IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) News

Digital TV Set-top Box Sales Break 100M Barrier
Feb 20, 2008 – Worldwide sales of digital TV set-top boxes broke through the 100 million barrier for the first time in 2007, according to the latest research from the Strategy Analytics Connected Home Devices service.
News categories: Strategy Analytics, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

Orange, Thomson and Sagem Communications are creating Soft At Home, a joint venture publisher of software for the digital home
Feb 20, 2008 – Orange, Thomson and Sagem Communications have joined forces to create a joint venture: Soft At Home. This structure is aimed at creating a standard for the interconnection of equipment within the multimedia ecosystem.
News categories: Soft At Home, Sagem, Thomson, France Telecom, Broadband, Digital TV, France, IPTV, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Streaming

IPTV Takes Center Stage at NAB Show
Feb 19, 2008 – The NAB Show will expand its IPTV offerings with a new conference series and super session that will provide telecommunications and wireless professionals with insight into converging technologies, state-of-the-art concepts and equipment for IPTV and other next generation video business.
News categories: NAB Show, IPTV, NABShow

Costa Rica - ICE has scheduled IPTV launch for 2008
Feb 18, 2008 – The state owned telecommunications company, ICE, who holds telephony monopoly over Costa Rica territory, has scheduled its IPTV launch for 2008 end.
News categories: Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad, Costa Rica, Digital TV, IPTV

Czech Republic - O2 TV: 80,000 customers, 63 channels, new channel packages
Feb 18, 2008 – According to Telefónica O2 statisticians, the number of O2 TV customers has surpassed 80,000.
News categories: Telefónica O2 Czech Republic, Czech Republic, Digital TV, IPTV, Subscribers

Thomson Full Year 2007 Results and Fourth Quarter Revenues
Feb 14, 2008 – Cable registered volume growth with 2.3 million cable set-top boxes (2006: 2.0 million), while volume decreased in satellite STBs to 10.1 million in 2007 (2006: 11.1 million), outweighed by the improved mix with an increased proportion of HD boxes.
News categories: Thomson, Earnings Release, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Gateway, IPTV, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box

Qwest Reports Fourth Quarter And Full Year 2007 Results
Feb 12, 2008 – Qwest (NYSE: Q) added 44,000 net DIRECTV subscribers in the quarter to end the year with a total of 649,000 video subscribers, an increase of 58 percent in total video customers from the end of 2006.
News categories: Qwest, Earnings Release, Broadband, Digital TV, IPTV, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, USA

Maxcom Reports Results for Full-Year and Fourth Quarter of 2007
Feb 11, 2008 – Maxcom Telecomunicaciones, S.A.B. de C.V. (NYSE: MXT) (BMV: MAXCOM CPO) has announced its unaudited financial and operating results for the full year ended December 31, 2007. Maxcom had around 6,000 IPTV subscribers at the end of 2007.
News categories: Maxcom, Digital TV, IPTV, Mexico, Results, Subscribers

Directive on the protection of conditional-access services: Commission consultation of interested parties
Feb 11, 2008 – The European Commission is launching an open consultation and is asking all interested parties to submit information on services that use conditional-access systems, such as pay-TV or video on demand.
News categories: European Commission, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, DRM, Estonia, Europe, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, IPTV, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mobile, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Regulation, Romania, Satellite, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Terrestrial, UK