, Digital TV, France, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

France - DTTV penetration reaches 37.9% at end-2006
Jan 30, 2007 – In a report published by the network operator TDF together with the consultancy firm NPA Conseil, 15.1% of French households are equipped with a DTT receiver. This compares with 9.4% in Q3 2006.
News categories: TDF, NPA Conseil, Digital TV, France, Subscribers, Terrestrial

IBM, Cisco soft launch IPTV in Europe
Jan 30, 2007 – IBM and Cisco Systems have 'soft launched' an IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) with HD, video on demand, and other capabilities at a demonstration center at the IBM Industrial Solutions Center in La Gaude, outside Nice, France.
News categories: IBM, Conditional Access, Content Distribution, Digital TV, France, IPTV, Middleware

Sweden - Telia first with free channels and Internet surfing via television
Jan 30, 2007 – Telia is now offering its subscribers eight free television channels. Also new is that customers are being given the opportunity to surf directly on the Internet via their television.
News categories: Telia, Broadband, Digital TV, IPTV, Sweden

46,000 Basque homes receive Euskaltel's IP TV service
Jan 18, 2007 – Over 46,000 homes in the Basque region of Spain are receiving TV using Euskaltel's ADSL-based television service.
News categories: Euskaltel, Broadband, Digital TV, IPTV, Spain, Subscribers