China (中国) Digital TV News

SARFT to buy 6 million CMMB terminals in 2011
Apr 20, 2011 – China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has said that China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) plans to purchase 6 million China Multimedia Mobile Broadcasting (CMMB) stand-alone terminals in 2011.
News categories: SARFT, China, Market Research, Mobile, Portable

Shanghai Completes Cable TV Network Consolidation
Apr 12, 2011 – Shanghai has announced that the city's cable TV networks have been completely consolidated into a single network covering more than 5 million households.
News categories: Cable TV, China

China Video Industry Association Releases Smart TV Standards
Apr 11, 2011 – The China Video Industry Association (CVIA) has released China's first set of online TV multimedia communications standards. The standards define an 'internet-connected TV' as a TV set that provides users with customized Internet applications and services.
News categories: China Video Industry Association, China, Smart Home, Smart TV, Streaming

ST dominated China cable set-top box IC market in 2010
Apr 6, 2011 – In 2010 STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) had an SD cable set-top box IC market share of 63.5%, and an HD set-top box market share of 45.13%, to give an overall market share of 54.61%. Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM) was in second place with 19.48%.
News categories: STMicroelectronics, Cable TV, China, Digital TV, Market Research, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

AltoBeam Releases Fourth Generation CTTB/DVB-C Demodulator IC
Mar 31, 2011 – AltoBeam has announced the release of its fourth generation CTTB/DVB-C demodulator, the ATBM8859. The ATBM8859 is in full compliance with GB20600-2006, China's DTT standard, and GY/T 170-2001, China's equivalent to the DVB-C standard.
News categories: AltoBeam, Cable TV, China, Digital TV, DTMB, ICs, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

NDS Delivers VOD Solutions to Wenzhou Cable in Partnership with Huawei
Mar 24, 2011 – NDS has announced that it has partnered with Huawei to enable the delivery of the latest High Definition Video On Demand (VOD) digital-TV solutions to Wenzhou Cable (A branch of China Cable Network) subscribers.
News categories: NDS Group, Huawei, Wenzhou Cable, Cable TV, China, Digital TV, Middleware, Set Top Box

Trident Set-Top Box SoCs Selected for China's First NGB Trial Deployments
Mar 24, 2011 – Trident Microsystems (Nasdaq: TRID) has announced that its set-top box system-on-chips (SoCs) are powering one of the first trial deployments of Next Generation Broadcasting (NGB) in China.
News categories: Trident Micro, Cable TV, CCBN, China, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

China cable TV to be all-digital by 2015
Mar 23, 2011 – China aims to move all of its cable television networks above the county level to digital by 2015. At the end of last year, there were 187 million cable TV subscribers in the country with only 88 million already digital.
News categories: SARFT, Cable TV, China, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Set Top Box, Subscribers

Wenzhou Cable Enhances TV Viewing with China's First HD Overlay EPG from NDS
Mar 23, 2011 – NDS has announced that Wenzhou Cable, a branch of China Cable Network, have selected NDS EPG Framework to deploy an enhanced and adaptable high definition overlay EPG - the first of its kind in China.
News categories: NDS Group, Wenzhou Cable, Cable TV, China, Digital TV, Middleware, Set Top Box