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

Alticast to Showcase Its Latest Digital and Interactive TV Solutions at IBC 2009
Sep 11, 2009 – Alticast has announced that it will reveal its latest technology for interactive TV during IBC. Alticast will unveil the world's first single middleware, dual interactive commercialised hybrid receiver, powered by Alticast's Alticaptor middleware.
News categories: Alticast, Cable TV, DVB-MHP, DVR, IBCShow, Middleware, Set Top Box, Streaming

Pace Integrates Conax Latest Content Security
Sep 11, 2009 – Pace (LSE:PIC) has added Conax's content security technology to its conditional access portfolio. The partnership will allow Pace to work with a wider range of operators across emerging territories in Eastern Europe, Asia, Russia and Latin America.
News categories: Pace plc, Conax, Cable TV, Conditional Access, DVR, IBCShow, Middleware, Set Top Box

ViXS® SoC Provide Mobile Phone Video Support in Sharp Blu-Ray PVR/Recorders
Sep 11, 2009 – ViXS Systems has announced that Sharp's latest Blu-Ray Disc (BD) PVR/recorder products have taken advantage of the video processing flexibility of the XCode® 3000 series to enable broadcast video conversion for mobile phone support.
News categories: ViXS Systems, Sharp Corp, Blu-ray, Digital TV, DVR, Japan, Mobile, Optical Disc Recorder, Semiconductor

DVRs Now in Over One-Third of U.S. Households
Sep 10, 2009 – New consumer research from Leichtman Research Group (LRG) has found that 36% of TV households in the United States have at least one Digital Video Recorder (DVR) -- an increase from just 8% four years ago.
News categories: Leichtman Research, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Market Research, USA

OpenTV to Demonstrate External PVR Solution at IBC 2009
Sep 9, 2009 – OpenTV (NASDAQ:OPTV) has announced that it will be showcasing an external PVR storage solution in collaboration with Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX) at IBC 2009, Hpowered by the latest release of OpenTV Core2 middleware.
News categories: Seagate, OpenTV, DVR, IBCShow, Middleware

Set-top Box Revenues Contract Slightly in the Second Quarter of 2009
Sep 9, 2009 – Dell'Oro Group has reported that strength in the satellite and IP set-top box (STB) markets could not offset a contraction in the cable market that caused the overall STB market to decline 2 percent during the second quarter.
News categories: Dell'Oro, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box

TechnoTrend Görler focuses on hybrid and IPTV innovations at IBC
Sep 9, 2009 – TechnoTrend Görler will present their set-top product ranges for IP, hybrid and HDTV at this year's IBC in Amsterdam. For the first time TechnoTrend will show an HD-receiver with integrated cable modem and PVR functionality.
News categories: TechnoTrend, Cable TV, DOCSIS, DVR, IBCShow, IPTV, Set Top Box

Latens Unveils Next Generation Middleware System for Cable Home Environments
Sep 8, 2009 – Latens is introducing its new ECO Cable Gateway, a pre-integrated middleware and conditional access system for residential environments that enables cable TV providers to monetize and expand their digital services with home networking.
News categories: Latens, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Content Protection, DVR, Middleware, Smart Home

EchoStar Europe Enables Digital TV Convergence at IBC2009
Sep 8, 2009 – EchoStar Europe (NASDAQ: SATS), the leading supplier of added-value, connected device solutions to the digital television industry, will showcase multiple solutions at IBC2009 that support consumers' needs for converged entertainment services.
News categories: EchoStar Europe, Cable TV, DOCSIS, DVR, IBCShow, IPTV, Placeshifting, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart Home