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

Pace Micro Technology to Showcase Its Family of Products for the Americas at NCTA's 2008 Cable Show May 18-20 in New Orleans
May 5, 2008 – Pace Micro (LSE:PIC) has announced plans to exhibit its family of products for the US, Canadian, and Latin American markets at the National Cable and Telecommunications Association's (NCTA) 2008 Cable Show in New Orleans, May 18-20, 2008.
News categories: Pace Micro, Cable TV, Conditional Access, DVR, Middleware, Set Top Box, USA

Comcast Reports First Quarter 2008 Results
May 1, 2008 – Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) added 494,000 digital cable customers in the first quarter of 2008. During the quarter, 450,000 digital cable customers added advanced services, like DVR and HDTV, to their digital service.
News categories: Comcast, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Results, Set Top Box, Subscribers, USA

NDS Group plc Reports Third Quarter Results
May 1, 2008 – NDS (NASDAQ: NNDS) has announced its operating results for the quarter ended March 31, 2008. NDS had 86.9 million active digital TV smart cards, 83.1 million cumulative middleware clients deployed and 12.1 million cumulative DVR clients deployed.
News categories: NDS Group, Cable TV, CAM, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, DRM, DVR, Middleware, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box

Sezmi Unveils Next Generation Television Offering
May 1, 2008 – Sezmi has unveiled a next generation television offering that includes many industry firsts. Sezmi delivers all television content, including broadcast and cable network programming, movies and Internet video, in one simple package.
News categories: Sezmi, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Streaming, Terrestrial, USA

BSkyB 3rd Quarter Results
Apr 30, 2008 – British Sky Broadcasting (LSE:BSY) third quarter net customer additions increased by 10% to 56,000 to 8.888 million with improved churn more than offsetting lower gross additions.
News categories: BSkyB, Broadband, Digital TV, DVR, Ireland, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, UK

Rogers Reports Strong First Quarter 2008 Financial and Operating Results
Apr 29, 2008 – Strong demand for HD and PVR digital set-top boxes combined with a 'triple play' marketing campaign contributed to a growth of 49,000 in the digital subscriber base of Rogers Cable (NYSE: RCI) in the three months ended March 31, 2008.
News categories: Rogers, Cable TV, Canada, DVR, Results, Set Top Box, Subscribers

ADB Launches into Hungary with HelloHD
Apr 28, 2008 – Advanced Digital Broadcast (SWX: ADBN) has announced that it will supply high definition (HD) digital video recorders (DVRs), integrated with DVB-MHP software from Osmosys, to Hello Platform for the launch of its new television service HelloHD.
News categories: Advanced Digital Broadcast, HelloHD, Osmosys, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVB-MHP, DVR, Hungary, Middleware, Satellite, Set Top Box

Public announcement of the Summary of Annual report 2007 of Telekom Slovenia Group and Telekom Slovenije, d. d.
Apr 25, 2008 – At the end of September 2007, the share of IPTV in Slovenia was 14.7%, an increase of 8.21% in share from the previous year. The largest market share - 61.4% - among IPTV service-providers was held by Telekom Slovenije (Ljubljana: TLSG).
News categories: Telekom Slovenia, Broadband, Digital TV, DVR, Fibre, IPTV, Kosovo, Results, Slovenia, Subscribers

ADB to Supply Advanced IPTV DVR's to SureWest in North America
Apr 24, 2008 – Advanced Digital Broadcast (SWX: ADBN) has announced that it has been selected to supply high definition (HD), Advanced Video Coding (AVC) ADB-5810WX IPTV digital video recorders (DVRs) to SureWest Communications (NASDAQ:SURW).
News categories: Advanced Digital Broadcast, SureWest, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Set Top Box, Smart Home, USA