India Digital TV News

Asia Pacific to add 440 million digital TV homes
May 18, 2012 – According to a new report from Digital TV Research, Asia Pacific is undergoing a digital TV boom that will see penetration increase from 36% in 2011 to 83% in 2017 - or up by 440 million homes.
News categories: Digital TV Research, Asia, Cable TV, China, Digital TV, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, IPTV, Japan, Korea, Market Research, New Zealand, Philippines, Satellite, Singapore, Subscribers, Terrestrial

Verismo Networks announces the release of MelaTV on Multiple Platforms
May 11, 2012 – Verismo Networks has announced the release of its MelaTV application on connected devices. MelaTV will allow consumers throughout the Indian subcontinent to access streaming of live television along with the ability to watch On Demand content.
News categories: Verismo Networks, MelaTV, India, Streaming

Asia Pac TV market to pass one billion TV sets in 2012
Apr 24, 2012 – According to Informa Telecoms & Media, Asia Pacific is the world's largest TV market and will pass the one billion TV sets mark this year. The region leads the way in terms of pay-TV subscribers with 394 million households taking pay-TV at the end of 2011.
News categories: Informa Telecoms & Media, Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Market Research, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Smart TV, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam

India's KCCL selects Conax security for digitization of its cable TV operations
Apr 21, 2012 – Conax has announced that it has agreed a contract with Kerela Communicators Cable Limited (KCCL) to supply the organization's 200 cable TV operators with content security. KCCL operators represent 70% of cable TV services in Kerela.
News categories: Conax, KCCL, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, India

Broadcom Introduces Affordable Cable Set-Top Box Technology to Accelerate India TV Digitization Initiative
Apr 18, 2012 – Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM) has announced the BCM7014, the industry's most integrated single chip standard definition MPEG-2 cable set-top box system-on-a-chip. Broadcom's platform is designed to accelerate India's cable TV digitization initiative.
News categories: Broadcom, Cable TV, Digital TV, ICs, India, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

India adds over 3 million DTH subscribers in 4Q 2011
Apr 13, 2012 – The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has released its Performance Indicator Report for the fourth quarter of 2011. At year-end, India's DTH subscriber base was 44.21 million, up from 41.04 million at the end of the previous quarter.
News categories: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, Cable TV, Digital TV, India, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers

Tata Sky Renews Its Trust in Technicolor
Apr 11, 2012 – Technicolor (Paris: TCH) has announced that it has reached the milestone of 5 million set-top boxes delivered to Tata Sky. Tata Sky has also awarded Technicolor a contract for HD set-top boxes, whose shipment will start later this year.
News categories: Technicolor, Tata Sky, Digital TV, India, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box

India's WWIL to deploy 3 million cable STBs
Apr 3, 2012 – With three months to go in the first phase of cable digitization in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata, Wire and Wireless (India) [WWIL] has announced that it has made arrangements to deploy three million set-top-boxes in the three cities.
News categories: WWIL, SITI Cable, Cable TV, Digital TV, India, Set Top Box

Latens Announce Agreements with Multiple Key Indian Operators at Convergence India 2012
Mar 23, 2012 – Latens (LSE: PIC) has announced that, since the start of 2012, agreements have been signed with four key regional operators in the Indian Cable Pay TV market. These operators include DDC, Faction Digital, Maury Diginet and RVR Infrastructures.
News categories: Latens, DDC, RVR, Indieon, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Digital TV, India, Set Top Box