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Digital TV Up in Hungary

by Tom Allen

Hungarian regulator NMHH has said that digital TV is growing quickly in the country. In March, 72.5% of pay-TV subscribers were using digital services. Cable and IPTV customers stood at 2.2 million, or which …

Deutsche Telekom Grows Base in Q1

by Tom Allen

Deutsche Telekom has added 70,000 TV customers in Q1’16 from Q4’15 – 53,000 of them in its home market of Germany. Subscriber numbers across Europe (excluding Germany) were up 0.4% QoQ and 4.8% YoY, …

Satellite Falls to IPTV in Europe

by Tom Allen

Pay-IPTV homes in Western Europe overtook pay-satellite in 2015, says Digital TV Research – a trend that is expected to continue. While pay-IPTV subscriptions will rise by almost 7 million (27%) between 2015 and …

ATEME Powers the First Live 4K-UHD Broadcast in France

by Isaac Oburu

ATEME announced today that FRANSAT, the satellite TV bouquet of Eutelsat in France, broadcast the Vienna Opera ballet “Le Corsaire” live in Ultra High Definition (UHD) on April 2, in partnership with Arte channel. …

Tags:ATEME| Cable| Satellite

Rai and Eutelsat Bring Live UHD to Italy

by Tom Allen

Italian public broadcaster Rai is working with Eutelsat to show seven matches from the Euro 2016 football tournament, in UltraHD on the Tivùsat free-to-view platform. The matches will be broadcast live via satellite, starting …

Media Broadcast Tests Live UHD

by Tom Allen

Germany’s Media Broadcast tested an UltraHD broadcast, via satellite, on the 2nd April. The firm showed a live transmission of the Vienna State Opera, with 100% signal availability or the 50fps stream. It used …

Fast Growth in PayTV is ‘Mostly Over’ for Eastern Europe

by Tom Allen

Pay-TV revenues in Eastern Europe will rise 9.9% between 2015 and 2021, to almost $6 billion – despite subscribers climbing by less than 1 million. The report comes from Digital TV Research, which adds …

IPTV Costs SES Cable and Terrestrial

by Tom Allen

SES has announced that it is now serving 317 million homes worldwide, including 156 million in Europe. 5 million new homes were added in the past year, and there has been 23% growth since …

AHA Will Demonstrate DVB-S2X Prototype at WinnComm’s Innovation Showcase

by Isaac Oburu

AHA Products Group (AHA), a recognized technology leader in satellite core systems, announced today that it will demonstrate its DVB-S2X prototype, using the Ettus x310 USRP, at the Wireless Innovation Forum Conference (WinnComm’16) Innovation …

Tags:DVB-S & S2| Satellite

US IPTV Suffers First Decline

by Tom Allen

Leichtman Research Group (LRG) has found that the top 13 US pay-TV providers (with around a 95% combined market share) lost around 385,000 net subscribers in 2015, compared to 150,000 in 2014 and 100,000 …

OSN-Eutelsat Deal Paves Way for UltraHD

by Tom Allen

OSN, the Middle Eastern pay-TV provider, is preparing to launch new UltraHD channels by taking additional satellite capacity. The company unveiled a new contract with Eutelsat at Cabsat in Dubai recently. OSN will use …

UK Satellite Could Support 30 UHD Channels

by Tom Allen

UK regulator Ofcom is examining future demand for satellite bandwidth in a new consultation document, which is open for comments until the 10th May. One of the body’s key findings is that it believes …