Broadcast (Cable TV, DTH Satellite, Terrestrial) News

Motorola Ships 100 Millionth Digital Entertainment Device
Jan 28, 2010 – Motorola (NYSE: MOT) has announced that its Home and Networks Mobility business has shipped 100 million digital entertainment devices.
News categories: Motorola, Cable TV, IPTV, Market Research, Set Top Box

BSkyB to make TV history with the launch of 3D TV
Jan 28, 2010 – BSkyB (LSE:BSY) has announced that it will launch Sky 3D, Europe's first dedicated 3D TV channel, this April. Sky will preview the service this Sunday, becoming the first TV company to broadcast a live 3D TV sports event to a public audience.
News categories: BSkyB, Digital TV, Metaverse, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV, UK

BSkyB adds 482,000 HD customers in 4Q09
Jan 28, 2010 – BSkyB (LSE:BSY) has released results for the six months ended 31 December 2009. The quarter saw record growth in Sky+HD. Sky added 482,000 net Sky+HD customers, an increase of 1.3 million HD customers in the last 12 months.
News categories: BSkyB, DVR, Ireland, Metaverse, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers, UK

ZTE to Power Mass-Market Mobile TV in Brazil
Jan 27, 2010 – ZTE (0763.HK/000063.SZ) has announced that together with Vivo, Brazil's largest mobile operator, and Siano Mobile Silicon it has introduced the first 3G modem to provide mass-market mobile TV in Brazil.
News categories: ZTE, Siano Mobile, Vivo, 5G, Brazil, Digital TV, ISDB-T, Mobile, SBTVD, Semiconductor

National Communications Authority of Hungary publishes TV report to November 2009
Jan 26, 2010 – In November 2009, the number of households with digital television subscriptions in the network of Hungary's fourteen largest broadcasters rose to 1,118,000, an increase of nearly 10,000, states the flash report released by the National Communications Authority (NHH).
News categories: NHH, Cable TV, Hungary, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers

Pay TV in Brazil grows fastest since 2002
Jan 26, 2010 – According to Brazil's Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações (Anatel), with 1,152,624 new subscribers in 2009, Brazil reached 7,473,476 pay TV households at the end of 2009. The growth rate of 18.24% is the highest recorded since 2002.
News categories: Anatel, Brazil, Cable TV, Digital TV, Market Research, MMDS, Satellite, Subscribers

KPN adds 46 thousand digital TV subscribers in 4Q09
Jan 26, 2010 – KPN (Amsterdam:KPN) has released its 2009 full-year results. TV customer growth was stimulated by scaling-up IPTV. Combined with continued customer growth at Digitenne, KPN's TV customer base has nearly one million subscribers.
News categories: KPN, Fibre, IPTV, Netherlands, Results, Subscribers, Terrestrial

Dual-tuner IC provides reception diversity in automotive TV applications
Jan 25, 2010 – Maxim (NASDAQ: MXIM) has introduced the MAX2135 diversity tuner for ISDB-T and DVB-T automotive applications. This device integrates two high-performance signal paths that operate from a single fractional-N synthesizer.
News categories: Maxim Integrated Products, Automotive, Digital TV, ICs, ISDB-T, Semiconductor, Terrestrial

Entropic Selected for DIRECTV Home Networking Deployments
Jan 25, 2010 – Entropic Communications (Nasdaq:ENTR) has announced that its silicon has been selected by DIRECTV (Nasdaq: DTV) for integration into set-top boxes (STB) that deliver coax-based networking capabilities such as multi-room viewing.
News categories: Entropic Communications, DIRECTV, Digital TV, DVR, Satellite, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart Home, USA