France Digital TV News

Digital TV homes to double within five years
Jun 20, 2011 – The number of digital TV homes will double between 2010 and 2016 to 1,189 million, according to a report from Digital TV Research. The report estimated that digital penetration will climb from 42.5% at end-2010 to 80.0% by 2016.
News categories: Digital TV Research Ltd, Brazil, Cable TV, China, Digital TV, France, Germany, India, IPTV, Italy, Japan, Market Research, Russia, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial, UK, USA

Global pay TV revenues reached US$155 billion in 2010
Jun 13, 2011 – About 338 million digital homes were added around the world between 2006 and 2010, according to a report from Digital TV Research. The Digital TV World Databook estimated that this took the digital TV household total for the countries covered to 576 million.
News categories: Digital TV Research Ltd, Bahrain, Belgium, Brazil, Cable TV, Canada, China, Croatia, Denmark, Digital TV, Finland, France, Germany, India, IPTV, Italy, Japan, Korea, Kuwait, Latvia, Market Research, Netherlands, Norway, Puerto Rico, Russia, Satellite, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Subscribers, Sweden, Switzerland, Terrestrial, Tunisia, UK, USA

Netgem renews its contract with SFR for 3 years
Jun 9, 2011 – Netgem (Paris: NTG FP 7537; ETGM) has announced that it is extending its contract with French telecoms operator SFR (Paris:VIV). The agreement covers hardware, software, maintenance and services.
News categories: Netgem, SFR, France, IPTV, Middleware, Set Top Box

U.K. and French Broadcasters Take the Lead in European OTT Video Market
May 25, 2011 – An analysis of Europe's largest over-the-top (OTT) video markets by SNL Kagan finds the U.K. and France leading Europe's emerging OTT deployments, invigorating both free and pay-TV competitive dynamics from which new business models are emerging.
News categories: SNL Kagan, Digital TV, France, Germany, Italy, Market Research, Spain, Streaming, UK

httv launches HbbTV end-to-end solutions at ANGA Cable 2011
Apr 29, 2011 – httv has been involved in HbbTV since the early stage of the development of the standard and took part in several trials and demos - such as 'Normandie TV' on DTT in France and 'My Services TV' with AFDESI, also in France.
News categories: httv, ANGA COM, Digital TV, France, HbbTV, Middleware, Set Top Box, Streaming

Blu-ray 3D Spending Booms This Year in U.S. and Major European Economies
Apr 15, 2011 – Consumer spending on Blu-ray Discs 3D (BD3D) in 2011 is forecast to rise 533 percent across the four markets of the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and France, according to new IHS Screen Digest research.
News categories: Screen Digest, Blu-ray, France, Germany, Market Research, Metaverse, UK, USA

ACCESS and HyperPanel Lab Power First HbbTV Pilot Services in France for Normandie TV
Apr 14, 2011 – ACCESS CO. has announced that HyperPanel Lab's HbbTV solution, including ACCESS' NetFront™ Browser DTV Profile, has been selected by Normandie TV. Normandie TV is the first French broadcaster to carry HbbTV services over digital terrestrial.
News categories: ACCESS CO., HyperPanel, Normandie TV, Digital TV, France, HbbTV, Media Player, Middleware, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

Court of Justice ruling means PVRs escape EU customs duty
Apr 14, 2011 – The European Court of Justice has ruled that for customs purposes decoders with a hard disk drive are set-top boxes and not recording apparatus and so are exempt from customs duties instead of being subject to a rate of 13.9%.
News categories: European Court of Justice, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, DVR, Estonia, EU, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Set Top Box, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK

Bouygues Telecom Brings the Internet to TV Through Extended Partnership with Bluestreak Technology
Apr 12, 2011 – Bluestreak Technology has announced that French network operator Bouygues Telecom has expanded their partnership with Bluestreak Technology to deliver Internet services to Bouygues Telecom's Bbox IPTV subscribers.
News categories: Bluestreak Technology, Bouygues Telecom, France, IPTV, Media Player, Set Top Box