Media Player News

DivX Reaches Major Milestone: Over 100 Million Certified Consumer Electronics Devices Shipped by Partners Worldwide
Aug 13, 2007 – DivX, Inc. has announced that the company's consumer electronics partners have shipped over 100 million DivX Certified video devices since the launch of the DivX Certification program in 2003.
News categories: Digital TV, DVD, Media Player, Mobile, Optical Disc Recorder

BBC online video service launches
Jul 27, 2007 – The BBC's flagship online TV service is being launched, offering viewers the chance to download their favourite programmes from the last seven days.
News categories: Digital TV, Media Player, Streaming, UK

On2 codec support for NXP Nexperia processors
Jul 9, 2007 – On2 Technologies (AMEX:ONT) has announced that NXP Semiconductors has integrated On2's industry leading TrueMotion VP6 and VP7 compression schemes' support on its Nexperia processor platforms.
News categories: Digital TV, Media Player, Mobile, Semiconductor, Streaming

BBC iPlayer to launch on 27 July
Jun 30, 2007 – The BBC’s on-demand TV service, BBC iPlayer, is to launch on 27 July, it was announced today by Ashley Highfield, Director of Future Media & Technology. More …
News categories: Digital TV, Media Player, Streaming, UK

RealPlayer Ushers in New Era in Internet Video
Jun 28, 2007 – RealNetworks® (Nasdaq: RNWK) has announced that the much anticipated new RealPlayer® is now available for consumers to download. More …
News categories: Broadband, Digital TV, Media Player, Streaming

First-Ever Mobile Television Handset With Smartcard Profile Protection
Jun 6, 2007 – Discretix together with CyberLink, CoreMedia, and GIGA-BYTE Communications (GBC), have announced a demonstration of the first mobile TV handset supporting the Smartcard Profile. More …
News categories: Content Protection, Digital TV, DRM, Media Player, Middleware, Mobile

DivX Certifies NXP's Media Processors to Power IP Set Top Boxes, Digital Media Adapters and Portable Players
Jun 5, 2007 – DivX, Inc. (NASDAQ: DIVX) and NXP Semiconductors have announced the DivX Certification of a series of processors designed to power a variety of device categories, including IP set-top boxes (STBs), digital media adapters, personal media players and in-car media players.
News categories: Digital TV, Media Player, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Tablet

RealNetworks Introduces Breakthrough New RealPlayer
Jun 3, 2007 – RealNetworks® has unveiled the new RealPlayer®, the first media player to make it one-click simple to download online videos from thousands of Web sites. More …
News categories: Digital TV, Media Player, Streaming

DivX, Inc. Certifies STMicroelectronics' STi710x Family
May 22, 2007 – DivX (NASDAQ:DIVX) has announced that the company has concluded a license agreement with STMicroelectronics (NYSE:STM) and has completed DivX Certification of ST's STi710x family of chips to enable DivX on set-top box devices worldwide.
News categories: Digital TV, Media Player, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart TV