UPC has re-launched its digital cable service in Romania. Now known as upc digital tv, it offers 87 TV channels, compared to the 55 available to its analogue subscribers in […]
MultiChoice stays with OpenTV for DVR and VOD
OpenTV has announced it has been selected by MultiChoice South Africa for the deployment of digital video recorder and push video on demand services on the DStv platform. Multichoice is […]
Finland facing digital crunch
Just weeks away from digital switchover, Tauno Äijälä, head of Finland’s TV 2007 project group has warned that between 20,000 and 40,000 households will lose television reception on September 9 […]
100 million DivX devices sold
DivX today announced that the company’s consumer electronics partners have shipped over 100 million DivX Certified video devices since the launch of the DivX Certification program in 2003. The DivX […]
Michael Börnicke goes for new Premiere strategy
The new Premiere CEO Michael Börnicke promises a new strategy for the German pay TV operator, which will be radically different from his predecessor Georg Kofler. “He went for 100 […]
More E for Poland
E! Networks has announced new long-term distribution deals with the Polish MSOs Vectra and Multimedia Polska. Its service is already offered by Cyfra+, Poland’s leading DTH platform in terms of […]
The Africa Channel joins Sky line-up
The Africa Channel will launch on August 20 as part of Sky’s Style & Culture Mix. Initially, two weeks of promos and previews will be broadcast before official programming starts […]
HD boost for Czech Republic
The Czech triple play company Mattes AD has announced plans to start offering HD services from this autumn. According to local reports, they will initially be confined to the film […]
Boom time for Russian ad market
According to data produced by the Russian Association of Communication Agencies (RACA), the ad market in the country was worth between R104.5 – 105.5 billion (€3 billion) in H1 2007, […]
Go-ahead for Geman mobile TV cooperation
The German competition authority, the Bundeskartelamt, has given the go ahead to three Geman mobile operators, T-Mobile, Vodafone D2 and O2 to launch a joint mobile TV offer. The plan […]