India Digital TV News

Digital TV homes to double within five years
Jun 20, 2011 – The number of digital TV homes will double between 2010 and 2016 to 1,189 million, according to a report from Digital TV Research. The report estimated that digital penetration will climb from 42.5% at end-2010 to 80.0% by 2016.
News categories: Digital TV Research Ltd, Brazil, Cable TV, China, Digital TV, France, Germany, India, IPTV, Italy, Japan, Market Research, Russia, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial, UK, USA

Tribunal orders DTH STB interoperability in India
Jun 19, 2011 – India's Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) has called for laying down technology standards that would pave the way for technical and commercial interoperability of the Set Top Boxes (STBs) of Direct-To-Home (DTH) operators.
News categories: TDSAT, CAM, Digital TV, India, Regulation, Satellite, Set Top Box

Global pay TV revenues reached US$155 billion in 2010
Jun 13, 2011 – About 338 million digital homes were added around the world between 2006 and 2010, according to a report from Digital TV Research. The Digital TV World Databook estimated that this took the digital TV household total for the countries covered to 576 million.
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Asia Pacific to add 400 million digital TV homes
Jun 6, 2011 – Asia Pacific is undergoing a digital TV boom that will see penetration increase from 29% in 2010 to 73% in 2016 - or up by nearly 400 million homes, according to a new report from Digital TV Research.
News categories: Digital TV Research Ltd, Asia, Australia, Cable TV, China, Digital TV, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, IPTV, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Market Research, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Satellite, Singapore, Subscribers, Taiwan, Terrestrial, Thailand, Vietnam

Asia-Pacific digital pay-TV subscriptions reached 148 million in 2010
May 12, 2011 – According to Asia Pacific Pay-TV & Broadband Markets 2011, a new report published by Media Partners Asia (MPA), India is set to overtake the US as the largest satellite market next year and will surpass China as the largest pay-TV ad market by 2018.
News categories: Media Partners Asia, Asia, Cable TV, Digital TV, India, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers

Indian DTH Industry Showing Incredible Growth
May 4, 2011 – Despite the fact that Indian DTH Industry faces several issues, the industry currently has about 30 million subscribers and is poised to grow to 69 million subscribers by 2014 end, according to a new research report from RNCOS.
News categories: RNCOS, India, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers

airtel digital TV launches 3D-ready HD PVR
May 4, 2011 – airtel digital TV - the DTH service from bharti airtel (Bombay:532454) in India - has announced the launch of its 3D ready High Definition Personal Video Recorder (HD Recorder).
News categories: airtel, Digital TV, DVR, India, Metaverse, Satellite, Set Top Box

India ends 2010 with 32 million DTH subscribers
Apr 29, 2011 – The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has released its 'Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicator Report' for the 2010 fourth quarter. According to the report, at the end of 2010 the reported DTH subscriber base was 32.05 million.
News categories: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, Cable TV, Digital TV, India, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers

India's Videocon d2h crosses 3 million subscriber mark
Apr 19, 2011 – Videocon d2h, the direct-to-home (DTH) company promoted by Videocon Group, has crossed the three million subscriber mark.
News categories: d2h, Digital TV, India, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers