Latin America Digital TV News

Comtrend builds on Latin success in the Set Top Box market
Mar 22, 2011 – Comtrend has announced that uptake of its IPTV set top box products has continued to be high following last year's deals with Mediabox and Telefonica Group.
News categories: Comtrend, IPTV, Latin America, Set Top Box, Streaming, Video Exchange

EchoStar Europe Supplies Upgradable STB for Telefonica's HD TV Service in Chile
Mar 22, 2011 – EchoStar Europe (NASDAQ:SATS) has announced that it has supplied a new HD, satellite STB to Telefónica in Chile. The new product will enable consumers to access an array of digital television services including HD channels.
News categories: EchoStar Europe, Telefónica, Chile, Digital TV, Satellite, Set Top Box

Grupo Iusacell Selects Sezmi to Deliver Personalized Home and Mobile Video Services in Mexico
Mar 22, 2011 – Sezmi Corporation has announced that Mexico's Grupo Iusacell has chosen Sezmi's hybrid broadcast-broadband TV platform to deploy multiple next-generation video services for its mobile businesses and its fiber-to-the-home business Totalplay.
News categories: Sezmi, Grupo Iusacell, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Mexico, Mobile, Set Top Box

Pace Signs New Deal With NET Servicos in Brazil to Deliver Digital TV Services
Mar 17, 2011 – Pace (LSE: PIC) has announced that it has signed a deal to expand its two year partnership with NET Serviços (BM&FBOVESPA: NETC3, NETC4; Nasdaq: NETC; Latibex: XNET). Pace will develop new platforms to enable NET to deploy advanced digital services.
News categories: Pace plc, NET Serviços, Brazil, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Digital TV, DVR, Middleware, Set Top Box

DIRECTV Extends Contract with NDS for Advanced Set-top Box Software and DVR Solutions
Mar 16, 2011 – NDS has announced that it has renewed its agreement with DIRECTV (NASDAQ:DTV) to continue to deliver set-top box (STB) software and digital video recorder (DVR) technology to DIRECTV U.S. and DIRECTV Latin America through January 2016.
News categories: NDS Group, DIRECTV, DVR, Latin America, Middleware, Satellite, Set Top Box, USA

Mexico satellite TV subscriptions up 83.8% in 2010
Mar 14, 2011 – In 2010, Mexico's telecommunications sector registered a growth of 13.6% according to the country's Comisión Federal de Telecomunicaciones (COFETEL). Satellite television remained the most dynamic segment of the sector.
News categories: COFETEL, Cable TV, Digital TV, Mexico, MMDS, Satellite, Subscribers

Venezuela ends 2010 with 2.5 million Pay TV subscribers
Mar 10, 2011 – According to statistics published by its Comisión Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (CONATEL), pay TV subscriptions in Venezuela at the end of the 2010 were 2.53 million, up from 2.19 million at the end of 2009. Household penetration reached 36.7%.
News categories: CONATEL, Cable TV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers, Venezuela

Telmex Colombia to move cable system to DVB-C
Mar 1, 2011 – According to NexTV Latam, the winners of Telmex Colombia's tender for its move to a digital cable system based on DVB-C are Compunicate for the headend and conditional access, and Skyworth for the first set-top boxes.
News categories: Telmex, Compunicate, Skyworth, Cable TV, Colombia, Conditional Access, Content Distribution, Content Protection, Digital TV, Set Top Box

Fujitsu Announces Ginga Solution on HD Decoder Family for Latin America DTT market
Feb 25, 2011 – Fujitsu Semiconductor has announced the adoption of a Ginga software from TQTVD, part of the TOTVS group. TOTVS will port its Ginga solution to Fujitsu HD Decoders and promote it, together with Fujitsu, as a full system solution for the SBTVD market.
News categories: Fujitsu, TQTVD, Ginga, Brazil, CCBN, Digital TV, Middleware, SBTVD, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial