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

Broadcom Announces New Digital Television Solution Supporting Global Connectivity
Aug 28, 2008 – Broadcom (Nasdaq: BRCM) has announced its next generation digital television (DTV) system-on-a-chip (SoC) solution designed for digital video broadcast (DVB)-based platforms to address European and Asian markets.
News categories: Broadcom, Digital TV, ICs, IFABerlin, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Terrestrial

IWEDIA Middleware surfs on the success of its Comedia middleware Do-It-Yourself edition
Aug 27, 2008 – IWEDIA Middleware has confirmed the success of its Comedia middleware's Do-It-Yourself edition. By the middle of 2008, over 2.5 million Comedia units had been deployed within TV sets and set-top boxes.
News categories: IWEDIA, DVR, IFABerlin, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart TV

IWEDIA Middleware announces the forthcoming availability of its Comedia DVB-CI+ host software
Aug 27, 2008 – IWEDIA Middleware has announced that it will make DVB-CI+ host software available in the middle of Q4, 2008. The announcement was made to coincide with the opening of IFA, which is taking place in Berlin from August 29th through September 3rd.
News categories: IWEDIA, Conditional Access, Digital TV, IFABerlin, MHEG-5, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart TV

WirelessHD™ Announces Publication of Wireless DTCP Content Protection Specification for High Definition Content
Aug 27, 2008 – WirelessHD™ has announced that the Digital Transmission Licensing Administrator (DTLA) has approved and published a new supplement to the Digital Transmission Content Protection (DTCP) Specification for the Use of WirelessHD.
News categories: WirelessHD, DTLA, Content Protection, Digital TV, DVR, Smart Home, Smart TV, Tablet

Legend Silicon and TCL Jointly Promote iDTV With High-Definition Experience for Olympic Fans in Beijing
Aug 26, 2008 – Legend Silicon has announced that it joined forces with TCL (Shenzhen:000100) to demonstrate integrated digital television (iDTV) technology in Beijing during the 2008 Olympic Games.
News categories: Legend Silicon, TCL Corp, China, Digital TV, DTMB, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Terrestrial

TI maximizes digital TV energy efficiency and minimizes system cost in time for 2009 rollover
Aug 25, 2008 – Two power management ICs from Texas Instruments (TI) (NYSE:TXN), a dual-phase power factor correction (PFC) controller and a new SWIFT™ DC/DC power management converter, will help increase energy efficiency and reduce system size/cost in Digital TVs.
News categories: Texas Instruments, ICs, Semiconductor, Smart TV

Germany - Consumer Electronics Market Index CEMIX Q1-Q2 2008
Aug 25, 2008 – Results from Q1-Q2 2008 of the Consumer Electronics Market Index (CEMIX), a German market indicator for Consumer Electronics markets, are now available for download in English and German.
News categories: GfK, Camcorder, Digital TV, DVD, Gaming, Germany, Market Research, Optical Disc Recorder, Peripherals / Accessories, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV

Digital TV Labs Delivers DVB-T2 Receiver Testing
Aug 25, 2008 – Digital terrestrial receiver and chip manufacturers can now test RF front-end performance against the new DVB-T2 specification with the launch of Digital TV labs DVB-T2 Virtual RF Test Suite.
News categories: Digital TV Labs, Digital TV, DVB-T2, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial, UK

NEC Electronics Announces iDTV SoC Supporting H.264/AVC with Full HD processing
Aug 25, 2008 – NEC Electronics (Tokyo: 6723) has announced that it has begun sample shipments of the EMMA™3TL, a new SoC product for full high definition (HD) iDTV supporting the H.264/AVC next-generation video compression standard.
News categories: NEC Electronics, ATSC 3, Digital TV, ICs, ISDB-T, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Terrestrial