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Digital TV Set-top Box Sales Break 100M Barrier
Feb 20, 2008 – Worldwide sales of digital TV set-top boxes broke through the 100 million barrier for the first time in 2007, according to the latest research from the Strategy Analytics Connected Home Devices service.
News categories: Strategy Analytics, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

'Baromètre TDF de la télévision numérique N°6' Published
Feb 18, 2008 – Penetration of digital TV in French homes has reached 46.5%, up 4.1 percentage points in the quarter, driven by the success of digital terrestrial (DTT).
News categories: TDF, 5G, Digital TV, France, Market Research, Mobile, Set Top Box, Subscribers, Terrestrial

Technisat Licenses S&T's RedKey MHEG engine
Feb 18, 2008 – Strategy & Technology (S&T) Client Systems has announced that TechniSat Digital, the leading German receiver equipment manufacturer, has licensed the company's RedKey™ MHEG engine.
News categories: S&T, Technisat, Digital TV, DVR, Germany, MHEG-5, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial, UK

Thomson and NXP Semiconductors to Combine Can Tuner Modules Activities
Feb 14, 2008 – NXP Semiconductors and Thomson (Euronext 18453; NYSE: TMS) have announced they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to combine their can tuner modules operations in a joint venture.
News categories: NXP, Thomson, Cable TV, Digital TV, MandA, Mobile, Satellite, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

Telenor Fourth quarter and preliminary results for 2007
Feb 13, 2008 – At the end of 2007 Canal Digital had 932,000 (2006: 943,000) DTH and 705,000 (2006: 696,000) cable-TV subscribers, with 1.174 million (2006: 1,155,000) SMATV households.
News categories: Telenor, Earnings Release, Q4 2007 Report, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Denmark, Digital TV, Finland, Norway, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden, Terrestrial

Breakthrough NXP solution brings H.264/MPEG-4 to IDTV
Feb 13, 2008 – NXP Semiconductors has announced the world's first single-chip LCD TV solution to deliver ground-breaking HDTV picture quality for advanced H.264 broadcast and MPEG-4 Internet content.
News categories: NXP, Digital TV, ICs, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Streaming, Terrestrial

Maxscend Debuts IC for Huge Potential China Digital TV Market
Feb 13, 2008 – Eyeing the huge potential China digital TV market, Maxscend Technologies has announced the MXD1320, a demodulator IC fully compliant with China digital terrestrial television standard.
News categories: Maxscend, China, Digital TV, DTMB, ICs, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

AMD Sharpens Focus On Latest Multimedia Technologies To Create Immersive Mobile Entertainment Experiences
Feb 12, 2008 – AMD (NYSE: AMD) has announced an expanded portfolio of products and technologies to enable such popular, media-rich applications as mobile TV, 3D games and high-fidelity audio, delivering immersive entertainment to tomorrow's mobile phones and handheld devices.
News categories: AMD, Mobile, MWC24, Semiconductor, Terrestrial

South Africa - Digital TV starts in November
Feb 12, 2008 – South Africa is scheduled to start broadcasting digital TV on November 1 and will discontinue analogue broadcasts in 2011. Set-top Boxes may be subsidised.
News categories: Sentech, Digital TV, Set Top Box, South Africa, Terrestrial