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Toshiba HD DVD Players Have 71% Retail Market Share in Europe
Jul 12, 2007 – Toshiba Corp.'s video players with the HD DVD high-definition standard have a 71 percent market share in retail sales in six European countries, Toshiba said, citing market researcher GFK Group.
News categories: Digital TV, DVD, Europe, HD-DVD

Growing MPEG IC Market Finds New Applications
Jul 11, 2007 – The MPEG video IC market has plenty of room for growth, reports In-Stat. MPEG IC unit shipments will grow from 649 million in 2006 to 1.6 billion in 2011, the high-tech market research firm says.
News categories: In-Stat, Digital TV, DVD, Market Research, Mobile, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart TV

STMicroelectronics Passes 400 Million MPEG-Decoder Shipment Milestone
Jul 11, 2007 – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) has announced that by the end of the first quarter of 2007 it had shipped a cumulative total of more than 400 million MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 decoder chips since entering the market with the world's first MPEG-2 decoder in 1995.
News categories: ATSC 3, Blu-ray, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVD, DVR, HD-DVD, IPTV, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Streaming, Terrestrial

Japan - Govt panel to submit plan for easing TV show recording rules
Jul 8, 2007 – The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry will ask TV stations and copyright organizations to ease dubbing restrictions to allow DVD recorders to record digital TV programs nine times instead of once, according to ministry officials. More …
News categories: Content Protection, Digital TV, DRM, DVR, Japan, Optical Disc Recorder

Ocean Blue to Develop Software for Toshiba 'Donau' SoCs
Jul 6, 2007 – Ocean Blue Software is to release its advanced TV software suite on Toshiba’s ‘Donau’ series of processors. The Linux-based software will allow for fast development of consumer electronics products such as STBs, iDTVs, PVRs, and hard disk/DVD recorders. More …
News categories: Digital TV, DVR, MHEG-5, Middleware, Optical Disc Recorder, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial, UK

Magnum Semiconductor Agrees To Acquire LSI Consumer Products Business
Jun 27, 2007 – LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) and Magnum Semiconductor, Inc. announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Magnum will acquire the LSI consumer products business in a transaction to be funded by private equity investment.
News categories: Magnum Semiconductor, LSI Corp, Digital TV, MandA, Optical Disc Recorder, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Tablet

'Non-traditional' Devices Will Lead Growth of TV Receiver Market
Jun 17, 2007 – Of the more than 360 million digital terrestrial television (DTT) receivers expected to ship in 2013, about a quarter will be found in "non-traditional" consumer electronics devices rather than in standard TVs and set-top boxes.
News categories: Digital TV, DVD, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Streaming, Tablet, Terrestrial

Fujitsu Launches Industry's First Single-Chip IC for Full HD H.264 Video Processing with Embedded Memory
May 23, 2007 – Fujitsu Microelectronics America (FMA) has introduced the latest in its family of highly integrated video processing devices that support the H.264 format.
News categories: Fujitsu Microelectronics, ANGA COM, Digital TV, DVD, DVR, ICs, Optical Disc Recorder, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

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