Brazil (Brasil) Digital TV News

Brazil - Cisco and Ericsson to run IPTV trials for GVT
Aug 13, 2008 – GVT (São Paulo:GVTT3) has announced the two finalists of its RFP process to upgrade its platform for IPTV. Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) and Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) have been selected to run trials of the service at around the end of this year.
News categories: GVT, Cisco Systems, Ericsson, Brazil, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Set Top Box

The DIRECTV Group Announces Second Quarter 2008 Results
Aug 7, 2008 – DIRECTV (NASDAQ:DTV) U.S. net subscriber additions of 129,000 were essentially flat compared with last year's second quarter. DIRECTV Latin America net subscriber additions increased 30% to 184,000 compared to the same period last year.
News categories: DIRECTV, Argentina, Brazil, Caribbean, Chile, Colombia, DVR, Ecuador, Latin America, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Uruguay, USA, Venezuela

Telefónica on track to meet its 2008 targets
Jul 31, 2008 – Telefónica (Madrid:TEF)(NYSE:TEF)'s results for the second half of the year show high growth rates. Pay TV accesses stood at over 2 million at end of the first half of the year, up 57.4% on the prior year.
News categories: Telefónica, Brazil, Cable TV, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Digital TV, IPTV, Peru, Results, Satellite, Spain, Subscribers

Brazil - TVA launches HD set-top box in time for the Olympics
Jul 24, 2008 – TVA has launched its convergente HD (high definition) decoder along with a package of attractions in the technology.
News categories: Televisão Abril, Brazil, Cable TV, MMDS, Set Top Box

Telmex Internacional Second Quarter 2008
Jul 23, 2008 – In the second quarter the consolidated revenues of Telmex Internacional (Mexico:TELINTL; NYSE:TII) totaled 18.544 billion pesos. In Brazil, cable TV provider Net had close to 2.7 million pay TV subscribers and 1.8 million broadband Internet users.
News categories: Telmex, Brazil, Cable TV, Chile, Colombia, Digital TV, IPTV, Peru, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Gradiente and NeoMagic® Corporation Announce Joint Development Agreement to Bring to Market a Mobile TV Enabled Smart Phone
Jun 18, 2008 – Gradiente and NeoMagic (Nasdaq: NMGC) have announced that they have signed a joint development agreement to bring to market a mobile TV enabled smart phone for the ISDB-T/b standard based on NeoMagic's MiMagic 8 application processor.
News categories: NeoMagic, Gradiente, Brazil, Digital TV, ISDB-T, Mobile, SBTVD, Semiconductor

VTV, first DVB-H project in Brazil
May 22, 2008 – While Brazil will have open mobile TV through official digital TV system ISDB-T, the first mobile pay TV project through DVB-H has been launched.
News categories: Brazil, Digital TV, Mobile

Latin America's DTH Market to Surpass US$ 4.6 Billion by 2013; Telefonica and Telmex to Represent 27% of Revenues
May 22, 2008 – According to Signals Telecom Consulting, the bundling strategies put in place by telecommunications operators will increase DTH's share of the Latin American Pay TV market from 22% in 2007 to 33% by 2013.
News categories: Signals Telecom Consulting, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Digital TV, Latin America, Market Research, Mexico, Peru, Satellite, Subscribers

OpenTV Launches Core2 and PVR2 on Largest Cable Pay-TV Operator in Latin America
May 19, 2008 – OpenTV (NASDAQ:OPTV) has announced that its Core2™ and PVR2™ middleware solutions have been selected by Brazil's Net Serviços de Comunicação, the largest cable operator in Latin America, to support the operator's HD PVR launch.
News categories: OpenTV, Net Serviços, Brazil, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Middleware, Set Top Box