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

Tele Columbus and PrimaCom Choose NDS MediaHighway®
Feb 25, 2009 – NDS has announced that Tele Columbus and PrimaCom have selected NDS' advanced MediaHighway® middleware solution to power their pay-TV business, further reinforcing MediaHighway's leadership in the German pay-TV industry.
News categories: NDS Group, Tele Columbus, PrimaCom, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Germany, Middleware, Set Top Box

Virgin Media Reports Fourth Quarter 2008 Results
Feb 25, 2009 – Virgin Media (Nasdaq:VMED) has announced results for the quarter ended December 31, 2008. Total TV net additions were 44,500 in the quarter. 1.8m of Virgin Media's digital TV customers are now using VOD, representing a reach of 51.8%.
News categories: Virgin Media, Cable TV, DVR, Results, Subscribers, UK

Liberty Global Reports Fiscal 2008 Results
Feb 23, 2009 – Liberty Global (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB, LBTYK) has announced results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2008. With 501,000 additions during Q4, digital video remained the strongest growing business for the seventh consecutive 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, Slovenia, Subscribers, Switzerland

Telenet Full Year 2008 results
Feb 20, 2009 – Telenet Group (Brussels: TNET) has announces its results for the year ended December 31, 2008. Telenet had 674,000 subscribers to its digital television services - 609,000 Telenet Digital TV subscribers and 65,000 INDI subscribers.
News categories: Telenet, Belgium, Cable TV, DVR, Results, Set Top Box, Subscribers

Rogers Reports Fourth Quarter 2008 Financial and Operating Results
Feb 18, 2009 – Rogers Communications (TSX: RCI.a; RCI.b)(NYSE: RCI) has announced its results for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2008. HDTV digital cable subscribers were up 37% from December 31, 2007 to December 31, 2008, to 568,000.
News categories: Rogers Communications, Cable TV, Canada, DVR, Results, Subscribers

Portugal Telecom (Meo) full year 2008 results
Feb 18, 2009 – Portugal Telecom (Lisbon: PTC; NYSE: PT) has announced its full year results for the year ended 31 December 2008. YTD net additions in the pay-TV service reached 291 thousand bringing the total customers to 312 thousand at the end of 2008.
News categories: Portugal Telecom, DVR, IPTV, Portugal, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers

Telefonica and TVA launch 'Trio Xtreme' in São Paulo
Feb 17, 2009 – Telefónica Brazil has launched its 'Trio Xtreme' triple play service in São Paulo in partnership with TVA. The service runs on Telefónica's fibre-optic (FTTH) network and offers TV, telephony and broadband up to 30 Mbps.
News categories: Telefónica, TVA, Brazil, Digital TV, DVR, Fibre, IPTV, Set Top Box

MTG (Viasat) Results for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2008
Feb 12, 2009 – MTG (OMX Nordic: MTGA, MTGB) has announced its results for the fourth quarter 2008. The number of subscribers with ViasatPlus Personal Video Recorders increased from 103,000 at the end of the third quarter to 115,000 at the end of the fourth.
News categories: MTG, Denmark, DVR, Finland, IPTV, Norway, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden, Ukraine

The DIRECTV Group Q4 Results Cap Record Setting Financial Performance in 2008
Feb 10, 2009 – The DIRECTV Group (NASDAQ:DTV) has reported fourth quarter 2008 results. DIRECTV U.S. ended the quarter with 17.62 million subscribers, up from 16.83 million on December 31, 2007. DIRECTV Latin America had 3.88 million subscribers at year end.
News categories: DIRECTV, Argentina, Brazil, Caribbean, Chile, Colombia, DVR, Ecuador, Latin America, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Uruguay, USA, Venezuela