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

SAMSUNG, Time Warner Cable And Advance/Newhouse Join Together To Launch OCAP On Interactive HDTV Sets And HD Set-Top Boxes
Jan 19, 2007 – Samsung, Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWX) and Advance/Newhouse Communications have announced that interactive digital cable services are now live on the Samsung HL-S5686C Open Cable Application Platform (OCAP™) compliant DLP HDTV and SMT-H3050 High Definition Set-top Boxes (HDSTB).
News categories: Samsung, Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks, Cable TV, Digital TV, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart TV, USA

France - over 6.8 million DTT receivers in homes
Jan 16, 2007 – Latest figures show that over 6.8 million DTT receivers have been sold or rented in France by the end of 2006.
News categories: Digital TV, France, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

NEOTION reveals plans on revolutionary HD-module for Standard DVB television sets
Jan 10, 2007 – NEOTION, a French high-tech company specialized in the digital television, reveals plans to launch a module based HD decoder that can be fitted into any DVB Common Interface slot.
News categories: NEOTION, Digital TV, Smart TV, Sweden, Terrestrial

Magnum Semi and Genesis Microchip Create Digital PVR-TV Platform
Jan 9, 2007 – In private suites at the Consumer Electronics Show, Magnum Semiconductor and Genesis Microchip (Nasdaq: GNSS) have begun demonstrating their jointly developed reference design for putting PVR features directly into new flat-panel TVs.
News categories: Magnum Semiconductor, Genesis Microchip, ATSC 3, CES2025, Digital TV, Semiconductor, Smart TV

Broadcom System-on-a-Chip Included in Haier Large LCD HDTVs
Jan 9, 2007 – Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM) has announced that its BCM3551 digital TV system-on-a-chip (SoC) is now featured within the Haier Group's family of liquid crystal display (LCD) high definition televisions (HDTVs).
News categories: Broadcom, ATSC 3, CES2025, Digital TV, Semiconductor, Smart TV

Boom Times Are Over For Consumer Electronics
Jan 8, 2007 – Strategy Analytics have announced that 2006 sales of digital consumer electronics reached $167 billion worldwide in 2006. But the outlook for 2007 is for a rapid slowdown as exploding demand for flat panel TV comes to an end.
News categories: Strategy Analytics, ATSC 3, CES2025, Digital TV, Market Research, Smart TV

DEG Year-End 2006 Home Entertainment Sales Update
Jan 8, 2007 – The home theater is one of consumers' preferred choices for enjoying entertainment as demonstrated by growing demand for high definition products in 2006, according to DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group in an announcement made at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
News categories: DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group, ATSC 3, CES2025, Digital TV, DVD, Market Research, North America, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial, USA

Texas Instruments Unveils Integrated HDTV Processor
Jan 8, 2007 – Extending a field-proven portfolio of digital television (DTV) solutions, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) has announced the new TVP9010 integrated high-definition television (HDTV) processor and development platform.
News categories: Texas Instruments, ATSC 3, CES2025, Digital TV, ICs, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Terrestrial

Genesis Microchip Launches New DTV SoC Family
Jan 8, 2007 – Genesis® Microchip (Nasdaq:GNSS) has announced the launch of its new, advanced Chaplin DTV system-on-a-chip families at CES. This new product series, which integrates the DTV MPEG controller, Emmy award-winning Faroudja video processing functions and other digital and analog TV requirements into a single chip, is sampling to major DTV manufacturers worldwide.
News categories: ATSC 3, CES2025, Digital TV, ICs, Middleware, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Terrestrial