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DirecTV Raises Satellite Customers, Loses IPTV

by Tom Allen

26,000 new satellite customers joined DirecTV in the USA in Q3, following the company’s acquisition by AT&T. However, with the focus on satellite, DirecTV’s U-verse IPTV subscribers fell 91,000. The company ended the quarter …

Orange Enjoys IPTV and Satellite Success

by Tom Allen

Orange gained 223,000 new IPTV and satellite TV customers in Q3, ending the quarter with more than 7.6 million subscribers. The vast majority (6.3 million) of Orange’s TV customers are in France, with around …

Tags:IPTV| Large Display Monitor| Satellite| Vol 22 - Issue 43

Videocon d2h Boosts Subscribers in Q3

by Bob Raikes

Videocon d2h has added 0.2 million net new subscribers in India in Q3 2015, to bring its total up to 14.27 million which it claims as a 21% market share of the DTH market.

Tags:India| Large Display Monitor| Satellite| Vol 22 - Issue 42

RAI Boosts Tivusat HD Channels to 11

by Bob Raikes

RAI of Italy said that it would boost its HD channel count to 11 on its free-to-air (FTA) satellite platform, TivuSat. The current four channels will be joined by by three additional channels by …

Liberty Passes 800,000 DTH Customers

by Tom Allen

Liberty Global has said that its satellite unit, UPC DTH, has passed 800,000 customers in Europe. The figure is a 60% increase since the formation of the division in 2010.

Tags:Europe| Large Display Monitor| Liberty Global| Satellite| Vol 22 - Issue 42

UltraHD is “Limited” but Growing

by Tom Allen

SES hosted a conference in London at the end of September, providing updates on the UltraHD rollout. Chris Forrester, journalist for outlets including Inside Satellite and Advanced Television, said that the format has taken …

UltraHD Arrives on UK Satellite

by Tom Allen

SES’s UltraHD demo channel is now live in the UK, via the Freesat platform.

Freesat announces technology partnership with LG

by Bob Raikes

London, 21 September 2015: Freesat, the subscription free satellite TV service, and LG Electronics (LG), leading global consumer electronics manufacturer, today announce a strategic partnership to provide the Freesat service on LG’s new and …

Tags:LG Electronics (LGE)| Satellite| UK (United Kingdom)

LG builds Freesat into its smart TVs

by Bob Raikes

Freesat has announced a partnership with LG to put the service onto new and existing LG TVs that support satellite reception in the UK. LG will launch the channels on the new LF650 and …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| Satellite| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 22 - Issue 38

Eutelsat Says Viewers Ready for UHD Bouquets

by Bob Raikes

We met with Eutelsat, the third largest global satellite operator behind Intelsat and SES. The main topic was, of course, UltraHD. The firm believes that there is a “certain maturity” in standardisation and pointed …

MaxLinear Launches New Four-Channel Full-Spectrum Capture™ Satellite Receiver ICs

by Tom Allen

MaxLinear Inc. (NYSE: MXL), a leading provider of integrated radio frequency (RF) and mixed-signal integrated circuits for broadband communications applications, today announced a new family of four-channel Full Spectrum Capture™ (FSC™) tuner-demodulator devices that …

Tags:Pay TV| PVRs (DVRs) Personal Digital Video Recorders| Satellite| Semiconductors

SES to Distribute NASA TV UHD

by Tom Allen

SES S.A. (NYSE Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG), one of the world’s leading satellite operators, announced today the distribution of NASA’s new Ultra HD channel, produced by Harmonic, the leading video delivery infrastructure provider. The content will …

Tags:Satellite| SES| UltraHD