France Digital TV News

CSA invites bids for pay DTT in France
Jul 21, 2010 – France's Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA) has launched a call for applications to transmit Pay TV on the country's R3 digital terrestrial television multiplex.
News categories: Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel, Digital TV, France, Regulation, Terrestrial

11,000 3D TVs sold in France in May and June
Jul 13, 2010 – According to GfK, 11,000 3D TVs were sold in France in May and June boosted by the World Cup. GfK forecasts that the total market in France for this year should be between 150,000 and 250,000 3D TV sets.
News categories: GfK, France, Market Research, Metaverse, Smart TV

TNTSAT continues to see strong growth
Jul 12, 2010 – SES ASTRA (Paris and Luxembourg: SESG) has announced that the French digital terrestrial channel offer on satellite, TNTSAT, broadcast via ASTRA, continues to show strong growth with a total of 2.3 million receivers sold at the end of June 2010.
News categories: TNTSAT, Digital TV, France, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box

Sigma Designs Delivers the World Cup in 3D
Jul 9, 2010 – Sigma Designs (NASDAQ: SIGM) has announced that France's Free (Paris: ILD) is delivering 3D broadcasts of World Cup soccer and ongoing 3D broadcast content using Sigma's SMP8634 Secure Media Processor in its Freebox triple-play set-top boxes.
News categories: Sigma Designs, Iliad, Free, Digital TV, France, IPTV, Metaverse, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

EU sales record for digital set-top boxes
Jun 29, 2010 – The European market for digital set-top boxes is set to rise by an estimated 9.6 per cent to 2.2 billion euros in 2010 according to the European Information Technology Observatory (EITO).
News categories: EITO, Digital TV, EU, France, Germany, Italy, Market Research, Set Top Box, Spain, UK

Global IPTV subscribers grow 8% in Q1 2010
Jun 16, 2010 – Broadband subscription growth took an upswing during the first quarter of 2010. The Broadband Forum figures show that the number of IPTV subscribers grew to 36.3 million. China and the USA are the top two countries for both broadband and IPTV.
News categories: Broadband Forum, Point Topic, Broadband, BroadcastAsia, China, Digital TV, France, Germany, Hong Kong, IPTV, Italy, Japan, Korea, Market Research, Russia, Spain, Subscribers, USA

Bluestreak Technology Selected by Bouygues Telecom to Power Bbox IPTV Interface and Widget Framework
Jun 15, 2010 – Bluestreak Technology has announced that French network operator, Bouygues Telecom, has selected the company's MachBlue™ platform to power the next-generation interface for Bouygues Telecom's popular Bbox IPTV.
News categories: Bluestreak, Bouygues Telecom, Digital TV, France, IPTV, Media Player, Middleware, Set Top Box

Monaco Telecom Innovative TV Service Goes Live
Jun 8, 2010 – Monaco Telecom has announced the launch of the Principality's next generation connected TV experience, created in partnership with Netgem (Paris: NTG FP 7537; ETGM), a leading provider of connected entertainment technology.
News categories: Netgem, Monaco Telecom, Apps, Cable TV, Monaco, Set Top Box, Streaming

Iliad (Free/Alice) adds 48k ADSL subscribers in 1Q10
May 5, 2010 – At 31 March 2010, the Iliad Group (Paris: ILD) totalled more than 4.5 million ADSL subscribers, including 3,866,000 subscribers registered under the Free brand and 638,000 subscribers under the Alice brand.
News categories: Iliad, France, IPTV, Results, Subscribers