A legal action brought by Mexico’s Televisa Group has halted the digitisation of the country’s broadcasting. Mexico’s Federal Telecommunications Commission says its hands are tied until the legal dispute is resolved. The action revolves around a plan to switch off all analogue transmission on December 31st 2015. It is understood that Televisa, despite being interested […]
With its TV division losing out to competitors such as Apple, LG and Samsung, Sony is turning to the secondary device market to restore its fortunes. Sony Computer Entertainment is launching ‘nasne’, a new networked recorder and media storage device with built- in 500GB hard disk drive (HDD) and digital terrestrial and satellite broadcast tuners. […]
IP-based communications service provider Level 3 Communications has completed a substantial expansion of the global capacity of its content delivery network (CDN). The expansion, which was completed in less than two years, more than doubles the company’s CDN capacity to support customer growth and increased demand. Level 3 has increased its globally available CDN capacity […]
South Africa is a step closer towards migrating to a digital terrestrial television broadcasting regime, according to the Minister of Communications, Dina Pule, who has revealed that Sentech, the organisation responsible for rolling out the digital broadcasting network around the country, has now rolled out the digital network to 61 per cent of the population. […]
Mediaset Spain, the owner of Tele 5 and Cuatro, has renewed its FTA TV rights to the UEFA Europa League until 2015, while pay-DTT channel Gol TV has secured the pay-TV rights. Mediaset España has been awarded the rights to the best match each match week on a co-exclusive basis. The live match, as well […]
A Chinese-financed broadcaster is due to enter Korea’s digital television scene next month. A Chinese-owned firm, Pan African Networks Group (PAN), is set to roll out its digital television transmission next month to compete with state-owned Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) which has just launched its own 11-channel DVB-T2 service on Kenya’s Signet DTT system. PAN […]
Western Europe will not reach full digital TV penetration until 2017, despite penetration being as high as 85 per cent by end-2011, according to a new report from Digital TV Research (DTVR). In fact, only two of the 15 countries covered in the Digital TV Western Europe report had fully converted to digital by end-2011, […]
Fransat, Samsung and Neotion have combined their skills to integrate a satellite receiver and a DTT module for Fransat into Samsung televisions in its 2012 range (ES series), thereby ensuring reception of available free DTT channels with no external tuner. The pack comprises a decryption module produced by Neotion and an access card for subscription-free […]
The analogue signal for BBC2 was turned off for five million households as the largest phase of switching the country’s sets to digital began on Thursday. They will lose the other terrestrial channels on April 18th. Households throughout the capital and the south were affected after the signal from 54 stations were cut. Despite a […]
According to a new report from Digital TV Research, 2012 is a watershed year for Eastern Europe as the number of digital homes for the 15 forecast countries will exceed the analogue total for the first time. Report author Simon Murray said: “The recession has had an impact on the TV sector. Compared with our […]