Worldwide (not region-specific) Digital TV News

IEEE adopts HDBaseT for Ultra HD connectivity
Jan 6, 2015 – The HDBaseT Alliance and IEEE have announced that the HDBaseT standard has been approved by the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) Standards Board for adoption as part of the organization’s standard portfolio.
News categories: HDBaseT Alliance, IEEE Standards Association, Ariel Sobelman, Konstantinos Karachalios, CES2025, Smart Home, Worldwide

Morega demos media mobility on Intel Ultra HD gateway at CES2015
Jan 6, 2015 – Morega Systems has announced that it will demonstrate a headed gateway solution at CES that combines Intel's Baker Lake reference design for Ultra HD, HEVC and DOCSIS 3.1 with Morega's placeshifting software.
News categories: Morega Systems, Intel Corp, ViXS, Buddy Snow, CES2025, Digital TV, Gateway, Middleware, Mobile, Semiconductor, Worldwide

Nearly 90 million DOCSIS 3.0 CPE units shipped over last 12 quarters
Jan 6, 2015 – Infonetics has released excerpts from its 3Q14 Broadband CPE and Subscribers report. Connected home and multiscreen services continue to proliferate. As a result, an increasing number of video-capable gateways are being shipped globally.
News categories: Infonetics, Jeff Heynen, Broadband, CPE, DOCSIS, Gateway, Market Research, Worldwide

MHL Consortium announces superMHL - first to support 8K
Jan 6, 2015 – MHL Consortium has announced the superMHL™ specification, the next-generation of MHL® technology for CE and mobile devices. superMHL delivers higher resolution and frame rates along with 40W of power charging, while broadening MHL’s reach by supporting 8K video resolution.
News categories: MHL Consortium, Rob Tobias, CES2025, Digital TV, Smart Home, Smart TV, Worldwide

Broadcom to embed Verimatrix forensic watermarking for Ultra HD
Jan 6, 2015 – Verimatrix has announced a collaboration with Broadcom to provide revenue security for Ultra HD video services. As part of the deal, Verimatrix' VideoMark forensic watermarking is being added as an embedded security subsystem in Broadcom's Ultra HD SoCs.
News categories: Verimatrix, Broadcom, Petr Peterka, Rich Nelson, CES2025, Digital TV, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Watermarking, Worldwide

MediaTek collaborates with Google on Ultra HD Android TV
Jan 6, 2015 – MediaTek has announced a collaboration with Google on the world's first Ultra HD TV platform solution for Android TV - made possible through Google's Android TV software integration on MediaTek's MT5595 System-on-Chip hardware.
News categories: MediaTek, Android TV, Apps, CES2025, Digital TV, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Streaming, Worldwide

MediaTek SoC designed into Sony's first Android TV
Jan 6, 2015 – MediaTek has announced that the company’s smart TV System on Chip (SoC) will be used in the first Sony Android TV incorporating Sony's unique picture-quality algorithm, and enable Android 5.0 Lollipop software to run seamlessly.
News categories: MediaTek, Sony Visual Products, Ching-Jiang Hsieh, Masashi Imamura, Android TV, CES2025, Digital TV, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Worldwide

Broadcom develops ultra-compact STB platform with 4x4 Wi-Fi
Jan 6, 2015 – Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM) has introduced the world's first HEVC STB SoCs with integrated MHL 2.0. Broadcom's BCM7250 and BCM72502 chips bring set-top box functionality to compact HDMI stick and streaming media player box formats.
News categories: Broadcom, Rich Nelson, CES2025, Digital TV, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Worldwide

ATEME and ST demonstrate interactive 360° TV at CES
Jan 6, 2015 – ATEME has announced that LiveSphere, a live video broadcast solution that captures, stitches, streams and displays video to provide an interactive consumer experience, is now possible on the TV in the living room, allowing a viewer to dynamically change their field of view using a remote control.
News categories: STMicroelectronics, ATEME, LiveSphere, Ismail Allalcha, CES2025, Digital TV, Media Player, Metaverse, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Worldwide