Latin America Digital TV News

Peru proposes ISDB STB manufacturing hub
Nov 26, 2009 – The Deputy Minister of Communications of Peru is seeking to make the city of Tacna, with its Free Trade Zone, into a regional centre for development and manufacturing of ISDB set-top boxes.
News categories: ZOFRATACNA, Digital TV, ISDB-T, Peru, SBTVD, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

Pace launches with Latin America's largest cable operator
Nov 25, 2009 – Pace (LSE: PIC) has announced that it will be providing the HD (high definition) DVR (digital video recorder) set-top boxes to support a new, advanced service offering from Latin America's largest cable operator, Argentina's Cablevisión.
News categories: Pace plc, Cablevisión, Argentina, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Set Top Box

ICE Receives Approval For IPTV Service in Costa Rica
Nov 17, 2009 – Costa Rica's Contraloría General de la República has given the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) the green light to provide television over the internet.
News categories: Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad, Contraloría General de la República, Costa Rica, Digital TV, IPTV, Regulation

Fórum SBTVD defines two interactivity profiles
Nov 9, 2009 – The Fórum do Sistema Brasileiro de TV Digital Terreste (Fórum SBTVD) has decided to create two interactivity profiles for the Japanese-Brazilian digital TV standard.
News categories: Fórum SBTVD, Brazil, Middleware, SBTVD, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

DIRECTV U.S. up 136,000 subscribers and DTVLA up 162,000 in 3Q09
Nov 5, 2009 – The DIRECTV Group (NASDAQ:DTV) has reported third quarter 2009 results. DIRECTV U.S. net subscriber additions were 136,000 to give 18.44 million, and DIRECTV Latin America net subscriber additions were 162,000 to give 4.33 million, at quarter end.
News categories: DIRECTV, DTVLA, Argentina, Brazil, Caribbean, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Latin America, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Uruguay, USA, Venezuela

IPTV operator Telefónica del Sur grows with Latens
Nov 4, 2009 – Latens has announced that Telefónica del Sur (Telsur) has over 25,000 IPTV subscribers. Latens software only Conditional Access (CAS) is integrated with Telsur's IPTV partners including Minerva for middleware and set top boxes from Amino.
News categories: Latens, Telsur, Chile, Conditional Access, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Subscribers

UPC adds over 400,000 DVR cable RGUs in the last twelve months
Nov 4, 2009 – Liberty Global (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB, LBTYK) has announced results for the quarter ended September 30, 2009. In the last twelve months, digital cable RGUs have grown by 42% or 1.9 million, to give a digital penetration of 45%.
News categories: Liberty Global, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Cable TV, Chile, Czech Republic, DVR, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, MMDS, Netherlands, Poland, Puerto Rico, Results, Romania, Satellite, Slovakia, Slovenia, Subscribers, Switzerland

Coship doing well in South America
Nov 3, 2009 – The Brazilian DTH service Via Embratel (Mexico:TELINTL; NYSE:TII) is expected to have installed about 600,000 satellite set-top boxes from Coship (Shenzhen:002052) by the end of December 2009.
News categories: Coship, Via Embratel, Argentina, Brazil, Cable TV, Chile, Colombia, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Market Research, MMDS, Satellite, Set Top Box, Uruguay

Telpin to offer IPTV in Argentina in 2010
Nov 2, 2009 – La Cooperativa de Teléfonos de Pinamar (Telpin) will start offering IPTV services next year in three Argentine cities. Trials have been carried out using UTStarcom equipment, though a purchase decision has not yet been taken.
News categories: Telpin, Argentina, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Set Top Box