France Digital TV News

CANAL+ Chooses the Latest Generation of NDS Middleware to Transform Subscribers' Set-top Boxes into Digital Video Recorders
Feb 26, 2008 – NDS (NASDAQ: NNDS) has announced that CANAL+ GROUP, France's leading Pay TV provider, has chosen the latest generation of MediaHighway® middleware to enable subscribers to transform their HD STBs into DVRs.
News categories: NDS Group, CANAL+ GROUP, Digital TV, DVR, France, Middleware, Satellite, Set Top Box

French Digital Terrestrial Free-TV TNTSAT Already Reaches 350,000 Households
Feb 25, 2008 – SES ASTRA, an SES company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), and French pay-TV group CANAL+ have announced that 350,000 receivers have already been sold to French households.
News categories: TNTSAT, Canal+, SES ASTRA, Digital TV, France, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers

Orange, Thomson and Sagem Communications are creating Soft At Home, a joint venture publisher of software for the digital home
Feb 20, 2008 – Orange, Thomson and Sagem Communications have joined forces to create a joint venture: Soft At Home. This structure is aimed at creating a standard for the interconnection of equipment within the multimedia ecosystem.
News categories: Soft At Home, Sagem, Thomson, France Telecom, Broadband, Digital TV, France, IPTV, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Streaming

'Baromètre TDF de la télévision numérique N°6' Published
Feb 18, 2008 – Penetration of digital TV in French homes has reached 46.5%, up 4.1 percentage points in the quarter, driven by the success of digital terrestrial (DTT).
News categories: TDF, 5G, Digital TV, France, Market Research, Mobile, Set Top Box, Subscribers, Terrestrial

CANAL+ Group exceeds 250,000 Mobile TV subscribers
Feb 14, 2008 – CANAL+ Group has over 250,000 3G/3G+ and EDGE customers with its partners SFR and Bouygues Telecom.
News categories: CANAL+, 5G, Digital TV, France, Mobile, Subscribers

Directive on the protection of conditional-access services: Commission consultation of interested parties
Feb 11, 2008 – The European Commission is launching an open consultation and is asking all interested parties to submit information on services that use conditional-access systems, such as pay-TV or video on demand.
News categories: European Commission, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, DRM, Estonia, Europe, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, IPTV, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mobile, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Regulation, Romania, Satellite, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Terrestrial, UK

Neuf Cegetel: double-digit organic growth in the fourth quarter
Feb 8, 2008 – Neuf Cegetel has reported its (unaudited) revenue figures for the fourth quarter. Neuf Cegetel had more than 750,000 TV subscribers at year-end 2007.
News categories: Neuf Cegetel, Earnings Release, Digital TV, France, IPTV, Results, Subscribers

Orange to partner with Samsung for DTH
Feb 8, 2008 – Orange will partner with Samsung for the introduction of its DTH service, said chairman Didier Lombard to French newspaper Les Echos.
News categories: Orange, Samsung, Digital TV, DVR, France, Satellite, Set Top Box

France Telecom 2007 annual results: a very good Group performance
Feb 6, 2008 – ADSL Multiservices were up significantly at 31 December 2007, with 1.149 million ADSL television subscribers (IPTV), twice the number of a year ago, accompanied by the success of video on demand services (VOD), with 2.5 million paying downloads recorded in 2007.
News categories: France Telecom, Earnings Release, Results Presentation, Broadband, Digital TV, France, IPTV, Results, Subscribers