Inside Digital TV articles from November 2004

Inside Digital TV archives from November 2004

Mediaset Exec Believes Analogue Switch-Off Target Will Be Reached.
November 10, 2004... Federico de Chio, head of the Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) project at Mediaset, is confident that Italy will prove to be the second major success story in DTT, right behind the UK. Italy has some interesting dynamics, with analogue...

3 Reaches The 'Magic 20' Figure, But Challenges Remain.
November 10, 2004... 3, a UK 3G mobile operator, already is seeing 20 percent of its revenues coming from non-voice services, serving as an early indication of the importance of mobile video content. The operator is experiencing success by showing football clips...

Viasat Increases Broadband Reach.
November 10, 2004... Viasat, the Nordic pay-TV operator, has signed more deals that enable it to deliver its broadband TV product to nearly 340,000 homes in Sweden. It reached agreements with five Swedish urban broadband networks (Halmstad, Vasteras, Linkoping,...

Are U.S. SBC Consumers Ready To Embrace TV Offer?
November 10, 2004... U.S.-based SBC Communications is one of the world's biggest telcos. It's also embarking on one of the most aggressive TV projects of any telco anywhere in the world. "Project Lightspeed" will enable SBC to offer millions of residential and...

Dutch Telco Says It's Ready For Digital Assault.
November 10, 2004... Dutch telco KPN expects to make a significant impact in the digital television market in the Netherlands. The operator believes that by offering a digital service, compared to a number of analogue services, potentially is a crucial advantage....

Video Over Broadband Reshapes The European Telco Landscape.
November 10, 2004... By Stephane Teral and Josette Bonte During the past three years, the largest European telcos undertook massive write-offs in order to lower their cost structures, cut their debt and clean up their balance sheets. Although big write-offs...

Will Armada Solve Its Content-Storage Problems?
November 24, 2004... As operators ramp up their on-demand libraries of content, storage is likely to become an issue sooner rather than later. However, one company believes it already has the answer to this problem. Entone Technologies is bringing out a product...

IDTV's Snapshot Of The Pay-TV Market In France.
November 24, 2004... Due to some interesting dynamics, France is one of Europe's most vibrant pay-TV markets. It is one of the few markets where there are two satellite pay-TV operators, TPS and Canal Satellite. As yet, there is no Digital Terrestrial Television...

YooMedia's Docherty: 'Interactive Television At The Cusp'.
November 24, 2004... Interactive television soon will become part of mainstream TV entertainment, according to the optimistic view given by David Docherty, CEO of YooMedia, an interactive entertainment company. Docherty told Inside Digital TV in a recent interview,...

T-Online Exec Set On Re-Inventing The Couch Potato.(Interview)
November 24, 2004... Germany's T-Online is one of the largest ISPs in Europe, and it was one of the first to really bring broadband services to the mass market. Now, the company hopes to achieve similar success in terms of offering digital television services to...

BSkyB Subscriber Growth Beats Forecasts.
November 24, 2004... BSkyB, the UK pay-TV operator, beat forecasts by adding 62,000 net direct to home (DTH) subscribers in the quarter ending Sept. 30. On the face of it, this is a disappointing number; however, it is actually ahead of expectations. Mike Hilton, a...

Mobile TV - Portable TV: Mass Market Fad?
November 24, 2004... By Julien Grivolas, Florence Le Borgne - Bachschmidt, Mathieu Massot, Alain Puissochet, IDATE The migration of mobile networks to 2.5G and 3G standards, the parallel development of broadcasting to mobile devices, the digitisation of the...