Broadcast (Cable TV, DTH Satellite, Terrestrial) News

DISH Now Streaming Thousands of On-Demand Movies and TV Shows to iPad
Jan 8, 2012 – DISH Network (NASDAQ: DISH) has announced that it has enhanced its popular DISH Remote Access app for the iPad® to allow DISH customers to watch thousands of on-demand streaming movies and TV shows.
News categories: DISH Network, Placeshifting, Satellite, Smart Home, Streaming, Tablet, USA

Orca Systems Announces ORC5300 Family of Universal Hybrid CMOS TV Tuners
Jan 6, 2012 – Orca Systems has announced the ORC5300 family of CMOS TV tuner ICs, powered by Orca's patented DSP-RF™ technology. The tuner family devices are configurable to receive all worldwide terrestrial and cable TV standards.
News categories: Orca Systems, Cable TV, CES2025, ICs, Peripherals / Accessories, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

ALi Announces Advanced Security CAS SoC for Entry-level Cable Pay TV
Jan 5, 2012 – ALi Corporation (TPE:3041) has announced the availability of its M3281 cable Pay-TV STB solution. The SoC will be demonstrated at CSTB 2012 in Moscow, Russia from Feb 7 to 9, 2012.
News categories: ALi Corp, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Content Protection, CSTB, Digital TV, ICs, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

ViXS® and iPanel® collaborate on multi-screen streaming platform for China
Jan 5, 2012 – ViXS Systems and iPanel have teamed up to provide the first Multi-screen, know as n-Screen, multimedia platform for commercial deployment in China.
News categories: iPanel, ViXS Systems, Cable TV, China, Middleware, Semiconductor, Smart Home

Broadcom announces industry's first integrated MoCA® 2.0 STB and Hybrid IP Gateway SoCs
Jan 4, 2012 – Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM) has announced one of its showcase innovations at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) - the industry's first MoCA 2.0-Integrated Portfolio including six new set-top box (STB) and Hybrid IP Gateway SoCs.
News categories: Broadcom, Cable TV, CES2025, Digital TV, Gateway, ICs, Satellite, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart Home

FilmOn.com Brings Network Television to PCs, Smart Phones and Tablets
Jan 2, 2012 – FilmOn Labs has announced that starting in February 2012, the Company will be shipping the FilmOn AIR for free, to all its Yearly US based Subscribers, so they can watch local Network Television on their Computers and Mobile Devices.
News categories: FilmOn, Smartphone, Tablet, Terrestrial, USA

DVB-T2 Enabled TV Shipments Forecast to Reach 64.7M in 2015
Dec 28, 2011 – According to a DisplaySearch report, the most enthusiastic regions for 3D are Western Europe and China, while the mix of 3D in North America actually declined in Q3'11. Also, a critical mass of countries have now adopted or committed to DVB-T2.
News categories: DisplaySearch, ATSC 3, Digital TV, DTMB, DVB-T2, ISDB-T, Market Research, Metaverse, Smart TV, Terrestrial

Pay TV now in more than half of Russian households
Dec 27, 2011 – According to iKS-Consulting, the number of pay TV subscribers in Russia at the end of 2011 is to reach 26 million, a growth rate of 21%, giving a household penetration of greater than 50%.
News categories: iKS-Consulting, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Russia, Satellite, Subscribers

TRAI issues consultation paper on digital addressable cable TV implementation
Dec 22, 2011 – The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released a consultation paper on 'Issues related to implementation of Digital Addressable Cable TV Systems'.
News categories: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, Cable TV, India, Regulation