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

BBC Trust approves proposals for a BBC HD channel
Nov 19, 2007 – The BBC Trust has published the final conclusions of the Public Value Test (PVT) it has conducted into the BBC Executive's proposals for a high definition (HD) television channel.
News categories: BBC, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Satellite, Terrestrial, TV Services, UK

SIRIUS 4 Satellite Successfully Launched
Nov 18, 2007 – SIRIUS 4 will be located at 5° East, SIRIUS' orbital position for delivering broadcast and broadband services across Europe, and will also transmit HDTV channels. SIRIUS 4 will also carry an African beam which will be marketed by SES ASTRA.
News categories: SES SIRIUS, ILS, Lockheed Martin, Africa, Digital TV, Europe, Satellite

Report Presents The Development of STB Markets in China and Abroad and Also Studies the STB Application Market
Nov 15, 2007 – According to ResearchInChina, global sales of set-top boxes reached over 70 million units in 2005, of which satellite STBs were 60%. In China, digital cable TV set-top box sales volume will reach 25 million units by 2008.
News categories: ResearchInChina, Cable TV, China, Conditional Access, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Market Research, Middleware, Satellite, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

New Zealand Freeview going strong
Nov 15, 2007 – Latest sales figures show more than 21,000 digital satellite receivers have been purchased in the last three months. This takes the total number of households reached to an estimated 62,000, or nearly 4% of all homes.
News categories: Freeview NZ, Digital TV, Market Research, New Zealand, Satellite, Set Top Box

Astro Signs Agreement with NDS
Nov 15, 2007 – Measat Broadcast Network Systems, owner and operator of Malaysian pay-TV service Astro, and NDS Group (NASDAQ: NNDS) have signed contracts for the licensing and deployment of the VideoGuard® conditional access system for its Direct-to-Home Pay-TV services.
News categories: NDS, Astro, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Malaysia, Middleware, Satellite

Vivendi's first nine months 2007 earnings
Nov 14, 2007 – At the end of the period, Canal+ Group's total subscription portfolio (Canal+ France scope) reached 10.4 million, which represented a net increase of 430,000 subscriptions compared to the combined subscriptions of Canal+ Group and TPS at the end of September 2006.
News categories: Vivendi, Earnings Release, Presentation, Digital TV, France, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Shin Satellite Q3 Results Discussion and Analysis
Nov 14, 2007 – Revenue from the Internet access and media business in Q3/2007 increased 226.3% from Q3/2006. This was due to an increase in revenue from DTV sales. As at the end of Q3/2007, DTV sales volume was 50,326 sets.
News categories: Thaicom, Digital TV, IPTV, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Thailand

Entertainment Highway selects Eutelsat W4 satellite for new HiTv Pay-TV platform for Nigeria
Nov 13, 2007 – Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) has announced the conclusion of a five-year contract on its W4 satellite with Entertainment Highway Ltd (EHL) for a new pay-TV platform serving Nigeria.
News categories: Eutelsat, Entertainment Highway, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Nigeria, Satellite

BSkyB's Next Set Top Boxes May Allow Third-Party Content
Nov 10, 2007 – James Murdoch, CEO of British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC (BSY), has said that the company is working on next-generation set-top boxes which could allow consumers to watch third-party content.
News categories: BSkyB, Digital TV, Ireland, Middleware, Satellite, Set Top Box, Streaming, UK