Oceania (Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia) Digital TV News

Digital TV Labs Licensed To Offer DTG Test Suites For UK And NZ Freeview Pre-Testing
Mar 24, 2010 – Digital TV Labs has become the first test facility to receive a licence to offer the full Digital TV Group (DTG) Test Suite, providing manufacturers with a cost-effective pre-DTG test and debugging process.
News categories: Digital TV Labs, Digital TV, New Zealand, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial, UK

Verimatrix Secures Enhanced Hybrid DVB-C/IP Digital TV Services for TelstraClear
Mar 23, 2010 – Verimatrix has announced New Zealand's TelstraClear (ASX: TLS) as a new DVB hybrid operator that will be securing its pay-TV revenue with the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS™) for DVB.
News categories: Verimatrix, TelstraClear, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Digital TV, DVR, New Zealand, Video Exchange

Satellite Service to Deliver Digital TV Australia-wide
Mar 18, 2010 – Australia's Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy Senator Stephen Conroy has said that legislation has been introduced to ensure all Australians will be able to receive the full suite of digital television channels.
News categories: Australia, Regulation, Satellite

SKY Television - New Zealand's First 'All Digital' Broadcaster
Mar 10, 2010 – SKY Television's analogue UHF pay TV network will shut down at midnight tonight which means that SKY will become New Zealand's first 'all digital' TV broadcaster.
News categories: SKY Television, Digital TV, New Zealand, Satellite, Terrestrial

Freeview NZ Adopts MHEG Interaction Channel For Hybrid Services
Feb 25, 2010 – IMPALA, the International MHEG Promotion Alliance, has announced that Freeview NZ has adopted the MHEG Interaction Channel (MHEG-IC) from the D-book 6.1 as part of an upgrade to its MHEG Country Profile that will allow hybrid services to be provided.
News categories: IMPALA, Freeview NZ, Digital TV, DVR, MHEG-5, New Zealand, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

More Australians making the switch to digital TV
Feb 25, 2010 – The number of Australians who have converted to digital television grew steadily during 2009. The latest results of the Digital Tracker survey found 61 per cent of Australian households had converted to digital TV by the end of 2009.
News categories: Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Australia, Digital TV, Market Research, Terrestrial

Liberty Global adds 382k digital cable and 23k DTH subscribers in 4Q09
Feb 24, 2010 – Liberty Global (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB and LBTYK) has announced results for the fourth quarter 2009. Digital cable was Liberty Global's most successful product in 2009 with 1.6 million digital cable additions, including 377,000 in the fourth quarter.
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, Subscribers, Switzerland

iiNet to launch IPTV in Australia in March 2010
Feb 22, 2010 – iiNet Limited (ASX:IIN) has released 2010 half year results. The company is planning to launch IPTV this year - in March 2010 according to an interview with iiNet by ITWire (2H 2010 according to iiNet's investor presentation).
News categories: iiNet, Australia, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Set Top Box

Sky New Zealand doubles HDi PVR subscribers in 2009
Feb 18, 2010 – SKY Television (NZX: SKT) has released its interim report for the six months to 31 December 2009. At 31 December 2009, SKY had 144,148 MYSKY HDi subscribers compared to 70,384 in December 2008, an increase of 104.8%.
News categories: SKY Television, DVR, New Zealand, Results, Satellite, Subscribers