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

Pace wins PVR contract with Tata Sky, Times reports
Feb 2, 2011 – Pace (LSE: PIC) has won a contract to supply PVR set-top boxes to Tata Sky in India, according to the The Times newspaper of the UK.
News categories: Pace plc, Tata Sky, Digital TV, DVR, India, Satellite, Set Top Box

Charter Announces Next Generation TV Strategy With TiVo
Jan 24, 2011 – Charter Communications (NASDAQ: CHTR) and TiVo (NASDAQ: TIVO) have announced that Charter and TiVo have finalized an agreement for TiVo's user interface to be used on Charter's next generation hybrid cable/IP platform.
News categories: TiVo Inc, Charter, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Middleware, Set Top Box, USA

Blusens Chooses MaxLinear for its web:tv Home Entertainment Device
Jan 20, 2011 – Blusens has announced that it has chosen MaxLinear's MxL101SF DVB-T HDTV receiver IC for its new web:tv connected home device that brings Internet connectivity to the television set.
News categories: MaxLinear, Blusens, Digital TV, DVR, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Streaming, Terrestrial

Installed Base of 'Smart TV' Web-Enabled Home CE Devices to Reach Over 230 Million by 2014
Jan 19, 2011 – The development and use of Smart TV applications are expected to proliferate over the next five years and, as a result, web-enabled CE device shipments are expected to grow 6 fold, surpassing 230 million installed units by 2014, says In-Stat.
News categories: In-Stat, Blu-ray, Digital TV, DVR, Gaming, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Streaming

Khronos Group Releases Provisional OpenMAX AL Digital TV Extension Specification
Jan 18, 2011 – The Khronos Group has announced that it has publicly released the OpenMAX™ AL Digital TV Extension specification, a royalty-free, cross-platform C-language API for high-performance digital TV-related applications on mobile and embedded devices.
News categories: Khronos, Digital TV, DVR, Middleware, Mobile, Portable, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Streaming

200,000 subscribers for South Africa's TopTV
Jan 18, 2011 – TopTV, the satellite pay TV service launched by On Digital Media (ODM) on May 1st 2010 in South Africa, has said that it now has more than 200,000 subscribers, with a record 50,000 activations in December alone.
News categories: TopTV, On Digital Media, DVR, Satellite, Set Top Box, South Africa, Subscribers

Ofcom releases 3Q 2010 UK Digital Television Update
Jan 18, 2011 – Consumer survey results for the third quarter of 2010 show that take-up of digital television in UK households stood at 92.6%, up by 3.1 percentage points year on year. This figure was flat quarter on quarter.
News categories: Ofcom, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Subscribers, Terrestrial, UK

Digital Video Applications Propel Hard Disk Drive Market
Jan 13, 2011 – The demand for gigabytes and terabytes of storage from PC users, game enthusiasts, and TV entertainment folks is keeping the industry growing to the degree that In-Stat forecasts HDD unit shipments will increase to over 1 billion units by 2014.
News categories: In-Stat, Camcorder, DVR, Home Server, Market Research

Samsung and DIRECTV Partner to Deliver World's First RVU-Compatible Production Television
Jan 7, 2011 – DIRECTV (NASDAQ:DTV) and Samsung (KRX:005930,005935; LSE:SMSN,SMSD) have announced that they have partnered to present the world's first RVU-compatible production televisions.
News categories: Samsung, DIRECTV, CES2025, Digital TV, DVR, Middleware, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Smart TV, USA