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

IWEDIA announces compliance of its Personal Video Recorder solutions with Freeview Playback
Jul 11, 2007 – IWEDIA has announced the compliance of its Personal Video Recorder (PVR) solutions with Freeview Playback. Some samples of these solutions will be showcased at IBC '07 in Amsterdam from September 7th through 11th.
News categories: Digital TV, DVR, IBCShow, MHEG-5, Middleware, Set Top Box, Software, Terrestrial, UK

BSkyB Trading Update for the 3 Months to 30 June 2007
Jul 11, 2007 – BSkyB will be holding a business update for analysts and investors at 9am BST today (11 July). Key operating metrics for the three months to 30 June: Net customer adds of 90,000 to 8.582 million; 2.374 million Sky+ households; 292,000 HD subscribers.
News categories: Broadband, Digital TV, DVR, Ireland, Satellite, Subscribers, UK

STMicroelectronics Passes 400 Million MPEG-Decoder Shipment Milestone
Jul 11, 2007 – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) has announced that by the end of the first quarter of 2007 it had shipped a cumulative total of more than 400 million MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 decoder chips since entering the market with the world's first MPEG-2 decoder in 1995.
News categories: ATSC 3, Blu-ray, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVD, DVR, HD-DVD, IPTV, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Streaming, Terrestrial

Pause TV is coming
Jul 11, 2007 – Get ready for Pause TV, a television receiver equipped with flash memory that lets TV viewers pause for a fridge break or rewind in mid-broadcast for instant replays.
News categories: Digital TV, DVR, IFABerlin, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

US - HDTV and Digital Cable Make a Match
Jul 10, 2007 – The Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM) reports that 29% of cable TV customers own an HDTV set; just one year ago 15% of those customers had an HD set.
News categories: Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM), Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Market Research, Satellite, USA

TiVo Subscribers Can Now Receive Amazon Unbox Videos Without a PC
Jul 10, 2007 – TiVo (NASDAQ: TIVO) and Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) have announced that TiVo subscribers can now browse, purchase and rent Amazon Unbox movies and television shows directly from the TV screen via their TiVo box.
News categories: Broadband, Digital TV, DVR, Set Top Box, Streaming, USA

Hisense and Metalink 802.11n Multimedia Home Networking for China
Jul 9, 2007 – Hisense and Metalink (NASDAQ: MTLK) have announced their collaboration to offer innovative and cost-effective solutions for delivering high-definition (HD) multimedia over wireless home networks.
News categories: ATSC 3, China, Digital TV, DVR, Gateway, Router, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Streaming

Tiscali chooses Telsey as official supplier of Hybrid IP Set Top Boxes
Jul 9, 2007 – Telsey has been selected by Tiscali as the only supplier of Hybrid IP Set Top Boxes. During the next 15 months, Telsey will supply Tiscali with two versions of STB in order to fulfil the need of connections both in UK and in Italy.
News categories: Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Italy, Set Top Box, Terrestrial, UK

Japan - Govt panel to submit plan for easing TV show recording rules
Jul 8, 2007 – The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry will ask TV stations and copyright organizations to ease dubbing restrictions to allow DVD recorders to record digital TV programs nine times instead of once, according to ministry officials. More …
News categories: Content Protection, Digital TV, DRM, DVR, Japan, Optical Disc Recorder