Digital TV News: Screen Digest

Blu-ray unable to halt DVD sales slump
Jun 15, 2009 – The global video business lost more than $2.6bn in 2008 due to a combination of a fall in both DVD purchase and rentals by consumers. The figure, which equates to a downturn of 4.8% globally, is published in the latest report from Screen Digest.
News categories: Screen Digest, Blu-ray, Digital TV, DVD, Market Research

Global pay set-top box market to peak in 2012
Apr 27, 2009 – Media analyst Screen Digest forecasts that the global pay TV set-top box (STB) market will peak within the next four years, reaching annual shipments of 127m units in 2012, before the market declines in 2013.
News categories: Screen Digest, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

Pace plc Trading Update
Apr 7, 2009 – Pace (LSE:PIC) has announced a very significant upgrade on its current performance expectations for 2009. Since announcing preliminary results on 3 March 2009, demand for Pace's products has increased across many of the Group's markets.
News categories: Pace plc, Results, Set Top Box

Home Entertainment goes 3D
Mar 31, 2009 – As more 3D movies are released in the cinema, technology is arriving that will allow viewers to enjoy the experience at home. Screen Digest believes that autostereoscopic technology will eventually become popular as it has one major advantage: no glasses.
News categories: Screen Digest, Blu-ray, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Market Research, Metaverse, Set Top Box, Smart TV

Cable Industry Revenues Reach €18 billion
Mar 18, 2009 – Revenues in the European cable industry jumped more than 7 per cent last year to €18bn amid sharply increased demand for digital television, internet broadband and telephony services according to figures presented at the annual Cable Congress.
News categories: Cable Europe, Cable Congress, Cable TV, Digital TV, Europe, Market Research

Antenna Hungária extends HD test transmission of m1 and m2 on MinDig TV until end of February
Feb 16, 2009 – Owing to its popularity, Antenna Hungária (AH) is extending the HD test transmission using m1 HD and m2 HD programs on the MinDig TV digital terrestrial television platform until the end of February.
News categories: Antenna Hungária, Hungary, Terrestrial

Europe - Cable Industry Delivers 18% growth in Digital TV in the first half of 2008
Oct 14, 2008 – Customer subscriptions for digital cable TV jumped 18 per cent to 16.3m across Europe in the first half of this year, as subscribers migrate to enhanced services.
News categories: Cable Europe, Screen Digest, Cable TV, Digital TV, Europe, France, Germany, Market Research, Netherlands, Spain, Subscribers, UK

IPTV in Wonderland
Sep 24, 2008 – The latest report from Screen Digest examines the challenges faced by telcos and their IPTV services in 26 countries across Europe. 'IPTV Business Models: Profit and Loss in the Telco TV Space' discusses the likely success of their strategies.
News categories: Screen Digest, Belgium, Digital TV, France, Germany, IPTV, Italy, Market Research, Subscribers, Sweden, UK

Microsoft Launches New Program to Help IPTV Operators Migrate to Mediaroom From First-Generation Platforms
Sep 12, 2008 – Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has launched Microsoft Mediaroom Migration Program at the IBC2008 conference, a new program to ease the transition for IPTV service providers using other platforms to migrate to Microsoft's solution.
News categories: Microsoft, Ben Huang, Content Distribution, IBC2023, IPTV, Middleware