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

Thomson sees strong growth in cable set-top box volumes
Apr 27, 2009 – Thomson (Paris: 18453, NYSE: TMS) has announced results for the quarter ending March 31, 2009. In comparison with a particularly weak 1Q 2008 there was a strong performance in access products in 1Q 2009.
News categories: Thomson, Cable Modem, Cable TV, CPE, DVR, Gateway, IPTV, Results, Router, Satellite, Set Top Box

DOXTV Selects NDS Technology to Bring DVR and push VOD to China
Apr 27, 2009 – NDS has announced that DOXTV, a leading value-added TV service provider in China, has chosen an end-to-end suite of NDS technologies to protect and enhance its business - the first-ever introduction of DVR and push VOD functionality in China.
News categories: NDS Group, DOXTV, Cable TV, China, Conditional Access, Digital TV, DVR, Middleware, Set Top Box

Global pay set-top box market to peak in 2012
Apr 27, 2009 – Media analyst Screen Digest forecasts that the global pay TV set-top box (STB) market will peak within the next four years, reaching annual shipments of 127m units in 2012, before the market declines in 2013.
News categories: Screen Digest, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

SD DTT Set Top Box Semiconductors to Peak in 2011
Apr 27, 2009 – The semiconductor opportunity in standard definition (SD) Digital Terrestrial TV (DTT) Set Top Boxes will peak in 2011 at nearly $500 million. High-definition DTT Set Top Boxes also offer a short term spike in semiconductor opportunity.
News categories: In-Stat, Digital TV, DVR, Market Research, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

ADB Group delivers mid-period business update
Apr 23, 2009 – ADB (SIX: ADBN) has reported an update on the development and selected results of its Q1/2009 business. The Group's business progressed favourably during the first quarter of 2009, driven mainly by the strong demand from cable and satellite segments.
News categories: Advanced Digital Broadcast, Cable TV, DVR, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box

MPA Sees Strong Asia Pacific Pay-TV Subs Growth
Apr 22, 2009 – Against the background of a poor global macroeconomic environment, media owners and investors focused on Asia Pacific can take comfort from the defensive nature of the region's pay-TV and broadband industries, according to a Media Partners Asia report.
News categories: Media Partners Asia, Asia, Australia, Cable TV, China, Digital TV, DVR, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, IPTV, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Market Research, New Zealand, Philippines, Satellite, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam

MTG (Viasat) Q1 2009 Interim Report
Apr 22, 2009 – Modern Times Group (OMX: MTGA, MTGB) has announced results for the quarter ended 31 March 2009. The number of subscribers with ViasatPlus recordable digital boxes increased to 122,000 from 115,000 at the end of 2008.
News categories: Modern Times Group, Denmark, DVR, Finland, IPTV, Norway, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden, Ukraine

ViXS HD Transcoding is core to new Pioneer Blu-Ray Recorders
Apr 22, 2009 – ViXS Systems has announced that the XCode™ 3000 series MPEG-4 AVC (MPEG-4 Part 10/H.264) Transcoder/Encoder/Decoder IC is being used by Pioneer for two new Blu-Ray Disc (BD) Recorder products: BDR-WD900 and BDR-WD700.
News categories: ViXS Systems, Pioneer, Blu-ray, Digital TV, DVR, ISDB-T, Japan, Optical Disc Recorder, Semiconductor, Terrestrial

AT&T's First-Quarter Results
Apr 22, 2009 – AT&T (NYSE:T) has reported first-quarter results. AT&T U-verse TV subscribers in service increased by 284,000 in the first quarter -- up from 148,000 added in the year-earlier first quarter -- to reach 1.3 million in service.
News categories: AT&T, DVR, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, USA