Latin America Digital TV News

Sercomtel plans DTH pay TV for Brazil
Sep 15, 2011 – Sercomtel, a telecommunications operator in the Brazilian state of Paraná, has announced the first result of its competition to find suppliers for its Sercomtel TV national satellite DTH pay TV service.
News categories: Sercomtel, MNLA, Brazil, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Satellite, Set Top Box

GVT launches hybrid satellite pay TV in Brazil
Sep 15, 2011 – GVT (Paris:VIV) has announced the pre-launch of its hybrid satellite pay TV service for Brazil. The service combines broadcast satellite TV with IPTV content delivered over GVT's broadband network.
News categories: GVT, Brazil, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Satellite, Smart Home

Space Systems/Loral Selected to Provide Two High-Power Satellites to Intelsat
Sep 8, 2011 – Space Systems/Loral (NASDAQ: LORL) has announced that it has been awarded a contract to provide two high-power satellites to Intelsat for DIRECTV's (Nasdaq: DTV) Direct-to-Home (DTH) television services in Latin America.
News categories: Space Systems/Loral, Intelsat, DIRECTV Latin America, Content Distribution, Latin America, Satellite

Netflix Arrives In Latin America And The Caribbean
Sep 5, 2011 – Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) has launched in Brazil and will be launched in 43 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, providing instant and unlimited movies and TV shows streamed to computers, game consoles and other Internet connected devices.
News categories: Netflix, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean, Central America, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Streaming, Uruguay, Venezuela

Expanding Footprint of Cable TV and DTH Operators Enhances Prospects for the Latin America Pay TV Services Market
Sep 5, 2011 – The Latin America pay TV services markets are expected to witness fast-paced growth, stimulated by the increased geographic coverage from cable TV and direct-to-home (DTH) operators, according to Frost & Sullivan.
News categories: Frost & Sullivan, Cable TV, Latin America, Market Research, Satellite

Brazil: The world's most dynamic pay TV market
Aug 26, 2011 – According to a new report from Digital TV Research, rapid expansion meant that Brazilian DTH subscriptions overhauled cable as the most popular platform with considerable panache during the first six months of 2011.
News categories: Digital TV Research, Brazil, Cable TV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers

Digital TV Labs Launches First Commercial ISDB-T Receiver Test Suite
Aug 10, 2011 – Digital TV Labs has announced that it has developed and shipped the first commercially available receiver test suite for digital terrestrial deployments of the ISDB-T standard, beginning with test services for South America.
News categories: Digital TV Labs, ISDB-T, Latin America, SBTVD, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

Sigma Designs Demonstrates Suite of Hybrid IP Set Top Box Technologies Including ISDB-T, Satellite and Cable
Aug 9, 2011 – Sigma Designs (NASDAQ: SIGM) is demonstrating a full line of hybrid IP set-top box solutions for cable, satellite and the Brazilian International Standard Digital Broadcast - Television (ISDB-T), also called SBTVD, at ABTA.
News categories: Sigma Designs, Latin America, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

Brazilian MSO SimTV chooses security partner Conax for digitization of its cable TV operations
Aug 9, 2011 – Conax has announced that it has entered into a contract with Brazilian cable TV operator, SimTV. Conax will deliver a content protection solution for SIMTV's cable TV service and guidance for the digitization of the operator's 16 remote sites.
News categories: Conax, SimTV, Brazil, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV