Spain Digital TV News

Directive on the protection of conditional-access services: Commission consultation of interested parties
Feb 11, 2008 – The European Commission is launching an open consultation and is asking all interested parties to submit information on services that use conditional-access systems, such as pay-TV or video on demand.
News categories: European Commission, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, DRM, Estonia, Europe, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, IPTV, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mobile, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Regulation, Romania, Satellite, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Terrestrial, UK

Telefonica and GestureTek developing gesture-recognition for Imagenio platform
Feb 8, 2008 – GestureTek has announced that it is developing a system with Telefónica for the telco's 'Imagenio' IPTV platform that can recognise user hand signs via the set-top box (STB).
News categories: GestureTek, Telefónica, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, Set Top Box, Spain

Spain - February DTT monthly update released
Feb 5, 2008 – According to Impulsa-TDT, in December 2007 a new historic high was achieved with sales of 685,584 DTT receivers, 50% more than in December of 2006 and 80% more than the monthly sales average of that year.
News categories: Impulsa-TDT, Digital TV, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Spain, Terrestrial

Sogecable Consolidated results as of December 31st 2007
Feb 5, 2008 – DIGITAL+ closed the year 2007 with 2,065,000 subscribers after resuming growth in its customer base in the fourth quarter, in which 19,000 new customers were added to its services.
News categories: Sogecable, Earnings Release, Digital TV, DVR, Results, Satellite, Spain, Subscribers

Dreampark delivers IPTV Middleware to Spain with bcSistemas
Jan 31, 2008 – Dreampark has announced the first delivery of its Dreamgallery™ middleware to Spanish triple-play operator, TV Almansa through the cooperation with Spanish system integrator bcSistemas.
News categories: Dreampark, TV Almansa, bcSistemas, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, Spain

Sogecable launches Canal+ HD, Spain's first national High Definition channel
Jan 29, 2008 – Sogecable has launched Canal+ HD, the first High Definition channel with national coverage to broadcast in Spain.
News categories: Sogecable, Digital TV, DVR, Satellite, Set Top Box, Spain

In Europe, IPTV grows stronger in less 'cabled' TV markets
Jan 16, 2008 – According to the newest edition of TV Markets Quarterly Monitoring from InfoCom, during 2Q07 most of the television viewers in Western Europe still prefer receiving television service over terrestrial.
News categories: InfoCom GmbH, Austria, Belgium, Cable TV, Denmark, Digital TV, Europe, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, IPTV, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Market Research, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Satellite, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Terrestrial, UK

Top Ten IPTV Carriers
Jan 14, 2008 – Light Reading has looked around the world and identified the operators that have the most IPTV subscribers and then ranked them in order.
News categories: Belgium, Broadband, China, Digital TV, France, Hong Kong, IPTV, Italy, Market Research, Middleware, Spain, Subscribers, Sweden, Taiwan

Spain - January DTT monthly update released
Jan 10, 2008 – From June to November 2007 2.3 million DTT receivers were sold to give a total of 7.4 million units, a number expected to have exceeded 8 million by the end of December.
News categories: Impulsa-TDT, Digital TV, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Spain, Terrestrial