India Digital TV News

Indian Pay TV platforms look for investors as downturn eases
Sep 17, 2009 – Research just published by media analysts Screen Digest shows that India's TV market is expected to experience growth in all sectors until 2013.
News categories: Screen Digest, Cable TV, Digital TV, India, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers

India's GTPL Chooses NDS End-to-End Solution for Digital Cable TV
Sep 9, 2009 – NDS has announced that Gujarat Telelink Private Ltd (GTPL), an independent cable TV provider in Gujarat, India, is deploying an end-to-end solution from NDS to power and protect its digital services.
News categories: NDS Group, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Digital TV, IBCShow, India, Middleware, Set Top Box

Sun Direct crosses 4 million subscribers
Sep 7, 2009 – Sun Direct, the direct-to-home (DTH) service provider in India, has achieved another milestone by crossing the 4 million subscriber base; the fastest growing player in the DTH market to do so in under two years, since its launch in December 2007.
News categories: Sun Direct, Digital TV, India, Satellite, Subscribers

India's DTH set-top boxes may have to be interoperable
Aug 11, 2009 – India's DTH operators could be asked to provide inter-operable set-top boxes with the Competition Commission of India (CCI) seeing prima facie merit in a complaint filed by a consumer organisation that it is in violation of competition laws.
News categories: Competition Commission of India, Digital TV, India, Regulation, Satellite, Set Top Box

China, India, and US Continue to Drive 2009 Set-top Box Shipments
Aug 6, 2009 – Shipments of digital terrestrial (DTT) and satellite (DTH) set-top boxes to China, India, and the United States accounted for more than 60% of total worldwide STB shipments in 2008, and are expected to reach 70% of worldwide shipments in 2009.
News categories: IMS Research, China, Digital TV, India, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial, USA

Tata Sky Achieves Four Million Connections in India
Aug 6, 2009 – NDS has recognised India's Tata Sky as having achieved a remarkable milestone in reaching four million connections in under three years since launch. The latest one million subscribers were gained in just over seven months.
News categories: Tata Sky, NDS Group, Digital TV, India, Satellite, Subscribers

Reliance Big TV has 1.7 million subscribers
Jul 31, 2009 – Reliance Communications (Bombay:532712) has released its results for the quarter ended June 30, 2009. Reliance Big TV has 1.7 million subscribers, about 12% of the Indian DTH market. The fastest ramp up ever achieved by any DTH operator in the world.
News categories: Reliance Communications, Big TV, India, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Asia/Pacific Region Lifts Sagging Satellite Set Top Box Market
Jul 21, 2009 – Thanks to remarkable shipment growth in Asia/Pacific the worldwide satellite set top box market chalked up growth in 2008, reports In-Stat. However, outside of Asia/Pacific and Latin America, regional markets remain sluggish or even negative.
News categories: In-Stat, Asia, Digital TV, DVR, India, Market Research, Satellite, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

13.09 million DTH subscribers in India at end March 2009
Jul 13, 2009 – TRAI has released its Telecom Services Performance Indicators Report for the first quarter 2009. At the end of March, the total number of DTH subscribers was 13.09 million and the number of set-top boxes in CAS notified cable TV areas was 770,053.
News categories: Telecom Regulatory Authority Of India, Cable TV, Digital TV, India, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers