Inside Digital TV articles from December 2002

Inside Digital TV archives from December 2002

DTT Standards Could Trouble UK's Plans For e-Government.(Editorial)
December 11, 2002... Barry Flynn Editor The BBC's controller of distribution, Andy Townend, has confirmed that it is unlikely that UK DTT boxes will be required to include a return-path for the foreseeable future. As Inside Digital TV pointed out in its last...

Sky Interactive Bets On Instant Messaging.
December 11, 2002... Mark Holmes Senior Editor Sky Interactive's head of communications, Miles Pearce, expects instant communications will be the next key interactive TV application, potentially eclipsing other popular applications such as gaming and betting....

Sogecable, Telefonica Consider Response.
December 11, 2002... Mark Holmes Senior Editor Sogecable and Telefonica are formulating their response to the Spanish government's conditional approval of the merger between their respective satellite pay-TV platforms, Canal Satellite Digital and Via Digital....

Set-Top Boxes Put IDTVs In The Shade.
December 11, 2002... Barry Flynn Editor The initial success of the UK's new DTT platform, Freeview, where sales of new set-top boxes are said to be running at between 20,000 and 30,000 a week, is causing an interesting shift in the receiver market. While it...

NTL Ready For BSkyB Challenge In Ireland.
December 11, 2002... Mark Holmes Senior Editor NTL Ireland is banking on its "Go Digital" pack to make the conversion from analogue to digital as painless as possible for customers in Ireland. The package now comprises 43 channels, is priced at 12.81 euros...

Asia-Pacific To Lead IPTV Race.
December 11, 2002... Barry Flynn Editor Research and consulting company Strategy Analytics has published one of the first global forecasts for the IPTV market (IPTV is the term describing television and video services that are delivered to television receivers...

MHP Takes Two Steps Forward.
December 11, 2002... By the time this edition goes to press, Panasonic should have become the first set-top box manufacturer to be granted the right to carry the MHP logo on one of its products, after its TU-MSF100 decoder successfully passed the complex...

Briefly.(digital TV services launched)
December 11, 2002... * Two experimental services based on the DVB's open interactive TV standard, MHP, are launching on digital TV platforms in Eastern and Central Europe. In the first trial, Antenna Hungaria, the Hungarian TV and radio network operator, has...

Editor's Message.
December 11, 2002... As this is the last issue of Inside Digital TV this year, we would like to thank our subscribers for their continuing loyalty, and to wish all of them a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We will be back in early January with the first...