Brazil (Brasil) Digital TV News

Brazil - Pay TV reaches 5.5 million homes
Oct 13, 2008 – The Associação Brasileira de TV por Assinatura (ABTA) and the Sindicato das Empresas de TV por Assinatura (SETA) have announced that Brazil's pay-TV subscriber base has grown 12.7% versus the same period of 2007 to reach 5.5 million homes.
News categories: ABTA, SETA, Brazil, Cable TV, Digital TV, Market Research, MMDS, Satellite, Subscribers

Latin American mobile TV viewers to reach 21.3M in 2013
Sep 29, 2008 – According to a new TVTelco Latam report, Latin America will have 21.3 million mobile digital TV handsets in use in 2013, mostly phones, but also portable MP4 players, cars and buses, and USB for notebooks.
News categories: TV Telco Latam, Argentina, Automotive, Brazil, Colombia, Digital TV, Latin America, Market Research, Mexico, Mobile, Peripherals / Accessories, Smart TV, Subscribers, Tablet, Uruguay

Macrovision's Passport IPG Solution Takes Latin America Cable Audiences to the Cutting Edge of TV
Sep 18, 2008 – Macrovision (NASDAQ: MVSN) has announced that América Móvil (Claro), Cablevisión, Telecentro and Videomar have all chosen to provide Macrovision's Passport IPG solutions to their cable viewers, enhancing their overall TV viewing experience.
News categories: Macrovision, América Móvil, Cablevisión, Telecentro, Argentina, Brazil, Cable TV, Content Distribution, Digital TV, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Middleware, Nicaragua, Set Top Box

Brazil - Anatel authorises Oi satellite TV
Sep 16, 2008 – The Board of Directors of Brazil's Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações (Anatel) has given approval for Oi to undertake the provision of TV by satellite (DTH) across the country.
News categories: Anatel, Oi, Brazil, Digital TV, Regulation, Satellite

Brazil - Intel and Tecsys announce digital TV partnership
Sep 15, 2008 – Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) has signed a partnership with Tecsys for the development of digital TV decoder technology for the local market. The partnership will develop both professional IRDs and set top boxes for the consumer market.
News categories: Intel Corp, Tecsys, Amplimatic, Brazil, Digital TV, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

Newport Media Unveils World's First 65nm System-on-Chip (SoC) for Japan/Brazilian ISDB-T Mobile TV
Sep 9, 2008 – Newport Media has unveiled the world's first complete 65nm CMOS single-chip solution for the mobile version of Japan's Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting-Terrestrial (ISDB-T) digital television standard.
News categories: Newport Media, Brazil, Digital TV, ICs, ISDB-T, Japan, Mobile, Semiconductor

Longcheer and Newport Media Announce Global Mobile TV Handset Platform
Sep 4, 2008 – Longcheer Hhas announced that it has selected Newport Media to provide system solutions for its upcoming release of TV enabled 2G handsets. The three different models being introduced address different segments of the mobile TV market.
News categories: Newport Media, Longcheer, Brazil, Digital TV, IBCShow, Mobile, SBTVD, Semiconductor, Terrestrial

From 26.3 Million Mobile TV Users in 2007 to 51.6 Million at the End of 2008
Sep 4, 2008 – On the basis of monthly adoption data for all commercial broadcast Mobile TV networks, Issue No 5 of the quarterly TeleAnalytics Mobile TV Tracking Service calculates that the end 2008 Mobile TV user count will be 51.6 million.
News categories: TeleAnalytics, Austria, Brazil, China, Digital TV, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Market Research, Mobile, Netherlands, Peripherals / Accessories, Smart TV, Subscribers, Switzerland, USA

STMicroelectronics Leading-Edge Decoder Technology Powers Proview Set-Top Box in Brazil
Sep 2, 2008 – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) has announced that Proview (Hong Kong: 0334) is to use ST's STi7101 HDTV MPEG-2/H.264 single chip video decoder in its new XPS-1000 digital terrestrial set-top box (SBTVD) for Brazil.
News categories: STMicroelectronics, Proview, Brazil, Digital TV, SBTVD, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Terrestrial