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

Entropic Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2012 Results
Feb 5, 2013 – Entropic (Nasdaq:ENTR) has reported its fourth quarter and fiscal year results for the period ended December 31, 2012. Entropic reported fourth quarter net revenues of $89.7 million, a slight decrease compared with $89.8 million in the third quarter of 2012.
News categories: Entropic, Gateway, Results, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart Home

Opera TV Store integrated with MediaTek's Smart TV chipsets
Feb 5, 2013 – Opera has announces that MediaTek has integrated the Opera TV Store with its Smart TV chipsets. Manufacturers that use MediaTek chipsets can now provide web functionality and application environments for their TVs, set-top boxes and media players.
News categories: Opera Software, MediaTek, Digital TV, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart TV

Orca Systems announces DVB-T2 front-end reference design with Panasonic demod
Feb 4, 2013 – Orca Systems has announced a complete DVB-T2/T/C and analogue TV front-end reference design for televisions with Orca's ORC5310 hybrid TV tuner and Panasonic's MN88472 demodulator.
News categories: Orca Systems, Panasonic, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVB-T2, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Terrestrial

60,000 BT Vision customers with YouView set-top boxes
Feb 1, 2013 – BT Group (BT.L) has announced its results for the third quarter and nine months to 31 December 2012. BT added 21,000 BT Vision customers in the quarter to give a total of 770,000 subscribers. It has over 60,000 customers with a YouView box.
News categories: BT Vision, IPTV, Results, Set Top Box, Subscribers, UK

ST's Set-Top Box Chips Integrate Reference Design Kit from Comcast
Jan 31, 2013 – Developers of high-end set-top boxes and video gateways can reduce time to market by taking advantage of the Reference Design Kit (RDK) from Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK), now pre-integrated with the Orly STiH416 system-on-chip from STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM).
News categories: STMicroelectronics, Comcast, Cable TV, Digital TV, RDK, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

Time Warner Cable residential video subscribers down 532,000 in 2012
Jan 31, 2013 – Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) has reported results for its fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2012. Residential video revenue decreased driven by declines in video subscribers and transactional video-on-demand and premium network revenue.
News categories: Time Warner Cable, Cable TV, DVR, Results, Subscribers, USA

Aston releases Mstar Semiconductor-based satellite receiver
Jan 31, 2013 – At CSTB in Moscow, Aston has introduced its XENA HD Twin +. The new twin tuner, MPEG-4 HD PVR DVB-S2 satellite receiver is packed with the best of Aston technology and is the outcome of a partnership with MStar Semiconductor.
News categories: Aston, MStar Semi, CSTB, Digital TV, Satellite, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

BSkyB results for the six months ended 31 December 2012
Jan 31, 2013 – BSkyB (LSE:BSY) has released results for the six months ended 31 December 2012. In TV, Sky added 50,000 new customers in the quarter. Of these, 25,000 are subscribers to its new internet TV service NOW TV.
News categories: BSkyB, Ireland, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Streaming, Subscribers, UK

STMicroelectronics reports 2012 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Financial Results
Jan 31, 2013 – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) has reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2012. Fourth quarter net revenues totaled $2.16 billion.
News categories: STMicroelectronics, Results, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart TV