Germany Digital TV News (Digital Fernsehen Nachrichten Deutschland)

Liberty Global adds 920,000 digital cable subscribers in 2012
Feb 13, 2013 – Liberty Global (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB and LBTYK) has announced results for the three months ended December 31, 2012. The company finished 2012 with a digital video base of 9.1 million RGUs, adding 920,000 digital cable RGUs during the year.
News categories: Liberty Global, Austria, Belgium, Cable TV, Chile, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, MMDS, Netherlands, Poland, Puerto Rico, Results, Romania, Satellite, Set Top Box, Slovakia, Subscribers, Switzerland

SES: HD+ Passes One Million Paying Households
Feb 5, 2013 – SES (Paris;LuxX:SESG) has announced that its German HD platform HD+ now exceeds one million paying households. For the full year of 2012, HD+ more than doubled the number of paying customers, from 404,123 to 944,993.
News categories: SES S.A, Digital TV, Germany, Satellite, Subscribers

HD PLUS and NAGRA partner on Internet TV launch
Jan 8, 2013 – NAGRA (SIX:KUD.S) and HD PLUS (Paris;LuxX: SESG) have announced the launch of an HD PLUS over-the-top catch-up service of private channels (Mediathek) called HD+ Replay, extending the companies' content protection partnership from satellite to Internet TV.
News categories: NAGRA, HD PLUS, Content Protection, Digital TV, Germany, HbbTV, Satellite, Streaming

Fortis to launch HTML5 and HbbTV Set-Top Box with ACCESS NetFront Browser
Dec 20, 2012 – ACCESS CO. has announced that its NetFront™ Browser NX 2.0, one of the industry's earliest HbbTV 1.5-compliant WebKit-based browsers, has been integrated with Fortis' HbbTV ready set-top box and is available in German retail outlets.
News categories: ACCESS CO, Fortis, Digital TV, Germany, HbbTV, Middleware, Set Top Box

1 million subscribers with HD for Kabel Deutschland
Dec 11, 2012 – Kabel Deutschland (KD) has announced that more than 1 million of its subscribers are now receiving HDTV programming. KD has 45 HD channels available on its network across its various HD packages.
News categories: Kabel Deutschland, Cable TV, Germany, Subscribers

Currently 1,424 online-TV services in Germany
Dec 11, 2012 – According to a study on Internet TV by Goldmedia, there are currently 1,424 online-TV services in Germany. The number of people accessing videos has increased by about 17% compared to the previous year. Every fifth video hit occurs via mobile devices.
News categories: Goldmedia, BLM, Digital TV, Germany, Market Research, Streaming

Sky Deutschland tests Ultra HD
Nov 30, 2012 – Sky Deutschland, in cooperation with production company Kropac Media, has made an Ultra HD test recording of the Bundesliga match between FC Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund.
News categories: Sky Deutschland, Kropac Media, Digital TV, Germany

Germany's media authorities push for upgrade to DVB-T2
Nov 27, 2012 – Germany's Conference of Directors of the media authorities (DLM), which represents the interests of the country's 14 regional media authorities, has called for preparations to begin for the upgrade of Germany's digital terrestrial television network to DVB-T2.
News categories: Medienanstalten, DVB-T2, Germany, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

Accedo and maxdome Partner to Deliver VOD App for PlayStation® 3
Nov 22, 2012 – Accedo and Germany's maxdome have announced the launch of a Playstation® 3 VOD app. The PS3 app gives users access to a vast catalogue of maxdome video titles, including films, series, comedy shows, documentaries, music, children's programmes, and many more.
News categories: Accedo, maxdome, Apps, Gaming, Germany, Streaming