Inside Digital TV articles from July 2003

Inside Digital TV archives from July 2003

Freeview Will Not Adopt DTG/TDN Spec -- Yet.
July 9, 2003... Barry Flynn Editor The "Baseline Receiver Specification" recently agreed by the Digital Television Group (DTG) and The Digital Network (TDN) as an update to the socalled "D-Book" will not be used by Freeview as a condition of licensing its...

Swiss DTT Plans Take Shape.
July 9, 2003... Mark Holmes Senior Editor Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) plans are beginning to gather pace in Switzerland. In recent weeks, the public broadcaster, Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG), has been given approval by the Federal...

TPS Seeks 20 Per Cent Revenue Growth.
July 9, 2003... Mark Holmes Senior Editor TPS, the number two satellite pay-TV operator in France, is looking to growing its revenues from interactive advertising and in particular is looking at developments in the UK in this arena. Frdric Vincent,...

Marconi Will Enable BT To Broadcast DTV.
July 9, 2003... Barry Flynn Editor The recent contract agreed between BT and Marconi will deliver a crucial new capability to BT's broadband network: the ability to "broadcast" multichannel digital TV. According to the agreement, which has yet to be...

Concurrent Targets China And Europe.
July 9, 2003... Mark Holmes Senior Editor Concurrent Computer Corporation aims to take advantage of the growing opportunities for digital television in Asia, and in particular China. Concurrent's MediaHawk platform enables cable operators and telcos to...

Digital Terrestrial, The Italian Way.
July 9, 2003... DTT is a key priority for the Italian Government. Maybe this is because Silvio Berlusconi is a man who arrived in the political arena after prolonged experience in the television and media business. Maybe it's because many of the men that rule...

The UK Pay-TV Conundrum.
July 9, 2003... Barry Flynn takes a look at the latest set of multichannel statistics from UK regulator the ITC. Time to return to a subject of perennial interest to this publication - pay-TV penetration in the UK. Over the past few years, we have...

Briefly.(broadcasting deals)
July 9, 2003... * The USA's largest cable MSO, Comcast, which has around 21.3 million subscribers, has agreed to sell its stake in TV shopping company QVC for approximately $7.9 billion [6.88 billion euros] to Liberty Media Corporation. The transaction is...

Latens Throws Down Gauntlet To Smart-Card Providers.(Latens Systems Limited)
July 23, 2003... Barry Flynn Editor A previously unknown start-up founded by former senior NTL and NDS execs has emerged as a new competitor in the secretive and oligopolistic world of television conditional access (CA) technology, with a simple...

Galaxy Gears Up For Launch In Hong Kong.
July 23, 2003... Mark Holmes senior editor Galaxy Satellite Broadcasting is aiming to put pressure on leading pay-TV operator, i-Cable Communications in Hong Kong. The satellite pay-TV operator, which is set to launch commercial services in the fourth...

Pace Losses Increase As DTV Markets Stagnate.(Pace Micro Technology )
July 23, 2003... Barry Flynn Editor Yorkshire-based set-top box manufacturer Pace Micro Technology plc's latest set of financial results show what an 'annus horribilis' it has been for global digital TV markets. Its 2002/2003 revenues were 53 per cent down...

I-ads Three Times As Effective As DRTV.(Interactive advertising)
July 23, 2003... Barry Flynn Editor Interactive advertising on Sky Digital generates, on average, more than three times the number of responses as DRTV (Direct Response TV). That's one of the key findings in a recent survey by IDS, the Flextech/...

E! Gets Ready For European Push.(E! Networks)
July 23, 2003... Mark Holmes Senior Editor E! Networks believes the time is right for a greater push into Europe. The channel provider, which provides entertainment and lifestyle related programming, hopes it can replicate its success in the US in Europe....

Noos Ready To Attack Different Market Segments.
July 23, 2003... Mark Holmes Senior Editor France is one of Europe's most interesting digital TV markets. It is one of the few markets which has two satellite pay-TV platforms (Canal Satellite and TPS). TF1 is exploring TV via ADSL and with a number of...

A Soft Solution To A Hard Problem.(digital TV)
July 23, 2003... Barry Flynn adopts the role of devil's advocate in the matter of the new, software-based conditional access paradigm being proposed by Latens to digital TV operators If a software-based approach to conditional access (CA) on digital TV is...

Briefly.(electronics and software developments)
July 23, 2003... * Microsoft has announced that Time Warner Cable, the second-largest US MSO, plans to perform a trial of the Microsoft TV Interactive Program Guide (IPG) software in Beaumont, Texas. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made the announcement at the CTAM...