Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB) has announced its latest advanced, HD cable set-top box (STB) for the US digital television market the ADB-4820C. The product has been specifically designed to operate with new flat panel television sets and has an innovative space saving design which mounts to the back of a TV. The ADB-4820C is the […]
Leichtman Research Group has reported that the nineteen largest cable and telephone providers in the US – representing about 94 per cent of the market – acquired 2.2 million net additional high-speed Internet subscribers in the first quarter of 2008. The top broadband providers now account for 64.1 million subscribers with cable companies having about […]
Chinese conditional access (CA) systems provider China Digital TV Holding has announced its unaudited financial results for Q1 2008, with net revenues reaching $17.4 million, up 65.7 per cent year-on-year but down. Net income for the quarter came to $11.4 million, up 84.1 per cent year on year but down 11.5per cent quarter on quarter. […]
A jury in a US District Court in California has exonerated NDS Group companies in the lawsuit brought by satellite operator EchoStar and Nagrastar, the joint venture between EchoStar and Kudelski Group. The level of damages claimed by the plaintiffs, widely reported as amounting to over $1 billion, has ultimately resulted in an award in […]
Jupiter Telecommunications (J:COM), the multiple system operator in Japan controlled by Liberty, has announced that the total subscribing households as of April 30, 2008 served by J:COM's 20 managed franchises reached approximately 2.85 million, up 180,000, or 6.7 per cent since April 30th, 2007. Combined revenue generating units for cable television, high-speed Internet access and […]
Harris Corporation will introduce the first full mobile digital TV transmission platform to meet the new Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) solution that was proposed by LG Electronics and Samsung. The Harris offering, which will be introduced in November 2008, will enable television broadcasters to quickly begin the transition to mobile digital television (DTV). The […]
Sky has overhauled its online VOD service by adding streaming capabilities and rebranding it “Sky Player”. Sky said: “The online service will take on the Sky Player brand in recognition of the public's growing awareness of additional online video 'player' services.” In addition, Sky non-subscribers can now access the same Sky Player interface – Sky […]
Dreampark has confirmed that Sweden’s government-owned media company, Teracom, has chosen Dreampark’s Dreamgallery² IPTV middleware solution. Teracom plans to offer IPTV services using Dreamgallery through its recent acquisition of IPTV operator Svenska Basboxbolaget.
A standards war for mobile TV in the UK became a real possibility with Qualcomm winning the latest Ofcom spectrum auction. Qualcomm UK Spectrum Ltd has been awarded spectrum in the L-band (1452-1492) for a licence fee of £8,334,000 (E1.04bn). Qualcomm has previously conducted UK tests in Cambridge and Manchester. Its proprietary Mediaflo system competes […]
From David Del Valle in Madrid Telefonica has announced the launch of MASTV, a platform to distribute TV content for (analogue and digital) local TV channels aimed at capturing 10 per cent of more than 1,000 TV stations currently existing throughout Spain. Its subsidiary Telefonica Servicios Audiovisuales will distribute packages of TV content “at a […]