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

Apple TV Coming to Your Living Room
Jan 9, 2007 – Apple® has premiered Apple TV™, an easy to use and fun way to wirelessly play all your favorite iTunes® content from your Mac® or PC on your widescreen TV, including movies, TV shows, music, photos and podcasts.
News categories: Apple, Digital TV, DVR, Set Top Box, Streaming

STMicroelectronics Announces World's First Dual HDTV Decoder Chip To Be Manufactured in 65nm Technology
Jan 8, 2007 – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) has announced a new dual-video-stream high-definition (HD) decoder chip, the STi7200, intended for STBs, digital video recorders (DVRs) and DVD players.
News categories: STMicroelectronics, Digital TV, DVD, DVR, ICs, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

Comcast and Motorola Expand Relationship With Next-Generation Digital Set-Top Deal
Jan 8, 2007 – Motorola, Inc (NYSE:MOT) and Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) have announced that the companies have expanded their previously announced multi-year purchase agreement for digital set-tops.
News categories: Comcast, Motorola, Cable TV, CES2025, Digital TV, DVR, Middleware, Set Top Box, USA

Samsung and Cox Communications Team up for Two-Way Cable on HDTV
Jan 8, 2007 – Samsung Electronics and Cox Communications signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to accelerate the development of interactive digital cable services leveraging OCAP™ platform on Samsung HDTVs, Set-top Boxes and Digital Video Recorders.
News categories: Samsung Electronics, Cox Communications, Cable TV, CES2025, Digital TV, DVR, Middleware, Set Top Box

ST Dual HDTV Decoder Chip in 65nm Technology
Jan 8, 2007 – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) today announced a new dual-video-stream high-definition (HD) decoder chip, the STi7200, intended for STBs, digital video recorders (DVRs) and DVD players.
News categories: Blu-ray, CES2025, Digital TV, DRM, DVD, DVR, HD-DVD, ICs, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

Hitachi Introduces Streaming Media Software Technology for Digital Video Recording Products
Jan 5, 2007 – Hitachi has announced that it has developed new software technology targeted toward DVR applications. The software is designed to manage the mix of HD video streaming and file operations, such as EPGs or background downloads present in STB applications.
News categories: Hitachi Global Storage, Digital TV, DVR, Middleware, Set Top Box

Conexant New Family of High-Performance HDTV Video Decoders
Jan 5, 2007 – Conexant Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CNXT) has introduced two new video decoders for personal video recording (PVR) enabled set-top boxes (STBs) used to receive high-definition television (HDTV) programming in worldwide networks.
News categories: Conexant, Digital TV, DVR, ICs, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

Broadcom Debuts Cable STB IC With HD AVC/VC-1 Decoding, Channel Bonding and Downloadable Security
Jan 4, 2007 – Broadcom (Nasdaq: BRCM) has announced a cable STB chip that includes support for DOCSIS®/EuroDOCSIS 2.0 cable modem specifications, as well as downstream channel bonding compatible with the upcoming DOCSIS 3.0 specification.
News categories: Broadcom, Cable Modem, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Digital TV, DOCSIS, DVR, ICs, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

Sky+ breaks through 2 million boxes
Jan 2, 2007 – British Sky Broadcasting (Sky) has announced that the total number of Sky+ boxes installed in customers' homes has broken through 2 million for the first time.
News categories: BSkyB, Digital TV, DVR, Ireland, Satellite, Subscribers, UK