Latin America Digital TV News

Claro Launch ROK-Powered Mobile TV Subscription Service in Paraguay
Aug 4, 2010 – ROK Entertainment Group, the mobile technology, applications and services company and Claro, the Paraguayan Mobile Operator, have announced the launch of Web PPV, a streamed, live and on-demand multi-channel mobile TV subscription service.
News categories: ROK Entertainment, Claro, Mobile, Paraguay

Envivio Delivers DTH 'Headend in the Sky' for Red Intercable in Argentina
Aug 4, 2010 – Envivio has announced that it has delivered a complete DTH video headend as part of the 'Headend in the Sky' project of Argentina's Red Intercable, augmenting the operator's cable services with TV delivered via satellite.
News categories: Envivio, Red Intercable, INTV, Argentina, Cable TV, Content Distribution, Digital TV, DVB-S2, Satellite

MaxLinear Announces Three Set-Top Box Design Wins for Brazil and Argentina Digital TV Markets
Aug 4, 2010 – MaxLinear (NYSE: MXL) has announced that three leading set-top box (STB) manufacturers have started shipping the MxL135RF silicon tuner in STBs targeted at Brazil and Argentina.
News categories: MaxLinear, Skyworth, Argentina, Brazil, Digital TV, SBTVD, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

Brazil adds 507k pay TV subscribers in 2Q10
Jul 26, 2010 – According to Brazil's Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações (Anatel), with 217,299 new subscribers added in June 2010, Brazil reached the end of the first quarter of 2010 with 8,426,462 pay TV homes.
News categories: Anatel, Brazil, Cable TV, Market Research, MMDS, Satellite, Subscribers

Renesas Electronics Introduces Two New DTV and Set-Top Box SoCs
Jul 15, 2010 – Renesas (TSE: 6723) has announced the availability of two system-on-chips (SoCs) for digital TVs, set top boxes, and digital broadcast receiver modules. The EMMA™3TJ and the EMMA3TS specifically target the DTT markets of Japan and South America.
News categories: Renesas, Argentina, Brazil, Digital TV, ICs, ISDB-T, Japan, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial, Venezuela

Colombia's UNE-EPM already at 120,000 IPTV subscribers
Jul 12, 2010 – UNE EPM Telecomunicaciones of Colombia has added more than 120,000 IPTV subscribers since launch, adding new users at a rate of 10,000 per month.
News categories: UNE-EPM, Sagem, Colombia, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, Set Top Box, Subscribers

Gtd Manquehue Deploys DVB Hybrid Pay-TV Platform with Verimatrix
Jul 6, 2010 – Gtd Manquehue has deployed an I-Systems-integrated platform on its DVB-C/IPTV hybrid network in Chile. The platform includes the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS™), middleware and VOD servers from GoBackTV, and STBs from Xavi.
News categories: Verimatrix, Xavi, GoBackTV, Gtd Manquehue, I-Systems, Cable TV, Chile, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Middleware, Set Top Box

Bolivia adopts ISDB-T as its standard for DTT
Jul 5, 2010 – The government of Bolivia, through Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca, has announced that it has adopted ISDB-T as its standard for digital terrestrial TV.
News categories: Bolivia, Digital TV, ISDB-T, Terrestrial

Argentina to deploy Ginga STB middleware
Jul 5, 2010 – A group of researchers in Argentina is working on a local version of Brazil's Ginga DTT middleware. The software is due for deployment in set-top boxes to be distributed by the Argentinian government from August/September this year.
News categories: Ginga, UNLP, Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas, Argentina, Digital TV, ISDB-T, Middleware, SBTVD, Set Top Box, Terrestrial