French DVB-T and DVB-H chip maker DiBcom has taken on investment from NIF SMBC and NTT Finance, ironically Japanese investors. Japan is a country where DVB-H and DVB-T are unlikely to take off. NIF SMBC Ventures, leader of the round, is the largest private equity firm in Japan and part of the Sumitomo group. DiBcom however has recently created chips compatible with Japan’s ISDB-T standard, for automotive equipment for Japan. AT&T said this week that its U-Verse IPTV system is on track to reach 1 million subscribers by the end of 2008 with a service reach of 30 million customer locations by 2010. AT&T’s CEO Randall Stephenson said it finished the third quarter on just 126,000 subscribers but insisted ‘we…