Russia Digital TV News

North-West Telecom Starts PON-Based Triple Play in Kaliningrad
Nov 13, 2009 – In November 2009, North-West Telecom started commercial operation of triple play services based on passive optical networks (PON) in Kaliningrad. Kaliningrad becomes the company's second regional division after St. Petersburg.
News categories: North-West Telecom, Avangard, Digital TV, Fibre, IPTV, Russia

Eastern Europe Satellite Pay TV Launch Frenzy Continues
Nov 13, 2009 – The latest analysis from Screen Digest focused on the Central and Eastern European pay-TV market shows that the recent rapid growth in new satellite TV market entrants in Central and Eastern Europe shows no signs of slowing down.
News categories: Screen Digest, Digital TV, Macedonia, Market Research, Russia, Satellite, Slovakia, Ukraine

Q2-09 was a Record-Setting Mobile TV Quarter
Oct 28, 2009 – Issue No. 10 of the quarterly TeleAnalytics Mobile TV Tracking Service (TMTS) quantitatively substantiates the position taken back in Q3-08 that the worldwide Mobile TV adoption/sales would not be much upset by the financial crisis.
News categories: TeleAnalytics, 5G, Brazil, China, Digital TV, Europe, ISDB-T, Japan, Korea, Market Research, Mobile, Russia, SBTVD, USA

Comstar launches IPTV in Moscow Region
Oct 21, 2009 – COMSTAR - United TeleSystems JSC (Comstar UTS) [LSE: CMST], the largest integrated telecommunications provider in Russia and the CIS, has announced the expansion of its IPTV service to the region around Moscow.
News categories: COMSTAR, Digital TV, IPTV, Russia

More than 700 on-demand audiovisual services available in Europe
Oct 16, 2009 – The European Audiovisual Observatory and the Direction du développement des médias (France) have published a new study entitled Video on Demand and Catch-Up Television in Europe.
News categories: European Audiovisual Observatory, DDM, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cable TV, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, IPTV, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Market Research, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Satellite, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Terrestrial, Turkey, UK

Tvingo Telecom to launch IPTV with Netris
Sep 7, 2009 – Netris and Tvingo Telecom have announced that they have launched IPTV based on Nteris' IPSoft iVision IPTV Middleware. Netris is providing support and development of Tvingo Digital in Vladikavkaz, in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Russia.
News categories: Netris, Tvingo Telecom, Digital TV, IBCShow, IPTV, Middleware, Russia

Samsung Introduces DivX Certified® MP3 Player at IFA
Sep 3, 2009 – DivX (Nasdaq: DIVX) and Samsung (Seoul: 005930) have announced the launch of Samsung's first DivX Certified® MP3 player, the R1, the newest edition to Samsung's BEAT line of portable media players. The R1 is designed to playback DivX® video.
News categories: DivX, Samsung, Europe, IFABerlin, Media Player, Russia, Streaming, Tablet

Comstar 2Q09: Pay TV subscribers down in Moscow; flat in the Regions
Aug 27, 2009 – COMSTAR (LSE: CMST) has announced its results for the quarter ended June 30, 2009. In Moscow, the number of triple-play subscribers decreased by 3% quarter-on-quarter to 133 thousand. In the Regions subscriber numbers were flat at 1.953 million.
News categories: COMSTAR, Cable TV, IPTV, Results, Russia, Subscribers

Moscow DVB-H mobile TV trials approved
Aug 20, 2009 – Operators have received permission from Russia's State Commission for Radio Frequencies (GKRCH) to launch mobile TV in Moscow on a trial basis. Until the end of the year DVB-H services will be provided by Sistema, Vimpelcom and Scartel.
News categories: Sistema, Vimpelcom, Digital TV, Mobile, Russia