Terrestrial Digital TV (DTT, DTTV, DTV, DVB-T, DVB-T2, …) News

Government calls for unified DTT STB specification for Spain
Apr 28, 2009 – Spain's Ministerio de Industria has asked television operators and telecommunication manufacturers to create a unified DTT platform for pay TV. The aim of the initiative is to avoid viewers having to purchase multiple devices.
News categories: Ministerio de Industria, Digital TV, Set Top Box, Spain, Terrestrial

KPN Q1 results 2009
Apr 28, 2009 – KPN Group (Amsterdam:KPN) has release its results for the quarter ended March 31, 2009. KPN TV (Digitenne DTT and IPTV) customers were up 60 thousand in the quarter to give a total of 835 thousand at end-March.
News categories: KPN, Fibre, IPTV, Netherlands, Results, Subscribers, Terrestrial

CANAL+ launches 'CANAL READY' label
Apr 27, 2009 – CANAL+ (Paris: VIV) has announced the creation of CANAL READY, a labelling scheme for new TV equipment. The objective of the label is to reassure consumers of the full compatibility of the equipment with CANAL+ products and services.
News categories: CANAL+ Group, Conditional Access, France, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

Global pay set-top box market to peak in 2012
Apr 27, 2009 – Media analyst Screen Digest forecasts that the global pay TV set-top box (STB) market will peak within the next four years, reaching annual shipments of 127m units in 2012, before the market declines in 2013.
News categories: Screen Digest, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

SD DTT Set Top Box Semiconductors to Peak in 2011
Apr 27, 2009 – The semiconductor opportunity in standard definition (SD) Digital Terrestrial TV (DTT) Set Top Boxes will peak in 2011 at nearly $500 million. High-definition DTT Set Top Boxes also offer a short term spike in semiconductor opportunity.
News categories: In-Stat, Digital TV, DVR, Market Research, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

NEC Selects ViXS XCode™ Series for VALUESTAR PC's
Apr 27, 2009 – ViXS Systems has announced that XCode™ 3106 has been selected by NEC for its VALUESTAR L, N and W PCs. The XCode 3106 is able to transcode real-time HD MPEG2 broadcast video to HD MPEG4 AVC, increasing video storage capacity by six times.
News categories: ViXS Systems, NEC, Digital TV, ISDB-T, Japan, Peripherals / Accessories, Semiconductor

Peru goes with ISDB standard for DTT
Apr 23, 2009 – Peru has decided to adopt the Japanese-Brazilian standard for digital TV from 2011. The decision was announced by Enrique Cornejo, the minister from the Ministerio de Transportes y Comunicaciones.
News categories: Ministerio de Transportes y Comunicaciones, Digital TV, ISDB-T, Peru, Regulation, SBTVD, Terrestrial

ViXS HD Transcoding is core to new Pioneer Blu-Ray Recorders
Apr 22, 2009 – ViXS Systems has announced that the XCode™ 3000 series MPEG-4 AVC (MPEG-4 Part 10/H.264) Transcoder/Encoder/Decoder IC is being used by Pioneer for two new Blu-Ray Disc (BD) Recorder products: BDR-WD900 and BDR-WD700.
News categories: ViXS Systems, Pioneer, Blu-ray, Digital TV, DVR, ISDB-T, Japan, Optical Disc Recorder, Semiconductor, Terrestrial

SiS Launches First H.264 HDTV Processor - SiS329H
Apr 22, 2009 – Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) has unveiled a new high integrated HDTV processor, SiS329H, to address the growing need of receiving the H.264 broadcasting programs in Europe.
News categories: Silicon Integrated Systems, Digital TV, Europe, ICs, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Terrestrial