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Digital TV conversion slows in Western Europe
Apr 12, 2012 – Western Europe will not reach full digital TV penetration until 2017, despite penetration being as high as 85% by end-2011, according to a new report from Digital TV Research.
News categories: Digital TV Research, Austria, Belgium, Cable TV, Denmark, Digital TV, Finland, France, Germany, IPTV, Ireland, Italy, Market Research, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Satellite, Spain, Subscribers, Sweden, Switzerland, Terrestrial, UK

Average U.S. Monthly Pay-TV Subscription Bills May Top $200 by 2020
Apr 10, 2012 – According to The NPD Group, the average pay-TV subscription for basic pay-TV service and premium-TV channels in the U.S. reached $86 in 2011. If nothing changes, NPD expects the average pay-TV bill to reach $123 by the year 2015 and $200 by 2020.
News categories: NPD Group, Cable TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, USA

BTC Broadband Taps Entone's FusionTV
Apr 10, 2012 – Entone has announced that it is teaming with BTC Broadband in Bixby, Oklahoma. With Entone's FusionTV™, BTC Broadband can offer live Over the Air (OTA) television with DVR capabilities, and additional cloud-based media services.
News categories: Entone, BTC Broadband, Content Distribution, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, USA

Toshiba develops hardware engine that directly streams video from SSD to IP networks
Apr 9, 2012 – Toshiba (TOKYO: 6502) has announced the development of NPEngine™, the world's first hardware engine for streaming servers that directly delivers video content from SSD to IP networks, without accessing the server's CPU or memory resources.
News categories: Toshiba, Cable TV, Content Distribution, IPTV, NABShow, Streaming

250,000 interactive TV subscribers for Magyar Telekom
Apr 3, 2012 – Following a dramatic increase in the past period, the number of T-Home Hungary (Reuters: MTEL.BU and Bloomberg: MTELEKOM HB) customers subscribing to interactive TV services has exceeded 250 thousand.
News categories: Magyar Telekom, Hungary, IPTV, Satellite, Subscribers

Recession fails to halt digital TV expansion in Eastern Europe
Apr 2, 2012 – According to a new report from Digital TV Research, 2012 is a watershed year for Eastern Europe as the number of digital homes for the 15 forecast countries will exceed the analog total for the first time.
News categories: Digital TV Research, Cable TV, Digital TV, Estonia, IPTV, Market Research, Poland, Romania, Russia, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial, Ukraine

Spain ends 2011 with 4.6 million pay TV subscribers
Mar 28, 2012 – Spain's Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT) has published statistics for the country for the fourth quarter of 2011. Pay TV subscribers were 4.6 million at the end of period, down from a peak of over 5 million at the beginning of the year.
News categories: Comisión del Mercado de las Telecomunicaciones, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Mobile, Satellite, Spain, Subscribers, Terrestrial

Satellite becomes leading TV infrastructure in Europe
Mar 27, 2012 – SES (Paris; LuxX:SESG) has announced that satellite has become the leading TV infrastructure in Europe, ahead of terrestrial and cable reception. Approximately 84 million European households have satellite (DTH) as their primary TV reception mode.
News categories: SES S.A., Cable TV, Digital TV, Europe, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Terrestrial

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