UK (United Kingdom, Great Britain & Northern Ireland) Digital TV News

Number of U.K. Online Videos Viewed up 47 Percent Vs. Year Ago
Jul 6, 2009 – comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR) has released data from the comScore Video Metrix service, indicating that the total number of videos viewed online in the U.K. in April 2009 grew 47 percent versus year ago to 4.7 billion videos.
News categories: comScore, Advertising, Market Research, Streaming, UK

Nine million digital video recorders sold in the UK
Jun 29, 2009 – Latest research from Ofcom reveals that more viewers are taking greater control over the way they watch television as the total number of digital video recorders sold reaches almost nine million (8.9 million).
News categories: Ofcom, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Subscribers, Terrestrial, UK

Global IPTV market up to nearly 24 million
Jun 16, 2009 – The Broadband Forum has announced the latest broadband and IPTV statistics. Its report shows that broadband grew by 16.6 million lines globally in the last quarter alone, while IPTV continues to expand strongly.
News categories: Broadband Forum, Point Topic, Brazil, Broadband, Canada, China, Digital TV, DOCSIS, Egypt, Fibre, France, Germany, IPTV, Italy, Japan, Korea, Market Research, Mexico, UK, Ukraine, USA

DMB countries join forces for mobile TV push
Jun 11, 2009 – Five countries engaged with DMB have established an organization that will support mobile TV services via DMB and related services. The International DMB Advancement Group (IDAG) has members from the Netherlands, Norway, UK, Malta and Italy.
News categories: Digital TV, Italy, Malta, Mobile, Netherlands, Norway, UK

BSkyB and Microsoft Join Forces to Offer TV through Xbox
May 29, 2009 – Sky (LSE:BSY) and Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT) have announced that from this autumn, millions of Xbox owners in the UK and Ireland will have the opportunity to access Sky Player, Sky's online TV service, through their broadband-enabled games consoles.
News categories: BSkyB, Xbox, Digital TV, Gaming, Ireland, Media Player, Satellite, Streaming, UK

More than 50% of Mobile TV Subscribers from APAC by 2013
May 27, 2009 – According to research from RNCOS, the Asia-Pacific region will account for more than 50% of global Mobile TV subscribers by the end of 2013 due to the rapid technological developments in countries like China, Japan, South Korea and India.
News categories: RNCOS, 5G, China, Digital TV, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Market Research, Mexico, Mobile, Russia, Spain, UK, USA

S&T and Humax unveil MHEG-enabled online video streaming to TV
May 26, 2009 – Strategy & Technology, in collaboration with Humax, has developed the first applications to be shown to bring streaming video from the internet to the TV under broadcaster control using the latest MHEG-5 middleware specifications.
News categories: Strategy & Technology, Humax, ANGA COM, Digital TV, MHEG-5, Middleware, Set Top Box, Streaming, UK

GfK UK Digital Home update
May 20, 2009 – GfK's ConsumerScope panel has found that between a third and one half of UK households owning more than one TV still have at least one analogue TV, and Digital Video Recorders have replaced VCRs in only four and a half million households.
News categories: GfK, Digital TV, DVR, Market Research, Optical Disc Recorder, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial, UK

BT Vision adds 47k installations in first three months of 2009
May 14, 2009 – BT Group (LSE:BT.A)(NYSE:BT) has released preliminary results for the fourth quarter and year to 31 March 2009. The BT Vision customer base reached 423,000 customers at 31 March 2009.
News categories: BT Vision, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, UK