Italy Digital TV News

News Corporation Reports First Quarter Fiscal 2009
Nov 5, 2008 – News Corporation (NYSE: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV) has reported first quarter operating income of $953 million. Sky Italia had net subscriber additions of 359,000 over the past 12 months, bringing the total to over 4.6 million at quarter end.
News categories: Sky Italia, Italy, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Swisscom releases January-September 2008 Interim Report
Nov 5, 2008 – Swisscom (Swiss: SCMN) closed the first nine months of 2008 with net revenue of CHF 9,085 million. At the end of September 2008 'Bluewin TV' was used by 95,000 paying customers, a growth of 43,000 compared with the previous year.
News categories: Swisscom, IPTV, Italy, Results, Subscribers, Switzerland

Fibre To The Home (FTTH) is competitive with conventional Triple Play and already undercutting traditional ADSL+ services
Oct 29, 2008 – In a new report called FTTH Pricing in Europe 2009, Tariff Consultancy provides a unique survey of the main FTTH providers in 19 European countries - from Austria to the UK.
News categories: Tariff Consultancy, Austria, Belgium, Broadband, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, Fibre, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, IPTV, Italy, Lithuania, Market Research, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK

Solaris Mobile ready to take Europe into a new age of mobile services
Oct 7, 2008 – Solaris Mobile has announced that the company has submitted to the European Commission a comprehensive application in response to the Commission's call for applications for pan-European systems providing mobile satellite services.
News categories: Solaris Mobile, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Content Distribution, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mobile, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Regulation, Romania, Satellite, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK

Tiscali Teams with Cisco for Launch of Innovative Tiscali.tv IP Television Service in Italy
Oct 7, 2008 – Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) has announced that it has signed an agreement with Tiscali (Italy: TIS) to supply Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) architecture and IP television (IPTV) headend technology for the Tiscali.tv IPTV service.
News categories: Cisco Systems, Tiscali, Content Distribution, IPTV, Italy

Protection of pay-TV services: Europe-wide protection against conditional-access piracy still indispensable, says Commission report
Oct 6, 2008 – In a changing market, it remains essential for the roll-out of pay-TV services that conditional-access systems be protected at European level against piracy. This is the verdict of a report published today by the European Commission.
News categories: European Commission, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mobile, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Regulation, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Streaming, Sweden, TV Services, UK

IPTV in Wonderland
Sep 24, 2008 – The latest report from Screen Digest examines the challenges faced by telcos and their IPTV services in 26 countries across Europe. 'IPTV Business Models: Profit and Loss in the Telco TV Space' discusses the likely success of their strategies.
News categories: Screen Digest, Belgium, Digital TV, France, Germany, IPTV, Italy, Market Research, Subscribers, Sweden, UK

NDS VideoGuard® Provides Successful Content Protection to Telecom Italia's IPTV Service
Sep 22, 2008 – NDS (NASDAQ: NNDS) currently supplies the IPTV service of Telecom Italia (Italy:TIT)(NYSE:TI) with NDS VideoGuard®, a conditional access (CA) and DRM technology which provides content protection for both broadcast TV and Video on Demand (VOD).
News categories: NDS, Telecom Italia, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, IPTV, Italy

Sony launches PlayTV DTT PVR box for the PS3
Sep 19, 2008 – Sony Computer Entertainment has launched its PlayTV box in the UK, Germany, Italy and Poland. PlayTV allows a Playstation 3 to act as a dual-tuner terrestrial free-to-air PVR.
News categories: Sony Computer Entertainment, PlayTV, Digital TV, DVR, Gaming, Germany, Italy, Poland, Terrestrial, UK