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

NDS and ACCESS Systems Europe to Bring Pay-TV and FTA Channels to Connected TVs
Sep 2, 2009 – NDS is teaming up with ACCESS Systems Europe to integrate the NDS InfiniteTV™ hybrid content platform with ACCESS' NetFront™ Browser to bring Pay-TV and free-to-air (FTA) channels to connected TVs without the need for a set-top box (STB).
News categories: NDS Group, ACCESS Co., Content Protection, Digital TV, DRM, IBCShow, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Streaming

Haier to Demonstrate AMIMON-Based Wireless 1080p HDTVs at IFA
Sep 2, 2009 – AMIMON has announced that Haier Electronics will be demonstrating a 1080p/60Hz wireless TV based on AMIMON's WHDI technology at the IFA Consumer Electronics tradeshow in Berlin, September 4 - 9, 2009.
News categories: AMIMON, Haier, IFABerlin, Semiconductor, Smart Home, Smart TV

Vestel to Demonstrate AMIMON-Based Wireless 1080p HDTVs at IFA
Sep 2, 2009 – AMIMON has announced that Europe's leading OEM/ODM Vestel Elektronik will be demonstrating a 1080p/60Hz wireless TV based on AMIMON's technology at the IFA Consumer Electronics tradeshow in Berlin, September 4 - 9, 2009.
News categories: AMIMON, Vestel, IFABerlin, Semiconductor, Smart Home, Smart TV

ViXS® Xtensiv™ Delivers Powerful Application Software for Multimedia
Sep 1, 2009 – ViXS Systems has announced the availability of its new Xtensiv™ software for Set Top Box (STB), PC and Consumer Electronics (CE) manufacturers designed to accelerate software development and help deliver extraordinary multimedia solutions.
News categories: ViXS Systems, Blu-ray, Camcorder, Digital TV, DRM, DVD, DVR, Home Server, Media Player, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Smart TV

Dolby Multistream Decoder Now Available on NXP Digital TV Chipset
Aug 31, 2009 – Dolby Labs (NYSE:DLB) has announced that NXP Semiconductors has become the first semiconductor company to successfully implement the new Dolby® MS10 Multistream Decoder with its TV543 iDTV single-chip system solution.
News categories: Dolby, NXP, Media Player, Semiconductor, Silicon IP, Smart TV

Kudelski completes transition of CA to a service model
Aug 28, 2009 – The Kudelski Group (SIX:KUD.VX) has announced its half year 2009 results. During this period, the Group started to reap the fruits of the migration of a significant share of its digital TV conditional access deployed base to the service model.
News categories: Kudelski, Advertising, Brazil, Cable TV, CAM, Canada, Conditional Access, Content Distribution, Content Protection, Germany, IBCShow, IPTV, Mexico, Middleware, Mobile, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Spain, Streaming, Subscribers, Terrestrial, USA, Vietnam

Australia passes key digital TV milestone
Aug 28, 2009 – More than half of all Australian households have now made the switch to digital television, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy has announced.
News categories: Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Australia, Digital TV, DVR, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

Ocean Blue's CI+ 'Turbo' software passes the test
Aug 27, 2009 – Ocean Blue Software's CI+ has been enhanced with extra features. The latest version of the CI+ specification details optional features which Ocean Blue Software has already incorporated into their Sunrise CI+ product.
News categories: Ocean Blue, CI Plus, Content Protection, DVB-MHP, DVR, IBCShow, Smart TV

European Initiative Merges Television with the Power of the Internet
Aug 27, 2009 – A European consortium has announced the launch of 'Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV' or 'HbbTV', an initiative aimed at harmonising the delivery of content to the end consumer through TVs and set-top boxes with an optional web connection.
News categories: Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV, Cable TV, Digital TV, Europe, HbbTV, IBCShow, IFABerlin, IPTV, Middleware, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Streaming, Terrestrial