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

Entone and Nordija Deliver Enhanced Hybrid TV Solution
Aug 31, 2011 – Entone and Nordija have announced the availability of Nordija's fokusOn widget-based middleware on Entone's family of Hybrid TV devices and digital video recorders (DVRs).
News categories: Entone, Nordija, DVR, IBCShow, IPTV, Middleware, Set Top Box

Pace Completes Certification of Industry's First RVU Compliant Client
Aug 25, 2011 – Pace (LSE: PIC) has announced that its C30 RVU Client solution has been certified by the RVU Alliance. The Pace C30 set-top box is the first device to go through the RVU Alliance certification program.
News categories: RVU Alliance, Pace plc, Digital TV, DVR, Home Server, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart Home

TCT Deploys Entone FusionTV
Aug 24, 2011 – Entone has announced that Wyoming-based Tri-County Telephone Association (TCT) has selected its FusionTV™ solution to enable the delivery of hybrid TV services.
News categories: Entone, Tri-County Telephone, Digital TV, DVR, IBCShow, IPTV, Set Top Box, USA

Grande Communications selects TiVo set-top boxes for its next-generation whole home solution
Aug 24, 2011 – TiVo (NASDAQ: TIVO) and Texas-based Grande Communications have announced an agreement under which TiVo Premiere will be the exclusive DVR promoted by Grande.
News categories: TiVo Inc, Grande Communications, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart Home

Connected Devices will account for 70 percent of Consumer Electronic Device Market Value in 2011
Aug 17, 2011 – Seventy percent of Consumer Electronic (CE) industry 2011 revenues will come from Internet connectable devices, according to the latest research from the Strategy Analytics Connected Home Devices (CHD) service.
News categories: Strategy Analytics, Blu-ray, Digital TV, DVR, Gaming, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Streaming, Tablet

ViXS Announces Highly Integrated Multimedia over Coax Alliance, MoCA®, System on Chip Solutions
Aug 11, 2011 – ViXS Systems has announced the XC1020, an optimized MoCA 1.1 Ethernet over Coax Bridge (ECB) solution to create whole home networking over existing coax in the home.
News categories: ViXS Systems, DVR, ICs, Semiconductor, Smart Home

Telfort launches IPTV for its broadband customers
Aug 9, 2011 – Telfort (Amsterdam:KPN) of the Netherlands is now making available IPTV (Interactieve TV) to all of its broadband customers. The basic package includes 55 TV channels and 90 radio stations, with customers receiving a PVR as part of the service.
News categories: Telfort, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Netherlands

Skyworth Selects Tuxera for Fully Interoperable, High Performance PVR Functionality
Aug 9, 2011 – Tuxera has announced that Skyworth (Hong Kong: 0751) has chosen Tuxera's file system solution to achieve fully interoperable, high-performance personal video recorder (PVR) functionality across its devices.
News categories: Tuxera, Skyworth, DVR, Middleware

ViXS Systems Introduces Turnkey Hardware and Software Blu-ray & Personal Video Recorder (PVR) Reference Design
Aug 8, 2011 – ViXS Systems has announced the availability of its Blu-Ray PVR Reference Design for consumer electronic OEMs, ODMs and Set-top Box manufacturers.
News categories: ViXS Systems, Blu-ray, DVR, Semiconductor