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

NTIA Begins to Clear TV Converter Box Coupon Request Waiting List
Mar 5, 2009 – The U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has announced that the agency has begun to clear its waiting list for requests to the TV Converter Box Coupon Program as a result of additional funds provided by Congress.
News categories: National Telecommunications and Information Administration, ATSC 3, Digital TV, Set Top Box, Terrestrial, USA

World's First Embedded Balanced Antenna for Digital TV on Your Laptop
Mar 3, 2009 – Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) researchers have developed the world's first embedded balanced antenna for digital TV. The innovation will enable on-the-go users to watch digital television on their laptop without the need for an external antenna.
News categories: Intel Corp, Digital TV, Peripherals / Accessories, Terrestrial

Pace plc results for the year ended 31 December 2008
Mar 3, 2009 – Pace (LSE:PIC) has announced its results for the year to 31 December 2008. Pace sold 4.7m set-top boxes into the EMEA region, with shipments into APAC of 1.1m. Americas shipments totalled 7.3m units.
News categories: Pace plc, Cable TV, DVR, IPTV, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

Over 50 Million Households Use Digital Terrestrial as Primary TV Source
Mar 2, 2009 – According to the DisplaySearch, consumers worldwide are rapidly transitioning to digital terrestrial broadcast. Over 50 million households are already using digital terrestrial as their primary source of TV programming content.
News categories: DisplaySearch, ATSC 3, Digital TV, ISDB-T, Market Research, Terrestrial

TVBLOB Aims to Make TV as Open as the Web with the First BLOBbox from Telsey
Mar 2, 2009 – TVBLOB™ and Telsey® have launched the first BLOBbox™, a set-top box with advanced software able to harness all of the content available on the Web, without any filtering or pre-selection by a third party.
News categories: Telsey, TVBLOB, TecnologieCreative, Digital TV, DVR, Middleware, Set Top Box, Streaming, Terrestrial

Ecuador tests DVB-T and ISDB-T
Feb 27, 2009 – Officials of Ecuador's Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones (SUPERTEL) are testing the technical performance of the ISDB-T and DVB-T digital terrestrial television systems, at different sites in the city of Quito.
News categories: SUPERTEL, Digital TV, Ecuador, ISDB-T, Terrestrial

Antenna Hungária and TechniSat Digital cooperate for MinDigTV
Feb 27, 2009 – TechniSat Digital will start to supply DVB-T MPEG-4 HD digital terrestrial set-top-boxes to Antenna Hungária from May 2009. The receiver design was specially developed according to the technical requirements of Antenna Hungária.
News categories: TechniSat, Antenna Hungária, MinDig TV, Digital TV, Hungary, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

Kudelski 2008 Results and New Client Wins
Feb 27, 2009 – The Kudelski Group (SWX:KUD.VX) has announced its 2008 annual results. Digital TV progressed well in the second half, generating a 46.1% net revenue growth compared to the first half. For the full year Digital TV achieved a 15.3% growth rate.
News categories: Kudelski, Cable TV, CAM, China, Conditional Access, Digital TV, IPTV, MandA, Mexico, Middleware, Mobile, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Taiwan, Terrestrial

Microsoft and NXP to show DVB-T2 Windows Media Center
Feb 26, 2009 – Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and NXP are to show a Windows Media Center incorporating a DVB-T2 tuner based on NXP's silicon at DVB World 2009 in Berlin.
News categories: NXP, Microsoft, Digital TV, DVB-T2, Peripherals / Accessories, Semiconductor, Terrestrial