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

DISH opens Hopper DVR platform to select mobile app developers
Jul 16, 2013 – In a move designed to deliver new customer experiences and to spur innovation among smartphone and tablet app developers, DISH Network (NASDAQ: DISH) has opened its third-party application programming interface (API) to developers.
News categories: DISH Network, Thuuz, Apps, Digital TV, DVR, Satellite, Smartphone, Tablet, USA

Agama Embedded Monitoring Solution integrated with Zenterio OS
Jul 16, 2013 – Agama Technologies and Zenterio have announced a technology partnership to deliver a turnkey solution for efficient last-mile and in-home video service quality assurance to joint TV operator customers worldwide.
News categories: Agama, Zenterio, IBCShow, Middleware, QoE, Set Top Box

NanoTech selects NVIDIA Tegra 4 to power Nuvola NP-1 Media Player
Jul 16, 2013 – NanoTech Entertainment (OTCPINK: NTEK) has announced that it has selected the NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) Tegra 4 mobile processor as the basis for its new 4K Ultra HD players.
News categories: NVIDIA, NanoTech Entertainment, Digital TV, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart Home, USA

CEA announces publication of new DTV Interface standard
Jul 15, 2013 – The CEA has announced publication of CEA-861-F, A DTV Profile for Uncompressed High-Speed Digital Interfaces. This standard applies to DTV-related high-speed digital physical interfaces, such as: HDMI, DVI 1.0, and Open LDI specifications.
News categories: Consumer Electronics Association, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Smart TV, USA

MaxLinear introduces the MxL661, its latest global hybrid TV tuner
Jul 15, 2013 – MaxLinear (NYSE:MXL) has introduced the MxL661, a software-programmable, low power, global hybrid television tuner. The MxL661 is based on MaxLinear's 'Super Radio' technology' and is now sampling.
News categories: MaxLinear, Cable TV, Digital TV, ICs, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

UCSC researchers develop 3D display with no ghosting for viewers without glasses
Jul 12, 2013 – Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have developed a prototype for 3D+2D television that allows viewers with stereo glasses to see 3D images, while viewers without the glasses see a normal 2D image.
News categories: UCSC, Digital TV, Metaverse, Smart TV

Set-Top Box market to achieve record shipments in 2013
Jul 12, 2013 – Despite the pay-TV industry's increasing focus on delivering services to alternative devices like PCs, smartphones and tablets, its traditional flagship platform, the set-top box, continues to thrive with market shipments set to hit record highs in 2013, 2014 and 2015.
News categories: IHS, Digital TV, Gateway, Market Research, Set Top Box

The Future of TV is an App
Jul 11, 2013 – According to The Diffusion Group, as TV viewing shifts to broadband and non-TV video platforms, video viewing will shift away from legacy pay-TV environments such as the living room television, and toward app-enabled secondary screens such as tablets.
News categories: The Diffusion Group, Digital TV, Gateway, Market Research, Smart Home, Smart TV, Smartphone, Tablet

Opera TV technology turns online video into apps for connected TV
Jul 11, 2013 – Opera Software has announced the launch of a TV app technology with the ability to transform online video into apps for connected TV - at zero cost and all in less than a minute. The new Opera TV Snap technology has already found its first partner in Dailymotion.
News categories: Opera Software, Dailymotion, Apps, Smart TV, Streaming