Pirelli Broadband Solutions has announced it has been selected by Greek incumbent telecoms operator OTE to deliver HD and HD/PVR set-top boxes for its Conn-x TV IPTV service.
Five and Sky have jointly announced the launch of Five HD this summer, less than 48-hours after the regulator Ofcom said it would return terrestrial capacity to the BBC after failing to reach agreement with the RTL-owned broadcaster.
Unitymedia’s new owner Liberty Global has said the company is seeking to accelerate the rollout of DOCSIS 3.0 internet and HD products.
Spanish cableco ONO has recorded a positive net income for the first time, the €50 million it posted in 2009 contrasting with a loss of €26 million a year earlier.
Ukraine’s leading cable operator Volia plans to launch digital TV services in the city of Donetsk in 2011.
Sky Deutschland has shown a live HDTV production in 3D for the first time in Germany.
Spanish incumbent telecoms operator Telefonica has launched a new basic IPTV offer, called Imagenio Flexible, to better compete with cabler ONO’s basic tier Essential TV.
The Riga Regional Court has ordered the seizure of shares in the TV stations LNT and TV5 currently held by Andrejs Ekis.
Virgin Media’s new HD receiver will run on middleware provided by SeaChange International, Broadband TV News has confirmed.
Ofcom is to return terrestrial capacity to the BBC after it was unable to resolve issues with Five for the launch of an HD service.
The UK-based mobile technologies, applications and services company ROK Entertainment and Russian mobile TV service company KOX TV have launched a carrier-agnostic streamed mobile TV service in Russia.
TV Genius has announced that its Content Delivery Platform has been selected by IP Vision, the UK-based platform owner, to enhance the functionality of the TV listings on IP Vision’s FetchTV service.
Media Broadcast has chosen T-VIPS Advanced DTT Solutions to link DVB-T headends with DVB-T2 modulators in the German DVB-T2 trial.
Tele 2 has become the first Dutch party to announce that it will start selling analogue cable to its customers from June 1st.
BSkyB briefly reached a 52-week high on the London Stock Exchange this morning (Friday) after rumours swept the market that News Corp was about to take the company into private ownership.
Virgin Media is taking its 50 Mbps broadband service above ground with a trial using telegraph poles. The Berkshire village of Woolhampton has been selected for the trial that will run for approximately six months.
Preliminary figures announced by the German cable operator Kabel BW at a press conference show that its turnover rose by 13% from €438 million to €493 million in 2009. EBITDA meanwhile rose by 29% from €190 million to reach €245 million.
Video viewers at YouTube.com watched 93 videos on average during the month January, representing an increase of 50% versus a year earlier.
The Verwaltungsgericht Köln, a court in Cologne, has rejected a claim from cable operator Kabel BW to stop the planned auction of the digital dividend frequencies, which is set for April 12. The cabler is afraid the new mobile services will cause interference with cable tuners and high speed modems.
The Torrent Freak website has said that if every (illegal) download on BitTorrent counted as a vote, District 9 would be crowned the winner with 12,639,000 downloads, closely followed by Avatar with 11,326,000 copies.