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

SlingCatcher on Store Shelves Beginning Today
Oct 9, 2008 – Sling Media (NASDAQ: SATS) has announced that its SlingCatcher is now available for purchase in the US, Canada and UK. The SlingCatcher is a universal media player that delivers broadcast TV, Internet video and personal content to the TV.
News categories: Sling Media, Canada, Digital TV, Placeshifting, Set Top Box, Streaming, UK, USA

Solaris Mobile ready to take Europe into a new age of mobile services
Oct 7, 2008 – Solaris Mobile has announced that the company has submitted to the European Commission a comprehensive application in response to the Commission's call for applications for pan-European systems providing mobile satellite services.
News categories: Solaris Mobile, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Content Distribution, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mobile, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Regulation, Romania, Satellite, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK

Protection of pay-TV services: Europe-wide protection against conditional-access piracy still indispensable, says Commission report
Oct 6, 2008 – In a changing market, it remains essential for the roll-out of pay-TV services that conditional-access systems be protected at European level against piracy. This is the verdict of a report published today by the European Commission.
News categories: European Commission, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mobile, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Regulation, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Streaming, Sweden, TV Services, UK

UK - Beginning of the end of analogue TV
Oct 6, 2008 – The process of turning off the UK's 72-year-old analogue terrestrial television system will start on November 6th, Digital UK, the independent organisation leading the change has confirmed.
News categories: Digital UK, Digital TV, Terrestrial, UK

Free satellite in 900,000 UK households
Oct 3, 2008 – Ofcom's 'Communications Market: Digital Progress Report' for the second quarter of 2008 shows around 840,000 homes were using free satellite on their main television set. This was an increase of around 120,000 on the previous quarter.
News categories: Ofcom, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial, UK

UK PlayTV™ shipments reach 85,000 in the first week
Oct 2, 2008 – New products from Sony (Tokyo: 6758; NYSE: SNE) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) allow customers to get Freeview via a PlayStation®3 (PS3) and via a Windows Media Center home PC. A successful trial of DVB-T2 brings HD a step closer.
News categories: Freeview, Sony Computer Entertainment, Microsoft, Digital TV, DVB-T2, Gaming, Market Research, Streaming, Terrestrial, UK

Valuable Group's Moviebeam Forges Partnership With Nagravision To Provide Studio-Approved Security System For Movie Downloads
Oct 2, 2008 – Valuable Group has reinvigorated MovieBeam's relationship with Nagravision (SWX:KUD.VX) with a new agreement under which Nagravision will provide state-of-the-art, secure conditional access for MovieBeam's set-top boxes.
News categories: Nagravision, MovieBeam, Valuable Group, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, North America, Set Top Box, Streaming, UK, USA

UK - Freesat Reaches 100,000 Sales Within Five Months Of Launching
Sep 29, 2008 – Freesat has reached 100,000 sales within just five months of launching on 6 May 2008, having maintained strong, steady growth throughout what has been a tough summer for high street retailers.
News categories: Freesat, Digital TV, DVR, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV, UK

Virgin Media's On-Demand TV Tops 45 Million Views
Sep 26, 2008 – Virgin Media (Nasdaq:VMED) has announced a massive increase in on-demand viewing, jumping from 34 million views in January to 45 million views in August on its TV platform. This is an increase of 33 percent in less than a year.
News categories: Virgin Media, Cable TV, Digital TV, Market Research, UK