China (中国) Digital TV News

Vivace And IGRS Engineering Lab To Develop IGRS-Compliant Multimedia Chips, Vivace Joins IGRS Home Networking Standards Effort
May 29, 2007 – Vivace Semiconductor has announced it has signed an agreement with the IGRS Engineering Lab, Ltd. to jointly develop reference designs based on Vivace's chips that can be used to develop products that are compliant with the new home networking standard.
News categories: IGRS, Vivace Semiconductor, China, Digital TV, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Smart TV, Tablet

Digital cable TV heats up in China, but challenges loom
May 29, 2007 – Subscribers to digital cable TV in China hit 14.2 million in the first quarter, driven by interest in Beijing, Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Sichuan, according to a report from market researcher Analysys International. More …
News categories: Cable TV, China, Digital TV, Market Research, Semiconductor, Subscribers

UTStarcom Led China IPTV Market in Q1 2007
May 29, 2007 – Analysys International says in its recently released report that the total amount of IPTV users has reached 612,000 by the first quarter of 2007 in China, increasing 36.3% quarter-on-quarter. More …
News categories: China, IPTV, Market Research

Suzhou Selects Nagravision CA To Migrate From Analog To Digital
May 24, 2007 – Nagravision (SWX:KUD.VX) has announced that Suzhou Digital Television Company has selected Nagravision conditional access for the launch and transition of the digital cable TV services from analog for its subscribers in Suzhou. More …
News categories: Cable TV, China, Conditional Access, Digital TV

China's SMG to launch mobile TV
May 23, 2007 – Shanghai Media Group, China’s second-largest media group by revenue, is expected to launch next week the country’s first TV service broadcast directly to mobile phones. More …
News categories: 5G, China, Digital TV, Mobile

China Launches CDMB Mobile TV Technology Standard
May 22, 2007 – The China Association for Standardization has approved and issued the China Digital Multimedia Broadcast mobile TV handset standard as the association standard, CSA158-2007. More …
News categories: China, Digital TV, Mobile

NSCC AVS IPTV Set Top Box Based on TI's DaVinci(TM) Technology
May 21, 2007 – Texas Instruments (TI) (NYSE: TXN) and National Source Coding Audio & Video Technologies (Beijing) Co., Ltd. (NSCC) have announced the delivery of the industry’s first single-chip IPTV set-top box (STB) solution enabling dual decoding of AVS and H.264. More …
News categories: ATSC 3, China, IPTV, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

Maxscend Technologies Announces the World Smallest DAB/T-DMB Demodulator
May 18, 2007 – China based mobile TV fabless design start-up Maxscend Technologies Inc. announced today the industry's smallest DAB/T-DMB demodulator with lowest power consumption, MXD0120.
News categories: China, Digital TV, ICs, Mobile, Semiconductor

SKYWORTH launches China's IGRS-standardized high-definition TV
Apr 24, 2007 – SKYWORTH has launched a 32-inch high-definition TV in accordance with China's national 3C convergence standard known as intelligent grouping and resource sharing (IGRS), an IGRS Working Group official has said.
News categories: IGRS, Skyworth, China, Digital TV, Smart Home, Smart TV