Japan Digital TV News

NEC Selects ViXS XCode™ Series for VALUESTAR PC's
Apr 27, 2009 – ViXS Systems has announced that XCode™ 3106 has been selected by NEC for its VALUESTAR L, N and W PCs. The XCode 3106 is able to transcode real-time HD MPEG2 broadcast video to HD MPEG4 AVC, increasing video storage capacity by six times.
News categories: ViXS Systems, NEC, Digital TV, ISDB-T, Japan, Peripherals / Accessories, Semiconductor

MPA Sees Strong Asia Pacific Pay-TV Subs Growth
Apr 22, 2009 – Against the background of a poor global macroeconomic environment, media owners and investors focused on Asia Pacific can take comfort from the defensive nature of the region's pay-TV and broadband industries, according to a Media Partners Asia report.
News categories: Media Partners Asia, Asia, Australia, Cable TV, China, Digital TV, DVR, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, IPTV, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Market Research, New Zealand, Philippines, Satellite, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam

ViXS HD Transcoding is core to new Pioneer Blu-Ray Recorders
Apr 22, 2009 – ViXS Systems has announced that the XCode™ 3000 series MPEG-4 AVC (MPEG-4 Part 10/H.264) Transcoder/Encoder/Decoder IC is being used by Pioneer for two new Blu-Ray Disc (BD) Recorder products: BDR-WD900 and BDR-WD700.
News categories: ViXS Systems, Pioneer, Blu-ray, Digital TV, DVR, ISDB-T, Japan, Optical Disc Recorder, Semiconductor, Terrestrial

Asia Pacific pay TV to be worth more than USD40 billion by 2014
Apr 7, 2009 – New research, recently published by Informa Telecoms & Media, shows that 44% of TV homes in the Asia Pacific region will receive digital signals in 2014, up from just 17% at the end of 2008.
News categories: Informa Telecoms & Media, Asia, Cable TV, China, Digital TV, India, IPTV, Japan, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers

Magnetic Nanoparticles to Shrink 1-Seg Antennae
Apr 1, 2009 – A research group in Japan has developed a magnetic material for antenna elements, using Fe-Ni alloy nanoparticles, which has about five times the sensitivity of a ceramic dielectric of the same volume.
News categories: Sumitomo Osaka Cement, Digital TV, Japan, Mobile

Sharp to Introduce Receiver Tuner Module for One-Seg Digital Broadcasts
Mar 26, 2009 – Sharp will introduce into the Japanese market a new receiver tuner module for One-Seg digital terrestrial broadcasts capable of receiving two One-Seg programs simultaneously. Mass production of the model VA3A5JZ923 will begin on March 30, 2009.
News categories: Sharp Corp, Japan, Mobile

Microtune's New Automotive TV Tuner Deployed in Delphi's Factory-Installed Car TV Entertainment Systems
Mar 23, 2009 – Microtune® (NASDAQ: TUNE) has announced that Delphi is deploying Microtune's new MT2067 tuner in the TV receiver system of its factory-installed front and rear seat entertainment systems targeted for Europe and Japan.
News categories: Microtune, Delphi, Automotive, Europe, Japan, Semiconductor, Terrestrial

PacketVideo's CORE Multimedia Framework Powers New SoftBank 830N Handset Manufactured by NEC
Mar 10, 2009 – PacketVideo (PV) has announced that its CORE™ multimedia client framework has been selected by NEC to power advanced media services on the new SoftBank 830N handset. The SoftBank 830N has been on sale in Japan since February 2009.
News categories: PacketVideo, NEC, SoftBank, Japan, Middleware, Mobile

Liberty Global Reports Fiscal 2008 Results
Feb 23, 2009 – Liberty Global (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB, LBTYK) has announced results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2008. With 501,000 additions during Q4, digital video remained the strongest growing business for the seventh consecutive quarter.
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