Japan Digital TV News

Japan's OESF plans Android extensions for Consumer Electronics
Aug 11, 2009 – The Open Embedded Software Foundation (OESF), an industry group based in Japan, has laid out details of its roadmap for developing Android software stacks for set-top boxes and other consumer devices.
News categories: OESF, Digital TV, Japan, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Smart TV, Software

Skycast and Quincy Digital Select Mirics OneSeg Receiver
Aug 10, 2009 – Mirics Semiconductor has added ISDB-T OneSeg support to its FlexiTV multi-standard PC TV receiver and struck agreements with PC TV accessory providers Quincy Digital of Korea and Skycast of Brazil.
News categories: Mirics, Quincy Digital, Skycast, Brazil, Japan, Mobile, Peripherals / Accessories, Semiconductor, Software

Liberty Global adds 370k digital cable subscribers in 2Q09
Aug 4, 2009 – Liberty Global (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB and LBTYK) has announced results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2009. Digital cable remains the strongest of segment, with the addition of 370,000 subscribers in the three months ended June 30, 2009.
News categories: Liberty Global, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Cable TV, Chile, Czech Republic, DVR, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, MMDS, Netherlands, Poland, Puerto Rico, Results, Romania, Satellite, Slovakia, Slovenia, Subscribers, Switzerland

J:COM adds 93k digital cable subscribers in 2Q09
Jul 30, 2009 – Jupiter Telecommunications (JASDAQ: 4817) has announced results for the first half of the fiscal year ending December 31, 2009. The number of J:COM TV Digital subscribers rose by 538,100 households year-on-year to 2,178,400 households.
News categories: J:COM, Cable TV, Japan, Results, Subscribers

Mirics targets ARM processor-based smartphones with FlexiTV™
Jul 27, 2009 – Mirics has announced that it is developing mobile TV and radio solutions for smartphone applications by migrating its FlexiTV™ platform to the ARM (LSE: ARM; Nasdaq: ARMH) Cortex™-A8 and Cortex-A9 applications processors.
News categories: Mirics, ARM, Japan, Korea, Mobile, Semiconductor, Silicon IP, Software

Mobile TV Device Volumes Will Not Decline in 2009
Jul 23, 2009 – TeleAnalytics has calculated that the end-2009 Mobile TV user count will be in the 80.8 million to 81.9 million range. Mobile TV device sales will at worst remain flat, but an increase of up to 2% may be witnessed with respect to the 2008 sales total.
News categories: TeleAnalytics, Brazil, China, Digital TV, Europe, Japan, Korea, Market Research, Mobile, Smart TV, Subscribers, USA

Japan consults on extra spectrum for mobile TV
Jul 15, 2009 – Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) has opened a consultation on whether to allocate additional spectrum to 1-seg mobile TV broadcasting after analogue switch off in 2011.
News categories: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan, Mobile, Regulation

Mirics Brings FlexiTV™ to Intel® Atom™ Based Platforms
Jul 15, 2009 – Mirics Semiconductor has expanded its FlexiTV™ technology by launching a range of mobile TV and radio applications targeted at products powered by the Intel® Atom™ CPU platform bringing mobile TV to netbooks and mobile internet devices (MIDs).
News categories: Mirics, Japan, Korea, Mobile, Peripherals / Accessories, Semiconductor, Software

Fujisoft Teams with Sonic Solutions to Deliver Hollywood Hits to Wii Game Console
Jun 25, 2009 – Sonic Solutions® (Nasdaq: SNIC) has announced that it is partnering with Fujisoft to deliver premium entertainment to the Nintendo Wii game console via Fujisoft's 'Minna no Theater Wii' video-on-demand service in Japan.
News categories: Sonic Solutions, Fujisoft, Paramount Pictures, Digital TV, Gaming, Japan, Media Player, Streaming