Poland Digital TV News

HD Channels On ASTRA Increase By 30 Percent In Three Months
Oct 20, 2008 – SES ASTRA (Paris and Luxembourg: SESG) has announced that the number of HD channels broadcast via the ASTRA Satellite System has increased significantly in the last three months. At the beginning of October, the number of HD channels reached 55.
News categories: SES ASTRA, Austria, Belgium, Content Distribution, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, Finland, France, Germany, Market Research, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Satellite, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, UK

Poland - Beauty contest regarding mobile TV
Oct 10, 2008 – Poland's Office of Electronic Communications has announced a beauty contest for a license to provide radio and television broadcasting services in the country using DVB-H technology.
News categories: Urząd Komunikacji Elektronicznej, Digital TV, Mobile, Poland, Regulation

Solaris Mobile ready to take Europe into a new age of mobile services
Oct 7, 2008 – Solaris Mobile has announced that the company has submitted to the European Commission a comprehensive application in response to the Commission's call for applications for pan-European systems providing mobile satellite services.
News categories: Solaris Mobile, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Content Distribution, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mobile, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Regulation, Romania, Satellite, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK

TechniSat Digital supplies STBs for Pre-pay DTH for Poland
Oct 7, 2008 – Since 3rd October, Cyfrowy Dom has started offering viewers Telewizja na karte - TNK ('TV on card'). To receive TNK, viewers will be required to buy a decoder using Conax CA, supplied by TechniSat Digital.
News categories: TechniSat, Telewizja na karte, Digital TV, Poland, Satellite, Set Top Box

Protection of pay-TV services: Europe-wide protection against conditional-access piracy still indispensable, says Commission report
Oct 6, 2008 – In a changing market, it remains essential for the roll-out of pay-TV services that conditional-access systems be protected at European level against piracy. This is the verdict of a report published today by the European Commission.
News categories: European Commission, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mobile, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Regulation, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Streaming, Sweden, TV Services, UK

Cyfrowy Dom to introduce 'pre-paid television' in Poland
Sep 30, 2008 – Cyfrowy Dom, a subsidiary of ITI Neovision, has launched 'pre-paid (card access) TV' (telewizja na kartę), introducing to the Polish market a way to access television without the need to sign a contract or to pay fixed subscription fees.
News categories: ITI Neovision, telewizja na kartę, CAM, Digital TV, Poland, Satellite

Sony launches PlayTV DTT PVR box for the PS3
Sep 19, 2008 – Sony Computer Entertainment has launched its PlayTV box in the UK, Germany, Italy and Poland. PlayTV allows a Playstation 3 to act as a dual-tuner terrestrial free-to-air PVR.
News categories: Sony Computer Entertainment, PlayTV, Digital TV, DVR, Gaming, Germany, Italy, Poland, Terrestrial, UK

Cyfrowy Polsat interim report for the three months ended June 30, 2008
Aug 13, 2008 – Cyfrowy Polsat (Warsaw:CPS) has released its interim report for the three months ended June 2008. At the end of the quarter Polsat had 2,287,656 subscribers, 46.5% more than at June 30, 2007, when the figure was 1,561,711 subscribers.
News categories: Cyfrowy Polsat, DVR, IPTV, Poland, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers

TVN Group ('n' DTH) reports second quarter 2008 results
Aug 12, 2008 – The TVN Group (Warsaw:TVN) has announced record results for the second quarter of 2008. 'n' DTH subscribers were 326,000 at the end of the quarter.
News categories: ITI Neovision, TVN Group, 'n', Poland, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers