Latin America Digital TV News

Harris Corporation's New Mobile TV Platform Chosen by Albavision for Broadcast Operations in Guatemala and Costa Rica
Jun 30, 2008 – Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) has signed an agreement with Albavision (Angel Gonzalez Group) to implement the recently introduced Harris full mobile digital TV transmission platform for broadcast operations in Guatemala and Costa Rica.
News categories: Harris, REPRETEL, Costa Rica, Digital TV, Guatemala, Mobile

Gradiente and NeoMagic® Corporation Announce Joint Development Agreement to Bring to Market a Mobile TV Enabled Smart Phone
Jun 18, 2008 – Gradiente and NeoMagic (Nasdaq: NMGC) have announced that they have signed a joint development agreement to bring to market a mobile TV enabled smart phone for the ISDB-T/b standard based on NeoMagic's MiMagic 8 application processor.
News categories: NeoMagic, Gradiente, Brazil, Digital TV, ISDB-T, Mobile, SBTVD, Semiconductor

TiVo Reports Results for the First Quarter Fiscal Year 2009 Ended April 30, 2008
May 28, 2008 – TiVo (Nasdaq: TIVO)-Owned subscription gross additions for the first quarter were approximately 48,000, compared to 57,000 gross additions for the year-ago period.
News categories: TiVo Inc, Australia, Canada, Digital TV, DVR, Mexico, Results, Streaming, Subscribers, Taiwan, USA

VTV, first DVB-H project in Brazil
May 22, 2008 – While Brazil will have open mobile TV through official digital TV system ISDB-T, the first mobile pay TV project through DVB-H has been launched.
News categories: Brazil, Digital TV, Mobile

Latin America's DTH Market to Surpass US$ 4.6 Billion by 2013; Telefonica and Telmex to Represent 27% of Revenues
May 22, 2008 – According to Signals Telecom Consulting, the bundling strategies put in place by telecommunications operators will increase DTH's share of the Latin American Pay TV market from 22% in 2007 to 33% by 2013.
News categories: Signals Telecom Consulting, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Digital TV, Latin America, Market Research, Mexico, Peru, Satellite, Subscribers

OpenTV Launches Core2 and PVR2 on Largest Cable Pay-TV Operator in Latin America
May 19, 2008 – OpenTV (NASDAQ:OPTV) has announced that its Core2™ and PVR2™ middleware solutions have been selected by Brazil's Net Serviços de Comunicação, the largest cable operator in Latin America, to support the operator's HD PVR launch.
News categories: OpenTV, Net Serviços, Brazil, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Middleware, Set Top Box

Thomson Reaches Milestone of 1.5 Million Digital Cable Set-top Boxes Shipped to Latin America's Largest Cable Operator, NET Serviços
May 19, 2008 – Thomson (Euronext 18453; NYSE:TMS) has announced that it has delivered 1.5 million digital cable set-top boxes to Brazilian cable operator NET Serviços.
News categories: Thomson, NET Serviços, Brazil, Cable TV, Digital TV, Market Research, Set Top Box

Pace Americas Announces Family of Next-Generation MPEG-4 Set-Top Boxes for Cable
May 18, 2008 – Pace Micro Technology (LSE:PIC) has announced a new family of next-generation MPEG-4 advanced video compression set-top boxes for cable operators in North and South America.
News categories: Pace Micro, Cable TV, Content Protection, DOCSIS, DVR, Latin America, Middleware, North America, Set Top Box, USA

Telefonica posts a 22.4% increase in net profit in the first quarter to €1,538 million
May 14, 2008 – Telefónica (Madrid:TEF)(NYSE:TEF) has increased global pay TV subscribers by +64.4%. In Spain, Telefonica added 42,958 new IPTV customers in the quarter (35,591 in the same period of 2007) to give a total of 554,045 at the end of March 2008.
News categories: Telefónica, Brazil, Broadband, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Digital TV, IPTV, MMDS, Peru, Results, Satellite, Spain, Subscribers