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Minerva IPTV Platform Powers Pioneer Telephone Cooperative Television Deployment
Mar 10, 2010 – Minerva Networks has announced that Pioneer Telephone, the fourth largest telephone cooperative in the United States, has successfully completed the migration from a legacy third-party system to the Company's platform.
News categories: Minerva Networks, Pioneer Telephone, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, USA

Panasonic Full HD 3D Home Entertainment System On Sale At Best Buy Magnolia Stores
Mar 10, 2010 – Panasonic (NYSE:PC; Tokyo:6752) and Best Buy (NYSE:BBY) have announced the consumer purchase and retail availability of Panasonic's Full HD 3D1 home entertainment system certified under the new Blu-ray Disc™ Association (BDA) 3D standard.
News categories: Panasonic, Best Buy, Magnolia, DIRECTV, Blu-ray, Metaverse, Satellite, Smart TV, USA

CBS Sports, NCAA and LG To Deliver NCAA Games in 3-D
Mar 9, 2010 – CBS Sports (NYSE: CBS.A and CBS) has teamed up with the NCAA, LG Electronics USA and Cinedigm Digital Cinema (Nasdaq: CIDM) to present for the first-time ever the 2010 NCAA Men's Final Four semifinal and national championship games in 3-D.
News categories: LG Electronics, Cinedigm, NCAA, CBS Sports, Metaverse, Smart TV, USA

LG Electronics 3D TV Enters India Market
Mar 9, 2010 – LG Electronics (Seoul: 066570) will introduce 3D LCD TVs in India via a partnership with Valuable Group. Valuable Group recently acquired the global broadcasting license for Indian Premier League, the country's professional cricket league.
News categories: LG Electronics, Valuable Group, India, Metaverse, Smart TV

TiVo subscribers down 131 thousand in quarter to end-January 2010
Mar 8, 2010 – TiVo (NASDAQ: TIVO) has reported results for the quarter ended January 31, 2010. For the quarter, service and technology revenues were $45.3 million, compared with $48.5 million for the same period last year and $47.1 million in the prior quarter.
News categories: TiVo Inc, Cable TV, DVR, Middleware, Results, Set Top Box, Streaming, Subscribers, USA

Selevision Chooses Irdeto to Bring Interactive TV to the Middle East
Mar 8, 2010 – Irdeto (JSE: NPN) has announced that middleware and interactive TV technology provider Selevision has selected Irdeto's middleware solution and conditional access system (CAS) for its new High Definition Personal Video Recorders (HD PVRs).
News categories: Irdeto, Selevision, Conditional Access, Digital TV, DVR, Middleware, Saudi Arabia, Set Top Box

Conax to Offer Advanced Global TV Platform With TiVo Software
Mar 8, 2010 – TiVo (NASDAQ: TIVO) and Conax have announced that they have partnered to offer a next generation DVB set-top box platform for deployment by television operators around the world.
News categories: Conax, TiVo Inc, Conditional Access, Digital TV, DVR, Middleware, Set Top Box

Telecom Italia and Intel announce collaboration for next-generation online TV and internet services
Mar 5, 2010 – Telecom Italia (Milan:TIT) and Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) have announced a collaboration to distribute next-generation online internet and TV services via the open source MeeGo software platform.
News categories: Telecom Italia, Intel Corp, Digital TV, Italy, Middleware, Semiconductor, Streaming

HDMI Licensing Releases HDMI Specification Version 1.4a
Mar 4, 2010 – HDMI Licensing has released HDMI Specification Version 1.4a, which features key enhancements for 3D applications including the addition of mandatory 3D formats for broadcast content plus the addition of the 3D format referred to as Top-and-Bottom.
News categories: HDMI Licensing, Metaverse, Smart Home