IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) News

KT IPTV subscribers approach 5 million at end-2013
Jan 15, 2014 – KT Corporation (KRX:030200/NYSE:KT) has released its December 2013 factsheet. olleh tv IPTV subscribers reached 4.968 million at the end of the year, up 255,000 in the quarter and up 938,000 versus December 2012.
News categories: KT Corp, IPTV, Korea, Subscribers

SFR launches Google Services STB powered by Marvell ARMADA 1500 Plus
Jan 14, 2014 – Marvell (Nasdaq: MRVL) has announced that SFR has launched its hybrid set-top box powered by Marvell's ARMADA® 1500 Plus (88DE3108) system-on-chip (SoC) platform.
News categories: Marvell, SFR, Weili Dai, Frank Cadoret, Digital TV, France, IPTV, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Streaming

Philippine Long Distance Telephone launches TVolution IPTV STB
Jan 14, 2014 – Philippine Long Distance Telephone (PLDT) has announced the launch of TVolution, a small device that can turn an ordinary TV to an Internet TV. The device allows streaming of movies and series straight from the Internet to televisions.
News categories: PLDT, Ariel P. Fermin, Digital TV, IPTV, Philippines, Set Top Box

LG Uplus ends 2013 with 1.55 million IPTV subscribers
Jan 13, 2014 – According to the December 2013 Factsheet published by LG Uplus (KRX: 032640), the company had 1.549 million IPTV subscribers at the end of 2013, up from 1.054 million at the end of 2012.
News categories: LG Uplus, IPTV, Korea, Subscribers

SK broadband ends 2013 with 2.1 million IPTV subscribers
Jan 10, 2014 – SK broadband (KOSDAQ: 033630) has released subscriber figures to the end of December 2013. The company ended the year with 2.1 million subscribers to its ‘B tv’ IPTV service, up from 1.45 million at the end of 2012.
News categories: SK broadband, IPTV, Korea, Subscribers

Digital TV homes to triple in Sub-Saharan Africa
Jan 8, 2014 – Digital penetration will exceed half the TV households in Sub-Saharan Africa very soon, according to a report from Digital TV Research. The Digital TV Sub-Saharan Africa Forecasts report estimates nearly every home will be converted by 2020.
News categories: Simon Murray, Africa, Cable TV, Digital TV, Digital TV Research Reports, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial

Entropic unveils lineup of fully-integrated set-top box solutions
Jan 7, 2014 – Entropic (Nasdaq:ENTR) has announced its first fully-integrated set-top box SoC family, the EN7300-series, which integrates HEVC decoding, MoCA 2.0 home networking, dual DVB-S/S2 demodulators with full-band capture, and 3D graphics acceleration.
News categories: Entropic, Daniel Simmons, Patrick Henry, Matt Rhodes, CES2025, Digital TV, DVB-S2, ICs, IPTV, Satellite, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Worldwide

TEO deploys IP video content delivery services with Espial MediaBase
Jan 7, 2014 – Espial has announced that TEO LT has launched its next generation of on-demand video services using the Espial MediaBase content delivery platform.
News categories: Espial, TEO LT, Darius Didzgalvis, Jaison Dolvane, Content Distribution, IPTV, Lithuania

Telefónica and NAGRA launch Pay TV in Latin America
Jan 6, 2014 – NAGRA (SIX:KUD.S) and Telefónica Digital (NYSE: TEF) have announced the launch of next generation TV services powered by NAGRA’s latest middleware solution, OpenTV 5, in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela.
News categories: NAGRA, Telefónica, David del Val, Ivan Verbesselt, Argentina, Brazil, Cable TV, CES2025, Chile, Colombia, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, Mobile, Peru, Satellite, Set Top Box, Venezuela