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

New NXP Solutions Bring Most Advanced PCTV Capabilities to Notebook and Desktop PCs
Nov 26, 2007 – NXP has announced the arrival of two brand new additions to its PCTV family. The SAA7164BE and SAA7163AE are new PC TV processors designed to bring multi-streaming and PVR capabilities to desktop and notebook multimedia PC TV USB applications.
News categories: NXP, CES2025, Digital TV, DVR, ICs, Peripherals / Accessories, Semiconductor

Conexant's HDTV Video Decoders Certified for DCS' Analog Copy Protection
Nov 26, 2007 – Conexant (NASDAQ: CNXT) has announced that it has certified Dwight Cavendish Systems' (DCS) analog copy protection technology on its CX2427X and CX2450X MPEG video decoder families.
News categories: Conexant, Dwight Cavendish Systems (DCS), Content Protection, Digital TV, DVR, Semiconductor

NCTA and TiVo Announce Switched Digital Solution for HD DVRs
Nov 26, 2007 – The cable industry and TiVo (Nasdaq: TIVO) have announced that cable operators will next year introduce a new external adapter that will enable TiVo® digital video recorders that use CableCARDs™ to access switched digital cable channels without a set top box.
News categories: TiVo, National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA), Cable TV, Conditional Access, Digital TV, DVR, Set Top Box, USA

CableLabs® Announces Innovative Switched Digital Solution for One-Way Digital Cable Ready Devices
Nov 26, 2007 – CableLabs® has announced that it has developed a new solution that extends the functionality of certain Unidirectional Digital Cable Ready Products (UDCPs) that use CableCARDs™ to access switched digital services previously unavailable to such devices.
News categories: CableLabs, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Digital TV, DVR, Set Top Box, USA

South Africa's MWeb to offer 'triple-play' service
Nov 22, 2007 – On November 25, MWeb will launch a discounted "triple-play" bundle of satellite pay-TV, broadband Internet access and voice telephony.
News categories: MWeb, Broadband, Digital TV, DVR, Satellite, Set Top Box, South Africa

UK: Digital Television Recorders gaining acceptance
Nov 21, 2007 – In the UK market, Digital Television Recorders (DTRs) finally seem to be gaining acceptance as replacement products for Video Recorders. Unit sales doubled between the year ending September 2006 and the equivalent period in 2007.
News categories: GfK, Digital TV, DVD, DVR, Market Research, Optical Disc Recorder, Set Top Box, Smart TV, UK

Poland's largest alternative telco to launch IPTV
Nov 20, 2007 – Polish telco Telefonia Dialog, in cooperation with its subsidiary Avista Media, intends to launch IPTV by the beginning of December.
News categories: Telefonia Dialog, Avista Media, Broadband, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Poland

Horizon Semiconductors sets in motion next generation location-free universal HD-DVD/Blu-Ray™ decoder/transcoder SoC
Nov 19, 2007 – Horizon Semiconductors has announced the immediate availability of a System-On-a-Chip (SoC) solution enabling dual channel native 1080/60p decoding, encoding and transcoding for next generation media players/recorders supporting the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray™ optical disc formats.
News categories: Horizon Semiconductors, Blu-ray, Digital TV, DVD, DVR, HD-DVD, ICs, Optical Disc Recorder, Placeshifting, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

Report Presents The Development of STB Markets in China and Abroad and Also Studies the STB Application Market
Nov 15, 2007 – According to ResearchInChina, global sales of set-top boxes reached over 70 million units in 2005, of which satellite STBs were 60%. In China, digital cable TV set-top box sales volume will reach 25 million units by 2008.
News categories: ResearchInChina, Cable TV, China, Conditional Access, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Market Research, Middleware, Satellite, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Terrestrial