With over 330,000 subscribers, the Dutch premium channels Film1 and Sport1 are claiming “the best ever subscriber figures” in the history of Dutch pay television.
Canal Digital extends cable HD
Canal Digital Sweden is launching its HD service for 9,000 cable TV subscribers in the town of Norrköping. The move is part of a wider plan to introduce HDTV onto […]
Arcor turns on NDS IPTV CA
German telco Arcor is to use a version of the NDS conditional access technology VideoGuard for its new IPTV service.
KPN reaches 500,000 digital homes
The Dutch incumbent telecom operator KPN has said it has now has 500,000 digital homes. The figure is the combined total of the two TV products the company offers, the […]
Telia digital TV reaches 300,000
Telia added 100,000 new customers to its IPTV service in the last three months of 2007. The pre-Christmas boost brought the total number of subscribers to 300,000 at the start […]
KPN takes a look at Belgian TV
The Dutch incumbent operator KPN has expressed an interest in entering the Belgian market with its TV product, according to CFO Marcel Smits. In The Netherlands, the company owns the […]
BelgacomTV gets Sony VOD
Sony Pictures Television International today said it has signed a deal with BelgacomTV for the delivery of both current titles and library movies to the Belgian operator’s VOD offer. Titles […]
Belgian consumers protest against digital monopoly
The Belgian consumer organisation Test-Aankoop has launched a protest against what it calls the ‘digital monopoly’ of the cable and IPTV operators in the country. Viewers have little or no […]
Xbox 360 combines with BT Vision
Subscribers to BT’s broadband services will be able to use the Microsoft Xbox 360 to access the access the BT Vision video-on-demand service. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and Robbie Bach, […]
Motorola becomes BT Vision STB supplier
Motorola is to take over as the lead supplier of set-top boxes for the BT Vision IPTV service, a role previously held by Philips Set-Top Boxes and Connectivity Solutions, the […]