Inside Digital TV articles from July 2004

Inside Digital TV archives from July 2004

PlayJam Details Future Business Plans.(games channel)
July 7, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor PlayJam, an interactive games channel, could introduce new subscriptionbased business models into the UK during the next few weeks. The models under consideration are full monthly subscriptions to the channel as...

Euro1080 Targets The 4-Million-Sub Mark.(Market share)(Planning)
July 7, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor Euro1080 is a collaborative venture between SES Astra and Alfacam, a Belgian-based TV facilities provider. Euro1080 CEO and Alfacam General Manager Gabriel Fehervari believes it is realistic for the...

Zip TV MD Looking Beyond Sky Launch.(Editorial)
July 7, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor Zip Television, which has launched the first interactive advertising channel in the UK, could be on other platforms by as early as the beginning of next year. Donna Barradale, managing director of Zip Television,...

Satellite Closing The Gap On Cable In Europe.(Editorial)
July 7, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor In its latest report examining the global entertainment and media industry, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) examines some of the main trends to expect for the next five years. Here are some of the main findings of...

Cyfrowy Polsat CEO Confident Of Success.(Interview)
July 7, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor Poland is a growing pay-TV market with close to 13 million TV households. Cable still dominates satellite, with close to four million subscribers, compared to one million for DTH. One of the satellite pay-TV...

iDTV Revenues In Europe: A Waiting Game.
July 7, 2004... By Rebecca Ulph Jennings with Jaap Favier, Tim van Tongeren, Forrester Research Until now, the revenues generated from interactive television operations in Europe have failed to live up to much of the hype bandied about by operators a few...

Telewest Targets 'Disillusioned' Sky Customers.(Interview)
July 21, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor Telewest is making a renewed assault on the digital television market, and it believes there are potentially rich pickings, even among BSkyB's subscriber base. Philip Snalune, director of TV at Telewest Broadband,...

European Telcos Ready To Take IPTV Plunge?(Internet Protocol television)(Interview)
July 21, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor At least three major telcos in Europe will start to deploy IPTV aggressively in the next 12 months. That is the view of Ervin Leibovici, the CEO of BitBand, a major supplier of IPTV solutions. Leibovici expects...

Channel 4 Optimistic About Zip Effort.(Interview)
July 21, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor Channel 4 hopes its recent deal with Zip Television will act as stimulus to the interactive advertising industry in the UK. Zip TV recently launched with a new campaign from Honda, which is linked to linear TV...

Kasenna Set To Launch Network PVR First In The Middle East.(Personal Video Recorder)
July 21, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor Kasenna expects to launch a network Personal Video Recorder (PVR) solution in the Middle East in the near future. The video solution service provider, which is helping telcos and cablecos deploy cost-effective...

Diversity Key To New HD Forum In France.(high-definition)(Interview)
July 21, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor It seems high-definition (HD) initiatives are on the increase in Europe with the news that, in France, a number of key industry players have got together to create the "HD Forum" to promote HDTV in France. The...

MTV Network Europe's CEO Talks About His Mobile And Broadband Strategy.(Brent Hansen)(Interview)
July 21, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor MTV Networks Europe is one of the largest channel providers in Europe, with a range of music and youth programming that plays a key role on numerous platforms. Due to the fact the provider is continually looking...

When Lower Prices Yield Higher Profits.
July 21, 2004... Todd Wiener Innovista Research Inc. If you ask most U.S. cable industry executives to describe their plans to increase profits, they will probably tell you how they will boost their subscriber count, sell more services to existing customers...