Smart TV (Connected TV, Integrated Digital Television, IDTV) News

IMS Research Sees Entertainment Devices Go Over-the-Top
Dec 2, 2010 – IMS Research expects the global market for OTT boxes to stagnate in 2011 and 2012 due to competition from other connected devices, and then the market is forecast to slowly decrease to 5 million units shipping in 2015.
News categories: IMS Research, Blu-ray, Digital TV, Gaming, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Streaming

Novatek Selects Chips&Media's HD video technology for Set-top Box and DTV Platforms
Dec 2, 2010 – Chips&Media has announced that Novatek Microelectronics has integrated the Chips&Media's HD multi-standard decoder core into its new family of SoC designs.
News categories: Chips&Media, Novatek, Digital TV, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Silicon IP, Smart TV

SmarDTV to purchase assets from French technology company Iwedia
Dec 2, 2010 – SmarDTV (SIX: KUD.S) has announced that it has entered into an agreement to purchase certain assets from French technology company Iwedia including the transfer of all staff (approximately 20) from Iwedia to SmarDTV.
News categories: SmarDTV, CAM, Digital TV, France, MandA, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart TV

Samsung Reaches Smart TV Milestone with 1 Millionth TV App Downloaded Globally
Dec 2, 2010 – Samsung has announced the 1 millionth TV application downloaded globally from Samsung Apps, the world's first HDTV-based application store. The company's 200th TV application is now live via the platform.
News categories: Samsung, CES2025, Market Research, Middleware, Smart TV, Streaming

UK leading the way in new TV technologies
Dec 2, 2010 – Ofcom's fifth International Communications Market report into the global communications market looks at take-up, availability and use of broadband, landlines, mobiles, TV and radio in 17 countries. The UK and Spain lead the way in digital TV take-up.
News categories: Ofcom, Australia, Brazil, Cable TV, Canada, China, Digital TV, DVR, France, Germany, India, IPTV, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Market Research, Metaverse, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Spain, Streaming, Subscribers, Sweden, Terrestrial, UK, USA

TV Shipments Soften, Leading to Growing Concerns About Inventory
Dec 1, 2010 – After several quarters of mid-20% year-over-year growth, the pace of global TV shipment growth slowed to 9% Y/Y in Q3'10, according to the latest findings from the latest DisplaySearch Quarterly Advanced Global TV Shipment and Forecast Report.
News categories: DisplaySearch, Digital TV, Market Research, Smart TV

Ocean Blue Software launches Sunrise USB Video Recorder Software
Dec 1, 2010 – Ocean Blue Software has announced the launch of its Sunrise USB Video Recorder Software, which allows consumers to simply record TV programmes onto USB connected media.
News categories: Ocean Blue Software, DVR, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart TV

SmarDTV Conax CI Plus Modules Selected by Sweden's Com Hem
Dec 1, 2010 – SmarDTV (SIX:KUD.S) has announced that Com Hem has selected SmarDTV to launch CI Plus products in its network in Sweden. Com Hem aims to rollout high definition services to integrated digital televisions (IDTVs) using the CI Plus specification.
News categories: SmarDTV, Com Hem, Cable TV, CAM, Content Protection, Digital TV, Smart TV, Sweden

TCL to Adopt DiiVA Across Smart TV Product Lineup
Dec 1, 2010 – The Digital Interactive Interface for Video & Audio™ (DiiVA™) consortium has announced that TCL has decided to broadly deploy DiiVA technology across its 2011 smart TV product lineup for the Chinese TV market and beyond.
News categories: DiiVA, TCL Corp, CES2025, China, Digital TV, Middleware, Smart Home, Smart TV