DVR / PVR (Digital Video Recorder/Personal Video Recorder) News

UPSTAR Comunicações Selects Eutelsat to Broadcast ZAP, The New Satellite TV Bouquet of Angola
Mar 2, 2010 – Eutelsat (Paris: ETL) has announced that it has signed a major contract with UPSTAR Comunicações for satellite capacity for the broadcasting of ZAP pay-TV platform, expected to launch shortly in Angola.
News categories: Eutelsat, Angola, Conditional Access, Content Distribution, Digital TV, DVB-S2, DVR, Satellite, Set Top Box

Pace ships 17.2 million set-top boxes in 2009
Mar 2, 2010 – Pace (LSE:PIC) has announced results for the year to 31 December 2009. Growth in revenues and profitability was matched by a growth in shipments with 17.2m (2008: 13.1m) set-top boxes delivered to customers across all global markets.
News categories: Pace plc, Cable TV, DVR, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box

127k Zon boxes installed in 4Q09; pay TV subscribers stable
Mar 1, 2010 – ZON Multimedia (Lisbon:ZON) has released its results for 2009. By the end of FY09, ZON's total Pay TV subscriber base was 1.595 million subscribers, of which 1.180 million subscribed to cable services and 414 thousand to satellite services.
News categories: ZON Multimedia, Cable TV, DVR, Portugal, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers

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

OpenTV Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2009 Results
Feb 25, 2010 – OpenTV (NASDAQ:OPTV) has announced financial results for its fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2009. For the year ended December 31, 2009, revenues were $120.0 million, an increase of 3.0% compared to $116.5 million in 2008.
News categories: OpenTV, DVR, Middleware, Results, Set Top Box

Virgin Media adds 112,700 HD DVR subscribers in 4Q09
Feb 25, 2010 – Virgin Media (NASDAQ: VMED; LSE: VMED) has announces results for the quarter ended December 31, 2009. Virgin Media added V+ HD DVR subscribers at a record rate with a further 112,700 subscribers in the quarter to reach an installed base of 862,000.
News categories: Virgin Media, Cable TV, DVR, Results, Subscribers, UK

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

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