France Digital TV News

Bouygues Telecom claims 300,000 BBox subscribers
Jan 29, 2010 – According to a message sent to its customers, more than 300,000 have now subscribed to Bouygues Telecom's BBox triple play service. In the fourth quarter of 2009 alone, BBox added 127,000 subscribers.
News categories: Bouygues Telecom, Digital TV, France, Gateway, IPTV, Set Top Box, Subscribers

French VoD market: up 175% in two years
Jan 29, 2010 – While the French DVD market is declining or stabilizing at best, VoD continues its growth, mainly driven by leading TV operators' offers. According to preliminary figures from GfK, VoD market grew to over €80m in 2009, up from €53m in 2008.
News categories: GfK, Dataxis, Cable TV, France, IPTV, Market Research

Global fixed-broadband subscriptions to surpass half a billion mark in 2010
Jan 21, 2010 – According to new research from Informa Telecoms & Media, global fixed-broadband subscription numbers will reach half a billion this year, driven by continued growth in emerging markets.
News categories: Informa Telecoms & Media, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Digital TV, France, Germany, India, IPTV, Italy, Japan, Korea, Market Research, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Spain, Streaming, Subscribers, Taiwan, Turkey, UK, USA

Growth of the number of television channels and multi-channel platforms in Europe continues despite the crisis
Jan 13, 2010 – The information in the MAVISE database shows that despite the economic crisis in 2009, the number of channels and the number of television platforms continues to grow in Europe (EU 27 + two candidate countries, Croatia and Turkey).
News categories: MAVISE, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cable TV, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, Estonia, EU, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, IPTV, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Market Research, Mobile, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Satellite, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Terrestrial, Turkey, UK

Panasonic Selects NXP Silicon Tuner for Blu-ray Disc Recorder
Jan 12, 2010 – NXP Semiconductors has announced that Panasonic has selected NXP's industry leading DVB-T silicon tuners for terrestrial broadcasting reception in its high-end Blu-ray disc recorders.
News categories: NXP, Panasonic, Blu-ray, France, Semiconductor, Terrestrial

LG Electronics and Orange join forces to offer a content and services portal for connected TV
Jan 8, 2010 – Following an agreement signed on January 7, 2010 at CES between Orange (Paris & NYSE: FTE) and LG Electronics (LGE), the companies will offer exclusive access in France to an Orange portal for LG televisions that are internet connected.
News categories: Orange, LG Electronics, CES2025, Digital TV, France, Smart TV, Streaming

Ofcom releases International Communications Market report
Dec 17, 2009 – Ofcom's International Communications Market data provides a snapshot of the communications market in twelve major economies and the four fast growing economies of Brazil, India, Russia and China in the five years to 2008.
News categories: Ofcom, Brazil, Cable TV, Canada, China, Digital TV, France, Germany, India, IPTV, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Market Research, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Satellite, Spain, Sweden, Terrestrial, UK, USA

France exceeded 10 million pay TV subscribers at end-2008
Dec 16, 2009 – In a report on the economics of pay TV channels, France's Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA) found that, at the end of 2008, the number of households subscribing to pay-TV was 10.4 million out of a total of 25.5 million TV households in the country.
News categories: Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel, Cable TV, France, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial

Alcatel-Lucent, Solaris Mobile and towerCast team up for DVB-SH mobile TV in Paris
Nov 26, 2009 – Alcatel-Lucent (Paris and NYSE: ALU), Solaris Mobile and towerCast have announced the first satellite broadcast infrastructure to demonstrate potential services using DVB-SH to be deployed in Paris and surrounding suburbs.
News categories: Alcatel-Lucent, Solaris Mobile, towerCast, Dibcom, Content Distribution, Digital TV, France, Mobile, Semiconductor