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

Reliance's Bluemagic to use Measat-3 satellite for DTH
Jul 21, 2007 – Reliance-Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group's Bluemagic will use Measat-3 satellite and is planning to launch its direct-to-home (DTH) service in the last quarter of this year.
News categories: Digital TV, India, Satellite

Sogecable Consolidated Results as of June 30th 2007
Jul 17, 2007 – As of June 30th 2007, DIGITAL+'s customer base reached 2,056,000 clients, representing a net growth of 66,000 subscribers in a year.
News categories: Sogecable, Full Release, Digital TV, Results, Satellite, Spain, Subscribers

US - Cable Passes Satellite For DVR Popularity
Jul 17, 2007 – Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) installed into cable-served TV households (TVHHs) have recently surpassed the number of those in satellite-served video HHs, according to a new set of projections and estimates released by The Carmel Group.
News categories: Carmel Group, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, USA

Humax to Supply $30 Mil Worth of Set-top Boxes to Turkey
Jul 16, 2007 – Global digital consumer products company Humax has announced its entry into the broadcasting operations market in Turkey. Humax will be the first set-top box manufacturer to do so.
News categories: Humax, DoÄŸan Yayın Holding (DYH), Digital TV, Satellite, Set Top Box, Turkey

New ASTRA 1L Satellite Ready For Operation
Jul 11, 2007 – SES ASTRA (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) has announced that its new ASTRA 1L satellite has been successfully deployed to its final orbital position at 19.2° East and is ready for commercial operations.
News categories: Digital TV, Europe, Ireland, Satellite, UK

BSkyB Trading Update for the 3 Months to 30 June 2007
Jul 11, 2007 – BSkyB will be holding a business update for analysts and investors at 9am BST today (11 July). Key operating metrics for the three months to 30 June: Net customer adds of 90,000 to 8.582 million; 2.374 million Sky+ households; 292,000 HD subscribers.
News categories: Broadband, Digital TV, DVR, Ireland, Satellite, Subscribers, UK

IPR at the heart of Vietnam pay-TV growth
Jul 11, 2007 – The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has reaffirmed regional television industry support for the remarkable growth of the Vietnam pay-TV industry - recently at more than 50% per year.
News categories: CASBAA, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial, Vietnam

STMicroelectronics Passes 400 Million MPEG-Decoder Shipment Milestone
Jul 11, 2007 – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) has announced that by the end of the first quarter of 2007 it had shipped a cumulative total of more than 400 million MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 decoder chips since entering the market with the world's first MPEG-2 decoder in 1995.
News categories: ATSC 3, Blu-ray, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVD, DVR, HD-DVD, IPTV, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Streaming, Terrestrial

Israel - YES to launch PC-based TV service
Jul 11, 2007 – Bezeq's (TASE: BEZQ) satellite broadcasting subsidiary YES will launch a computer-based television service using NDS Group plc (Nasdaq: NNDS) technology during the fourth quarter of this year.
News categories: 'yes', Digital TV, Israel, Satellite, Streaming