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

SISVEL Announces Development of DVB-T2 Joint Patent Licensing Program
Jan 28, 2009 – SISVEL has announced that it is acting as the facilitator for the creation of a DVB-T2 joint patent licensing program and is issuing a call for patents and patent applications that are essential to the DVB-T2 Standard.
News categories: SISVEL, Digital TV, DVB-T2, Licensing, Patent, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

Lattelecom Announces New-Generation TV
Jan 27, 2009 – The Latvian Cabinet of Ministers has decided that Lattelecom will be the provider of digital terrestrial television programming. Terrestrial broadcasts will be based on state-of-the-art technologies such as MPEG-4 compression.
News categories: Lattelecom, Digital TV, Latvia, Terrestrial

KPN solid full-year 2008 results
Jan 27, 2009 – KPN (Amsterdam:KPN) group revenues and other income in Q4 were up €59m to €3.7bn. At the end of Q4 2008, KPN had 775k TV (Digitenne DTT and IPTV) customers, of which around 40k were IPTV customers. In addition, KPN had 30k DVB-H subscribers.
News categories: KPN, IPTV, Mobile, Netherlands, Results, Subscribers, Terrestrial

UK's Freeview+ Sales Up In The Downturn
Jan 27, 2009 – Freeview has announced that sales of Freeview+ PVR boxes have reached over 900,000, up 118% over December last year. 26% of all sales were achieved in a record final quarter. In December, more than two Freeview+ boxes were bought every minute.
News categories: Freeview, Digital TV, DVR, Market Research, Set Top Box, Terrestrial, UK

Freeview NZ approaches the 200,000 homes mark
Jan 26, 2009 – Freeview NZ has released the latest quarter of retail figures for digital receiver sales. At the end of 2008, 198,938 receivers had been sold, with an additional 38,442 sold during the three months ending 31st December.
News categories: Freeview NZ, Digital TV, Market Research, New Zealand, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

Significant Gap Between HDTV Ownership and HD Programming Usage Among US Households
Jan 26, 2009 – The number of households with an installed HDTV continues to grow, particularly in the US and Japan. However, within the US market, there is a significant gap between HDTV ownership and households utilizing HD programming, reports In-Stat.
News categories: In-Stat, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Terrestrial, USA

6.5 Million U.S. Homes Still Unprepared for the Switch to Digital Television
Jan 22, 2009 – More than 6.5 million U.S. households are not ready for the upcoming transition to all-digital broadcasting and would be unable to receive any TV programming at all if the transition occurred today, The Nielsen Company has reported.
News categories: Nielsen, ATSC 3, Digital TV, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial, USA

Blusens Relies on Sigma Designs' Technology to Empower HDTV Home Entertainment Device
Jan 22, 2009 – Sigma Designs (Nasdaq:SIGM) has announced that their SMP8634 has been selected by Blusens as the main processing unit in the Blusens 'blu:brain' HDTV Home Entertainment Device.
News categories: Sigma Designs, Blusens, LambdaStream, Digital TV, DVR, Middleware, Placeshifting, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Streaming, Terrestrial

SecureMedia Protects Sezmi's Breakthrough Personalized Television System
Jan 21, 2009 – SecureMedia has announced that SecureMedia's Encryptonite ONE™ System CA/DRM software solution is providing the persistent digital content protection for Sezmi's innovative personal television system.
News categories: SecureMedia, Sezmi, Conditional Access, Digital TV, DRM, Terrestrial, USA