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

Honduras - ATSC selected for the DTT platform
Jan 19, 2007 – The telecommunications regulator Conatel has announced that Honduras will adopt the ATSC standard for its digital terrestrial television platform.
News categories: Conatel, ATSC 3, Digital TV, Honduras, Terrestrial

Magnum Semi and Genesis Microchip Create Digital PVR-TV Platform
Jan 9, 2007 – In private suites at the Consumer Electronics Show, Magnum Semiconductor and Genesis Microchip (Nasdaq: GNSS) have begun demonstrating their jointly developed reference design for putting PVR features directly into new flat-panel TVs.
News categories: Magnum Semiconductor, Genesis Microchip, ATSC 3, CES2025, Digital TV, Semiconductor, Smart TV

Broadcom System-on-a-Chip Included in Haier Large LCD HDTVs
Jan 9, 2007 – Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM) has announced that its BCM3551 digital TV system-on-a-chip (SoC) is now featured within the Haier Group's family of liquid crystal display (LCD) high definition televisions (HDTVs).
News categories: Broadcom, ATSC 3, CES2025, Digital TV, Semiconductor, Smart TV

Boom Times Are Over For Consumer Electronics
Jan 8, 2007 – Strategy Analytics have announced that 2006 sales of digital consumer electronics reached $167 billion worldwide in 2006. But the outlook for 2007 is for a rapid slowdown as exploding demand for flat panel TV comes to an end.
News categories: Strategy Analytics, ATSC 3, CES2025, Digital TV, Market Research, Smart TV

Samsung Sells More Digital TVs Than Any Other Manufacturer in the US
Jan 8, 2007 – Samsung Electronics becomes the number one seller of digital televisions in the United States in 2006 (January through November), according to data from the NPD Group's Retail Tracking Service.
News categories: Samsung Electronics, ATSC 3, CES2025, Digital TV, Market Research, USA

DEG Year-End 2006 Home Entertainment Sales Update
Jan 8, 2007 – The home theater is one of consumers' preferred choices for enjoying entertainment as demonstrated by growing demand for high definition products in 2006, according to DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group in an announcement made at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
News categories: DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group, ATSC 3, CES2025, Digital TV, DVD, Market Research, North America, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial, USA

CES 2007 Vendors Spotlight Wireless HDTV Televisions Powered by Sigma Designs
Jan 8, 2007 – Sigma Designs (Nasdaq:SIGM) has announced that several high definition televisions being demonstrated at this week's Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2007) are powered by Sigma media processors.
News categories: Sigma Designs, Hewlett-Packard, Pioneer, Sampo, ATSC 3, CES2025, Digital TV, Semiconductor

Texas Instruments Unveils Integrated HDTV Processor
Jan 8, 2007 – Extending a field-proven portfolio of digital television (DTV) solutions, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) has announced the new TVP9010 integrated high-definition television (HDTV) processor and development platform.
News categories: Texas Instruments, ATSC 3, CES2025, Digital TV, ICs, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Terrestrial

Genesis Microchip Launches New DTV SoC Family
Jan 8, 2007 – Genesis® Microchip (Nasdaq:GNSS) has announced the launch of its new, advanced Chaplin DTV system-on-a-chip families at CES. This new product series, which integrates the DTV MPEG controller, Emmy award-winning Faroudja video processing functions and other digital and analog TV requirements into a single chip, is sampling to major DTV manufacturers worldwide.
News categories: ATSC 3, CES2025, Digital TV, ICs, Middleware, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Terrestrial