http://www.techwatch.co.uk Satellite, Cable, Home Media and Hardware news & forums Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:51:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en With online banking fraud on the increase, Get Safe Online has called for wireless broadband users to step up their security measures. The UK Cards Association reported a 14 percent increase in online banking fraud in 2009, with £59.7 million lost as a result. With cybercrime become more sophisticated, as ... http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2010/03/11/security-essential-for-wireless-broadband-users/ Exterity, which delivers an organisations’ TV and video content over a building, campus, or metropolitan-area IP network to TVs, PCs, and AV display equipment, believes that the Building IPTV market will continue to grow over the next 12 months. The company carried out a survey of attendees at Integrated Systems Europe ... http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2010/03/11/exterity-optimistic-for-building-iptv/ Website: Rapid TV News Spain's Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce will oblige TV sets from 21 inches up to integrate high definition tuners by a Royal Decree. The decree is in the preparation phase. This Decree will also incorporate the standards for HDTV in Spain according to Francisco Ros, general secretary ... http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2010/03/11/spain-mandates-hdtv-tuners/ Website: Rapid TV News Andrew Sukawaty, CEO at Inmarsat, says the satellite operator is looking at its 5th Generation plans, and is considering L-Band and Ka-band for investment. “We really should be shot as a management team if we weren’t looking at this,” Sukawaty told Space News, a specialist trade newspaper. “But we ... http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2010/03/11/inmarsat-looking-at-l-band/ Website: Rapid TV News Russian pay-TV platform NTV+ is to carry the Russian CIS states' national channels. Subscribers will have to pay a “nominal” 50 Roubles (about $1.60) to watch the channels. BBC Monitoring reports that Russian Federation Minister of Telecoms and Mass Communications Igor Shchegolev said at a meeting with the ... http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2010/03/11/ntv-wins-russian-national-channels/ Website: Rapid TV News Dish Mexico is a j-v between Echostar and MVS Telecommunications, and is seeking to acquire rival SatMex. Dish Mexico’s latest numbers are just out. Dish Mexico achieved 478,000 subs, as at Dec 31. While this might be seen as a perfectly acceptable result for a business that went ... http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2010/03/11/dish-mexico-misses-dth-targets/ Website: Rapid TV News Samsung’s latest range of TVs will go on sale in the US at the end of March. Indeed, some models are already available, and will be in key European markets very shortly. We know their prices, and the 3D sets will not be cheap. Samsung’s debut into the ... http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2010/03/11/samsungpanasonic-3d-prices-unveiled/ Owners of the Humax Foxsat HD and the Foxsat HDR Freesat set top boxes will be able to access the highly desirable BBC iPlayer through the red button on the remote control. However before the viewer can use this service a little bit of planning will be needed, as the set ... http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2010/03/11/bbc-iplayer-tunes-into-humax-foxat-stb/ Sharp will be releasing the first versions of its new Freeview HD set top boxes towards the end of April. Naturally, one of these machines will be a personal video recorder (PVR) but unusually it will offer a USB port as an additional storage connection. The Sharp TU T1UR, which comes ... http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2010/03/11/sharp-prepares-for-freeview-launch/ Households in the West TV region that are still watching television via an analogue signal have only two weeks to switchover to a digital TV service or face missing out initially on BBC 2 and, after BBC 2 is switched off, the entire analogue signal will soon be switched off. This ... http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2010/03/11/west-gets-the-switchover-countdown/