Inside Digital TV articles from June 2004

Inside Digital TV archives from June 2004

Comcast Touts "Stunning" On-Demand Results.(video-on-demand )
June 9, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor U.S. cable operator Comcast is seeing "stunning" results in the ways consumers are using the carrier's video-on-demand services. Dave Watson, executive vice president of sales, marketing and customer service at...

European PVR Roadmap.(Personal Video Recorders )
June 9, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor Personal Video Recorders (PVRs) continued to be a hot topic at the Mediacast show in London last week. It is hardly surprising, given the success satellite pay-TV operators have had with PVRs in recent months....

Cable players ready to exploit growth opportunities.
June 9, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor Cable players are bullish about their prospects in the television and content fields. That was one of the main conclusions at the recent Mediacast show in London. Cable operators are looking to deploy more...

NBC Takes Major Step Forward With NBC Universal.
June 9, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor The creation of NBC Universal will give NBC a far more global business than ever before, according to Patrick Vien, president of Universal Studio Networks (previously part of Vivendi Universal Entertainment)...

Ofcom Head Not Worried About Digital Switchover Resistance.
June 9, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor Jim Egan, Ofcom's head of strategy and development, is not surprised that a substantial part of the population is resistant to digital switchover. He speculated that the reticence to make the transition is due...

VIVA Media CEO Expects 2004 Growth.
June 9, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor VIVA Media aims to keep up the pressure on MTV in the German market. The German broadcaster is one of the leading alternative music broadcasters in the country. In addition, VIVA Media's CEO Dieter Gorny expects...

Kabel Deutschland's Acquisitions Change German Pay-TV Landscape.
June 9, 2004... Bertold Heil, Detecon International In the beginning, there was Deutsche Telekom's [DT] monopoly. German CATV's Network Level 3 was part of the incumbent DT's assets and part of larger strategic approach. DT focused on creating mass...

BBC hopes structural changes will benefit interactive approach.(British Broadcasting Corp.)
June 23, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor The BBC should be in a much better position to produce interactive applications after recent structural changes within the organisation. Emma Somerville, head of interactive programming at the BBC, describes...

Top Up TV CEO Unconcerned About New Sky Offer.(chief executive officer)
June 23, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor Top Up TV has set a goal of reaching the 75,000-subscriber mark by year's end, according to CEO Ian West. Top Up TV launched its service in April, and it offers 10 extra channels on top of the Freeview for an...

PanAmSat Targets Euro1080 Deal.
June 23, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor While the move toward High-Definition (HD) is underway in Europe, it still lags considerably behind the pace in the United States. In the U.S. market, there are many companies already making significant money out...

Zee Chairman Predicts 2 Million DTH Subs In India By June 2005.
June 23, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor Subhash Chandra, chairman of Zee Telefilms, is confident his new DTH operation can quickly grow its subscriber base in India to two million in a year. The operator is the first company to be awarded a DTH licence...

Canal Digital CEO Expects Growth In 2004.(chief executive officer)(Interview)
June 23, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor Canal Digital is the largest provider of pay-TV services in the Nordic region. It has close to 800,000 pay-TV satellite subscribers, and it is involved in intense competition against Viasat in the pay-TV markets...

Napster Plans Edge Gain With Key NTL Deal.(Brief Article)
June 23, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor NTL's deal to partner with Napster could be a sign that content now will become a key differentiator in terms of which broadband service to choose. In addition, broadband content likely will play a bigger role in...

DTV Serves One Third Of All Swedes, And They're Quite Satisfied.(digital television)
June 23, 2004... Michael Mohn Mediavision New research from Mediavision concerning the digital TV (DTV) market in Sweden shows that approximately 30 per cent of all individuals between the ages of 15 and 74 had access to DTV at the end of the first quarter...