Latin America Digital TV News

Maxcom Reports Results For The Third Quarter And Nine Months Of 2008
Oct 23, 2008 – Maxcom (NYSE: MXT) (BMV: MAXCOMCPO.MX) has announced its unaudited financial and operating results for the quarter ended September 30, 2008. Pay TV number of RGUs reached 16,161. The Company recorded TV net adds of 4,944 in the quarter.
News categories: Maxcom, IPTV, Mexico, Results, Subscribers

Televisa Third-Quarter 2008 Results
Oct 23, 2008 – Grupo Televisa (NYSE:TV, BMV:TLEVISA CPO) has announced results for third quarter of 2008. As of September 30, 2008, the number of gross active Sky subscribers increased to 1,728,214, compared with 1,542,466 as of September 30, 2007.
News categories: Grupo Televisa, Cable TV, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Panama, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Brazil - Pay TV reaches 5.5 million homes
Oct 13, 2008 – The Associação Brasileira de TV por Assinatura (ABTA) and the Sindicato das Empresas de TV por Assinatura (SETA) have announced that Brazil's pay-TV subscriber base has grown 12.7% versus the same period of 2007 to reach 5.5 million homes.
News categories: ABTA, SETA, Brazil, Cable TV, Digital TV, Market Research, MMDS, Satellite, Subscribers

Argentina follows Brazil with ISDB-T
Sep 30, 2008 – A delegation from Argentina is to travel to Japan in October to discuss adopting Japan's ISDB-T standard.
News categories: Argentina, Digital TV, ISDB-T, Regulation, SBTVD, Terrestrial

Peru to choose digital TV standard in Q1 2009
Sep 30, 2008 – Peru's Ministerio de Transportes y Comunicaciones (MCT) will choose a digital TV standard for the country in the first quarter of 2009, based on the recommendation of the Multi-sector Commission which is due to report by the end of this year.
News categories: Ministerio de Transportes y Comunicaciones, Digital TV, Peru, Regulation, Terrestrial

Latin American mobile TV viewers to reach 21.3M in 2013
Sep 29, 2008 – According to a new TVTelco Latam report, Latin America will have 21.3 million mobile digital TV handsets in use in 2013, mostly phones, but also portable MP4 players, cars and buses, and USB for notebooks.
News categories: TV Telco Latam, Argentina, Automotive, Brazil, Colombia, Digital TV, Latin America, Market Research, Mexico, Mobile, Peripherals / Accessories, Smart TV, Subscribers, Tablet, Uruguay

Nero and TiVo Deliver the Ultimate DVR Experience on the PC
Sep 29, 2008 – Nero and TiVo (NASDAQ: TIVO) have announced the unveiling of Nero LiquidTV | TiVo PC. This new offering revolutionizes the way consumers experience television by offering an enhanced TiVo DVR experience directly from the PC.
News categories: TiVo Inc, Nero, Canada, Digital TV, Media Player, Mexico, Peripherals / Accessories, Portable, Smart Home, Tablet, USA

Venezuela gets closer to ISDB-T
Sep 26, 2008 – Minister of Telecommunications and Information Systems of Venezuela Socorro Hernández has revealed that a technical mission is traveling to China within the next few days to assess digital TV standard DMB-T, and its mobile variant DMB-H.
News categories: Digital TV, DTMB, ISDB-T, Mobile, Terrestrial, Venezuela

FTTH Connections Rise to 3.76 Million North American Households
Sep 23, 2008 – The upgrading of North America's last mile networks with fiber is continuing, with fiber to the home (FTTH) arriving at more than 1.6 million households over the past year, bringing the total number of FTTH subscribers to 3.76 million.
News categories: Fiber-to-the-Home Council, RVA Market Research, Broadband, Canada, Caribbean, Fibre, IPTV, Market Research, Mexico, North America, Streaming, Subscribers, USA