India Digital TV News

CASBAA hails "digital cushion"
Oct 28, 2008 – The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has announced new data for Asia's pay-TV market, showing 71 million digital pay-TV households out of 300 million pay-TV subscriptions across Asia.
News categories: CASBAA, Standard Chartered, Australia, Cable TV, China, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, Market Research, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Satellite, Singapore, Subscribers, Thailand, Vietnam

Dish TV India Earnings Release For The Quarter September 30, 2008
Oct 24, 2008 – Dish TV India (Bombay:532839) has announced its unaudited financial results for the quarter ended 30 September 2008. Dish TV's net subscriber base stood at 3.4 million on September 30, 2008. Dish TV added 529,000 subscribers in the quarter.
News categories: Dish TV, India, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Growth Period Ahead for Indian Satellite Market
Oct 22, 2008 – NSR has released its latest market research and forecast report: Indian Satellite Markets. The market attracting the most interest from regional satellite operators has been Direct-to-Home in the Ku-band.
News categories: NSR, Digital TV, India, Market Research, Satellite

BIG TV gains 500,000 subscribers within two months of launch to emerge as fastest growing DTH player in India
Oct 20, 2008 – BIG TV (Bombay:532712) has announced that it has touched the magic figure of 500,000 subscribers within two months of its launch. This has put BIG TV DTH in the unique position of being the fastest growing DTH player in India.
News categories: Reliance Communications, BIG TV DTH, Digital TV, India, Satellite, Subscribers

India - Ministry moves on satellite set-top box interoperability
Oct 20, 2008 – The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) has asked the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) to draft norms for advanced DTH set-top boxes, including related to interoperability of the boxes.
News categories: Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Bureau of Indian Standards, India, Regulation, Satellite, Set Top Box

India - DishTV, Tata Sky plan to launch DVRs
Oct 13, 2008 – With competition hotting up in the direct-to-home television segment after the entry of Reliance Big TV and Bharti Airtel DTH, market leader DishTV and Tata Sky are planning to introduce DVR technology around Diwali time to stay a step ahead.
News categories: DishTV, Tata Sky, Digital TV, DVR, India, Satellite, Set Top Box

India - Airtel makes its satellite television debut
Oct 7, 2008 – Bharti Airtel (Bombay: BRTI) has announced the launch of Airtel digital TV, its Direct To Home (DTH) satellite TV service. The service will be available to customers through 21,000 retail points in 62 cities across the country starting October 9, 2008.
News categories: Bharti Airtel, Digital TV, DVB-S2, India, Satellite, Set Top Box

Irdeto Delivers End-to-End DVB SmartStart Solution To Videocon's D2H+
Sep 12, 2008 – Irdeto (JSE: NPN) has announced that it has signed an agreement to provide its end-to-end DVB SmartStart solution for the DTH operations of Videocon (Mumbai: 511389) media arm, Bharat Business Channel, under the brand name "D2H+".
News categories: Irdeto, Videocon, Conditional Access, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IBCShow, India, Middleware, Satellite

Sun Direct TV expands into West India
Sep 11, 2008 – Sun Direct TV, a leading direct-to-home (DTH) service provider in south India, is all set to replicate the success story in the other parts of the country. Starting with Ahmedabad, the company plans to re-run its success in western Indian markets.
News categories: Sun Direct, Digital TV, India, Satellite