Inside Digital TV articles from June 2002

Inside Digital TV archives from June 2002

Nokia Abandons Its Mediaterminal Strategy.(Brief Article)
June 12, 2002... Nokia has aborted the rollout of its high-end PVR-based Mediaterminal, writes Barry Flynn. The digital set-top box was to have been launched initially in Sweden, Germany and the UK. In the case of the Swedish DTH market, which Nokia now...

Vivendi Leaves Italy; News Corp Stays.(Brief Article)
June 12, 2002... Mark Holmes Senior Editor News Corp is set to become the sole pay-TV operator in Italy by acquiring Telepiu. News Corp has signed a Memorandum of Understanding announced June 8, which will see it buy Vivendi's entire stake in Telepiu. News...

NTL Pins Hopes On Revamped Digital TV Strategy.(Brief Article)
June 12, 2002... Mark Holmes Senior Editor NTL is hoping for a positive impact from a new series of moves designed to turn up the heat on BSkyB. It has revamped its channel offerings by adding numerous channels and has acquired the ITV Digital customer...

LSI Predicts Price-Falls Within 12 Months.(LSI Logic)(Brief Article)
June 12, 2002... Barry Flynn Editor Chip manufacturer LSI Logic is predicting that the price of the cheapest UK DTT free-to-air "adapters" will fall from around GBP100 (154.54 euros) to GBP75 (115.91 euros) within the next 12 months as efforts to bring...

Zonevision Hopes To Bounce Back In Poland.(Brief Article)
June 12, 2002... Mark Holmes Senior Editor Zonevision hopes to have more channels on the new Cyfra+ platform in Poland by the end of the year. The channel producer was disappointed that some of its channels such as E! Entertainment, Romantica and Le Cinema...

Separate Studies Detail UK DTT Options.(Digital Terrestrial Television)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
June 12, 2002... Barry Flynn Editor Two separate papers have been published in recent weeks about the technical options facing new UK DTT operators - i.e. those applying for one or all of the now-vacant ITV Digital multiplexes. The first, from Logica,...

Australia Makes Slow Start In Digital Television.(Brief Article)
June 12, 2002... Chris Dziadul Contributing Editor The foundations for digital terrestrial broadcasting in Australia were laid in 1998, when the federal government enacted a law setting out a basic framework but leaving several key areas for review. Under...

Curbing Inflation The Creative Way.(Brief Article)(Column)(Statistical Data Included)
June 12, 2002... Barry Flynn takes the shine off Telewest's latest results. A colleague who takes a pessimistic view of the current world economic climate recently offered a provocative view of why things could only get worse. He argued that because of a...

Briefly...(includes brief articles)
June 12, 2002... * Vivendi Universal has agreed with News Corp that the $1 billion [1.06 billion euros] lawsuit that its Canal+ Technologies subsidiary has brought against News Corp technology unit NDS will be dropped if and when its deal over Telepiu goes...

BBC Eyes DTT Launch Before ITV/C4.(digital terrestrial television; NTL Broadcast may provide service)
June 26, 2002... NTL's Broadcast division has conceded that it doesn't currently have the infrastructure to transmit DTT signals for the now-vacant ITV Digital multiplexes, writes Barry Flynn. This has emerged as a major weakness in the ITV/C4 joint bid (in...

Recreating The iTV Model Sans The Extra Costs.(Recreate Solutions, interactive television)(Brief Article)
June 26, 2002... Barry Flynn Editor Recreate Solutions has come up with a new model for interactive television, one that promises to slash the extra costs involved for programme makers. The company, run by Indian entrepreneur Bhaskar Majumdar, has...

Intertainer Poised For European VOD.(video-on-demand)(Brief Article)
June 26, 2002... Mark Holmes Senior Editor & Barry Flynn Editor VOD (Video-on-Demand) specialist Intertainer and Italy's Freedomland are to form a joint venture to launch an IP-based VOD service for broadband customers across Europe. The joint venture,...

Telenor Closes Canal Digital Deal.(Brief Article)
June 26, 2002... Mark Holmes Senior Editor Telenor is on the verge of closing a deal to become the sole owner of Nordic pay-TV operator Canal Digital, after ironing out its dispute with Canal+. Canal+ and Telenor announced on June 14 that they had signed a...

DTT In France Moves Closer.(digital terrestrial television)(Brief Article)
June 26, 2002... Chris Dziadul, Contributing Editor The introduction of DTT services in France has moved a stage closer following the start of hearings into channel licence applications by the Conseil Superieur de L'Audiovisuel (CSA). Due to be completed on...

Finland Hopes For Substantial DTT Pick-up In 2002.(digital terrestrial television)(multimedia home platform-compliant receivers)(Brief Article)
June 26, 2002... Mark Holmes Senior Editor & Barry Flynn Editor The dearth of MHP-compliant receivers in Finland is about to be remedied, thanks to a flurry of new product launches. The latest of these involves Swiss company Advanced Digital Broadcast...

UK DTT Bids Overview.(digital terrestrial television)
June 26, 2002... Chris Dziadul Contributing Editor The UK's Independent Television Commission (ITC) has received bids from a total of six parties, some of whom are working together, for the multiplexes formerly utilised by the failed DTT platform ITV...

Briefly.(industry briefs)(Brief Article)
June 26, 2002... * Australia's competition regulator, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), has blocked the proposed deal between cable operators Foxtel and Optus, according to which Optus would have been able to carry Foxtel programming on...