Asia Digital TV News

SiS 217H HDTV Processor Targets Taiwan HiHD DVB-T Market
May 25, 2009 – Silicon Integrated Systems has unveiled a new high integrated HDTV processor, SiS217H, for the new HiHD digital broadcasting system in Taiwan. The processor incorporates a high-definition H.264/AVC and MPEG-2 compliant decoder.
News categories: Silicon Integrated Systems, Digital TV, ICs, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Taiwan, Terrestrial

Australia releases Digital Tracker survey report
May 22, 2009 – The Digital Tracker Survey measures the national uptake of digital television and Australians' awareness and attitudes towards the switchover to digital TV.
News categories: Digital Switchover Taskforce, Australia, Digital TV, DVR, Market Research, Optical Disc Recorder, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

ViXS Enables New Hitachi HD Flat Panel TVs with built-in HDD
May 21, 2009 – ViXS Systems has announced that the XCode® 3290 has been selected by Hitachi (Tokyo:6501; NYSE:HIT) to enable their latest generation of HD Flat Panel TVs featuring a built-in Hard Disk Drive (HDD) for Personal Video Recording (PVR).
News categories: ViXS Systems, Hitachi, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, DRM, DVR, ISDB-T, Japan, Middleware, Semiconductor, Smart Home, Smart TV, Terrestrial

Sri Lanka's Dialog TV up 68% Y-o-Y in 1Q09 to 130k subscribers
May 15, 2009 – Dialog Telekom (Colombo:DIAL) has announced results for the 1st Quarter of 2009. Dialog TV satellite pay TV subscribers increased by 68% year-on-year to over 130 thousand.
News categories: Dialog Telekom, Results, Satellite, Sri Lanka, Subscribers

SingTel IPTV adds record 19,000 customers in latest quarter
May 14, 2009 – SingTel (Singapore: SGX; Australia: ASX) has announced results for its fourth quarter ended March 31, 2009. mio TV, SingTel's pay TV service, added a record 19,000 customers in the quarter bringing its customer base to 78,000.
News categories: SingTel, IPTV, Results, Singapore, Subscribers

Hong Kong reports CMMB trial results
May 13, 2009 – Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA) has release a report by Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) covering its recent Phase 1 CMMB Mobile TV Trial.
News categories: Office of the Telecommunications Authority, Content Distribution, Hong Kong, Mobile

Renesas Technology to Release SH-MobileR2R Application Processor with HD Video Playback and Recording Support for Terrestrial Digital TV Broadcast-Capable PNDs and Car Navigation Systems
May 13, 2009 – Renesas Technology has announced the release of the SH-MobileR2R (product name: SH7724), the third product in the SH-MobileR Series of application processors for mobile devices designed for multimedia applications such as video and audio.
News categories: Renesas, Automotive, ICs, Japan, Semiconductor

Amtran Selects Xceive Silicon tuner for new TV design
May 13, 2009 – Xceive has announced that Amtran has selected Xceive's XC5000 silicon tuner for its new line of TVs for the Taiwan market. Amtran will utilize the XC5000 to provide a solution for the unique requirements (DVB-T digital plus NTSC analog) in Taiwan.
News categories: Xceive, Amtran, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Taiwan, Terrestrial

China Digital TV Announces Unaudited First Quarter 2009 Results
May 12, 2009 – China Digital TV (NYSE: STV) has announced its results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2009. The company shipped approximately 2.38 million smart cards during the first quarter, an increase of 3.3% from the corresponding period in 2008.
News categories: China Digital TV Holding, Cable TV, CAM, China, Conditional Access, Results