Asia-Pacific News

Viewers in the United States can now keep closer tabs on Hong Kong and its neighbouring regions through CABLE TV’s news programming. CABLE TV’s flagship i-CABLE News and i-CABLE Finance Info Channels are now available on DIRECTV, a leading pay television operator serving customers in the U.S. American viewers can tune in to DIRECTV’s Channels [...]

  Hong Kong-based pay TV operator, CABLE TV, has announced a new line-up and programming plans for its flagship Entertainment Platform this northern summer. At a ceremony announcing the changes, i-CABLE Entertainment Limited Executive Director Mr Samuel Tsang (front row, center) says that CABLE TV endeavours as always to bring viewers quality entertainment offering them [...]

Actus Digital, a developer of web-based media monitoring, compliance recording, content repurposing and verification solutions for broadcasters, has announced that Singapore-based pay TV operator, StarHub, is now using the enterprise Actus platform for recording and monitoring of channels. Prior to Actus, StarHub had been using DVDs to capture and analyze broadcast content, a system that [...]

Netherland-based Exset has announced the launch of its initiative for the Philippine television cable industry called ‘The Philippine Page’. This was launched at the 2013 PCTA (Philippines Cable Television Association) Convention and follows on from similar digital monetisation initiatives for India and Africa. ‘The Philippine Page’ is the name of the interactive front end that [...]

Hong Kong’s i-Cable Communications has announced that CABLE TV has started carrying Shandong TV exclusively on Channel 96 on its basic programming platform.Launched in 1994, Shandong TV is China’s first round-the-clock satellite channel serving not only viewers across Mainland China, but also those overseas presently totaling over 800 million.Shandong TV offers a wide range of [...]

Hong Kong’s CABLE TV has announced new HD channel additions, including “tvN HD”, “Fashion TV HD”, “Nat Geo Wild HD” and “Discovery HD World”. Also added are the “STAR Chinese Channel” and “tvN” SD channels.CABLE TV Subscription Marketing & Sales Vice President Ms Helina Wong says the new channels are “a welcome addition to CABLE [...]

Singaporean integrated communications and entertainment company, StarHub has optimised the infrastructure for its digital cable TV platform with new technology from Thomson Video Networks. By installing systems based around Thomson’s latest-generation ViBE EM4000 encoders, StarHub has been able to reallocate bandwidth to accommodate extra channels, while simultaneously improving video quality. StarHub’s new infrastructure includes both [...]

Pace plc has announced that its pre-integrated software, conditional access and set-top box solution has been selected by three Indian cable operators, Delhi Distribution Company (DDC), Faction Digital, and New Delhi and Kozhikode Cablecommunicators Ltd. (KCL), Calicut, to support their move to digital services. Pace has designed its pre-integrated solution to provide a cost-effective alternative [...]

NTT Communications, a member of the NTT Group, announced it has extended its Global low-latency network with a dedicated connection between London and Hong Kong. This allows NTT Communications to offer a Managed Bandwidth Service using the new TEA-2 system – the newest low-latency route alternative to sub-sea cables. For NTT Communications’ European customers, access [...]

NTT Communications Corporation, a global cloud services provider and wholly-owned subsidiary of NTT Group, announced that it will start operation of the Asia Submarine-cable Express (ASE), a 40-gigabit-per-second (Gbps), ultra-low latency undersea cable connecting major cities in Asia on August 20. ASE will enhance NTT Com’s global network services by boosting the capacity and strengthening [...]