Software (Media Players, Middleware, Browsers, Stacks, …) News

IPTV heats up with a bumper 70,000 set-top box order
Jun 8, 2007 – UK IPTV specialist, Global Digital Broadcast, turns up the heat in the IP set-top box market, with an additional sale order of 70,000 units of the GDB audio visual entertainment centre (AVEC). More …
News categories: Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, Set Top Box, Streaming, USA

Alliance aims to standardize Taiwan's mobile TV
Jun 8, 2007 – Stepping up efforts to drive the standardization of mobile TV in Taiwan, Nokia, China Television and Cyberlink announced recently that they would be conducting a mobile tv commercial trial for the third quarter of 2007 in the country. More …
News categories: Digital TV, Middleware, Mobile, Taiwan

First-Ever Mobile Television Handset With Smartcard Profile Protection
Jun 6, 2007 – Discretix together with CyberLink, CoreMedia, and GIGA-BYTE Communications (GBC), have announced a demonstration of the first mobile TV handset supporting the Smartcard Profile. More …
News categories: Content Protection, Digital TV, DRM, Media Player, Middleware, Mobile

DivX Certifies NXP's Media Processors to Power IP Set Top Boxes, Digital Media Adapters and Portable Players
Jun 5, 2007 – DivX, Inc. (NASDAQ: DIVX) and NXP Semiconductors have announced the DivX Certification of a series of processors designed to power a variety of device categories, including IP set-top boxes (STBs), digital media adapters, personal media players and in-car media players.
News categories: Digital TV, Media Player, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Tablet

iLocus - IPTV Equipment and Subscribers 1Q07
Jun 4, 2007 – According to a new quarterly report published by iLocus an estimated 978,868 IP Set top boxes were shipped in Q1 2007 thereby generating revenue of $108.3 million worldwide. Cisco emerged as leader in this category.
News categories: Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Middleware, Set Top Box, Subscribers

RealNetworks Introduces Breakthrough New RealPlayer
Jun 3, 2007 – RealNetworks® has unveiled the new RealPlayer®, the first media player to make it one-click simple to download online videos from thousands of Web sites. More …
News categories: Digital TV, Media Player, Streaming

Highgate Completes Electra Entertainment Porting
May 31, 2007 – Under contract with Electra Entertainment Ltd (UK), Highgate has completed integration of Electra's interactive technology with its eGOS software stack.
News categories: Highgate, Electra Entertainment, Digital TV, MHEG-5, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Terrestrial, UK

Hitachi Licenses MHEG Engine from S&T
May 24, 2007 – Strategy & Technology (S&T) has announced that Hitachi Europe has licensed the company’s RedKey(TM) MHEG-5 engine. Hitachi has developed a new integrated digital TV (IDTV) platform for use in both its plasma and LCD television sets. More …
News categories: Digital TV, MHEG-5, Middleware, Smart TV, UK

DivX, Inc. Certifies STMicroelectronics' STi710x Family
May 22, 2007 – DivX (NASDAQ:DIVX) has announced that the company has concluded a license agreement with STMicroelectronics (NYSE:STM) and has completed DivX Certification of ST's STi710x family of chips to enable DivX on set-top box devices worldwide.
News categories: Digital TV, Media Player, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart TV