Hardware (DVD, TV, PMP, Set-top Box, …) News

COSHIP joins the Frog By Wyplay initiative
Jan 9, 2014 – Shenzhen COSHIP Electronics has announced that it is joining the Frog By Wyplay initiative for their next generation TV software solution.
News categories: Frog By Wyplay, COSHIP, Dominique Feral, Ruiliang Yang, CES2025, Digital TV, Middleware, Set Top Box, Worldwide

Jiuzhou integrates FROG by Wyplay TV software
Jan 9, 2014 – Shenzhen Jiuzhou Electric has announced that it has decided to join Frog by Wyplay initiative for its next generation STB platforms.
News categories: Frog by Wyplay, Shenzhen Jiuzhou, Dominique Feral, Wei Huang, CES2025, Digital TV, Middleware, Set Top Box, Worldwide

Consumer Electronics market to contract in 2014
Jan 8, 2014 – The exciting new products shown at CES won’t ship in high-enough volume in 2014 to rescue the traditional consumer electronics (CE) device from a decline in revenue this year, according to IHS (NYSE: IHS).
News categories: IHS Inc, Jordan Selburn, CES2025, Digital TV, Market Research, Smart TV, Worldwide

Sigma Designs announces high-performance SoCs for Smart TVs
Jan 8, 2014 – Sigma Designs (NASDAQ: SIGM) has unveiled its new SX6 series TV chip family. Designed to support Ultra HD video, the Sigma Designs' HiDTV® PRO-SX6 is its first fully-integrated Ultra HD ready smart TV SoC.
News categories: Sigma Designs, Mustafa Ozgen, CES2025, Digital TV, ICs, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Worldwide

MediaTek announces fifth generation Smart TV platform
Jan 8, 2014 – MediaTek has announced its fifth generation of Smart TV platforms. MediaTek's 8-series chipset family consists of fully integrated SoCs (systems on chip) specially designed for the next-generation UHD smart TVs.
News categories: MediaTek, Joe Chen, CES2025, Digital TV, ICs, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Worldwide

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