Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and BSkyB (LSE:BSY) have announced that Microsoft Silverlight and PlayReady technologies are enabling Sky Player TV, Sky's new online TV service.

In a new report titled Japan IPTV Market Outlook, ROA Group projects that the number of IPTV subscribers in Japan will exceed 3 million by 2012, which is approximately 10% of FTTH subscribers, and the penetration rate of IPTV is expected to be 6%.

NXP has unveiled a new global single-chip LCD TV platform. The TV550 platform features the PNX85500 processor and integrates NXP’s proprietary Motion Accurate Picture Processing (MAPP2) technology.

The total number of digital TV connections rose during the third quarter by 5.4 percent, or 195,700 net additions, to 3.82 million, increasing its share of the entire TV market to 49.5 percent, according to Telecompaper's Dutch TV quarterly report.

According to the latest half yearly report published by Romania's Autoritatii Nationale pentru Comunicatii (ANC), the total number of pay TV subscribers in the country has risen from 4.56 million at the end of June 2007 to 5.58 million by mid-2008.

MobiTV has announced that its managed network for mobile television and radio has surpassed the five million subscriber mark. Available across 20 carrier networks, MobiTV continues to shape the mobile TV market it introduced more than five years ago.

Although the US is still by far the largest market for digital video recorders (DVRs, also called PVRs), with nearly 12 million units shipped in 2007, uptake in Europe is gaining momentum growing by 87% to reach 6 million units shipped in 2007.

OpenTV (NASDAQ:OPTV) has announced that HOT in Israel has launched OpenTV Core2 to power the operator’s new high definition television services.

MySpace (NYSE and ASX:NWS) and RipCode have announced that MySpace Mobile users will now be able to enjoy MySpace video content from their video enabled mobile devices. MySpace is the first social portal to launch video streaming for mobile.

Nagravision (SWX:KUD.VX) has announced that Taiwan Broadband Communications (TBC) has selected Nagravision to secure and provide integration services for its all digital MPEG-4 cable TV system.

FairPoint Communications (NYSE:FRP) will give free high definition flat screen televisions to 100 Portsmouth, New Hampshire homes as it tests new video television technology in its fiber-optic service area.

Oriental Pearl Group (OPG) (Shanghai: 600832) has stated that its CMMB network will begin official commercial operations on January 1, 2009, making it the first CMMB operator in China to do so.

China Digital TV (NYSE: STV) has announced the availability of a new PC-TV tuner solution which will allow computer users throughout China to watch and record scrambled digital cable television programming on their PCs.

Jupiter Telecommunications (J:COM; JASDAQ:4817) has announced that J:COM will start offering a new HDR Plus service, delivered via an advanced STB (Set-Top Box), across all service areas on December 17th.

With less than four weeks until Christmas, Kiwis around the country are set to benefit from the availability of the first MyFreeview|HD™ approved Digital Television Recorder.

The United Kingdom is the first European nation to adopt digital video recorders (DVRs) in significant numbers, according to international research firm Parks Associates’ new study Entertainment 2.0 in Europe.

Sling Media (NASDAQ: SATS) has announced the launch of Sling.com, an online video entertainment destination. Users can go to Sling.com to watch a huge selection of clips, TV shows, films, news and sports in high quality, for free, anytime they want.

The number of Japanese households that have converted from analogue to digital terrestrial TV reception stands at 23.5 million, or 2.5 million short of the government's target for September of 26 million.

Antenna Hungária's MinDig TV, the subscription-free digital terrestrial television service, was launched on December 1, 2008 at 5:30 PM with Duna TV HD and Duna II Autonómia SD format programs.

According to a new report from TDG, game consoles such as Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Sony’s PS3 are evolving into multimedia gateways with legitimate non-gaming media arsenals.

On December 1st, Sweden's Boxer will launch TV over broadband, also known as IPTV, on a select number of broadband networks.

STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) has announced that its revenue for the fourth quarter would be below the outlook provided in the Company’s news release dated October 28, 2008.

Fujitsu Microelectronics has announced the launch of multi-decoder LSI (MB86H01) chips that support decoding of standard definition (SD) MPEG-2 and H.264 video, in particular for SD digital broadcasts in Russia, Eastern Europe and China.

The Advanced Television Systems Committee, Inc. (ATSC) has elevated its specification for Mobile Digital Television to Candidate Standard status.

Europe's first Satellite/IP hybrid set-top box to use the Ethernet port for VOD services, +LE CUBE, was delivered to CANAL+ Group (Paris: VIV) on November 4th by Pace (LSE:PIC).

MVS Comunicaciones and EchoStar (NASDAQ: SATS) have announced the formation of a joint venture called Dish México that will launch 'Dish,' an affordable satellite TV service that will be available to consumers across Mexico.

DiBcom has announced that its latest generation Mobile TV receiver enables free-to-air DVB-T digital TV broadcasts on LG Electronics' (Seoul:066570) new multimedia handset - the LG KB770.

ZTE (Hong Kong: 0763; Shanghai: 000063), UTStarcom (Nasdaq: UTSI) and Huawei have won the bidding to expand Shanghai Telecom's IPTV network.

Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI)(NYSE: BBI.B) and 2Wire have introduced the 2Wire MediaPoint™ digital media player, an easy-to-use, on-demand video solution that offers movie fans instant access through their TV sets to BLOCKBUSTER® ONDEMAND content.

Sony (Tokyo:6758; NYSE: SNE) has all but identified itself as the TV maker that's signed on to distribute a new tru2way-based 'set-back box' from ADB (SWX:ADBN) that CableLabs certified earlier this year.