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

Germany: Consumer Electronics Market Index CEMIX Q1-Q3
Dec 6, 2007 – Results from Q1-Q3 2007 of the Consumer Electronics Market Index (CEMIX), a German market indicator for Consumer Electronics markets, are now available for download.
News categories: GfK, BVT, gfu, Digital TV, DVD, Germany, Market Research, Optical Disc Recorder, Peripherals / Accessories, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

Ocean Blue Develops 'Deep Hibernation' software to tackle rising standby power consumption
Dec 4, 2007 – Ocean Blue Software, the digital TV specialist, has developed an intelligent, "deep hibernation" system for digital TVs and set-top boxes to reduce standby power consumption.
News categories: Ocean Blue, Energy Saving Trust, Digital TV, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial, UK

Sansonic Deploys Amedia's WiVi™ Technology and Introduces the Industry's First Line of Multimedia Wireless TVs
Dec 2, 2007 – Sansonic is making its debut in Las Vegas at CES with the introduction of their full line of Wireless Multimedia products and Wireless Multimedia TVs, using Amedia Networks' WVA5000 WiVi™ wireless transmission chipset solution.
News categories: Amedia Networks, Sansonic, CES2025, Digital TV, Semiconductor, Smart Home, Smart TV

SmarDTV launches universal CAM technology for Italy
Nov 30, 2007 – SmarDTV, a Kudelski Group (SWX:KUD) company, has announced the availability of a new Conditional Access Module (CAM) for Italy, and is currently demonstrating the product at the National Digital Terrestrial TV Conference in Torino.
News categories: SmarDTV, CAM, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Italy, Smart TV, Terrestrial

DisplaySearch Reports TV Video Processor IC Shipments Up 28% Q/Q and 22% Y/Y in Q3'07 on Rapid Growth of TV Shipments in Europe and Asia
Nov 29, 2007 – Mediatek has continued to take market share from other TV IC suppliers, displacing Genesis as #2 on a unit basis on strong shipments to Chinese TV OEMs and shipments to retail house brands that used Mediatek's DTV IC solutions.
News categories: DisplaySearch, Digital TV, Market Research, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Terrestrial

Broadcom and RaisingSun Collaborate to Deliver Industry's First Digital TV Solution for China's Television Market
Nov 28, 2007 – Broadcom (Nasdaq: BRCM) has announced a collaboration with RaisingSun Digital Video Technology Company of Shanghai, China, that provides the industry's first complete digital television (DTV) solution for China's television market.
News categories: Broadcom, iTVware, ATSC 3, China, Digital TV, DTMB, Middleware, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Terrestrial

KDDI acquires experimental license for MediaFLO mobile broadcasting
Nov 27, 2007 – MediaFLO™ Japan Planning Inc. recently obtained an experimental license to operate a MediaFLO station. Accordingly, the company has installed a test station and receivers in KDDI Designing Studio, and started to provide trial content.
News categories: MediaFLO, KDDI, Digital TV, Japan, Mobile, Smart TV, TV Services

France - Baromètre (Numérisation des Foyers Audiovisuels) N°5 Published
Nov 26, 2007 – Thanks to digital terrestrial television (DTT), 42.4% of households have at least one television converted to digital, an increase of nearly 3% over the last quarter.
News categories: TDF, Digital TV, France, Market Research, Mobile, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial, TV Services

UK: Digital Television Recorders gaining acceptance
Nov 21, 2007 – In the UK market, Digital Television Recorders (DTRs) finally seem to be gaining acceptance as replacement products for Video Recorders. Unit sales doubled between the year ending September 2006 and the equivalent period in 2007.
News categories: GfK, Digital TV, DVD, DVR, Market Research, Optical Disc Recorder, Set Top Box, Smart TV, UK