Brazil (Brasil) Digital TV News

AOC Selects Trident for Connected TV for Brazil
Sep 27, 2011 – Trident Microsystems (NASDAQ: TRID) has announced that its HiDTV® Pro-SXL system-on-a-chip (SoC) has been adopted in AOC's new series of Digital TVs for Brazil and other South American markets and has begun volume shipment.
News categories: Trident Micro, AOC, Brazil, Digital TV, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Streaming

Sercomtel plans DTH pay TV for Brazil
Sep 15, 2011 – Sercomtel, a telecommunications operator in the Brazilian state of Paraná, has announced the first result of its competition to find suppliers for its Sercomtel TV national satellite DTH pay TV service.
News categories: Sercomtel, MNLA, Brazil, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Satellite, Set Top Box

GVT launches hybrid satellite pay TV in Brazil
Sep 15, 2011 – GVT (Paris:VIV) has announced the pre-launch of its hybrid satellite pay TV service for Brazil. The service combines broadcast satellite TV with IPTV content delivered over GVT's broadband network.
News categories: GVT, Brazil, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Satellite, Smart Home

Netflix Arrives In Latin America And The Caribbean
Sep 5, 2011 – Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) has launched in Brazil and will be launched in 43 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, providing instant and unlimited movies and TV shows streamed to computers, game consoles and other Internet connected devices.
News categories: Netflix, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean, Central America, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Streaming, Uruguay, Venezuela

Brazil: The world's most dynamic pay TV market
Aug 26, 2011 – According to a new report from Digital TV Research, rapid expansion meant that Brazilian DTH subscriptions overhauled cable as the most popular platform with considerable panache during the first six months of 2011.
News categories: Digital TV Research, Brazil, Cable TV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers

Brazilian MSO SimTV chooses security partner Conax for digitization of its cable TV operations
Aug 9, 2011 – Conax has announced that it has entered into a contract with Brazilian cable TV operator, SimTV. Conax will deliver a content protection solution for SIMTV's cable TV service and guidance for the digitization of the operator's 16 remote sites.
News categories: Conax, SimTV, Brazil, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV

Brazil adds 596,000 DTH subscribers in 2Q 2011
Jul 26, 2011 – According to Brazil's Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações (Anatel), the country's pay TV subscriber base ended June 2011 at 11.1 million, up 689,190 in the quarter, with satellite adding nearly 596,000 during the period.
News categories: Anatel, Brazil, Cable TV, Digital TV, Market Research, MMDS, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers

Digital TV homes to double within five years
Jun 20, 2011 – The number of digital TV homes will double between 2010 and 2016 to 1,189 million, according to a report from Digital TV Research. The report estimated that digital penetration will climb from 42.5% at end-2010 to 80.0% by 2016.
News categories: Digital TV Research Ltd, Brazil, Cable TV, China, Digital TV, France, Germany, India, IPTV, Italy, Japan, Market Research, Russia, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial, UK, USA

Global pay TV revenues reached US$155 billion in 2010
Jun 13, 2011 – About 338 million digital homes were added around the world between 2006 and 2010, according to a report from Digital TV Research. The Digital TV World Databook estimated that this took the digital TV household total for the countries covered to 576 million.
News categories: Digital TV Research Ltd, Bahrain, Belgium, Brazil, Cable TV, Canada, China, Croatia, Denmark, Digital TV, Finland, France, Germany, India, IPTV, Italy, Japan, Korea, Kuwait, Latvia, Market Research, Netherlands, Norway, Puerto Rico, Russia, Satellite, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Subscribers, Sweden, Switzerland, Terrestrial, Tunisia, UK, USA