Taiwan Digital TV News

Taiwan - MP4 player vendors plan to launch DVB-T handsets
Sep 3, 2008 – Vendors of MP4 players, having seen the success of mobile phones equipped with mobile TV functionality in China, plan to introduce DVB-T-enabled handsets for sale in Taiwan in the fourth quarter of 2008.
News categories: Digital TV, Mobile, Taiwan, Terrestrial

Chunghwa Telecom Reports Operating Results for 1H 2008
Aug 28, 2008 – Chunghwa Telecom (TAIEX: 2412; NYSE: CHT) has reported its results for the first six months of 2008. At the end of June 2008, Chunghwa had 508,000 multimedia-on-demand (MOD) subscribers, with 73,000 new subscriptions added during the second quarter.
News categories: Chunghwa Telecom, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, Taiwan

TiVo Reports Results for the Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2009 Ended July 31, 2008
Aug 27, 2008 – TiVo (Nasdaq: TIVO) has reported financial results for the second quarter ended July 31, 2008. TiVo-Owned subscription gross additions for the second quarter were approximately 36,000, compared to 41,000 gross additions for the year-ago period.
News categories: TiVo Inc, Australia, Canada, DVR, Mexico, Results, Set Top Box, Streaming, Subscribers, Taiwan, USA

Taiwan Cable Operator KBRO Launches HD Services Highlighting Alticast's MHP Solution
Aug 11, 2008 – Alticast, the primary DVB-MHP provider for kbro, a leading Taiwan cable operator, has announced that it has successfully passed all Site Acceptance Tests (SAT) and is ready to commercially deploy the first MHP set-top boxes in Taiwan.
News categories: Alticast, kbro, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Digital TV, DVB-MHP, DVR, Middleware, Set Top Box, Taiwan

ATSC Converter Box Demand in US Drives Growth of Taiwan's Digital Terrestrial STB Industry in 2008
Aug 7, 2008 – According to Taiwan's Market Intelligence Center, owing to ATSC converter box demand in the United States, the Taiwanese digital terrestrial set top box industry's shipment volume is estimated at 1.27 million units in the first half of 2008.
News categories: Market Intelligence Center, ATSC 3, Digital TV, Market Research, Set Top Box, Taiwan, Terrestrial, USA

Chunghwa Video Services Demand Explodes with Premium HD and Olympics Content Secured By Widevine
Aug 6, 2008 – Widevine Technologies has announced that Chunghwa Telecom (NYSE: CHT) has purchased an additional 450,000 Cypher® Virtual SmartCard™ clients from Widevine to accommodate rapid expansion and in-home network proliferation with existing subscribers.
News categories: Widevine, Chunghwa Telecom, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, IPTV, Smart Home, Subscribers, Taiwan

Asia-Pacific Continues to Lead in FTTH Market Penetration
Jul 23, 2008 – Asia consolidated its position as the global leader in next-generation broadband while the United States and Europe also continued to experience robust growth in FTTH, according to the FTTH Councils of Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America.
News categories: FTTH Council, Broadband, China, Denmark, Fibre, Hong Kong, Iceland, IPTV, Italy, Japan, Korea, Market Research, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Slovenia, Subscribers, Sweden, Taiwan, USA

TiVo Reports Results for the First Quarter Fiscal Year 2009 Ended April 30, 2008
May 28, 2008 – TiVo (Nasdaq: TIVO)-Owned subscription gross additions for the first quarter were approximately 48,000, compared to 57,000 gross additions for the year-ago period.
News categories: TiVo Inc, Australia, Canada, Digital TV, DVR, Mexico, Results, Streaming, Subscribers, Taiwan, USA

Asia-Pac braces for mobile TV fever
Mar 12, 2008 – The Asia-Pacific mobile video services market is expected to see huge growth potential as mobile operators continue to spend millions on developing innovative services and content to arrest the declining average revenue per user (ARPU).
News categories: Frost & Sullivan, Australia, China, Digital TV, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Market Research, Mobile, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Smart TV, Tablet, Taiwan, Vietnam