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

Comtrend delivers 590,000 PLC solutions for Europe in 2007
Oct 9, 2007 – Comtrend Corporation has announced the delivery of 590,000 200-Mbps PLC Ethernet adapters, the PowerGrid DH-10PF, by the end of 2007.
News categories: Comtrend, DS2, BBWF, Europe, Portugal, Smart Home, Spain, UK

Sagem Communications has already delivered more than 2 million MPEG4 Set-top boxes
Oct 8, 2007 – Sagem (SAFRAN Group) has announced the accumulated delivery of over 2 million MPEG-4 Set-top boxes and confirms that it will be the first supplier of dual MPEG2 and MPEG4 Freeview STBs dedicated to the reception of BSkyB's proposed Picnic DTTV service.
News categories: Sagem, Digital TV, DVR, France, IPTV, Set Top Box, Terrestrial, UK

ANT Announces First Industry Standard for TV Content Application Development
Oct 8, 2007 – ANT Software (Reuters: ANTP.L, Bloomberg: ANTP.LN) has launched the industry's first standard for TV content application development. Rich Media Access Interface (RMAI) eliminates the need for discrete versions of a TV application to be produced for different client devices.
News categories: ANT Software Limited, Digital TV, Middleware, Set Top Box, UK

SiConnect proposal takes next step toward inclusion in IEEE powerline standard
Oct 8, 2007 – SiConnect has successfully merged its submission for the forthcoming IEEE P1901 powerline communication coexistence standard with the proposal submitted jointly by the Consumer Electronics Powerline Communication Alliance (CEPCA) and the Universal Powerline Association (UPA).
News categories: SiConnect, Consumer Electronics Powerline Communication Alliance (CEPCA), Universal Powerline Association (UPA), Semiconductor, Smart Home, UK

Triple-Play Bundles Work, but Quadruple-Play Packages are not yet Proven, says Analysys
Oct 8, 2007 – Experience demonstrates that triple-play bundles of TV, voice and broadband services have proven themselves as a means of increasing market share. Incumbent operators have used quadruple-play services as a defence against competitors' TV-based triple-play bundles, but without noticeable success.
News categories: Analysys, Australia, Austria, Czech Republic, Digital TV, France, Hong Kong, IPTV, Market Research, Mobile, Sweden, UK, USA

IPTV Deployments More Than Double In a Year as Broadband Continues to Achieve Strong Growth
Oct 8, 2007 – The DSL Forum today announced new broadband and IPTV statistics at the Broadband World Forum Europe in Berlin. The statistics, prepared for the DSL Forum by industry analyst Point Topic, show that the number of people using IPTV services increased by 179 per cent in the 12 months to 30 June 2007.
News categories: Point Topic, DSL Forum, Africa, Asia, BBWF, Broadband, Canada, China, Digital TV, DOCSIS, Europe, Fibre, France, Germany, IPTV, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latin America, Market Research, Middle-East, North America, Spain, Subscribers, UK, USA

Ocean Blue Powers Next Generation Sharp TVs
Oct 6, 2007 – Ocean Blue Software has won a contract to integrate its Voyager MHEG-5 software into the next generation of TVs from Sharp.
News categories: Trident Micro, Ocean Blue, Sharp, Digital TV, MHEG-5, Middleware, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Software, Terrestrial, UK

BT and FON launch the world's largest Wi-Fi Community
Oct 4, 2007 – BT and FON today promised to transform the UK's market for wireless broadband by launching BT FON, the world's largest Wi-Fi community.
News categories: BT, FON, BT FON, Broadband, Smart Home, UK

Convergence Driving European TV Progress
Oct 1, 2007 – New research published today by Informa Telecoms & Media shows that digital TV penetration of Western European households will break the 50% mark by the end of this year.
News categories: Informa Telecoms & Media, Cable TV, Digital TV, Europe, France, Germany, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Terrestrial, TV Services, UK