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

ANT signs Agreement with Scientific Atlanta
Oct 29, 2007 – ANT Software (AIM: ANTP) has announced that Scientific Atlanta, a Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) company, has selected ANT to be the provider of its core television service applications. Under this agreement ANT will provide the reference television service applications for the Cisco IPTV solution.
News categories: ANT Software, Cisco Systems, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, Set Top Box, UK

Start date for Scotland's TV switchover
Oct 29, 2007 – Scotland will begin the switch to digital television on November 6 next year, it was announced by Digital UK, the body leading the process.
News categories: Digital UK, Digital TV, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial, TV Services, UK

BSkyB - 1 Million Sky Broadband Customers
Oct 29, 2007 – Sky has announced that Sky Broadband has passed the one million customer mark. The milestone was achieved less than 14 months after the first Sky Broadband customer was connected - more quickly than any other UK broadband provider.
News categories: British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB), Broadband, Digital TV, Satellite, Subscribers, UK

Announcing Babel TV. A unique, simple to use device combining the benefits of Freeview TV, a personal video recorder and extremely user-friendly and safe Internet access
Oct 24, 2007 – Serial entrepreneur and UK Internet pioneer Peter Dawe announces the launch of Babel TV. Babel TV is unique. It is a simple to use device that combines the benefits of a Freeview "set-top-box", personal video recorder and Internet access.
News categories: Babel TV, Broadband, Digital TV, DVR, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Streaming, Terrestrial, UK

Thomson: Third Quarter 2007 Revenues
Oct 18, 2007 – Thomson (Euronext Paris: 18453, NYSE:TMS) shipped 2.7 million satellite set-top boxes in 3Q07, 0.6 million cable set-top boxes, and 2.6 million access products for telecom operators - making a total of 5.8 million access products in the quarter.
News categories: Thomson, Full release, Broadband, Cable TV, Camcorder, Digital TV, France, Gateway, IPTV, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, UK, USA

Ofcom plans Freeview 'migration' to HD
Oct 17, 2007 – Ofcom is to unveil an ambitious "migration path" that would transition Freeview from the current DVB-T transmission standard using MPEG-2 compression to the newer DVB-T2 and MPEG-4 standards.
News categories: Ofcom, Digital TV, DVB-T2, Terrestrial, TV Services, UK

Juniper Research Expects Spectrum Scarcity to Block Mobile TV Launch in UK Until at Least 2010
Oct 17, 2007 – The number of mobile broadcast TV subscribers in Western Europe is expected to pass 20m by 2011, according to a new report from Juniper Research.
News categories: Juniper Research, Digital TV, Europe, France, Germany, Italy, Market Research, Mobile, UK

Whitehaven gets set to lead UK switchover
Oct 16, 2007 – The UK's television switchover starts tomorrow (Oct 17) when thousands of homes in Whitehaven, Cumbria, receive digital channels for the first time.
News categories: Digital UK, Freeview, Government Digital Television site, Digital TV, Terrestrial, UK

BBC enters strategic relationship with Adobe to enhance BBC iPlayer and bbc.co.uk
Oct 16, 2007 – The BBC and Adobe® Systems have announced a strategic relationship around the delivery of web video.
News categories: BBC, Adobe, Media Player, Streaming, UK