IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) News

Sigma Commits Android™ Support Across Its Line of Consumer Media Processors
Oct 6, 2009 – Sigma Designs (Nasdaq: SIGM) has announced its commitment to broad scale support of the Android™ operating system on its media processor SoCs.
News categories: OESF, Sigma Designs, MIPS Technologies, Blu-ray, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

Icareus games for Shanghai Telecom IPTV customers
Sep 30, 2009 – Icareus has signed a cooperation agreement with Shanghai Telecom. According to the contract, signed in September, Icareus Studios Ltd will offer IPTV games to Shanghai Telecom to be offered to their IPTV customers.
News categories: Shanghai Telecom, Icareus, China, IPTV, Middleware, Subscribers

70% of TV households in the EU-5 access digital TV on their main TV set
Sep 30, 2009 – e-Media Institute has published the 2nd quarterly release of its EU-5 TV Market Maps. At the end of June 2009 digital TV penetration in the five largest European TV markets finally reached the landmark figure of 70% of total TV households.
News categories: e-Media Institute, Cable TV, Digital TV, France, Germany, IPTV, Italy, Market Research, Satellite, Spain, Terrestrial, UK

Egypt to offer two triple-play telecom licences
Sep 30, 2009 – Egypt is to invite bids for two licences for 'triple-play' cable, telephone and internet services which it expects to generate $1 billion in new investments within five years.
News categories: National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, Broadband, Cable TV, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Egypt, IPTV, Regulation

Digital Terrestrial TV STB Shipments Plummet in Q2
Sep 30, 2009 – In-Stat has reported that worldwide DTT Set Top Box (STB) shipments fell by nearly 35% in Q2 compared to Q1. The shift was driven primarily by falling shipments in the North American market following the analog broadcast TV shut-off.
News categories: In-Stat, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

BNS Wins Contract to Deploy IPTV in Taiwan
Sep 30, 2009 – BNS has signed a five-year exclusive contract with Max Media, Taiwan's largest in-building broadband service provider, to build and deploy community-based IPTV services.
News categories: BNS, CBBN, IPTV, Taiwan

Western Europe: Pay TV revenues hit by triple-play growth
Sep 29, 2009 – New research by Informa Telecoms & Media shows digital TV penetration of Western European households will maintain its present strong growth going from 62% at the end of 2008 to 93% at the end of 2014.
News categories: Informa Telecoms & Media, Cable TV, Digital TV, Finland, France, IPTV, Ireland, Italy, Market Research, Netherlands, Norway, Satellite, Spain, Terrestrial, UK

8 out of 10 UK TV screens now get digital
Sep 29, 2009 – A surge in the conversion of secondary TV sets boosted the total number of UK digitally-enabled TV sets to 80 per cent by the end of June 2009 (up by seven percentage points in three months), new Ofcom research has revealsed.
News categories: Ofcom, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Subscribers, Terrestrial, UK

VNPT launches 'MyTV' IPTV in Vietnam
Sep 28, 2009 – The Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) has introduced its 'MyTV' service in Hanoi. MyTV is based on IPTV technology provided by the Vietnam Software and Communications Company (VASC), a VNPT subsidiary.
News categories: VNPT, Digital TV, IPTV, Vietnam