ATSC 3 (ATSC 3.0 / NextGen TV) and other Advanced Television Systems Committee News

NEC Electronics Announces System LSI Chips That Enable TV Recording on PCs
May 21, 2007 – NEC Electronics (TSE: 6723) has announced eight new MPEG encoder chips that target personal computer TV tuner markets to enable OEMs to build powerful multimedia PCs to receive and record world-wide digital and analog television broadcasts.
News categories: ATSC 3, Digital TV, ICs, ISDB-T, Semiconductor, Streaming, Terrestrial

Canada - CRTC announces analogue switch-off date
May 17, 2007 – The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has decided to establish August 31, 2011, as the date by which television licensees will only broadcast digital signals.
News categories: Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), Backgrounder on Canadian conventional television, ATSC 3, Canada, Digital TV, Terrestrial

Samsung Announces 65nm ATSC Digital TV Receiver IC
May 10, 2007 – Samsung Electronics has announced an improved digital TV receiver chip, the S5H1411, that boasts a 30 percent higher reception success rate than the company's previous generation digital TV receiver chip released in 2005.
News categories: ATSC 3, Digital TV, ICs, Semiconductor, Terrestrial

Korea - TV System to Go Fully Digital by 2012
Apr 28, 2007 – Digital TV broadcasting services will fully replace the current analogue TV system in Korea by 2012. More …
News categories: ATSC 3, Digital TV, Korea, Terrestrial

Samsung Designs-In Genesis Microchip's Video Controller
Apr 25, 2007 – Genesis® Microchip Inc. (Nasdaq:GNSS) has announced that Samsung Electronics has selected Genesis’s Torino video controller solution, the FLI30336, to power the video processing in its new Digital TV/Monitor. More …
News categories: ATSC 3, Digital TV, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Terrestrial

LG Electronics Launches ATSC Digital TV Broadcast Receiver Chipset
Apr 17, 2007 – To support the completion of the digital television (DTV) transition in the United States, LG Electronics Inc. is launching its sixth-generation reception circuitry in a wide range of DTV products hitting the market this year.
News categories: ATSC 3, Digital TV, ICs, Semiconductor, Smart TV, USA

MIPS and Trident Microsystems Complete MIPS32 24KEc Licensing
Apr 11, 2007 – MIPS Technologies (NASDAQ: MIPS) has announced that Trident Microsystems has licensed the MIPS32® 24KEc(TM) Pro core for use in Trident’s next-generation consumer devices. More …
News categories: ATSC 3, Digital TV, Semiconductor, Silicon IP, Smart TV

ATSC to Develop Standard for Mobile and Handheld Services
Apr 11, 2007 – The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) has launched the process to develop a standard that will enable broadcasters to deliver television content and data to mobile and handheld devices via their DTV broadcast signal. More …
News categories: ATSC 3, Digital TV, Mobile, USA

Korea Telecom to Deploy DASAN STBs Powered by Sigma Media Processors
Apr 10, 2007 – Sigma Designs (Nasdaq:SIGM) and DASAN Networks have announced that Korea Telecom (KT) has selected DASAN Networks for deployment of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) equipment for their Megapass TV service.
News categories: Sigma Designs, DASAN Networks, Korea Telecom (KT), Megapass, ATSC 3, Broadband, Digital TV, Fibre, IPTV, Korea, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box