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

BBC and ITV to launch a free-to-view satellite proposition
Apr 27, 2007 – The BBC has today been given approval by the BBC Trust to launch a nationally available free-to-view satellite proposition as a joint venture with ITV. More …
News categories: Digital TV, Satellite, UK

HDTV Future Would be Transformed by Ofcom HD-DTT Decision
Apr 26, 2007 – Recent Strategy Analytics research forecasts that 90 percent of UK homes will be watching High Definition TV by 2020 as long as Ofcom allocates spectrum on the digital terrestrial television (DTT) platform for HDTV. More …
News categories: Digital TV, Market Research, Terrestrial, UK

5% of UK households will be watching IPTV by 2011
Apr 20, 2007 – Around 1.5 million households in the UK will be watching TV over an internet connection by 2011, according to a new study published today by the Centre for Telecoms Research More …
News categories: Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Subscribers, UK

Amino to port IntAct IPTV software to new Intel Media Processor
Apr 19, 2007 – Amino has announced today that its IntAct(TM) IPTV software stack will be ported on to the new Intel® CE 2110 Media Processor. More …
News categories: Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, NABShow, Semiconductor, UK

Virgin Media launches Virgin Free TV across the UK
Apr 3, 2007 – Virgin Media has today launched a digital TV service to consumers living in non-cabled areas – expanding availability of its quadplay of broadband, phone, mobile and TV services beyond its cable franchise network. More …
News categories: Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Set Top Box, UK

Slow start for BT Vision
Apr 1, 2007 – BT’s fledgling IPTV service BT Vision has attracted just 5,000 customers in its first few months of operation. More …
News categories: Digital TV, IPTV, Subscribers, Terrestrial, UK

NDS VideoGuard Express(TM) Selected by UK's WightCable North
Mar 29, 2007 – NDS has announced that WightCable North, the second-largest cable operator in the UK serving the West of Scotland and the North West of England, has chosen NDS VideoGuard Express to replace its existing cable television CA platform. More …
News categories: Cable TV, Conditional Access, Digital TV, UK

Ocean Blue software for NXP STB hardware platforms
Mar 27, 2007 – Ocean Blue Software, the specialist digital TV software developer, has released its DVB software products on NXP’s entry-level Nexperia STB100 & STB200 platforms. More …
News categories: Digital TV, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, UK

Amino ranked world leader in IPTV set-top box market
Mar 26, 2007 – ABI Research has declared Amino the global leading vendor of IPTV set-top boxes for the second consecutive year. More …
News categories: Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Set Top Box, UK