Worldwide (not region-specific) Digital TV News

Movea, STMicroelectronics and Wyplay show motion-based interactive TV user experience
Jan 8, 2014 – Movea, together with STMicroelectronics and Wyplay, is demonstrating how the integration of hardware, middleware and motion software brings easy and rapid deployment of motion-based user interfaces for connected home systems.
News categories: Movea, STMicroelectronics, Wyplay, Wahid Issa, André-Louis Bertrand, Dominique Feral, CES2025, Digital TV, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Worldwide

Entropic completes integration of Cryptography Research CryptoFirewall security cores
Jan 8, 2014 – Entropic (Nasdaq:ENTR) and Cryptography Research (Nasdaq:RMBS) have announced that Entropic has completed the integration of the Cryptography Research CryptoFirewall™ security core technology into its line of set-top box SoCs.
News categories: Cryptography Research, Entropic, Matt Rhodes, Benjamin Jun, CES2025, Content Protection, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Silicon IP, Worldwide

RT-RK provides design services to SmarDTV for high end Media Gateway platform
Jan 8, 2014 – RT-RK has announced that it has been selected by SmarDTV to collaborate on the design of a new SmarDTV Media Gateway platform based on STMicroelectronics’ STiH416 chipset.
News categories: RT-RK, SmarDTV, STMicroelectronics, iWedia, CES2025, Digital TV, Gateway, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Worldwide

Opera Devices SDK to power Bang & Olufsen connected TVs
Jan 8, 2014 – Opera Software has announced that Bang & Olufsen is now shipping the latest version of the Opera Devices Software Development Kit (SDK) on selected high-end connected TVs.
News categories: Opera Software, Bang & Olufsen, Aneesh Rajaram, Lou Schreurs, CES2025, Digital TV, Middleware, Smart TV, Worldwide

Simplay Labs announces certification program for transmission of 4K Ultra HD content
Jan 8, 2014 – Simplay™ Labs has announced that it has created the industry’s first program to certify devices that transmit or receive premium 4K Ultra HD (UHD) content.
News categories: Simplay Labs, Solomon Langley, John Ryu, Sarah Carroll, Content Protection, QoE, Smart Home, Worldwide

Yahoo Smart TV unveiled at CES2014
Jan 8, 2014 – Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) has unveiled Yahoo Smart TV, the next evolution of its Connected TV platform. Yahoo Smart TV offers interactive viewing with personalized program recommendations from TV, Video on Demand, and Web services.
News categories: Yahoo!, Apps, CES2025, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Streaming, Worldwide

Envivio to demo 4K HEVC encoding with Broadcom, MStar and ST at CES2014
Jan 7, 2014 – Envivio (Nasdaq:ENVI) has announced that Envivio 4K HEVC compression will be demonstrated by industry partners Broadcom, MStar Semiconductor and STMicroelectronics in Las Vegas during the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
News categories: Envivio, Jean-Pierre Henot, Phillippe Notton, Andrew Cofler, CES2025, Content Distribution, Semiconductor, Worldwide

NetRange - now more than 2000 global linear TV channels available
Jan 7, 2014 – NetRange has announced that it has signed contracts with more than 2000 linear TV channels via IP, enabling the company to offer a unique quantity and variety of worldwide linear TV channels distributed through a single aggregator source.
News categories: NetRange, Jan Wendt, Content Distribution, Streaming, Worldwide

DivX DRM receives conditional approval for UltraViolet™ digital downloads
Jan 7, 2014 – Rovi (NASDAQ: ROVI) has announced that DivX digital rights management (DRM), previously approved for streaming use within the UltraViolet ecosystem, has now received conditional approval for digital downloads, as well as ‘side-loading’.
News categories: Rovi Corp, UltraViolet, Dr. Kanaan Jemili, Mark Teitell, CES2025, Digital TV, DRM, Media Player, Streaming, Worldwide