News from the world of Digital Television en-gb http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/ Copyright 2007 Digital TV Group Limited Teracom has announced they have bought the 30% stake in Boxer TV Access AB previously owned by private equity firm 3i, allowing them to become sole owner of the company. According to Teracom, the purchase will not affect Boxer's targeting.http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?id=3195http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?id=3195Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:04:58 +0100 Digital UK has announced that the final stage of digital TV switchover in the Scottish Borders is on course to complete today (20 November 2008), extending digital terrestrial television coverage to all households served by the Selkirk transmitter group.http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?id=3193http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?id=3193Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:31:12 +0100 BBC One and BBC Two will be available to watch live online from 27 November, Jana Bennett, Director of BBC Vision, has announced.http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?id=3192http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?id=3192Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:58:38 +0100 Virgin Media has launched 'up to 16Mb' broadband for customers on its National broadband service. New and existing customers using Virgin Media's ADSL broadband service, now known as Virgin Media National, will be able to double their existing broadband speed from 8Mb to up to 16Mb.http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?id=3191http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?id=3191Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:50:00 +0100 Sky has announced that Sky Mobile TV is now available on the 3 mobile phone service for its UK customers.3 UK customers will now have access to many of the UK's 'live' mobile TV channels, including Sky Sports, Sky Sports News Xtra, Sky News, At The Races and CNN. The channels are available for a monthly flat fee of £5 or £1 per day, in addition to any data packages customers may take from the 3 UK network.http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?id=3190http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?id=3190Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:29:55 +0100 Humax has confirmed the dates for an over-the-air software upgrade to minimise fan noise on its PVR-9150T and PVR-9300T digital TV recorders.http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?id=3189http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?id=3189Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:15:09 +0100 ITV has announced it has signed a new agreement with BT to supply a range of current and library programming to customers of BT's digital TV service, BT Vision.http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?id=3188http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?id=3188Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:49:38 +0100 More than a third of people in the West Country TV region still need to convert all their TVs from analogue to digital television ahead of switchover next year, according to figures released by Digital UK.http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?id=3187http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?id=3187Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:40:01 +0100 TANDBERG Television and RGB Networks, a network video processing company, will be demonstrating their integrated ad insertion technology for telecom carriers at Telco TV 2008, which takes place on 11-13 November 2008. The solution enables them to earn additional advertising revenue by inserting local ads into MPEG-4 AVC High Definition (HD) programming.http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?id=3186http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?id=3186Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:50:23 +0100 Microsoft has announced that subscribers to TV services powered by the Microsoft Mediaroom Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) and multimedia software platform have more than doubled in less than a year, reaching over 2 million subscriber homes and powering services on nearly 4 million set-top boxes worldwide.http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?id=3185http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?id=3185Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:34:58 +0100 Ashley Highfield is leaving his post as Chief Executive Officer of Project Kangaroo, the proposed joint video on demand venture between BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4, to become Managing Director of Microsoft's consumer and online division.http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?id=3183http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?id=3183Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:22:35 +0100 Sky has announced that it will be launching a subscription TV service via its online Sky Player platform. For the first time, customers in the UK and Ireland will be able subscribe to watch a package of channels from Sky on their PC or Mac without the need to install a TV-based service as well.http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?id=3182http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?id=3182Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:46:44 +0100 The Border region has completed the first stage of its switchover to digital, marking the start of the UK's first full-scale digital TV switchover.http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?id=3181http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?id=3181Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:17:00 +0100 As digital switchover gets underway in the Border region, on-screen messages about switchover will start appearing from today (6 November) on analogue TV channels in Exeter, Digital UK has announced.http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?id=3180http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?id=3180Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:14:48 +0100 Mark White, Five's Executive Director of Sales, has been promoted to the new role of Managing Director.http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?id=3179http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?id=3179Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:58:53 +0100