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A TV screen in its own right, or a means of offering complementary services, TVA monitors the increasing importance of the mobile device.

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Sony TV sets to get movie downloads
Mobile, 30 June 2008

Tokyo – Sony movies are to be streamed via the Internet to its latest LCD sets, before their release onto DVD. Hancock, starring Will Smith, will be the first movie streamed over the Internet to Sony’s LCD sets; service is anticipated in the US this Autumn. The company also [...]

Mobile deals for CNBC in Thailand
Mobile, 16 June 2008

Bangkok – CNBC is partnering with The Nation, to distribute CNBC Asia Pacific’s SMS services in Thailand. The content will be distributed on three of Thailand’s major service providers - AIS, TRUE and DTAC. And the CNBC WAP site will be distributed by Thailand’s biggest provider, [...]

Music Matters ends on high note
Mobile, 10 June 2008

Hong Kong – The third annual Music Matters Asia-Pacific forum at the Grand Hyatt in Hong Kong concluded June 5 on a high note, following some heated comments that telecommunication firms are making huge profits at the expense of musical artists and record companies. “The problems [...]

SPE completes 2waytraffic acquisition
Mobile, 5 June 2008

London – Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) announced today that it has successfully acquired control of the Dutch entertainment company, 2waytraffic. The acquisition gives SPE new capabilities in the global light entertainment market, which includes games, variety and reality shows, [...]

StarHub president appointed CEO, New Zealand Communication
Mobile, 3 June 2008

Auckland – New Zealand Communication, has appointed Singapore based Mike Reynolds as its Chief Executive Officer; he will relocate to Auckland next month. New Zealand’s third mobile operator is “now on a countdown to a public launch date,” said New Zealand Communications’ chairman, [...]

ABS-2 reaches for the sky
Mobile, 1 June 2008

What have been ABS’s most significant deals and developments in the past 6-12 months? In the past 12 months, ABS has seen unprecedented growth of our business. We achieved our fill factor from 50% to 90% and increased the amount of television channels available on our satellite [...]

High five for AsiaSat
Mobile, 1 June 2008

“we have made some notable achievements over the past year. In the area of satellite transponder leasing, we renewed the contracts with several major customers and added new clients from the broadcast sector that successfully expanded the broadcast neighbourhood of our satellite [...]

Quality is key...
Mobile, 1 June 2008

The launch of MEASAT-3 (M3) allowed MEASAT to support the growth of core DTH customers in Malaysia and Indonesia. In addition, towards the end of 2007 we reached agreement with Antrix, the commercial arm of the ISRO, to support the launch of the Reliance DTH platform in India. Reliance [...]

Meeting digital demands
Mobile, 1 June 2008

The recent deployments of PPV and even VOD/SVOD have been primarily driven by platforms looking for competitive advantage, and to reduce subscriber churn. And as demand for applications surges in the region, emerging technologies such as IPTV and mobile TV are opening up new [...]

Tech perspectives
Mobile, 1 June 2008

May Yin Oh Senior Director of Business Development for Greater China and India, Qualcomm MediaFLO Technologies. Mobile television is now a reality in 12 Asia-Pacific countries and consumer demand in Asia is growing faster than the rest of world. ABI Research estimates there will [...]