Inside Digital TV articles from August 2003

Inside Digital TV archives from August 2003

DITG Seeks Acquisitions.
August 6, 2003... Mark Holmes Senior Editor The Digital Interactive Television Group (DiTG) acquisition of GoiNTERACTtv could be the first in a series of acquisitions as the company aims to establish itself as one of the leading interactive media companies...

Berlin Switches Off Analogue Terrestrial TV.
August 6, 2003... Barry Flynn Editor As of Aug. 4, it is no longer possible to receive an analogue terrestrial TV signal in Berlin. A rolling switch-off began in November last year, which was virtually complete by February 2003. Only three public...

Canalsatellite Sees Good Take-Up On 'Pilotime'.
August 6, 2003... Mark Holmes Senior Editor Canalsatellite, the leading French satellite pay-TV player, is well on track to beat its expectations for the take-up of its advanced 'Pilotime' settop box. It had initially planned to have 60,000 of these boxes...

UK Cable: Finally, A Unitary Platform?
August 6, 2003... Barry Flynn Editor The conventional view of the UK cable industry is that it's so cashstrapped there is no room for any technical innovation any more. What looked like a killer interactive TV platform a few years back now languishes in the...

European Digital TV Developments Fuel Demand For Digital Receivers.
August 6, 2003... By Krishna Rao, Datamonitor The continued development of the European digital TV (DTV) market has sparked a highly competitive market for digital receivers. In addition to traditional set-top boxes (STBs) capable of decoding digital...

Convergence Index Analysis: Italy.(digital TV)
August 6, 2003... In the latest in our series on convergence, Barry Flynn looks at the prospects for Italy's mobile, Internet and digital TV platforms. With the launch of the recently-merged Telepiu/Stream service, now know as Sky Italia, at the end of...

Briefly.(broadcasting activities)
August 6, 2003... * News Corp technology division NDS Group's latest set of unaudited accounts reveal that it spent GBP3.8 million [5.4 million euros] fighting a well-publicized series of court cases in the year to June 2003, over twice as much as it spent on...

Kudelski Uses Substantial Cash Chunk To Fund MediaGuard Deal.(the Kudelski Group's acquisition of Canal+ Technologies' MediaGuard is taking up half of its cash reserves)
August 20, 2003... Mark Holmes Senior Editor The Kudelski Group's acquisition of Canal+ Technologies' Conditional Access (CA) business, MediaGuard is taking up half of the CA player's cash reserves. Mauro Saladini, CFO of the Kudelski Group told Inside...

Freeview Sends Out Logo Licenses.(Freeview is sending trademark licence documents to all DTT equipment manufacturers)
August 20, 2003... Barry Flynn Editor UK DTT operator Freeview is currently in the process of sending out trade-mark licence documents to all DTT equipment manufacturers, according to the company's General Manager, Matthew Seaman. Freeman told Inside...

Lay-offs Reduce OpenTV Losses.(OpenTV reduces its losses in the quarter ended 6/30/03)
August 20, 2003... Barry Flynn Editor US-based interactive TV middleware provider OpenTV substantially reduced its losses in the quarter ended June 30, 2003, but this was mainly down to costcutting, rather than increased revenues. The figures show that...

Forget DVB-X - It's Now DVB-H.(the DVB-X digital TV standard is going to be known as DVB-H)
August 20, 2003... Barry Flynn Editor The digital TV standard DVB-X is now to be known as DVB-H (for DVB-Handheld), and version 1.01 of the new standard should be out by the end of this year. The technical interpretation of the commercial requirements...

10 Million-plus Subs: Pie in the Sky?(BSkyB should reach 7 million subscribers by the end of 2003)
August 20, 2003... Barry Flynn Editor BSkyB's latest set of results show the UK DTH operator is still on target to hit seven million subscribers by the end of the year: net DTH growth was 133,000 in the quarter to June 30, 2003, putting the company on 6.8...

A New Agenda For Pay-TV in Germany.(Industry Overview)
August 20, 2003... By Bertold Heil The pay-TV market in Germany has been sluggish since it was created in the early 1990s. It took more than eight years to gain two million subscribers. Today's figures indicate that the three million subscriber threshold...

Barclay Knapp: How Will History Judge NTL's Departing CEO?(a look at NTL and its CEO Barclay Knapp)(Company Profile)
August 20, 2003... Mark Holmes senior editor During the heady days in the telecoms space three years ago, NTL and its CEO Barclay Knapp were seen as major movers. NTL aimed to become the leading cable operator in Europe and wanted to become an intrinsic part...

BRIEFS.(interactive television news briefs)
August 20, 2003... * Emuse technologies, the Dublin-based developer of authoring software for interactive TV, has announced a major joint venture with Press Red, the interactive TV advertising (i-Ad) services company. The venture aims to produce high-end i-Ad...