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Spain - DIGITAL+ launches iPLUS PVR
May 29, 2007 – DIGITAL+ is to launch in Spain the most advanced set top box personal video recorder (STB PVR) next month of August 2007.
News categories: Sogecable, Digital+, Digital TV, DVR, Satellite, Set Top Box, Spain, Terrestrial

Enuclia sends staff home
May 27, 2007 – One of Oregon’s most promising startups has furloughed nearly half of its 53 employees after a prospective investor backed out of a financing deal at the “”11th hour,”” the company said Thursday.” More …
News categories: ATSC 3, Digital TV, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Terrestrial, Venture Capital

Ninth Conference of the ASEAN Ministers Responsible for Information concludes
May 24, 2007 – The Ministers endorsed DVB-T as the common digital terrestrial television broadcasting standard for ASEAN and took note of the proposal by some ASEAN Member Countries for ASEAN to work towards 2015 as a common switch-off date.
News categories: Asia, Brunei, Cambodia, Digital TV, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Terrestrial, Thailand, Vietnam

Vestel Reaches 25 Percent Market Share In Europe
May 24, 2007 – Turkish company Vestel, a consumer electronics producer, has reached 25 percent market share in Europe, producing 3.5 million digital receivers of the total 14 million receivers sold in Europe.
News categories: ANGA COM, Digital TV, DVR, Europe, Smart TV, Terrestrial, Turkey, UK

MIPS Unveils 74K™ Family Of Synthesizable Processor Cores
May 22, 2007 – Leveraging more than two decades of market and technology leadership, MIPS Technologies (NASDAQ: MIPS) has unveiled its next-generation processor core family based on an innovative embedded microarchitecture.
News categories: ATSC 3, Blu-ray, Digital TV, HD-DVD, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Silicon IP

DiBcom '3 in 1' DVB-T Receiver Chipset for PCs
May 22, 2007 – On the occasion of Computex 2007 in Taipei, the largest computer show in Asia, DiBcom is proud to launch its latest "3-in-1" chip, the DIB7770, as well as its associated USB 2.0 development platform, the STK7770P.
News categories: Digital TV, ICs, Semiconductor, Streaming, Terrestrial

NSCC AVS IPTV Set Top Box Based on TI's DaVinci(TM) Technology
May 21, 2007 – Texas Instruments (TI) (NYSE: TXN) and National Source Coding Audio & Video Technologies (Beijing) Co., Ltd. (NSCC) have announced the delivery of the industry’s first single-chip IPTV set-top box (STB) solution enabling dual decoding of AVS and H.264. More …
News categories: ATSC 3, China, IPTV, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

NEC Electronics Announces System LSI Chips That Enable TV Recording on PCs
May 21, 2007 – NEC Electronics (TSE: 6723) has announced eight new MPEG encoder chips that target personal computer TV tuner markets to enable OEMs to build powerful multimedia PCs to receive and record world-wide digital and analog television broadcasts.
News categories: ATSC 3, Digital TV, ICs, ISDB-T, Semiconductor, Streaming, Terrestrial

Zoran Powers Siemens Terrestrial Twin-Tuner DVR STBs
May 21, 2007 – Zoran Corporation (Nasdaq: ZRAN) announced that its SupraTV® processor powers new families of Siemens free-to-air terrestrial set-top boxes products supporting integrated twin-tuner Digital Video Recording of two simultaneous programs. More …
News categories: Digital TV, DVR, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Terrestrial