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HDTVs and Set-Top Boxes Enabled with Dolby Digital Plus Reach Record Shipment Numbers
Sep 8, 2010 – Dolby Labs (NYSE:DLB) has announced that Dolby® Digital Plus was incorporated into more than eight million HDTVs and two million set-top boxes (STBs) shipped from June 2009 to June 2010, according to its latest product licensing report.
News categories: Dolby, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart TV

Dutch digital TV connections are more than 5 million
Sep 3, 2010 – According to Telecompaper, at the end of June 2010 cable accounted for 54.8 percent of digital TV connections in the Netherlands, up by 0.4 percentage points during the quarter. IPTV also increased its share by 2.3 percent y-o-y to 8.3 percent.
News categories: Telecompaper, Cable TV, IPTV, Market Research, Netherlands, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial

BSkyB reaches high definition landmarks
Sep 2, 2010 – BSkyB (LSE:BSY) has now attracted more than three million HD subscribers, over 30% of its subscribers. In the three months ending 30th June, Sky increased its HD customer base by 429,000, bringing twelve month cumulative growth to 1.6 million.
News categories: BSkyB, Ireland, Satellite, Subscribers, UK

Gartner Says Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue to Grow 31.5 Percent in 2010
Sep 1, 2010 – Worldwide semiconductor revenue in 2010 is forecast to reach $300 billion, a 31.5 percent increase from 2009 revenue of $228 billion, according to the latest outlook by Gartner.
News categories: Gartner, Market Research, Semiconductor

Mobile Pay TV Uptake to Double by 2013
Aug 31, 2010 – Good News: Mobile Pay TV uptake to double by 2013. Bad News: To double from just 1.6m to 3.3m subscribers. A new TDG report identifies the absence of bundles, pricey subscriptions, and a lack of hardware as primary culprits in mobile TV's lackluster performance.
News categories: TDG, Market Research, Mobile

MPEG Video SoC Market Riding Along with the Consumer Electronics Market
Aug 31, 2010 – Growth in shipments of various video products in the consumer electronics market, even in a year with economic uncertainty like 2009, helped the MPEG video SoC market reach over 650 million units in 2009, says In-Stat.
News categories: In-Stat, Blu-ray, Digital TV, Market Research, Portable, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart TV

IPTV and 3D TV Confirmed as Greatest Opportunities for Asian Pay TV Operators
Aug 31, 2010 – Asia's Pay-TV industry players say new technologies such as IPTV and 3D TV offer the greatest untapped opportunity, according to the 2010 Asia-Pacific Pay TV Operators Survey jointly produced by Global Intelligence Alliance (GIA) and ContentAsia.
News categories: Global Intelligence Alliance, Australia, Brunei, Hong Kong, India, IPTV, Japan, Market Research, Metaverse, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Vietnam

110,000 HD DTH subscribers for Orbit Showtime Network
Aug 30, 2010 – The region's first bouquet of high definition channels is now being enjoyed by over 110,000 Orbit Showtime Network (OSN) subscribers. The addition of extra HD channels responds to increasing customer demand for high quality programming.
News categories: Orbit Showtime, DVR, Middle-East, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers

Pay TV in Portugal up 54,000 subscribers in 2Q10
Aug 25, 2010 – According to ANACOM, at the end of the second quarter of 2010, the total number of pay TV subscribers in Portugal was around 2.7 million, 54 thousand more than in the previous quarter and 279 thousand more than a year earlier.
News categories: ANACOM, Cable TV, IPTV, Market Research, Portugal, Satellite, Subscribers