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

Mobile TV IC market struggles to hold on
Sep 17, 2007 – Suppliers of mobile-TV technology, waiting for the fledgling market to take wing, have already entered a race for survival.
News categories: 5G, Digital TV, IBCShow, Mobile, Semiconductor, Smart TV

Reference Parameters for Digital Terrestrial Television Transmissions in the United Kingdom
Sep 13, 2007 – Ofcom has published an updated version (Issue 4) of its "Reference Parameters for Digital Terrestrial Television Transmissions in the United Kingdom".
News categories: Ofcom, Digital TV, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial, TV Services, UK

Silicon & Software Systems (S3) Delivers Complete Right-First-Time Set-Top Box SoC Platform for NXP Semiconductors
Sep 11, 2007 – Silicon & Software Systems Ltd. (S3) has announced that it provided a full suite of IC, software and hardware design capabilities to NXP enabling the delivery of their latest STB100 System-On-Chip (SoC) based platform for consumer Set-Top Box (STB) applications.
News categories: Silicon & Software Systems Ltd. (S3), NXP, Digital TV, Middleware, Satellite, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Software, Terrestrial

Alticast Partners with S&T For Next Generation MHEG5/MHP/Blu-Ray Hybrid Solution
Sep 10, 2007 – Alticast and S&T have announced a strategic software partnership for next generation HDTV integrated digital TV and set-top box software. The partnership will target IPTV, MHEG5, MHP and Blu-ray markets.
News categories: S&T, Alticast, Blu-ray, Digital TV, DVB-MHP, IBCShow, IPTV, MHEG-5, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

Forrester Research: The Five-Year Forecast For Consumer Technology Growth
Sep 10, 2007 – Devices that make up the digital home, such as digital video recorders, high-definition televisions (HDTVs), and home networks will be the consumer technologies that grow the fastest over the next five years, according to Forrester Research (Nasdaq: FORR).
News categories: Camcorder, Canada, Digital TV, DVD, DVR, Gaming, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Tablet, USA

Philips Demonstrates Personal TV Channels
Sep 7, 2007 – At the International Broadcast Convention (IBC) in Amsterdam, Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) and eventIS demonstrate a new way of personalized access to audiovisual media: Personal TV Channels, known under the Philips trademark Aprico.tv.
News categories: DVR, IBCShow, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Software

Newport Media Demonstrates MediaFLO Tuner, Demodulator, Protocol Stack and Video Decoder at IBC
Sep 7, 2007 – IBC2007 - Newport Media has announced that it is demonstrating live streaming TV using MediaFLO™ mobile TV technology on a FLO™ receiver platform developed by Newport Media.
News categories: Newport Media, PacketVideo, MediaFLO, IBCShow, Media Player, Middleware, Mobile, Semiconductor, Smart TV

Neotion is introducing the newer generation MPEG-4 decoder chip: the NP4+
Sep 6, 2007 – Neotion developed the concept of a credit card sized MPEG-4 decoder that plugs into IDTVs and set-top boxes that have a Common Interface (DVB-CI) slot. The new NP4+ processor is their latest SoC that combines MPEG-4 decoding, MPEG-2 transcoding and security modes for use in such modules.
News categories: Conditional Access, Digital TV, IBCShow, ICs, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial, TV Services

Zoran Demonstrates Highly Integrated HDTV 1080P Processor With HDMI 1.3 for European DVB-T Market at IBC
Sep 6, 2007 – Zoran (NASDAQ: ZRAN) has announced that at the International Broadcast Conference in Amsterdam it will be demonstrating its new SupraHD® 670 HDTV multimedia processor, now shipping to qualified manufacturers developing 1080P high definition digital television products for European markets.
News categories: ATSC 3, Europe, IBCShow, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Terrestrial