Satellite Television (DBS, DTH, DSat, DVB-S, DVB-S2) News

UK's Pay-TV Market Climbs to $8.2 Billion by 2014
Sep 16, 2009 – Pay-TV revenue in the U.K. will climb from $6.2 billion in 2009 to $8.2 billion by 2014 as IPTV grows at an impressive CAGR of 26 percent within the forecast period, according to the latest report from Pyramid Research.
News categories: Pyramid Research, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers, UK

AXTEL awarded licence to provide pay TV in Mexico
Sep 15, 2009 – AXTEL (BMV: AXTELCPO; OTC: AXTLY) has announced that it has been issued with a concession to provide satellite pay TV services in Mexico. AXTEL plans to offer bundled services of voice, data and video in early 2010.
News categories: AXTEL, Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes, Digital TV, Mexico, Regulation, Satellite

Digiturk Launches VOD And High Definition Personal Video Recording
Sep 15, 2009 – Irdeto (JSE: NPN) with OpenTV (NASDAQ: OPTV), Pace (LSE:PIC), and TeleIDEA has announced that it has developed and implemented a broadcasting solution for Digiturk, including push and subscription video on demand with HD PVR functionality.
News categories: Irdeto, OpenTV, Pace plc, TeleIDEA, Digiturk, Digital TV, DVR, IBCShow, Middleware, Satellite, Set Top Box, Turkey

Poland's TVP Launches Free-To-Air Satellite Platform
Sep 15, 2009 – SES ASTRA (Paris and Luxembourg: SESG) has announced that the public Polish television Telewizja Polska SA (TVP) will launch a free-to-air platform on satellite. TVP will use a spot beam which is available on ASTRA 1KR.
News categories: Telewizja Polska, SES ASTRA, Digital TV, Poland, Satellite

ADB delivers hybrid HD set-top box for ITI Neovision
Sep 12, 2009 – Advanced Digital Broadcast (SIX:ADBN) has announced that it will deliver hybrid set-top boxes to ITI Neovision (Luxembourg: ITIH), to help strengthen ITI Neovision's satellite pay-TV service 'n's leadership in the fast-changing Polish DTH market.
News categories: Advanced Digital Broadcast, ITI Neovision, Digital TV, Poland, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart Home

Pathfinder Launches Premium DTH Service across Nigeria
Sep 11, 2009 – SES WORLD SKIES (Paris:SESG)(LUxX:SESG) has announced that Pathfinder Communications has signed a multi-transponder, multi-year deal to deliver its new Infinity TV package over the ASTRA 2B satellite to homes throughout Nigeria.
News categories: SES S.A., Infinity TV, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Nigeria, Satellite

ANACOM publishes 2Q09 pay TV numbers for Portugal
Sep 10, 2009 – According to ANACOM, at the end of June 2009, the total number of pay TV subscribers in Portugal continued to grow, surpassing 2.37 million, around 47,000 more than in the previous quarter and 232,000 more than in the same period of 2008.
News categories: ANACOM, Cable TV, IPTV, Market Research, Portugal, Satellite

Inverto to Support HbbTV on its hybrid set-top boxes
Sep 9, 2009 – Inverto Digital Labs has announced that its retail HD+ hybrid set-top box (STB), Scena 6, planned to hit the German market in Q1 2010, will support Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV). The hybrid STB will incorporate a CE-HTML browser from Pleyo.
News categories: Inverto, Pleyo, HbbTV, Digital TV, Germany, HbbTV, IBCShow, Middleware, Satellite, Set Top Box, Streaming

Nagravision Selected by HD+ in Germany
Sep 9, 2009 – Nagravision (SIX:KUD) has announced that HD PLUS has selected a Nagra Media turnkey end-to-end CA system to support the operator's new HD offering in Germany. Named HD+, the SES ASTRA service is scheduled to launch in late autumn.
News categories: Nagravision, SES ASTRA, Conditional Access, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Germany, Satellite