Inside Digital TV articles from September 2004

Inside Digital TV archives from September 2004

B2 Ready For Pay-TV Entrance.
September 1, 2004... B2 Bredband (B2), one of the largest broadband providers in Sweden, is set to enter the pay-TV market before the end of the year, putting pressure on such DTH platforms as Viasat and Canal Digital. It will give consumers further options in the...

ish CEO Happy With Digital Performance.(ish, the German cable operator, comprehensively has beaten its target in terms of gaining digital-TV subscribers this year)
September 1, 2004... ish, the German cable operator, comprehensively has beaten its target in terms of gaining digital-TV subscribers this year, and it could double its initial forecast. CEO James Bonsall told Inside Digital TV: "We have 30,000 digital subscribers...

Consumer Behavior: Home A/V Networks.
September 1, 2004... By Ian Weightman, Vice President, IMS Research IMS Research recently published a new study -- The Worldwide Market for Home Networks and Residential Gateways -- that shows digital video as one of the main driving forces behind the next...

ntl Ireland Ready To Attack On All Fronts.
September 1, 2004... ntl Ireland is targeting that country with an all-out assault, seeking to introduce personal video recorders (PVR) and video on demand (VOD) services in 2005, as well as aggressively ramping its broadband subscribers. These are three of the...

OpenTV CEO Looks To Renewed Middleware, Service Focus.(Interview)
September 1, 2004... As television operators around the world look to ramp up their interactive services, a number of companies are jostling to provide middleware and other interactive solutions. News Corp-owned NDS is a significant competitor, as is Microsoft TV....

Tandberg Ready For European Cable Assault.
September 1, 2004... Tandberg Television is confident that it can play a key role in helping European cable operators deploy advanced video-on-demand (VOD) services. The company is debuting an open VOD platform at IBC, hoping to eliminate some of the barriers of...

FastWeb emphasises video in profitability drive.(FastWeb)
September 15, 2004... Italian telco FastWeb continues to set the benchmark in Europe in terms of telcos wishing to have a more expansive TV offer. The operator, which competes against Sky Italia in Italy, offers customers an integrated voice, video and data service...

Premiere set to launch dual PVR offering.(Personal Video Recorder)
September 15, 2004... Premiere, a German pay-TV operator, is set to launch a new Personal Video Recorder (PVR) service, adopting a two-pronged approach that involves an initial service offering in November and then an advanced PVR service in Spring 2005. The...

Kosmos looks to expand beyond Moscow.(Kosmos TV looks for backing from shareholders)
September 15, 2004... Kosmos TV aims to become one of the leading providers of pay-TV services in Russia. The operator, which offers such services in Moscow, could expand if it gains the necessary backing from its shareholders, which include Sistema JSFC and Russian...

MTG continues Eastern European expansion.(Modern Times Group)
September 15, 2004... Swedish media company Modern Times Group (MTG) is confident it can continue to grow its operations in eastern European territories. Yggers Mortensen, head of Eastern European operations at MTG, told Inside Digital TV in an exclusive interview...

GlobeCast adopts multicultural approach.
September 15, 2004... GlobeCast wants to stimulate the ethnic broadcasting market in Europe. With many of Europe's citizens moving from country to country as well as an influx of people from outside of Europe, the demands for more diverse television have never been...

Parize leaves impressive legacy at CanalSatellite.(Isabelle Parize gives final interview as CEO)(Interview)
September 15, 2004... French DTH operator CanalSatellite is close to breaking the 3-million subscriber figure. The carrier continues to be one of the strongest performers in European pay-TV; from June 2003 to June 2004, it added some 250,000 subscribers, easily...

Three European telcos announce further TV deals.(Brief Article)
September 15, 2004... Three European telcos have made further steps in their TV strategies during the last week. Leading player Telecom Italia is teaming with Microsoft to trial IPTV services using the Microsoft TV IPTV platform. This represents a huge coup for...

Video On Demand Market Report.(Yankee Group forecast)
September 15, 2004... In a new report looking at on-demand TV in Europe, the Yankee Group is forecasting that Video-on-Demand (VoD) will account for 10 percent of overall digital pay-TV revenue in 2008. This is an increase of three percent compared to 2003. ...

Global DTT: Still A Lot To Do.(freeview)
September 29, 2004... At the recent IBC show in Amsterdam, some of the buzz centered on the current global state of digital terrestrial television (DTT). Alex Shulzycki, senior media analyst at the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), points out that despite the...

Market Report Part II: PVRs, DVRs & VOD.(Digital Video Recorder)(Personal Video Recorder)
September 29, 2004... In the second part of its analysis on the on-demand and Personal Video Recorder (PVR) markets in Europe, Yankee Group analyst Jonathan Doran writes about the challenges and opportunities facing operators wishing to implement a successful...

MultiChoice Tackles PVR Launch, Deals With Interactive Problems.
September 29, 2004... MultiChoice Africa, a pan-African direct-to-home (DTH) provider, is putting the finishing touches on its Personal Video Recorder (PVR) services, which it plans to introduce in the third quarter of 2005. CEO Nolo Letele told Inside Digital TV,...

FCC Media Bureau Chief Talks DTV: Analogue Stays Until 2007.(Interview)
September 29, 2004... The United States is a huge digital TV market where already such nextgeneration technologies as digital video recorders (DVRs) and high-definition TV (HDTV) are just beginning to make an impact. Like most developed economies, the United States...

Interactive Advertising Must Sell Itself.
September 29, 2004... Interactive advertising as a major medium for advertisers could be fewer than 12 months away, according to Jon Dobinson, director of interactive applications provider Phosphorus, who told Inside Digital TV, "The arrival of interactive TV as an...

How SeaChange Will Leverage U.S. VOD Success Globally.
September 29, 2004... Massachusetts-based SeaChange International already is looking to a world beyond video-on-demand (VOD) where consumers potentially will have access to hundreds of thousands of hours of content, and it's taking the needed steps to get there. ...