Inside Digital TV articles from February 2004

Inside Digital TV archives from February 2004

Microsoft TV Encourages Telcos To Invest in Pay-TV.(Microsoft TV EMEA)
February 4, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor The "time is right" for telcos to enter pay-TV markets in Europe, according to Moshe Lichtman, corporate vice president of Microsoft TV. He told Inside Digital TV: "Telcos in Europe have been very aggressive in...

DITG Expects Boost From Retail Brands.(Digital Interactive Television Group)
February 4, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor The Digital Interactive Television Group (DITG) is hoping that some of the UK's biggest retailers will finally be ready to take advantage of interactive television in 2004. Neil MacDonald, the managing director of...

Transparency: The Key to Survival.
February 4, 2004... By Jeremy Booker The fact is that investors cannot value what they cannot see. For the investment markets to reach an informed decision on the value of any business, they first need a clear understanding of how it creates and sustains that...

MHP Country Study: Finland.(multimedia home platform)
February 4, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor As the debate continues to rage about the merits of the MHP (multimedia home platform) standard around Europe, one country, Finland, is seeing more action in this area than most. Broadcasters such as YLE and MTV...

NDS Set For Big Year In U.S. Market.
February 4, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor NDS saw an 18 percent drop in revenues in the three months to Dec. 31, 2003, compared to the same stage in 2002. It had revenues in the quarter of just over $82 million (66 million euros), a drop of almost $20...

U.S. VOD Shows Mixed Results So Far.(video on demand)
February 4, 2004... By Todd Wiener For all the great things that video-on-demand (VOD) is supposed to be, there are indications that it will end up disappointing a lot of large cable operators. The long-awaited rollout of VOD into the U.S. market has been...

Tandberg Ready To Exploit VOD Market.(video on demand)
February 4, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor Tandberg TV CEO Eric Cooney believes there is "aggressive demand" on the part of broadband and cable operators looking to implement video-on-demand (VOD) services. Tandberg, which is one of the leading suppliers...

Top Up TV CEO Confident Of Success.(Chief executive officers)
February 18, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor Top Up TV CEO Ian West is confident that the new pay-TV offering will be successful in the United Kingdom and that low ARPU (average revenue per user) services will be the next phase of growth in digital pay-TV in...

Kingston Meets Expectations For KIT.(Kingston Interactive Television)
February 18, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor Kingston Communications continues to light the way in terms of telcos offering TV services in Europe. The operator, which is based in Hull, England, has more than 5,000 subscribers for its KIT (Kingston...

Top Up TV: The Reaction.(Digital television)
February 18, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor The imminent entrance of Top Up TV in the UK digital television market has met with a cautious reaction from other providers. Freeview, the free DTT offering could see its rate of growth slow significantly over...

FOXTEL Gets Ready For Digital Launch.
February 18, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor FOXTEL, the Australian pay-TV operator is getting ready to launch digital pay-TV services in Australia. The operator hopes to "revolutionise" the TV environment in Australia and turn a profit on the new service at...

On the Path to European HDTV.(High Definition Television )
February 18, 2004... By Steve Odom, IMS Research There has been a significant shift during the past nine months about HDTV in Europe. When IMS Research first began interviewing European broadcasters and consumer electronics manufacturers for the recently...

Netgem CEO Confident With UK Prospects.(cheif executive officers)
February 18, 2004... Mark Holmes senior editor Netgem, the French based (set-top box) STB supplier, is optimistic that it will be bringing a PVR (Personal Video Recorder) box to the UK market this year. Joseph Haddad, NetGem's CEO outlined the company's plans...

MTG Makes Impressive Pay-TV Gains.(Modern Times Group MTG AB)
February 18, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor Modern Times Group (MTG), the Nordic media giant, has seen some impressive subscriber gains in recent months. Its pay-TV operation Viasat has performed strongly over the last six months and appears to have...