Latin America Digital TV News

Via Embratel reaches 242,000 subscribers at end-3Q09
Oct 28, 2009 – Telmex Internacional (Mexico:TELINTL; NYSE:TII) has released its results report for the third quarter of 2009. The Service Via Embratel, which was launched in December 2008 in Brazil, reached 241,897 subscribers at the end of the period.
News categories: Telmex Internacional, Brazil, Cable TV, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Q2-09 was a Record-Setting Mobile TV Quarter
Oct 28, 2009 – Issue No. 10 of the quarterly TeleAnalytics Mobile TV Tracking Service (TMTS) quantitatively substantiates the position taken back in Q3-08 that the worldwide Mobile TV adoption/sales would not be much upset by the financial crisis.
News categories: TeleAnalytics, 5G, Brazil, China, Digital TV, Europe, ISDB-T, Japan, Korea, Market Research, Mobile, Russia, SBTVD, USA

Entel launches DTH in Bolivia
Oct 26, 2009 – Bolivia's Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (Entel S.A.) has launched its Entel TV direct-to-home (DTH) satellite pay TV service. Entel TV is the first platform in Bolivia to provide digital television in high definition (HD).
News categories: Entel S.A., Bolivia, Digital TV, DVR, Satellite, Set Top Box

ISDB broadcasting in Argentina to begin in 2 months
Oct 20, 2009 – Argentina will begin the first tests of its ISDB-based Sistema de TV Digital Terrestre digital TV service in the next two months, with the goal of covering about 400 cities and towns by 2011.
News categories: Argentina, Digital TV, ISDB-T, Middleware, Mobile, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

Trenque Lauquen trials IPTV with Amino
Oct 19, 2009 – The Cooperativa de Electricidad de Trenque Lauquen in Argentina is conducting IPTV trials in 15 homes with MPEG-4 set-top boxes from Amino Communications (LSE: AMO).
News categories: Amino, Cooperativa de Electricidad de Trenque Lauquen, Argentina, Digital TV, IPTV, Set Top Box

Venezuela adopts ISDB digital TV standard
Oct 6, 2009 – The Venezuelan government has announced that it has adopted the Japanese-Brazilian ISDB-T system of digital TV.
News categories: Digital TV, ISDB-T, SBTVD, Terrestrial, Venezuela

Chile has new satellite DTH service
Oct 6, 2009 – The satellite TV service 'TuVes HD' has launched in Chile. The service includes high-definition (HD) channels and an MPEG-4 set-top box which has a USB port to allow for the connection of a hard-disk drive (HDD) for personal video recording.
News categories: TuVes, Chile, Digital TV, DVR, Satellite, Set Top Box

Colombia releases DTT STB/IDTV minimum technical requirements
Sep 23, 2009 – Colombia's National Telecommunications Commission (CNTV) has issued minimum technical specifications that must be adhered to for digital televisions and set-top box decoders for the country's digital terrestrial TV (DTT) market.
News categories: CNTV, Colombia, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

AXTEL awarded licence to provide pay TV in Mexico
Sep 15, 2009 – AXTEL (BMV: AXTELCPO; OTC: AXTLY) has announced that it has been issued with a concession to provide satellite pay TV services in Mexico. AXTEL plans to offer bundled services of voice, data and video in early 2010.
News categories: AXTEL, Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes, Digital TV, Mexico, Regulation, Satellite