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China Digital TV Files for Initial Public Offering
Sep 21, 2007 – China Digital TV Holding Co., Ltd. is offering 12,000,000 American depositary shares, or ADSs, each representing one ordinary share and anticipates that the initial public offering price of the ADSs will be between $11 and $13 per ADS.
News categories: China Digital TV, China, Conditional Access, Digital TV, IPO

DoÄŸan Yayın Holding 2007 September 1H07 Results (DYH 2007 İlk 6 Ay Sonuçları)
Sep 17, 2007 – Total D-Smart users are expected to reach 4.8mn in 2016 (from 150,944 at end-August 2007), corresponding to ~23% of total households and ~33% of total satellite households.
News categories: DoÄŸan, D Smart, Digital TV, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers, Turkey

Pace Micro Technology plc Market update
Sep 14, 2007 – Pace (LSE:PIC) is continuing to perform well and the Board now expects that the outcome for the shortened 2007 year will be significantly ahead of its existing expectations.
News categories: Pace Micro, DVR, Finance, Results, Set Top Box, UK

Expway's innovative software for TV over mobile now deployed in more than 1 million mobile devices worldwide
Sep 11, 2007 – Expway has announced that its FastESG™ client software has been deployed in more than one million DVB-H mobile telephones and portable media players worldwide.
News categories: EXPWAY, Digital TV, IBCShow, Middleware, Mobile, Results

Motorola Celebrates Shipping Two Million IP Set-Top Boxes
Sep 7, 2007 – Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) has announced that it has shipped its two millionth Internet Protocol (IP) set-top box. The milestone was reached just five months after the shipment of its one millionth IP set-top box.
News categories: Digital TV, IBCShow, IPTV, Results, Set Top Box, Sweden

XMOS Semiconductor secures $16 million for Software Defined Silicon
Sep 6, 2007 – XMOS Semiconductor, the creator of Software Defined Silicon (SDS) chips, has secured $16 million of Series A venture capital funding. The funding is being provided by Foundation Capital and existing investors Amadeus Capital Partners and DFJ Esprit.
News categories: XMOS Semiconductor, Digital TV, Semiconductor, UK, Venture Capital

Comstar-United Telesystems OJSC Financial Results for the Second Quarter and First Six Months of 2007
Sep 5, 2007 – Comstar-Direct is the largest broadband service provider in Moscow, and has 426,400 residential subscribers, including 99,100 double-play (broadband Internet + IPTV) customers.
News categories: Comstar, Digital TV, IPTV, Results, Russia, Subscribers

Cheertek returns to profitability on strong sales of STB and digital photo frame chips
Sep 5, 2007 – Taiwan-based IC design house Cheertek returned to profitability in August for the first time in 11 months, thanks to increased sales in the higher-margin set-top-box (STB) and digital photo frame segments.
News categories: Cheertek, Digital TV, Results, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Taiwan

Cablemás 2Q07 Net Revenue and Adjusted EBITDA Up 14.4% and 18.6% YoY
Aug 31, 2007 – The 9.7% growth in cable television revenues, from Ps.454.9 to Ps.498.9 was principally due to a 14.6% YoY increase in the number of subscribers to 753,161 with a penetration rate of 34%.
News categories: Cablemás, Cable TV, Digital TV, Mexico, Results, Subscribers