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MinDig TV receiver sales booming in Hungary
Feb 2, 2010 – According to sales figures from GfK Hungária, at the end of December, around 4.4% of all Hungarian households, or 19.7% of terrestrial households, had a DVB-T MPEG-4 receiver capable of receiving Antenna Hungária's MinDig TV service.
News categories: Antenna Hungária, MinDig TV, GfK, Content Distribution, Hungary, Market Research, Peripherals / Accessories, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

Spain - January DTT monthly update released
Jan 12, 2010 – According to Impulsa-TDT, 785,000 DTT receivers were sold in November, giving a cumulative total for Spain of 24.2 million units. Based on reporting from TNS Sofres, penetration of DTT in Spanish households was 77.4% in December.
News categories: Impulsa-TDT, DVB-MHP, DVD, DVR, Market Research, Peripherals / Accessories, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Spain, Terrestrial

Marseille Networks Video Co-Processors to Provide Fast Ramp to Quad-HD
Jan 7, 2010 – Marseille Networks has introduced its new video co-processor family allowing CE OEMs to quickly upgrade their existing flat panel TV, PC and A/V receiver designs from 1080p to 2160p (four times the resolution of Full-HD) at a record pace.
News categories: Marseille Networks, CES2025, ICs, Peripherals / Accessories, Semiconductor, Smart TV

Mirics Launches FlexiStream™: a New Home Media Center Platform for Windows 7
Jan 6, 2010 – Mirics has announced FlexiStream™. Running on Windows 7, the FlexiStream home-server is used for reception, viewing, recording, real-time re-formatting and IP- streaming of live TV to any kind of portable or handheld device.
News categories: Mirics, CES2025, Digital TV, Middleware, Peripherals / Accessories, Placeshifting, Semiconductor, Terrestrial

WirelessHD Now Supports 3DTV, HDCP 2.0, Data Applications and Data Rates in Excess of 10 Gbps
Jan 5, 2010 – The WirelessHD® Consortium has announced a major enhancement to the WirelessHD 1.0 specification.
News categories: WirelessHD, Blu-ray, CES2025, Content Protection, Digital TV, Metaverse, Peripherals / Accessories, Smart Home, Smart TV

ArcSoft TotalMedia® Theatre 3 Platinum with SimHD™ Now Accelerated on NVIDIA ION-Based PCs
Jan 4, 2010 – ArcSoft has announced that its multimedia player application, TotalMedia Theatre 3 Platinum, together with its video up-scaling software, SimHD, are now optimized for NVIDIA® (Nasdaq:NVDA) CUDA™ acceleration on NVIDIA ION™-based PCs.
News categories: ArcSoft, NVIDIA, Blu-ray, CES2025, Media Player, Peripherals / Accessories, Semiconductor, Streaming

Quartics and DDD to Demonstrate 3D Experience on Electronics Devices at CES 2010
Dec 29, 2009 – Quartics and DDD Group (LSE: DDD) are collaborating to bring the most compelling and cost effective 3D technology yet to HD TVs and Netbooks by optimizing the Quartics' Qvu™ Video Processor with DDD's TriDef® 3D software technology.
News categories: Quartics, DDD Group, Blu-ray, CES2025, Digital TV, Media Player, Metaverse, Peripherals / Accessories, Semiconductor, Streaming

PowerDVD™ and Qvu™ Combine to Bring a 'Beyond HD' Viewing Experience to Netbooks & Laptops
Dec 22, 2009 – Quartics and CyberLink (5203.TW) have announced a partnership to enable the PowerDVD player software with the new Qvu™ video processor. The result will bring a 'Beyond HD' viewing experience to consumers using the software on netbooks and laptops.
News categories: Quartics, CyberLink, Blu-ray, CES2025, Media Player, Peripherals / Accessories, Semiconductor, Streaming

Broadcom Crystal HD Solution Brings High Definition Video to Netbooks
Dec 21, 2009 – Broadcom (Nasdaq: BRCM) has announced its next-generation Crystal HD solution that provides consumers with the most advanced, low cost, low power, high definition (HD) video playback available on a netbook.
News categories: Broadcom, Digital TV, ICs, Peripherals / Accessories, Semiconductor, Streaming