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

Seven launches Australia's first new commercial TV network in four decades. And it's in digital high definition
Oct 16, 2007 – The Seven Network has launched a new channel. Seven - with the first broadcast last night (Monday) - is the first commercial network to move into digital multichannelling.
News categories: Seven Network, Australia, Digital TV, Terrestrial, TV Services

Triple-Play Bundles Work, but Quadruple-Play Packages are not yet Proven, says Analysys
Oct 8, 2007 – Experience demonstrates that triple-play bundles of TV, voice and broadband services have proven themselves as a means of increasing market share. Incumbent operators have used quadruple-play services as a defence against competitors' TV-based triple-play bundles, but without noticeable success.
News categories: Analysys, Australia, Austria, Czech Republic, Digital TV, France, Hong Kong, IPTV, Market Research, Mobile, Sweden, UK, USA

Synovate PAX media survey shows non-traditional television platforms are taking hold across Asia Pacific
Oct 4, 2007 – Synovate has released results from its PAX media survey showing that four in ten affluent Asians are watching television on the move: be it via their personal computers, mobile phones, MP4 players, while outdoors, or even in their cars.
News categories: Synovate, Asia, Australia, Automotive, Digital TV, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Market Research, Mobile, Philippines, Singapore, Streaming, Tablet, Taiwan, Thailand

TVNZ To Go HDTV For Beijing Olympics
Sep 28, 2007 – TVNZ will introduce High Definition TV on the Freeview Digital Terrestrial platform (DTT), which is timed to go live during the first half of next year.
News categories: TVNZ, Freeview NZ, ATSC 3, Digital TV, New Zealand, Terrestrial

TiVo Announces Results for Second Quarter Ended July 31, 2007
Aug 29, 2007 – TiVo (Nasdaq: TIVO) has reported financial results for the second quarter ended July 31, 2007. TiVo-Owned subscription gross additions for the second quarter were 41,000, compared to 74,000 gross additions for the year-ago period. Overall, TiVo-Owned subscriptions totaled 1.71 million, up 136,000 on an annual basis compared to the year ago-period.
News categories: TiVo Inc, Australia, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Mexico, Results, Set Top Box, Streaming, Subscribers, Terrestrial, USA

Portable Video Playback On The Rise Across Asia; GfK Asia Expects Asian Consumers to Purchase More than 10 Million Portable Video Players in 2007
Aug 24, 2007 – GfK Asia releases its 2007 Half Year Pan Asian Consumer Electronics Data Summary, highlighting the trends in the region's consumer electronics sector.
News categories: Asia, Australia, Cambodia, Camcorder, China, Digital TV, DVD, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Market Research, New Zealand, Optical Disc Recorder, Philippines, Singapore, Smart TV, Tablet, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam

Australia - Mobilesoft Appoints Administrators
Aug 21, 2007 – Roderick Mackay Sutherland and I, Sule Amautovic were appointed joint and several Administrators of Mobilesoft Limited and Mobilesoft (Aust) Pty Limited.
News categories: Australia, Digital TV, Finance, Set Top Box

New Zealand - SKY Television Announces 2007 Annual Result
Aug 17, 2007 – SKY's subscriber base grew by 43,941 (6.6%) subscribers over the previous year, to a new high of 711,211. The subscriber base comprises 529,830 residential digital subscribers (74%), 53,679 residential UHF subscribers (8%), 113,961 wholesale subscribers (16%) and 13,741 (2%) commercial and other subscribers. SKY is now in 44.5% of New Zealand homes.
News categories: Sky Television, Digital TV, New Zealand, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

3 Takes Australia's First Peek at New Mobile TV Technology with Ericsson
Aug 15, 2007 – In the first of its kind in Australia, 3 has been trialling new mobile TV technology with Ericsson which could see an expanded, higher quality mobile TV service on 3. The new technology is called MBMS - Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service.
News categories: 5G, Australia, Digital TV, Mobile