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

Austria - Initial results following DTT launch in October 2006
Jan 16, 2007 – Following the launch of DTT services in Austria last October, it is estimated that 100,000 DVB-T receivers have been sold. Of these, viewers have purchased 35,000 MHP-enabled receivers using a subsidy offered by the government.
News categories: Austria, Digital TV, DVB-MHP, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

Skelmir Java Virtual Machines Ported to TI's DaVinci for STB Applications
Jan 9, 2007 – Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) has announced that Skelmir's CEE-J™ Virtual Machines (VM) for embedded devices have been ported to, and optimized for, TI's DaVinci™ technology.
News categories: DaVinci, Skelmir, CES2025, Digital TV, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Software

Middleware providers Iwedia (DVB) and AwoX (UPnP/DLNA) to cross-license their technologies
Jan 9, 2007 – Iwedia, a provider of embedded DVB-based software, and AwoX, a supplier of UPnP/DLNA-based solutions for networked audiovisual devices, have announced a cross-licensing process.
News categories: Iwedia, AwoX, CES2025, Digital TV, Middleware, Smart Home

TTP licenses mobile TV technology to ZTE
Jan 8, 2007 – Technology development and IP licensing group The Technology Partnership (TTP) has licensed its DBTV open standards based mobile television implementation to Chinese mobile phone manufacturer ZTE.
News categories: ZTE, The Technology Partnership (TTP), STMicroelectronics, 5G, Digital TV, DRM, Middleware, Mobile, MWC24, Semiconductor

PacketVideo Achieves Instantaneous Mobile TV Channel Changing
Jan 8, 2007 – Consumers would not accept a six-second wait for the channel to change on their TV at home, and PacketVideo Corporation's new enhancement to its Digital Video Broadcast - Handsets (DVB-H) solution eliminates that delay on mobile devices.
News categories: PacketVideo, CES2025, Digital TV, Middleware, Mobile

Comcast and Motorola Expand Relationship With Next-Generation Digital Set-Top Deal
Jan 8, 2007 – Motorola, Inc (NYSE:MOT) and Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) have announced that the companies have expanded their previously announced multi-year purchase agreement for digital set-tops.
News categories: Comcast, Motorola, Cable TV, CES2025, Digital TV, DVR, Middleware, Set Top Box, USA

Samsung and Cox Communications Team up for Two-Way Cable on HDTV
Jan 8, 2007 – Samsung Electronics and Cox Communications signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to accelerate the development of interactive digital cable services leveraging OCAP™ platform on Samsung HDTVs, Set-top Boxes and Digital Video Recorders.
News categories: Samsung Electronics, Cox Communications, Cable TV, CES2025, Digital TV, DVR, Middleware, Set Top Box

Genesis Microchip Launches New DTV SoC Family
Jan 8, 2007 – Genesis® Microchip (Nasdaq:GNSS) has announced the launch of its new, advanced Chaplin DTV system-on-a-chip families at CES. This new product series, which integrates the DTV MPEG controller, Emmy award-winning Faroudja video processing functions and other digital and analog TV requirements into a single chip, is sampling to major DTV manufacturers worldwide.
News categories: ATSC 3, CES2025, Digital TV, ICs, Middleware, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Terrestrial

Newport Media and CyberLink Collaborate to Deliver Fast-Switching Technology
Jan 8, 2007 – Newport Media has announced that it has partnered with CyberLink to deliver fast channel switching times for mobile TV.
News categories: CES2025, Digital TV, Media Player, Mobile, Semiconductor