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

Motorola Announces Second-Quarter Financial Results
Jul 31, 2008 – Motorola (NYSE: MOT) has reported sales of $8.1 billion in the second quarter of 2008. Motorola had record sales of 4.9 million digital home entertainment products driven by continued strong demand for HD, HD/DVR and IPTV devices.
News categories: Motorola, Broadband, Cable Modem, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box

BSkyB results for the 12 months ended 30 June 2008
Jul 31, 2008 – In the three months to 30 June 2008 British Sky Broadcasting (LSE:BSY) net customer additions were 92,000, bringing the total customer base to 8.98 million.
News categories: BSkyB, Digital TV, DVR, Ireland, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers, UK

HDTV Market to Reach 255 Million Households in 2013
Jul 31, 2008 – The IMS Research study 'The Worldwide Market for High-Definition TV Equipment & Services - 2008 Edition' reveals that an estimated 45 million households worldwide received HDTV service via DTH, cable, IPTV and DTT at the end of 2007.
News categories: IMS Research, Blu-ray, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

ZON announces 1H08 Consolidated Results
Jul 30, 2008 – ZON Multimédia (Lisbon:ZON) has announced unaudited results for the First Half of 2008. During 1H08, ZON's Pay TV customer base grew by 9.9 thousand customers to 1,557 thousand.
News categories: ZON Multimédia, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Portugal, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Comcast Reports Second Quarter 2008 Results
Jul 30, 2008 – Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) added 320,000 digital cable subscribers during the second quarter. 7.0 million or 43% of digital cable subscribers have advanced services such as digital video recorders (DVR) and/or HD television services.
News categories: Comcast, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Results, Subscribers, USA

Hitachi Delivers High-Capacity, Low-Power Digital Video Storage For the Tera Era
Jul 30, 2008 – Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has introduced two new CinemaStar™ hard drives optimized for use in digital video recorders (DVRs) and set-top boxes. The CinemaStar drives include silent-seek acoustics for nearly inaudible operation.
News categories: Hitachi Global Storage, Digital TV, DVR, Set Top Box

Rogers Reports Second Quarter 2008 Financial and Operating Results
Jul 29, 2008 – Rogers Communications (Toronto: RCI.A; RCI.B) (NYSE:RCI) has announced its results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2008. The digital cable subscriber base grew by 16% to 1.431 million from June 30, 2007 to June 30, 2008.
News categories: Rogers Communications, Cable TV, Canada, DVR, Results, Subscribers

Pace plc Interim results for the half year ended 30 June 2008
Jul 28, 2008 – Pace (LSE:PIC) has announced its interim results for the half year to 30 June 2008. Volume shipments were up 55% to 2.8m set-top boxes compared with 1.8m in the same six months of 2007.
News categories: Pace plc, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box

MultiChoice Launches High Definition Television
Jul 25, 2008 – MultiChoice has announced the launch of its High-Definition Personal Video Recorder (HD PVR). The introduction of High Definition television is another milestone achievement for television in South Africa.
News categories: MultiChoice, Digital TV, DVR, Satellite, South Africa