Inside Digital TV articles from June 2003

Inside Digital TV archives from June 2003

Microsoft TV Is Back In Town.
June 11, 2003... Barry Flynn Editor Microsoft's re-positioning as a provider of interactive TV middleware to low-end digital set-top boxes is now complete. That was the message from the NCTA's National Show in Chicago, where Bill Gates, Microsoft's CEO and...

Hussain: 'NTL Is The Fastest Growing Communications Company In The UK'.
June 11, 2003... Mark Holmes senior editor UK cable operator NTL means business. The operator, which has emerged from Chapter 11 appears ready to leverage its strengths in low-cost broadband and telephony mixed with digital TV to provide far more of a...

BBC Rationalises Interactive Services.
June 11, 2003... Barry Flynn Editor By the summer of next year, BBC hopes to have established a new model for interactivity across all of the three digital broadcasting platforms it is present on. Satellite viewers have been the first to benefit, with...

MTV French Deal To Drive Advertising Revenues.(MTV Networks Europe)
June 11, 2003... Mark Holmes senior editor MTV Networks Europe believes its 50 per cent acquisition of French videogames channel 'Game One' will put it in a position to offer a more compelling proposition to some of its biggest advertisers. Simon Guild,...

Motorola Ready For Stronger European MHP Role.
June 11, 2003... Mark Holmes senior editor Motorola expects to play a more prominent role in Europe's developing Multimedia Home Platform (MHP) market after inking a deal to acquire MHP technologies from Cadence Design Systems. The deal will enable...

SCM Comes Up With New Use For CI.(Brief Article)
June 11, 2003... Barry Flynn Editor German conditional access module specialist SCM Microsystems says it is puzzled as to why the so-called baseline receiver specification for Freeview decoders will not mandate a "common interface" (CI). This is the...

Broadband Talk Marks Shift For Cable Operators.
June 11, 2003... Barry Flynn has been in Chicago at the NCTA's National Show, where the talk was very much about broadband CHICAGO - The opening session of the US National Cable Television Association (NCTA) National Show in Chicago was devoted, not to...

Briefly...(broadcasting briefs)
June 11, 2003... * Sweden has decided to switch off analogue TV on Feb. 1, 2008. The decision was taken by Sweden's parliament on May 28 on the basis of a majority vote (the Moderate Unity Party and the Liberal Party voted against). The date chosen is five...

Freeview: Secret Document Reveals No Full EPG Mandated.
June 25, 2003... Barry Flynn Editor Despite UK DTT operator Freeview's public commitment to a seven-day electronic programme guide (EPG), there will be no requirement for one in the Freeview baseline specification when it is published - probably in a few...

MediaHighway and DirecTV: It Doesn't Add Up.
June 25, 2003... Barry Flynn Editor On the face of it, the account emerging this week as to why US DBS operator DirecTV has chosen Canal+ Technologies' MediaHighway middleware for its "new enhanced standard" digital set-top boxes is straightforward. ...

Philips Sets Ambitious Three-Year Target.
June 25, 2003... Mark Holmes Senior Editor Philips Electronics intends to establish itself as one of the top three players in the digital television networks arena in the next three years, both from a retail and service provider perspective. The company...

PrimaCom Aims For 10 Per Cent Digital Take-up.
June 25, 2003... Mark Holmes Senior Editor PrimaCom is one of the leading cable operators in Northern Europe, providing cable TV service to over 1 million customers in Germany and 300,000 in Holland. It also has around 60,000 Internet subscribers. Yet...

US Gets Ready For A More Interactive Approach.
June 25, 2003... Todd Wiener, Innovista Research As we witness the roll-out of VOD, DVRs, and HDTV in the US cable and satellite marketplace, there remains one element of advanced digital TV services that has remained a low priority - interactive TV (at...

Briefly.(digital TV)
June 25, 2003... * Thousands of UK digital satellite viewers with so-called "solus" cards will lose access to non-BBC free channels over future months, as their cards are de-activated during BSkyB's current rolling smartcard upgrade. The switchoff is a...