DVR / PVR (Digital Video Recorder/Personal Video Recorder) News

ADB Group Reports Record First-Half 2008 Financial Results
Aug 12, 2008 – ADB Holdings (SWX: ADBN) has reported results for the first half of the year 2008. High-definition TV (HDTV) product sales accounted for 67% of the Digital TV Equipment revenue, up from 49% in the first half of 2007 and 57% in the entire year 2007.
News categories: Advanced Digital Broadcast, Cable TV, DVB-MHP, DVR, IPTV, Middleware, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box

Taiwan Cable Operator KBRO Launches HD Services Highlighting Alticast's MHP Solution
Aug 11, 2008 – Alticast, the primary DVB-MHP provider for kbro, a leading Taiwan cable operator, has announced that it has successfully passed all Site Acceptance Tests (SAT) and is ready to commercially deploy the first MHP set-top boxes in Taiwan.
News categories: Alticast, kbro, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Digital TV, DVB-MHP, DVR, Middleware, Set Top Box, Taiwan

Amino results for the six-month period ended 31 May 2008
Aug 11, 2008 – Amino Technologies (LSE: AMO) has announced its unaudited consolidated results for the six-month period ended 31 May 2008. Shipments of set-top boxes in H1 2008 were 256,000 units.
News categories: Amino, DVR, IPTV, Results, Set Top Box, Streaming

MultiChoice South Africa to launch HD service with Pace in time for 2008 Olympics
Aug 8, 2008 – Pace (LSE:PIC) is supplying its TDS850IMC HD personal video recorder (PVR) for the launch of MultiChoice South Africa's high definition (HD) service.
News categories: Pace plc, Conditional Access, Digital TV, DVR, Middleware, Satellite, Set Top Box, South Africa

Consolidated Communications Holdings Reports Second Quarter 2008 Results
Aug 7, 2008 – Consolidated Communications Holdings (Nasdaq: CNSL) has reported results for the second quarter and six-month period ended June 30, 2008. IPTV subscribers were 14,112, an increase of 4,535, or 47.4%.
News categories: Consolidated Communications, DVR, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, USA

Mediacom Communications Reports Results for Second Quarter 2008
Aug 7, 2008 – MEDIACOM Communications (Nasdaq: MCCC) has reported results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2008. During the quarter, digital customers grew by 15,000 to end the quarter at 599,000, or 45.3% penetration of basic subscribers.
News categories: MEDIACOM Communications, Cable TV, DVR, Results, Subscribers, USA

Portugal Telecom - 2008 first half results
Aug 7, 2008 – Portugal Telecom (Lisbon: PTC; NYSE: PT) has announced results for the second quarter and first half, ended 30 June 2008. Net adds for the 'meo' pay-TV service were 70 thousand in the quarter, more than doubling the subscriber base to 116 thousand.
News categories: Portugal Telecom, DVR, IPTV, Portugal, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers, Terrestrial

OpenTV Reports Second Quarter 2008 Results
Aug 7, 2008 – OpenTV (Nasdaq: OPTV) has announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2008. For the quarter, revenues were $26.8 million, an increase of 17% over revenues of $23.0 million for the second quarter of 2007.
News categories: OpenTV, DVR, Middleware, Results, Set Top Box

Virgin Media Reports Second Quarter 2008 Results
Aug 7, 2008 – Virgin Media (Nasdaq:VMED) has announced results for the quarter ended June 30, 2008. Total TV net additions were 24,800 in the quarter. During the quarter, Virgin Media added 60,700 V+ DVR subscribers to reach an installed base of 424,900.
News categories: Virgin Media, Cable TV, DVR, Results, Subscribers, UK