India Digital TV News

IN Media Announces Major Order for Set Top Boxes
Sep 22, 2010 – IN Media Corp (OTC Bulletin Board: IMDC) has announced that it has received a multimillion dollar order for its fully integrated IPTV set top box !ROFL.
News categories: IN Media Corp, India, Set Top Box, Sri Lanka, Streaming

Tata Sky announces price of Rs 999 for hardware
Sep 15, 2010 – Tata Sky has announced the launch of an affordable price of just Rs. 999/- (22USD) for its set-top-box. The Tata Sky set-top-box will be made available across the country in all leading consumer electronic outlets.
News categories: Tata Sky, India, Satellite, Set Top Box

IPTV and 3D TV Confirmed as Greatest Opportunities for Asian Pay TV Operators
Aug 31, 2010 – Asia's Pay-TV industry players say new technologies such as IPTV and 3D TV offer the greatest untapped opportunity, according to the 2010 Asia-Pacific Pay TV Operators Survey jointly produced by Global Intelligence Alliance (GIA) and ContentAsia.
News categories: Global Intelligence Alliance, Australia, Brunei, Hong Kong, India, IPTV, Japan, Market Research, Metaverse, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Vietnam

TRAI issues Consultation Paper on Technical Interoperability of DTH Set Top Boxes
Aug 20, 2010 – The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has issued a Consultation Paper on Technical Interoperability of DTH Set Top Boxes after the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting requested TRAI to review its recommendations.
News categories: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, Digital TV, India, Satellite, Set Top Box

India to reduce digital cable STB custom duty to zero
Aug 5, 2010 – The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released recommendations on Implementation of Digital Addressable Cable TV Systems in India. The recommendations include a sunset date for analogue cable TV services of 31st Dec. 2013.
News categories: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, Cable TV, Content Distribution, Digital TV, India, Regulation, Set Top Box

STMicroelectronics Enables Dish TV Digital Set-Top Boxes in India
Aug 2, 2010 – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) and India's Dish TV have announced that Dish TV's latest digital set-top boxes are powered by ST's highly integrated System-on-Chip (SoC) STB decoder ICs.
News categories: STMicroelectronics, Dish TV, Digital TV, India, Satellite, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

Asia Pacific TV market achieves twin milestones
Jul 7, 2010 – According to the latest figures from Informa Telecoms & Media, the Asia Pacific TV sector passed two significant milestones last month, with the region now exceeding 150 million digital TV homes while, at the same time, surpassing 10 million IPTV households.
News categories: Informa Telecoms & Media, Australia, Cable TV, China, Digital TV, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, IPTV, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Market Research, New Zealand, Philippines, Satellite, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam

Airtel digital TV launches HD set-top box
Jun 23, 2010 – Airtel digital TV, the DTH service from Bharti Airtel (Bombay:532454), has announced the launch of 'Airtel digital TV HD', an enhanced Set Top Box (STB) with capability to showcase High Definition (HD) content to its customers.
News categories: Airtel, Digital TV, DVB-S2, India, Satellite, Set Top Box

Seans Media Builds India's First H.264-Based Cable Service
Jun 16, 2010 – Envivio has announced that Seans Media has used an Envivio video head-end to launch India's first digital cable service featuring high-efficiency H.264 video encoding.
News categories: Envivio, Aerolex, BroadcastAsia, Cable TV, Content Distribution, India