Digital TV News: SARFT

China Digital TV Selected to Provide CA For China's Mobile TV
Sep 18, 2009 – China Digital TV Holding (NYSE: STV) has announced that it had been selected by China Satellite Mobile Broadcasting Corporation (CSM), a company under China's SARFT, to provide CA systems to mobile TV networks throughout China.
News categories: China Digital TV Holding, SARFT, China, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Mobile

SARFT Reveals Plans for Digital Terrestrial TV
Aug 21, 2009 – China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) has outlined plans for urban deployment of digital terrestrial TV. SARFT expects that by the end of 2009 over 100 cities will have the service.
News categories: SARFT, China, Digital TV, DTMB, Terrestrial

China Plans Second-Round Of Satellite STB Bidding
Jul 30, 2009 – China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) has held meetings with 24 IC and set-top box (STB) manufacturers with second-round satellite STB bidding likely to begin after October.
News categories: SARFT, China, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Satellite, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

Mobile TV Device Volumes Will Not Decline in 2009
Jul 23, 2009 – TeleAnalytics has calculated that the end-2009 Mobile TV user count will be in the 80.8 million to 81.9 million range. Mobile TV device sales will at worst remain flat, but an increase of up to 2% may be witnessed with respect to the 2008 sales total.
News categories: TeleAnalytics, Brazil, China, Digital TV, Europe, Japan, Korea, Market Research, Mobile, Smart TV, Subscribers, USA

ResearchInChina releases China Digital TV Market Report
Jul 13, 2009 – According to ResearchInChina, at the end of 2008 China had almost 400 million TV subscribers, of which 164 million were cable TV users. At the end of Mar 2009, China had 49.86 million DTV users, less than one third of cable TV subscribers.
News categories: ResearchInChina, Cable TV, China, Digital TV, Market Research, Set Top Box, Subscribers

CMMB mobile TV market shrinking
Jul 9, 2009 – According to DigiTimes, the CMMB mobile TV market in China has been rapidly shrinking since the introduction of conditional access at the end of last year.
News categories: China, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Market Research, Mobile, Subscribers

CMMB interactivity to launch this year
Jun 2, 2009 – China's State Administration of Radio Film and Television (SARFT) has said that interactive functionality for CMMB products will be launched in the second half of 2009, with first-generation networks being equipped for commercial trials by July 1.
News categories: SARFT, China, Mobile

CMMB to be partnered exclusively with TD-SCDMA
May 25, 2009 – China's SARFT has said that CMMB will be partnered exclusively with TD-SCDMA, China's 3G standard, for the next 3-4 years, giving China Mobile (NYSE:CHL, Hong Kong:941) a head start as it is the only operator that supports TD-SCDMA.
News categories: SARFT, China, Digital TV, Mobile, Regulation

China to Set Up CMMB Patent Pool
May 25, 2009 – China's State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television (SARFT) China Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting (CMMB) Workgroup is planning the establishment of an industrial alliance to manage CMMB patent licensing.
News categories: SARFT, China, Licensing, Mobile, Patent