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

Qualcomm Launches New Family of Chips for Mobile Consumer Devices with Wireless Connectivity, GPS, Rich Multimedia and Broadcast TV
Feb 11, 2008 – Qualcomm (Nasdaq: QCOM) has announced a family of three new industry-leading chipset solutions - QST1000™, QST1100™ and QST1105™ - designed to power the next evolutions of mobile consumer devices.
News categories: Qualcomm, Digital TV, ICs, ISDB-T, Mobile, MWC24, Semiconductor, Smart TV

Directive on the protection of conditional-access services: Commission consultation of interested parties
Feb 11, 2008 – The European Commission is launching an open consultation and is asking all interested parties to submit information on services that use conditional-access systems, such as pay-TV or video on demand.
News categories: European Commission, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, DRM, Estonia, Europe, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, IPTV, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mobile, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Regulation, Romania, Satellite, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Terrestrial, UK

Nagravision, Quantum and Magneti Marelli introduce QTM TV, world's first DVB-H/DVB-T Mobile TV in-car entertainment receiver at MWC08
Feb 11, 2008 – Nagravision, a Kudelski Group (SWX:KUD) company, Magneti Marelli and Quantum have introduced QTM TV, the world's first DVB-H/DVB-T Pay-TV Mobile set top box for Automotive Applications.
News categories: Nagravision, Magneti Marelli, Quantum, Automotive, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Middleware, Mobile, MWC24, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

Samsung's Single-Chip Mobile TV Channel Decoder RF SoC Supports Global TV Standards for Cell Phones
Feb 10, 2008 – Samsung Electronics has unveiled the S3C4F60, a 65nanometer (nm) single-chip mobile TV System-on-Chip (SoC) which combines a channel decoder with an RF chip.
News categories: Samsung Electronics, Digital TV, ICs, ISDB-T, Mobile, MWC24, Semiconductor, Terrestrial

Newport Media Announces Acquisition of Mobile TV Middleware Developer WRG
Feb 8, 2008 – Newport Media has announced the acquisition of industry leading DVB-T/H middleware company WRG Inc. Based in Bundang, Korea.
News categories: Newport Media, Digital TV, ISDB-T, Korea, MandA, Middleware, Mobile, MWC24, Semiconductor, Smart TV

NeoMagic® Corporation to Present Latest Products at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain
Feb 7, 2008 – NeoMagic (Nasdaq: NMGC) has announced that it will demonstrate Mobile TV solutions for ISDB-T and T-DMB with its MiMagic or NeoMobileTV multimedia processors, at next week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (February 11-14, 2008).
News categories: NeoMagic, ISDB-T, Mobile, MWC24, Semiconductor

BT Third quarter and nine months results to December 31, 2007
Feb 7, 2008 – The roll out of our next generation television service, BT Vision, accelerated in line with plans. During the quarter the number of customers more than doubled to 120,000, and is now more than 150,000.
News categories: BT Vision, Earnings Release, Digital TV, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, Terrestrial, UK

The Worldwide Digital Terrestrial Television Receiver Market Will Reach 350 Million Units in 2013, According to ABI Research
Feb 6, 2008 – The worldwide DTT (Digital Terrestrial Television) receiver market will grow from 65 million units in 2007 to more than 350 million units in 2013, representing a compound annual growth rate of 32%.
News categories: ABI Research, ATSC 3, Digital TV, DTMB, ISDB-T, Market Research, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Tablet, Terrestrial

Spain - February DTT monthly update released
Feb 5, 2008 – According to Impulsa-TDT, in December 2007 a new historic high was achieved with sales of 685,584 DTT receivers, 50% more than in December of 2006 and 80% more than the monthly sales average of that year.
News categories: Impulsa-TDT, Digital TV, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Spain, Terrestrial