USA (United States of America) Digital TV News

Charter Reports First Quarter Financial and Operating Results
May 12, 2008 – Charter Communications (NASDAQ: CHTR) has reported its first quarter 2008 financial and operating results. Digital video customers increased by approximately 102,800 and basic video customers decreased by 11,900.
News categories: Charter Communications, Cable TV, Digital TV, Results, Set Top Box, Subscribers, USA

Massillon Goes All-Digital With 'DTAs'
May 9, 2008 – Massillon Cable TV will kick off the final leg of its initiative to phase out analog service using some 100,000 Homecast-manufactured digital-to-analog converters supplied through Evolution Digital.
News categories: Homecast, Evolution Digital, Massillon Cable TV, ATSC 3, Cable TV, Digital TV, Set Top Box, Terrestrial, USA

DOCSIS 3.0 CMTSs and Cable Modems Achieve 'Firsts'
May 9, 2008 – Modems and headend gear for DOCSIS 3.0, from multiple supplying companies, were found during a recently concluded test wave to comply with CableLabs specifications.
News categories: CableLabs, Broadband, Cable Modem, Cable TV, DOCSIS, USA

SureWest Communications Reports First Quarter 2008 Results
May 8, 2008 – SureWest Communications (NASDAQ: SURW) has announced operating results for the quarter ended March 31, 2008. Video RGUs increased 180% to 55,200 in the first quarter compared to the prior year.
News categories: SureWest, Broadband, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, USA

FVT of Chile wins interactive TV contract in the US
May 8, 2008 – Chilean company FVT will integrate Amino (London: AMO) STBs, Verimatrix content protection and GoBackTV technology for ESEK iTV, a New York-based system that will provide TV channels to residential TVs through set-top-boxes, PCs, notebooks and cellular phones.
News categories: FVT, ESEK iTV, Conditional Access, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, Mobile, Set Top Box, Streaming, USA

Cablevision Systems Corporation Reports First Quarter 2008 Results
May 8, 2008 – Cablevision Systems Corporation (NYSE:CVC) today reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2008. iO: Interactive Optimum digital video customers were up 41,000 or 1.6% from December 2007 and 158,000 or 6.3% from March 2007.
News categories: Cablevision, Cable TV, Digital TV, Results, Subscribers, USA

DTV Transition Premiers in Wilmington, North Carolina
May 8, 2008 – The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced that Wilmington, North Carolina, will be the first market to test the transition to digital television (DTV) in advance of the nationwide transition to DTV on February 17, 2009.
News categories: FCC, ATSC 3, Digital TV, Set Top Box, Terrestrial, USA

Are National Regulation Frameworks for Mobile TV ready?
May 7, 2008 – A study on terrestrial mobile broadcast TV by the bmcoforum has concluded that a significant number of countries are still lagging behind most advanced countries in defining the regulatory framework including the licensing conditions and processes.
News categories: bmcoforum, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, Estonia, Europe, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Market Research, Mobile, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Regulation, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, USA

Mediacom Communications Reports Results for First Quarter 2008
May 7, 2008 – Mediacom Communications (Nasdaq: MCCC) has reported financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2008. During the quarter, digital customers grew by 27,000 ending the quarter with 584,000 customers.
News categories: Mediacom Communications, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Results, Subscribers, USA