China (中国) Digital TV News

Motorola Announces Strategic Cooperation Agreement with SXBN on Integrated DTV Platform
Dec 18, 2008 – Motorola (NYSE: MOT) has announced that Hangzhou Motorola Technologies (HMT) has signed a strategic agreement for joint development of its integrated Digital TV (DTV) platform with China's Shaanxi BC & TV Intermediary Co. (SXBN).
News categories: Motorola, SXBN, China, Finance, Set Top Box, Smart TV

Cypress and Legend Silicon Debut World's First USB TV Dongle Reference Design to Bring High-Resolution TV to PCs and Laptops
Dec 16, 2008 – Cypress Semiconductor (NYSE:CY) and Legend Silicon have introduced a reference design for a DTMB USB PC-TV dongle. It leverages Cypress's EZ-USB® FX2LP high-speed USB controller to drive Legend Silicon's LGS-8GL5/LGS-8G75 demodulator.
News categories: Legend Silicon, Cypress Semiconductor, China, DTMB, Peripherals / Accessories, Semiconductor, Terrestrial

SARFT to purchase 3.5 million satellite set-top boxes
Dec 5, 2008 – According to INTERFAX, China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) will open a tender on Dec. 9 for 3.5 million set-top boxes for distribution as part of the impending launch of direct-to-home (DTH) satellite TV.
News categories: SARFT, China, Digital TV, Satellite, Set Top Box

IPTV Making Its Way Through Pay-TV Markets with an Increasing Popularity
Dec 5, 2008 – According to InfoCom's most recent release of its quarterly television monitoring service, IPTV has been making its way through the pay-TV market with an increasing popularity in countries that generally have a large broadband subscriber base.
News categories: InfoCom GmbH, China, Digital TV, France, Germany, Hong Kong, IPTV, Italy, Market Research, Spain, Subscribers, UK, USA

Global and China Digital STB (Set-top Box) Market Report, 2008
Dec 4, 2008 – In 2007, 140 million STBs were sold worldwide, the overall sales percentage of satellite STBs was 46%, and IP STB gained the highest sales growth with a figure of 4.53 million, increased by 77% comparing 2006.
News categories: Research In China, Research and Markets, Cable TV, China, Conditional Access, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Middleware, Satellite, Set Top Box

Shanghai to Start CMMB Commercial Operations
Dec 3, 2008 – Oriental Pearl Group (OPG) (Shanghai: 600832) has stated that its CMMB network will begin official commercial operations on January 1, 2009, making it the first CMMB operator in China to do so.
News categories: Oriental Pearl Group, China, Digital TV, Mobile

China Digital TV Partners with Microsoft to Launch PC-TV Tuner Solution for Windows Vista
Dec 3, 2008 – China Digital TV (NYSE: STV) has announced the availability of a new PC-TV tuner solution which will allow computer users throughout China to watch and record scrambled digital cable television programming on their PCs.
News categories: China Digital TV Holding, Cable TV, China, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Peripherals / Accessories

Mirics and Spreadtrum Announce Strategic Partnership to Deliver Innovative CMMB Solutions for PCTV Applications
Dec 2, 2008 – Mirics Semiconductor and Spreadtrum Communications (Nasdaq: SPRD) have announced a strategic partnership focused upon delivering embedded TV solutions for portable PCs that support the China Multimedia Mobile Broadcasting (CMMB) standard.
News categories: Mirics, Spreadtrum, China, Mobile, Peripherals / Accessories, Semiconductor

Fujitsu Launches SD Multi-Decoder LSI Supporting MPEG-2 & H.264
Nov 27, 2008 – Fujitsu Microelectronics has announced the launch of multi-decoder LSI (MB86H01) chips that support decoding of standard definition (SD) MPEG-2 and H.264 video, in particular for SD digital broadcasts in Russia, Eastern Europe and China.
News categories: Fujitsu, China, Digital TV, DVR, ICs, Russia, Semiconductor, Set Top Box