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Astro announces Quarterly Financial Results Q3 FY2009
Dec 15, 2008 – Malaysia's ASTRO All Asia Networks (Kuala Lumpur:ASTRO) has announced its unaudited consolidated results for the third quarter ended 31 October 2008. Astro TV subscribers increased by 96 thousand to 2.565 million at the end of the quarter.
News categories: ASTRO All Asia Networks, India, Malaysia, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Wireless HDTV Vendors Back Their Choices with Cash, but Few Products Are Market-Ready in North America
Dec 12, 2008 – Although consumer electronics vendors continue to line up behind the two proposed standards for wireless high definition television connectivity most retailers shelves have yet to see any products.
News categories: ABI Research, WHDI Special Interest Group, WirelessHD, Market Research, Semiconductor, Smart Home

As Online Video Viewing Shifts From PC to TV Screen, Viewers Will Number Nearly One Billion by 2013
Dec 12, 2008 – While today's consumer is most likely to watch online video on the PC screen, over time more and more consumers will watch over-the-top video delivered to the living room, according a new study from ABI Research.
News categories: ABI Research, Digital TV, Market Research, Set Top Box, Streaming

Gartner Says Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue Declined $12 Billion in 2008
Dec 12, 2008 – For only the fifth time in the last 25 years, the semiconductor industry will post a decline in revenue, with worldwide semiconductor revenue of $261.9 billion in 2008, a 4.4% decline from 2007, according to preliminary results from Gartner.
News categories: Gartner, Market Research, Semiconductor

Asia-Pacific the Largest Growth Market for Conditional Access and Digital Rights Management
Dec 11, 2008 – Continued growth in pay TV services across Asia is driving the region to become the leading pay-TV DRM and conditional access market in term of total revenue, according to ABI Research.
News categories: ABI Research, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, DRM, Market Research

IPTV Sub. Growth Expected to Continue Despite Economic Downturn, Benefiting Taiwan's IP STB Industry
Dec 10, 2008 – According to statistics of the ITIS project shipment volume of the Taiwanese IP Set-top Box industry is expected to reach 1.75 million units in the fourth quarter of 2008 and 1.84 million units in the first quarter of 2009.
News categories: Market Intelligence Center, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Market Research, Set Top Box, Taiwan

Economic Weakness Impacts Set-top Box Market in the Third Quarter, According to Dell'Oro Group
Dec 10, 2008 – Dell'Oro Group has reported that the worldwide Set-top Box (STB) market contracted 2 percent sequentially in the third quarter of this year to $3.5 billion, due in large part by declines in both cable and satellite unit shipments.
News categories: Dell'Oro, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box

Blu-ray sales accelerate to record levels in Japan
Dec 9, 2008 – Latest GfK Retail and Technology Japan figures have revealed that in the first week of November 2008, Blu-ray Disc Recorders have surpassed a 50% market share for DVD Recorders in unit terms.
News categories: GfK, Blu-ray, Digital TV, DVD, Japan, Market Research, Optical Disc Recorder

AMIMON Ships Its 100,000th Wireless High-Definition Chipset
Dec 9, 2008 – AMIMON has announced that it has hit a major milestone with the shipment of its 100,000th wireless HDTV chipset. AMIMON continues to advance toward making its goal of whole-home wireless HD video connectivity a reality.
News categories: AMIMON, CES2025, Digital TV, Market Research, Semiconductor, Smart Home