Broadcast (Cable TV, DTH Satellite, Terrestrial) News

S&T provides MHEG interactive services for TV5 DVB-T2 trial in Thailand
Jun 8, 2011 – Strategy & Technology (S&T) has provided Army TV5 in Bangkok with its TSBroadcaster2 carousel system to play out MHEG interactive applications as part of their DVB-T2 trial that has been on-air for some months.
News categories: Strategy & Technology, Army TV5, VMedia-A, Digital TV, DVB-T2, MHEG-5, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial, Thailand

Panasonic Develops New UniPhier® System LSI for Smart TVs with Industry's Fastest CPU
Jun 8, 2011 – Panasonic (NYSE:PC; Tokyo:6752) has developed a new UniPhier® system LSI (MN2WS0220) for smart TVs. The system LSI has both a high quality AV processor and a high speed CPU on a single chip.
News categories: Panasonic, Digital TV, ICs, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Terrestrial

Entropic Communications Ships More Than 50 Million MoCA Silicon Solutions
Jun 7, 2011 – Entropic Communications (Nasdaq:ENTR) has announced that it has shipped more than fifty million MoCA 1.0/1.1 chipsets since 2007. Entropic's MoCA technology is being deployed by pay-TV service providers covering over 70% of the U.S. market.
News categories: Entropic Communications, Cable TV, Market Research, Satellite, Semiconductor, Smart Home, USA

Pay-TV set-top box market down 10% in Q1
Jun 6, 2011 – Infonetics Research has released excerpts from its first quarter 2011 (1Q11) Cable, Satellite, IPTV, and OTT Set-Top Boxes and Subscribers market share and forecast report.
News categories: Infonetics Research, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers

EchoStar Introduces Aria™, a New Feature-Rich Solution Exclusively for Cable TV Operators
Jun 6, 2011 – EchoStar (NASDAQ: SATS) will unveil Aria™, a new technology 'ecosystem' designed exclusively for mid-sized and independent cable TV operators on June 14 during the cable industry's annual signature convention, The Cable Show.
News categories: EchoStar, Cable TV, DVR, Middleware, Placeshifting, Set Top Box

Asia Pacific to add 400 million digital TV homes
Jun 6, 2011 – Asia Pacific is undergoing a digital TV boom that will see penetration increase from 29% in 2010 to 73% in 2016 - or up by nearly 400 million homes, according to a new report from Digital TV Research.
News categories: Digital TV Research Ltd, Asia, Australia, Cable TV, China, Digital TV, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, IPTV, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Market Research, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Satellite, Singapore, Subscribers, Taiwan, Terrestrial, Thailand, Vietnam

S&T puts Aertel digital teletext on-air in Ireland
Jun 3, 2011 – Strategy & Technology has supplied Irish public broadcaster RTÉ with its MHEG Presenter system for the official launch of Aertel digital teletext on the Saorview free-to-air terrestrial platform.
News categories: Strategy & Technology, RTÉ, Ireland, MHEG-5, Terrestrial

ViXS Systems Announces XCode® 4200 Series in NEC's VALUESTAR All-In-One PC Line
Jun 3, 2011 – ViXS Systems has announced that NEC Personal Products (NECP) has selected XCode® 4210 and 4206 for the latest line of VALUESTAR W and VALUESTAR N All In One Personal Computer's (PC's).
News categories: ViXS Systems, NEC Personal Products, ISDB-T, Japan, Peripherals / Accessories, Semiconductor

Digital TV homes to triple in Latin America
Jun 2, 2011 – Most Latin American territories are experiencing a surge in digital television penetration, according to a new report from Digital TV Research. By 2016, the report forecasts that 71% of the region's TV households will have digital TV.
News categories: Digital TV Research Ltd, Argentina, Brazil, Cable TV, Chile, Colombia, Digital TV, IPTV, Latin America, Market Research, Mexico, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial