Broadcast (Cable TV, DTH Satellite, Terrestrial) News

NCC to propose STB subsidy for DTT in Taiwan
Feb 23, 2010 – Taiwan's National Communications Commission (NCC) is scheduled to submit two subsidy proposals to the Cabinet by April to help facilitate the switch from analog to digital for terrestrial TV services.
News categories: NCC, Regulation, Set Top Box, Taiwan, Terrestrial

Avail-TVN Announces First Cable MSO Customer for MPEG-4 Video Services
Feb 22, 2010 – Through an agreement with Evolution Digital, the systems integrator, and provider of Conax conditional access and low cost set-top boxes for the project, Zito Media will deploy Avail-TVN's MPEG-4 solution across 10 cable systems.
News categories: Evolution Broadband, Zito Media, Avail-TVN, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Content Distribution, Set Top Box, USA

Pace partners with M7 Group in major HD roll out
Feb 22, 2010 – Luxembourg-based satellite TV operator M7 Group has chosen set-top box technology from Pace (LSE:PIC) to bring high definition (HD) TV content and personal video recording to its customers.
News categories: Pace plc, Belgium, Conditional Access, Digital TV, DVR, Luxembourg, Middleware, Netherlands, Satellite, Set Top Box

S&T brings interactive content to Freeview HD with Humax
Feb 22, 2010 – Strategy & Technology (S&T) has announced that its RedKey™ 2 MHEG engine is powering the text and interactive services in the new Humax Freeview HD set-top box.
News categories: Strategy & Technology, Humax, Digital TV, MHEG-5, Middleware, Set Top Box, Terrestrial, UK

NDS Provides On Digital Media with Key Technologies to Launch South African Pay-TV Platform
Feb 22, 2010 – NDS has announced that On Digital Media has selected NDS as technology provider and prime integrator to support the launch of its direct-to-home (DTH) platform in South Africa. The new service, TopTV, will go live in Q2 2010.
News categories: NDS Group, On Digital Media, Conditional Access, Digital TV, DVB-S2, DVR, Middleware, Satellite, South Africa

Global Mobile Satellite Television Market to Reach $11 Billion by 2015
Feb 22, 2010 – GIA has announced the release of a global report on the Mobile Satellite Television market which is projected to reach $11 billion by 2015, driven by the growing consumer demand for video content on an anytime, anywhere basis.
News categories: Global Industry Analysts, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Market Research, Mobile, Satellite

DIGITAL+ in Spain down 189k subscribers in 2009
Feb 19, 2010 – Grupo PRISA (Madrid: PRS), owner of Sogecable, has reported results for 2009. The total number of Digital+ subscribers as of December 31, 2009, was 1,845,805 down 53,400 from the end of September 2009.
News categories: Sogecable, PRISA, Results, Satellite, Spain, Subscribers

Thaicom DTV Service sells 246,000 dishes in 2009
Feb 19, 2010 – Thaicom (Bangkok:THCOM) has released its annual financial statements for 2009. In 2009, DTV Service Co. had a continued growth of DTV sales volume. At 2009-end, the number of DTV satellite dish sets sold thus far by DTV was 592,886.
News categories: Thaicom, DTV Service, Cambodia, Laos, Results, Satellite, Thailand

Switching to Digital TV in Russia and Ukraine
Feb 19, 2010 – The European Audiovisual Observatory, part of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, has published a new report on the work in progress to prepare the switch-over process in Russia and Ukraine.
News categories: European Audiovisual Observatory, Digital TV, Market Research, Russia, Terrestrial, Ukraine