Worldwide (not region-specific) Digital TV News

Professional video market expands by 55% from 2007 to 2013
Apr 4, 2014 – Culminating a dramatic six-year period of growth, the global market for professional broadcast equipment and services reached $63 billion in 2013, up 52 percent from $41 billion in 2007, according to IHS.
News categories: IHS Technology, Ed Border, Sanju Khatri, Content Distribution, Market Research, NABShow, Worldwide

Stream TV glasses-free 3D on show in SGO booth at NAB Show 2014
Apr 4, 2014 – Stream TV Networks has announced that its Ultra-D™ glasses-free 3D technology will be demonstrated in the SGO booth at the National Association of Broadcasters Show in Las Vegas.
News categories: Stream TV Networks, SGO, Qualcomm, Intrinsyc Software, Mathu Rajan, Geoff Mills, Metaverse, Middleware, NABShow, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Worldwide

4EVER consortium to present UHDTV and HEVC research at NAB 2014
Apr 3, 2014 – At NAB Show 2014, the 4EVER project is to show two demonstrations that combine UHDTV and HEVC, including a world premiere: the integration of HEVC and DASH within an HTML5 browser for UHDTV content.
News categories: 4EVER, NABShow, Streaming, Terrestrial, Worldwide

OPTICOM premieres OTT streaming video quality testing at NAB Show 2014
Apr 3, 2014 – OPTICOM has announced that it will premiere PEVQ-S, a novel analysis technique for OTT video quality measurement, benchmarking and optimization at the upcoming NAB Show in Las Vegas.
News categories: OPTICOM, Michael Keyhl, NABShow, QoE, Streaming, Worldwide

Panasonic presents the world’s first TV set with integrated SAT>IP client
Apr 3, 2014 – SES (Paris;LuxX:SESG) and Panasonic have presented the world’s first TV set with integrated SAT>IP technology. The Panasonic VIERA TV re-distributes the satellite TV signal via the IP-based home network.
News categories: SES S.A., Panasonic, Armando Romagnolo, Wilfried Urner, Digital TV, Gateway, Satellite, Smart Home, Smart TV, Worldwide

Beamr Video cuts HEVC bitrate by 50%
Apr 3, 2014 – Beamr Video, a provider of video optimization technology, will demonstrate reduction of 4K HEVC bitrates by up to 50% with no visual quality loss at the NAB Show in Las Vegas.
News categories: Beamr, Sharon Carmel, Digital TV, IPTV, Media Player, NABShow, Streaming, Worldwide

MaxLinear and ST show UltraHD HEVC satellite reference design
Apr 3, 2014 – MaxLinear (NYSE: MXL) and STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) have announced a reference design aimed at accelerating the adoption of Ultra HD set-top boxes (STB) and gateways by satellite pay-TV operators.
News categories: STMicroelectronics, MaxLinear, Herve Mathieu, Brian Sprague, Digital TV, Gateway, Satellite, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Worldwide

Ittiam to demo HEVC/H.265 software products at NAB’14
Apr 3, 2014 – Ittiam Systems will be showcasing the latest generations of its H.265/HEVC software Encoder and Decoder SDKs at NAB 2014.
News categories: Ittiam, Dr. Sriram Sethuraman, Shantanu Jha, Content Distribution, Media Player, NABShow, Worldwide

Worldwide semiconductor revenue grew 5% in 2013
Apr 3, 2014 – Total worldwide semiconductor revenue reached $315 billion in 2013, up 5 percent from 2012, according to Gartner. The combined revenue of the top 25 semiconductor vendors increased by 6.9 percent during 2013.
News categories: Gartner, Andrew Norwood, Market Research, Semiconductor, Worldwide