China (中国) Digital TV News

China Digital TV Announces Unaudited Third Quarter 2009 Results
Nov 10, 2009 – China Digital TV (NYSE: STV) has announced its results for the quarter ended September 30, 2009. The company shipped approximately 1.96 million smart cards during the quarter, compared to 2.21 million smart cards in the 2008 third quarter.
News categories: China Digital TV Holding, Cable TV, CAM, China, Conditional Access, Results

Vimicro Announces Strategic Development Agreement with CSMBC for CMMB Mobile TV
Nov 9, 2009 – Vimicro (Nasdaq: VIMC) has announced a strategic development partnership with China Satellite Mobile Broadcasting Corporation (CSMBC) to advance the development of mobile TV under the China Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting (CMMB) standard.
News categories: Vimicro, CSMBC, China, Digital TV, Mobile, Semiconductor

UTStarcom IPTV Contract With Bureau of Radio and Television in Santai County, Sichuan Province
Nov 4, 2009 – UTStarcom (Nasdaq: UTSI) has announced a new customer deployment with the Bureau of Radio and Television of Santai County, Sichuan Province to resume their radio and television network capability following last year's traumatic earthquake.
News categories: UTStarcom, SARFT, China, Content Distribution, IPTV

Asia subscription TV figures higher than ROW combined
Nov 4, 2009 – The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has announced new data for subscription TV penetration across the Asia Pacific, noting that the region now has 326 million pay-TV, up 26 million homes in 2009.
News categories: CASBAA, Asia, Cable TV, China, Digital TV, India, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers

China to define Infrared Remote Control Coding Standards
Nov 3, 2009 – China's National Audio, Video, and Multimedia Systems and Equipment Standardization Technical Committee (AVMSC) is to create a drafting group for a national Audiovisual and Multimedia Infrared Remote Control Coding Standard.
News categories: Coship, AVMSC, China, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart TV

Cisco to Acquire DVN Set-Top Box Business
Nov 2, 2009 – Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) has announced a definitive agreement to acquire the set-top box business of DVN (Holdings) Limited, (SEHK: 0500). DVN is a market and technology leader in digital cable solutions in China.
News categories: Cisco Systems, DVN, Cable TV, China, MandA, Set Top Box

Q2-09 was a Record-Setting Mobile TV Quarter
Oct 28, 2009 – Issue No. 10 of the quarterly TeleAnalytics Mobile TV Tracking Service (TMTS) quantitatively substantiates the position taken back in Q3-08 that the worldwide Mobile TV adoption/sales would not be much upset by the financial crisis.
News categories: TeleAnalytics, 5G, Brazil, China, Digital TV, Europe, ISDB-T, Japan, Korea, Market Research, Mobile, Russia, SBTVD, USA

Skyworth Selects Entropic Communications Ethernet-Over-Coax for China MDUs
Oct 25, 2009 – Entropic Communications (Nasdaq:ENTR) has announced that Skyworth (Hong Kong: 0751) has selected Entropic's Broadband Access solution to develop Ethernet over Coax (EoC) connectivity to multiple dwelling unit (MDU) apartments in mainland China.
News categories: Entropic Communications, Skyworth, Cable TV, China, Content Distribution, Semiconductor, Smart Home

Cable STB IC from STMicroelectronics shipping in volume in China
Oct 22, 2009 – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) has announced that its highly integrated single-chip STi5197 cable STB decoder is now shipping in high volume to leading STB makers in China.
News categories: STMicroelectronics, Cable TV, China, Semiconductor