IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) News

Minerva and Sigma Designs Announce IPTV Set-Top Box Collaboration
Nov 4, 2009 – Minerva Networks has unveiled enhancements to its client software to reduce the effort required to deploy set-top boxes based on Sigma Designs (NASDAQ:SIGM) ICs. Wistron (Taipei:6285) will be first-to-market with a set-top box featuring the solution.
News categories: Minerva Networks, Sigma Designs, Wistron, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

UTStarcom IPTV Contract With Bureau of Radio and Television in Santai County, Sichuan Province
Nov 4, 2009 – UTStarcom (Nasdaq: UTSI) has announced a new customer deployment with the Bureau of Radio and Television of Santai County, Sichuan Province to resume their radio and television network capability following last year's traumatic earthquake.
News categories: UTStarcom, SARFT, China, Content Distribution, IPTV

Asia subscription TV figures higher than ROW combined
Nov 4, 2009 – The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has announced new data for subscription TV penetration across the Asia Pacific, noting that the region now has 326 million pay-TV, up 26 million homes in 2009.
News categories: CASBAA, Asia, Cable TV, China, Digital TV, India, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers

Clear Lake Telephone Selects Entone For IPTV Launch
Nov 3, 2009 – Entone has announced that Clear Lake Telephone has selected Entone's award-winning Hydra™ IP video gateway and Amulet™ IPTV receiver for their high-definition (HD) IPTV service launch.
News categories: Entone, Clear Lake Telephone, Digital TV, IPTV, Set Top Box, USA

44% of France's ADSL subscribers have TV-over-DSL
Nov 3, 2009 – France's telecoms authority, ARCEP, has published its latest market survey up to the end of the second quarter 2009.At the end of the period, 44% of ADSL subscribers, or 7.7 million, were also subscribing to TV-over-DSL.
News categories: ARCEP, Broadband, Digital TV, France, IPTV, Market Research, Subscribers

KT adds 183,000 Qook TV subscribers in 3Q09
Nov 3, 2009 – Korea Telecom (KT) [KRX:030200/NYSE:KTC] has released its 3rd Quarter 2009 results. Mega-TV IPTV subscribers reached 907,000 at the end of September 2009, up 183,000 in the quarter.
News categories: KT Corp, IPTV, Korea, Results, Subscribers

Amino Provides Pre-Close Trading Update
Nov 3, 2009 – Amino Technologies plc (LSE: AMO) has said that it expects that its financial performance for FY 2009 will be significantly below market expectations and anticipates posting a material loss in H2.
News categories: Amino, IPTV, Results, Set Top Box

Telpin to offer IPTV in Argentina in 2010
Nov 2, 2009 – La Cooperativa de Teléfonos de Pinamar (Telpin) will start offering IPTV services next year in three Argentine cities. Trials have been carried out using UTStarcom equipment, though a purchase decision has not yet been taken.
News categories: Telpin, Argentina, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Set Top Box

T-Hrvatski Telekom MAXtv adds 19,000 subscribers in 3Q09
Oct 30, 2009 – T-Hrvatski Telekom (Reuters: THTC.L, HT.ZA; Bloomberg: THTC LI, HTRA CZ) has announced results for the first nine months of 2009. MAXtv, T-HT's IPTV service now has approximately 190,000 subscribers with nearly 19,000 net adds in Q3 2009.
News categories: T-Hrvatski Telekom, Croatia, IPTV, Results, Subscribers