Canada Digital TV News

Strong Fourth Quarter and Year-End Financial and Operational Results for Cogeco Cable
Oct 26, 2007 – Cogeco Cable Inc. (TSX:CCA) announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2007 ended August 31, 2007. The net additions of Digital Television service stood at 8,747 customers compared to 10,563 customers for the same period last year.
News categories: Cogeco Cable, Cabovisão, Cable TV, Canada, Digital TV, Portugal, Results, Subscribers

Optibase Demonstrates Advanced IPTV Solutions At TelcoTV 2007
Oct 22, 2007 – Optibase (NASDAQ:OBAS) has announced that it will demonstrate end-to-end IPTV solutions and carrier-grade streaming platforms for Telco service providers.
News categories: Optibase, Canada, Content Distribution, IPTV, North America, USA

Renesas Technology Releases Single-Chip LSI for Use in LCD Digital TVs for the North American Market
Oct 17, 2007 – Renesas Technology has announced the R8J66954BG offering single-chip implementation of major signal processing functions, from front-end signal input to later stages such as signal output to an LCD panel, for North American LCD digital TVs.
News categories: Renesas Technology, ATSC 3, Canada, Digital TV, ICs, North America, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Terrestrial, USA

Bluestreak Technology raises USD $20 million in Series D financing
Oct 11, 2007 – Bluestreak Technology has announced that it has secured USD $20 million dollars in Series D financing. France's Iris Capital, a new investor, led the round, which also includes internal investors and a new investor Tomorrow Group from Korea.
News categories: Bluestreak Technology, Iris Capital, Tomorrow Group, Solidarity Fund QFL, Canada, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, Mobile, Venture Capital

IPTV Deployments More Than Double In a Year as Broadband Continues to Achieve Strong Growth
Oct 8, 2007 – The DSL Forum today announced new broadband and IPTV statistics at the Broadband World Forum Europe in Berlin. The statistics, prepared for the DSL Forum by industry analyst Point Topic, show that the number of people using IPTV services increased by 179 per cent in the 12 months to 30 June 2007.
News categories: Point Topic, DSL Forum, Africa, Asia, BBWF, Broadband, Canada, China, Digital TV, DOCSIS, Europe, Fibre, France, Germany, IPTV, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latin America, Market Research, Middle-East, North America, Spain, Subscribers, UK, USA

MPEG LA Issues ATSC Patent Portfolio License
Sep 20, 2007 – MPEG LA has announced the availability of the ATSC Patent Portfolio License. The joint license includes patents that are essential to the digital television standard developed by the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) and used in digital TVs sold in the United States, South Korea, Mexico, Canada and other countries.
News categories: MPEG LA, ATSC 3, Canada, Digital TV, Korea, Licensing, Mexico, Patent, Terrestrial, USA

Forrester Research: The Five-Year Forecast For Consumer Technology Growth
Sep 10, 2007 – Devices that make up the digital home, such as digital video recorders, high-definition televisions (HDTVs), and home networks will be the consumer technologies that grow the fastest over the next five years, according to Forrester Research (Nasdaq: FORR).
News categories: Camcorder, Canada, Digital TV, DVD, DVR, Gaming, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Tablet, USA

Pause, rewind and record live TV with SaskTel Max Digital TV Recorder
Sep 5, 2007 – SaskTel has introduced the latest enhancement to Max™ Entertainment Services. With Digital TV Recorder, SaskTel Max customers can take control of their TV viewing experience with the ability to pause, rewind and record live TV quickly and easily.
News categories: Canada, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Set Top Box

Canadian CLEC Becomes IPTV-ready with Calix C7 Platform
Aug 28, 2007 – Calix has announced that Mornington Communications Co-operative Ltd., an ILEC and CLEC in Ontario, Canada, has selected the Calix C7multiservice access platform (MSAP) and the Calix Management System (CMS) to enable a wide array of new services.
News categories: Broadband, Canada, Digital TV, Fibre, IPTV