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

World's First Open Digital TV Portal Service Launched
Jun 1, 2007 – The ‘360ËšC’ service is the world’s first open TV portal service, which provides consumers with a variety of information and entertainment contents including films, games and educational materials, via digital TVs and/or PVRs. More …
News categories: Digital TV, DVR, Korea, Smart TV, Streaming

Vivace And IGRS Engineering Lab To Develop IGRS-Compliant Multimedia Chips, Vivace Joins IGRS Home Networking Standards Effort
May 29, 2007 – Vivace Semiconductor has announced it has signed an agreement with the IGRS Engineering Lab, Ltd. to jointly develop reference designs based on Vivace's chips that can be used to develop products that are compliant with the new home networking standard.
News categories: IGRS, Vivace Semiconductor, China, Digital TV, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Smart TV, Tablet

Conexant Front-End Solution for Terrestrial Set-Top Box Applications
May 29, 2007 – Conexant Systems (NASDAQ:CNXT) has announced the CX24230 digital video broadcasting-terrestrial (DVB-T) demodulator and CX24210 worldwide terrestrial and cable tuner.
News categories: Cable TV, Digital TV, ICs, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Streaming, Terrestrial

Intel Delivers First Dual Channel Demodulators For Consumer Electronics Devices
May 29, 2007 – Intel has unveiled its first single-chip digital TV dual demodulators for the consumer electronics (CE) market. The demodulator extracts the digital channel from the target broadcast signal to deliver high-quality broadcast TV reception.
News categories: Digital TV, DVR, ICs, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Streaming, Terrestrial

Enuclia sends staff home
May 27, 2007 – One of Oregon’s most promising startups has furloughed nearly half of its 53 employees after a prospective investor backed out of a financing deal at the “”11th hour,”” the company said Thursday.” More …
News categories: ATSC 3, Digital TV, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Terrestrial, Venture Capital

Vestel Reaches 25 Percent Market Share In Europe
May 24, 2007 – Turkish company Vestel, a consumer electronics producer, has reached 25 percent market share in Europe, producing 3.5 million digital receivers of the total 14 million receivers sold in Europe.
News categories: ANGA COM, Digital TV, DVR, Europe, Smart TV, Terrestrial, Turkey, UK

Hitachi Licenses MHEG Engine from S&T
May 24, 2007 – Strategy & Technology (S&T) has announced that Hitachi Europe has licensed the company’s RedKey(TM) MHEG-5 engine. Hitachi has developed a new integrated digital TV (IDTV) platform for use in both its plasma and LCD television sets. More …
News categories: Digital TV, MHEG-5, Middleware, Smart TV, UK

Fujitsu Digital Television Decoder Offers Advanced Features for PVR Applications
May 22, 2007 – Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe has announced the latest member of its SmartMPEG family, the SmartMPEG-C, an advanced Digital Television Decoder designed to meet the needs of tomorrow's Set-Top Box and IDTV market.
News categories: Fujitsu Microelectronics, ANGA COM, Digital TV, DVR, ICs, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart TV

DisplaySearch Reports Q1'07 Global TV Revenues
May 22, 2007 – Global TV unit shipments fell 21% Q/Q in seasonally weak Q1’07 but rose 4% Y/Y to 45.5M sets. Samsung was #1 on a unit basis for the third consecutive quarter with a 12% share on 37% Y/Y growth. More …
News categories: Digital TV, Market Research, Smart TV