Korea Digital TV News

LG Dacom Selects Alticast as Middleware Vendor IPTV Services
Mar 19, 2007 – LG Dacom recently announced its final selections for solution vendors for its IPTV digital media center.
News categories: Alticast, LG Dacom, Conditional Access, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Korea, Middleware, Set Top Box

EchoStar Invests $40 Million in TU Media Corp.
Feb 21, 2007 – EchoStar Asia Holdings, a subsidiary of EchoStar Communications (NASDAQ:DISH), has announced that it has invested $40 million in TU Media, South Korea's only operator of S-DMB services with more than one million subscribers.
News categories: EchoStar, TU Media, Digital TV, Korea, Mobile, Satellite

KT, C-CUBE Consortium Successfully Complete IPTV Trial Supported By NDS
Jan 19, 2007 – NDS (NASDAQ: NNDS) has announced that KT and the C-Cube consortium, having selected NDS' market leading content protection solutions, have successfully completed one of the first IPTV trials in South Korea.
News categories: NDS Group, KT, Conditional Access, Content Protection, IPTV, Korea

Korea - Digital multimedia broadcasting to launch in first half of year
Jan 17, 2007 – South Korea has said that a ground-based mobile broadcasting service will be available nationwide during the first half of this year.
News categories: Digital TV, Korea, Mobile

S. Korea plans to finalize bill on Internet TV by this month
Jan 5, 2007 – The South Korean government will draw up a bill on Internet broadcasting within this month in a move to accelerate the introduction of the long-awaited convergence service between communications and broadcasting, officials said Friday.
News categories: Digital TV, IPTV, Korea, Regulation

hanarotelecom Posts 200,000 Subscribers for hanaTV
Jan 4, 2007 – hanarotelecom (KOSDAQ: 033630) (NASDAQ: HANA) has announced that it achieved 200,000 subscriber sign-ups for hanaTV, a TV-Portal service that enables subscribers to watch any content they want on TV at their convenience.
News categories: Hanaro, Digital TV, IPTV, Korea, Subscribers

NDS to Provide End-to-End Content Protection System for KT Mobile Content Service "toest", Enabling Secure Video Downloads to WiFi Hotspots
Jan 3, 2007 – NDS (NASDAQ: NNDS) has announced that it has been selected by KT of Korea, to deploy a full end-to-end system including NDS VideoGuard Mobile and NDS VideoGuard PMP on the company's new 'toest' mobile content platform.
News categories: NDS Group, KT, CES2025, Content Protection, Digital TV, Korea, Mobile, Smart Home, Tablet

Intellon Announces 12 Service Providers Worldwide Now Deploying Intellon HomePlug® ICs for IPTV Applications
Jan 2, 2007 – Intellon has announced that 12 service providers in Europe and Asia are now using Intellon™'s HomePlug ICs for in-home IPTV distribution.
News categories: Intellon, Digital TV, France, Hong Kong, Iceland, IPTV, Korea, Poland, Semiconductor, Smart Home, Taiwan

Exponential Broadband Growth and Demand for Interactive Services Fuels IPTV Market in Asia-Pac
Dec 21, 2006 – Dwindling wireline revenues, consumer demand for greater control over viewing preferences, and the explosion of broadband in various high growth markets across Asia-Pacific represent the impetus for the development of IPTV in the region.
News categories: Frost & Sullivan, Asia, Australia, Broadband, China, Digital TV, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, IPTV, Korea, Malaysia, Market Research, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand