India Digital TV News

Tata Sky Chooses NDS for India's First Hindi EPG
Sep 2, 2008 – NDS (NASDAQ: NNDS) has announced that Tata Sky has launched India's first EPG in the Hindi language in partnership with NDS.
News categories: NDS Group, Tata Sky, India, Middleware, Satellite, Set Top Box

UTStarcom and Aksh to Power BSNL's New iControl IPTV Service in 20 Cities Across India
Sep 2, 2008 – UTStarcom (Nasdaq: UTSI) has announced a contract with Aksh Optifibre (BOM: 532351) to deploy UTStarcom's end-to-end RollingStream® Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) solution in 20 cities on Bharat Sanchar Nigam, Ltd. (BSNL)'s ADSL 2+ network.
News categories: UTStarcom, BSNL, Aksh Optifibre, Broadband, Conditional Access, Content Distribution, Digital TV, India, IPTV, Middleware, Set Top Box

India - Cabinet approves Guidelines for Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) Services
Aug 21, 2008 – India's Cabinet has given its approval to the guidelines for provisioning of IPTV services and also its approval to amend the policy guidelines for downlinking of TV channels allowing broadcasters to provide content to IPTV service providers.
News categories: Digital TV, India, IPTV, Regulation, Satellite

India - Reliance Communications launches Big TV DTH service
Aug 19, 2008 – Reliance Communications has today started nationwide commercial operations of its satellite pay TV 'Big TV DTH Service'. The company also plans to launch IPTV in two to three months.
News categories: Reliance Communications, Big TV, Digital TV, India, IPTV, Satellite

Latens Partners with Skyworth to Offer Cost Effective Solutions for the Asian Pay-TV market
Aug 14, 2008 – Latens has announced that Skyworth Digital (Hong Kong: 0751) has successfully integrated the company's BCAS product with a new range of digital video broadcast cable (DVB-C) set-top boxes (STBs) for emerging markets.
News categories: Latens, Skyworth, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Digital TV, IBCShow, India, MHEG-5, Set Top Box

Devas Multimedia plans DMB service in India
Aug 11, 2008 – Devas Multimedia plans to deliver video and TV channels via a hybrid satellite-terrestrial (DMB) network to mobile devices. Devas is working with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on a service to be launched in 2009-10.
News categories: ISRO, Digital TV, India, MandA, Mobile, Satellite

Aksh Optifibre, BSNL to launch first IPTV service in Jaipur
Aug 4, 2008 – After the successful launch of IPTV service in Mumbai and Delhi, now Aksh Optifibre has announced the launch of IPTV (Interactive and Personalized Television) service 'icontrol' in collaboration with BSNL in Jaipur, Rajasthan.
News categories: Aksh Optifibre, BSNL, icontrol, Digital TV, India, IPTV

TRAI sets a time frame of five years for Cable TV to go digital
Jul 25, 2008 – TRAI has sent its final recommendations on 'Restructuring of Cable TV Services' to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The recommendations require an upgrading of present Cable TV Networks to two-way digital cable networks.
News categories: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, Broadband, Cable TV, Content Distribution, Digital TV, India, Regulation

Viaccess to secure new channels launches for STAR India
Jul 18, 2008 – Viaccess SA, the leader of content protection head-quartered in Paris (France), and STAR India Pvt Ltd. have signed an agreement for the encryption of its upcoming new channels for STAR in India.
News categories: Viaccess, STAR India, Conditional Access, Digital TV, India