Asia Digital TV News

Silicon Labs Targets Next-Generation TV Tuner IC for Massive China TV Market
Aug 22, 2011 – Silicon Labs (NASDAQ: SLAB) has introduced a silicon TV tuner designed to provide an optimal balance of affordable cost and high performance for TV makers in China and Taiwan.
News categories: Silicon Labs, China, Digital TV, ICs, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Taiwan

Hisense Announces First Milestone of Its Smart Strategy: The World's First Personalized Smart TV Debuts
Aug 17, 2011 – Hisense has announced the launch of I'TV. I'TV (My Personal TV) is the world's first personalized smart TV. Compared with the 'pad'-type tablets, I'TV is positioned primarily as a TV and secondarily a tablet PC according to Hisense.
News categories: Hisense, China, Digital TV, Portable, Smart Home, Smart TV, Streaming, Tablet

Siano and Borqs collaborate to produce ZTE's new OPhone
Aug 16, 2011 – Siano Mobile Silicon has announced that, together with Borqs, they assisted ZTE in the launch of a model of the OPhone. The phone uses Borqs' OPhone system supported by Siano's SMS2186 CMMB receiver.
News categories: Siano Mobile Silicon, Borqs, ZTE, China, Digital TV, Middleware, Mobile, Semiconductor

Silicon Image InstaPort™ S Technology Featured in Toshiba REGZA 2011 DTV Models
Aug 9, 2011 – Silicon Image (NASDAQ:SIMG) has announced that the 2011 line of Toshiba (Tokyo:6502) REGZA™ digital TVs, the Z2 series and ZP2 series for the Japanese market, will feature Silicon Image's InstaPort™ S single-second port switching technology.
News categories: Silicon Image, Toshiba, Japan, Semiconductor, Smart TV

ROK Partners with BPS in Deployment of Mobile TV with Telenor Pakistan
Aug 8, 2011 – ROK Global (FWB:RKG) has announced an agreement with Brand Promotion Services (Pvt) Ltd (BPS), for the deployment of ROK's portfolio of revenue-generating mobile applications to Mobile Operator Telenor (Oslo:TEL) in Pakistan.
News categories: ROK Global, Telenor, Mobile, Pakistan

Consumers in Southeast Asia Bought over 6.3 Million TV Sets in first half of 2011
Aug 8, 2011 – The TV market in Southeast Asia expanded in the first six months of 2011 compared to the same period last year. Sales of Smart TVs are increasing steadily with unit sales in quarter two growing by 20 percent over the previous quarter, according to GfK.
News categories: GfK, IFABerlin, Indonesia, Malaysia, Market Research, Philippines, Singapore, Smart TV, Thailand, Vietnam

China's cable digital TV subscribers nearing 100 million
Aug 4, 2011 – According to Guideline Research, the number of digital cable TV (DTV) subscribers in China at the end of June 2011 was 99.486 million.
News categories: Guideline Research, Cable TV, China, Digital TV, Market Research, Set Top Box, Subscribers

China Digital TV and Intel Capital Jointly Announce Investment in Beijing JoySee Technology
Aug 3, 2011 – China Digital TV (NYSE: STV) and Intel Capital have jointly announced an Intel Capital investment in Beijing JoySee Technology, a subsidiary of China Digital TV.
News categories: China Digital TV, Intel Capital, Cable TV, China, Digital TV, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Venture Capital

CJ HelloVision Delivers 'Content Everywhere' with Samsung Smart TV
Jul 25, 2011 – CJ HelloVision, Korea's largest cable provider, has announced that it will provide its 'tving' application for Samsung (KRX: 005930, 005935; LSE: SMSN, SMSD) Smart TVs. The 'tving' smart TV service will start at the end of August.
News categories: CJ HelloVision, Samsung, Korea, Smart TV, Streaming