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

Microtune and Samsung Electro-Mechanical Form Strategic Supply Relationship
Jan 4, 2010 – Microtune (NASDAQ: TUNE) has announced that it has entered into a strategic supply agreement with Samsung Electro Mechanical Co. Microtune is shipping its tuners for subsystems for digital television (DTV) products.
News categories: Microtune, Samsung, CES2025, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart TV

SiBEAM Partners With VIZIO to Develop Wireless Solutions Using The WirelessHD Standard
Jan 4, 2010 – VIZIO has announced that it has chosen to add WirelessHD technology and SiBEAM 60 GHz chipsets, based on the globally available WirelessHD standard, for a new line of LCD HDTVs and wireless HDMI adapters.
News categories: SiBEAM, VIZIO, CES2025, Digital TV, Semiconductor, Smart Home, Smart TV, USA

LG Electronics Introduces First Mobile DTV In U.S. Designed to Receive Rugged Mobile DTV Signals
Dec 31, 2009 – LG Electronics is introducing the industry's first portable, battery-operated mobile DTV in the United States, designed to receive new rugged over-the-air signals being transmitted by local broadcasters.
News categories: LG Electronics, CES2025, Mobile, Semiconductor, Smart TV, USA

Valens Semiconductor Announces Availability of World's First HDBaseT Chipset
Dec 30, 2009 – Valens Semiconductor has announced the availability of its HDBaseT-compliant Valens VS100 chipset and development kits.
News categories: Valens, Blu-ray, CES2025, Digital TV, ICs, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Smart TV

TV Makers Looking to New Designs and Features to Break out of Commodity Trap
Dec 30, 2009 – According to DisplaySearch, TV manufacturers are developing a wide variety of design features to differentiate products and slow price declines. For example, in 2010, shipments of sets with MPEG-4 decoders will surpass those with MPEG-2.
News categories: DisplaySearch, ATSC 3, China, Digital TV, Europe, Japan, Korea, Market Research, Metaverse, North America, Semiconductor, Smart Home, Smart TV, Streaming, Terrestrial

Car and PND Mobile TV Market Set to Double by 2015
Dec 22, 2009 – Worldwide shipments of mobile television systems for cars, consisting both of solutions embedded into cars and included in Portable Navigation Devices (PNDs), are expected to more than double from 2009 to 2015, according to iSuppli Corp.
News categories: iSuppli, Automotive, Digital TV, Market Research, Mobile, Smart TV

BBC Trust gives provisional approval to Project Canvas
Dec 22, 2009 – The BBC Trust has given its provisional approval to the BBC's involvement in Project Canvas, saying that the likely public value of the proposal justifies any potential negative market impact.
News categories: Project Canvas, BBC Trust, Digital TV, IPTV, Media Player, Middleware, Regulation, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Streaming, Terrestrial, UK

STMicroelectronics Unveils System-on-Chip for Broadband-Internet Integrated Digital TVs
Dec 16, 2009 – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) has announced the launch of a new generation of high-performance, full high-definition (FHD) H.264/MPEG System-on-Chip (SoC) ICs for the worldwide flat-panel digital TV (DTV) market.
News categories: STMicroelectronics, CES2025, Digital TV, ICs, Semiconductor, Smart TV

DivX and Sonic Solutions Announce Strategic Partnership to Enable Digital Video Distribution
Dec 16, 2009 – Sonic Solutions (Nasdaq:SNIC) and DivX (Nasdaq:DIVX) have announced a partnership to enable the digital distribution of movies to DivX Certified® CE devices. Sonic Solutions will make movies available for download in the DivX® format.
News categories: DivX, Sonic Solutions, Blu-ray, Digital TV, Gaming, Media Player, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Streaming, Tablet, USA