Germany Digital TV News (Digital Fernsehen Nachrichten Deutschland)

IPTV to drive take-up of pay TV in Western Europe, says Analysys Mason
May 8, 2008 – The pay-TV market in Western Europe is generally considered to be mature, but the increasing deployment of IPTV services will see the market enjoy a modest rate of growth in the number of households subscribing to pay-TV services.
News categories: Analysys, Cable TV, Digital TV, Europe, France, Germany, IPTV, Ireland, Italy, Market Research, Satellite, Spain, Subscribers, UK

Are National Regulation Frameworks for Mobile TV ready?
May 7, 2008 – A study on terrestrial mobile broadcast TV by the bmcoforum has concluded that a significant number of countries are still lagging behind most advanced countries in defining the regulatory framework including the licensing conditions and processes.
News categories: bmcoforum, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, Estonia, Europe, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Market Research, Mobile, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Regulation, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, USA

MFD hands back German T-DMB licence
May 1, 2008 – The German mobile TV operator Mobilen Fernsehen Deutschland (MFD) has stopped its Watcha service and handed back its T-DMB licence.
News categories: MFD, Digital TV, Germany, Mobile

European cable industry sees rapid growth in digital TV, telephony and broadband internet
Apr 23, 2008 – Details of 2007 industry revenues and customer volumes were announced at the annual Cable Congress. The number of Digital cable TV customers has more than doubled in the past two years to 13.9m (+40% in 2007 compared to 9.9m in 2006).
News categories: Cable Europe, Austria, Belgium, Broadband, Bulgaria, Cable TV, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, DOCSIS, Estonia, Europe, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Market Research, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Subscribers, Sweden, UK

2007 Unitymedia Annual Results
Apr 17, 2008 – Alongside growth in Triple Play services, Unitymedia Cable converted nearly 170,000 subscribers as of December 31, 2007, from analogue television to the Digital TV Basic.
News categories: Unitymedia, Cable TV, Digital TV, Germany, Results, Subscribers

Kabel Deutschland reports subscriber numbers for fiscal year 2007/2008
Apr 16, 2008 – Kabel Digital pay TV RGUs increased by 12.6% to 778 thousand at March 31, 2008 (692 thousand on March 31, 2007). The overall number of digital TV RGUs amounted to 1,675 thousand (1,206 thousand in the previous year).
News categories: KDG, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Germany, Subscribers

Premiere to Introduce Next Generation Nagravision Smartcards
Apr 15, 2008 – Premiere and the Kudelski Group (SWX:KUD.VX) confirm that Premiere will continue to secure its pay TV revenues with Nagravision technology. The latest generation of smartcards will be introduced from May 2008 onwards.
News categories: Nagravision, Premiere, CAM, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Germany, Satellite

Premiere Chooses NDS VideoGuard® to Secure its Pay-TV Platforms in Germany and Austria
Apr 15, 2008 – NDS Group (NASDAQ: NNDS) has announced that Premiere will deploy VideoGuard®, the market-leading content protection solution from NDS, to secure its pay-TV satellite platforms in Germany and Austria.
News categories: NDS Group, Premiere, Austria, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Germany, Satellite, Set Top Box

Tele Columbus to back CI+ standard
Apr 14, 2008 – German cable operator Tele Columbus said it will support the open CI-Plus standard, working with NDS Group (NASDAQ: NNDS) on possible solutions.
News categories: Tele Columbus, NDS Group, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Germany, Set Top Box