Inside Digital TV articles from March 2004

Inside Digital TV archives from March 2004

SA Urges European Cablecos To Invest In DVR.(Scientific-Atlanta Inc.)(Digital Video Recorders)
March 3, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor Scientific Atlanta (SA) believes European cable operators are going to need to start offering DVR (Digital Video Recorder) offerings soon if they are going to compete effectively with satellite pay-TV operators....

Satellite Pay-TV Operators In Europe: The Numbers.
March 3, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor The majority of satellite pay-TV operators across Europe saw positive subscriber increases in 2003, and most ended the year in a pretty healthy position. BSkyB in the UK continued to set a blistering pace and...

Why Two Way TV Is Profitable.
March 3, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor Two Way TV is profitable. The interactive TV-applications company at the back end of last year went into administration, with questions seemingly raised about its future. It now is targeting strong profits in...

Telcos Unsure Of TV Prospects.(European telecom companies exploring broadband delivery)
March 3, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor Telcos in Europe are exploring the possibilities of enhancing their TV offers as a bid to grow revenues and put more pressure on their cable counterparts. In the last few months, operators such as Swisscom have...

ONO Posts Strong Numbers In Spain.(ONO/Cableuropa S.A.)
March 3, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor ONO, the Spanish cable operator added over 100,000 new residential customers in 2003. This was one of the highlights of the operator's full year 2003 results, which were announced on Feb. 24. In terms of...

BSkyB Goes For Mobile Approach.(British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor BSkyB officials hope a new marketing campaign designed to showcase the benefits of its DVR product, Sky+, will be a hit in the UK. The operator announced plans to introduce a number of mobile sales units to...

Viaccess CEO Expects Significant Growth From IP.(Viaccess S.A.)(chief executive officers)(internet protocols)
March 3, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor Viaccess, the French conditional access (CA) supplier, expects to derive around 10 percent of its revenues from content protection within the next two years for TV over IP. The company, which is part of France...

Freeview Continues Impressive Momentum.
March 3, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor BSkyB's share of digital homes in the UK has fallen below the 60 per cent mark. This was one of the findings of the latest Ofcom (UK communications regulator) statistics released in the UK on Feb. 20. In the...

TF1 Makes Strong Start In 2004.(Societe Nationale Television Francaise 1)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor French television-company TF1 is exhibiting strong earnings growth, after boosting its profit by 23.4 per cent last year. The company, which reported its latest financial results on Feb. 24, lifted its...

Canal Satellite Expects Strong Interactive Performance.
March 17, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor Canal Satellite hopes to develop more interactive mobile services in 2004. With mobile usage and penetration still exploding, marrying mobile with interactive TV is one of the key challenges for the company. ...

Luxsat Close To Wrapping European VOD Deals.
March 17, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor Luxsat, the innovative European Video-On-Demand (VOD) company, expects to reach the break-even point in 2006, and it aims to be one of the leaders in the VOD field in Europe. As well as offering services in...

Pace CEO Confident About PVR Prospects.(Pace Micro Technology PLC)(chief executive officer)(Personal Video Recorder)
March 17, 2004... Pace Micro Technology has appeared to be on a roller coaster the last couple of years. Amid a challenging digital television environment, the company -- one of the leading digital set-top-box (STB) manufacturers globally --incurred revenue dips...

Weapon7 hopes new ad will drive success.
March 17, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor Interactive advertisers need to show more respect for their audience. This was one of the key messages from Weapon7 Creative Director Simon Smith, after the company launched a groundbreaking new interactive...

TF1, M6 Boosted By Survey.(Societe Nationale Television Francaise 1)
March 17, 2004... The latest survey looking at the performance of French theme channels was released this week, and it offered good news for such terrestrial channels as TF1 and M6. The MediaCabSat report, published twice a year by Mediametrie, gives information...

Significant Growth Ahead For DTV.(digital television)
March 17, 2004... Jon Beaumont, Continental Research Nearly 17 million UK homes will have digital TV by late 2005, according to a recent report from Continental Research. Last year ushered insignificant growth in the number of homes receiving digital TV -...

High Growth For Digital TV in Sweden, But Still Many Refusenicks.
March 17, 2004... Michael Mohn, Mediavision New research about the digital TV market in Sweden shows that more than 26 per cent of all individuals between the ages of 15 and 74 had access to digital TV at the end of 2003, totaling approximately 1.7 million...

NDS CEO Issues Challenge To Other CA Players.(NDS)(chief executive officers)
March 31, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor NDS CEO Abe Peled believes the Conditional Access (CA) arena is likely to be dominated by the bigger providers going forward. Peled told Inside Digital TV that smaller players were going to find it harder to...

Essent's New Model Could Pave The Way For Others.(Essent Kabelcom)
March 31, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor Dutch cable operator Essent Kabelcom believes its one-size-fits-all digital TV strategy will enable it to reach 100,000 subscribers before the year is out. That pace of growth would represent a major success, and...

ONO CEO: Digital Leading To 'Substantial' ARPU Increases.(ONO/Cableuropa S.A.)(chief executive officers)(average revenue per user)
March 31, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor ONO, the Spanish cable operator, launched digital television services last year. That move was just one of many significant changes in the Spanish TV market during the last 12 months. Another example is that...

Thomson Ready For Major Telco Push.(Thomson Intelligence)
March 31, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor Thomson is hoping to make a significant move into the telco space after showcasing its new advanced- compression IP video set-top box (STB) at CeBIT. The box aims to dramatically reduce costs for telcos wanting to...

, MTG Ink Key Football Deals.(Premiere Cable)(Deutsche Fuball Liga)(Modern Times Group MTG AB)(Brief Article)
March 31, 2004... Mark Holmes Senior Editor Premiere, the German pay-TV operator, has warded off the threat of ProSiebenSat.1 to keep hold of key football rights in Germany. Premiere signed a deal with the Deutsche Fuball Liga (DFL) to keep hold of the...

The Gloves Are Off In German DTV.(Digital Television)
March 31, 2004... Berthold Heil Detecon International Mass digitization of the German television market is supposed to become reality this year. It should involve not just the incremental growth that characterized free-to-air digital satellite broadcasting...