USA (United States of America) Digital TV News

Syabas Announces Popbox for Big Screen Everything
Jan 5, 2010 – Syabas has announced Popbox, a small, $129 open platform set-top box that streams music, movies, photos, games, social media updates and more to today's HDTVs. Popbox supports just about every audio and video file type.
News categories: Syabas, Popbox, CES2025, Digital TV, Media Player, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Streaming, USA

Skype partners with LG and Panasonic to offer Skype-enabled HDTVs
Jan 5, 2010 – Skype has announced support for Skype™ video calls on PCs in 720p high definition (HD), as well as Skype software embedded into Internet-connected widescreen televisions from its consumer electronics manufacturer partners.
News categories: Skype, CES2025, Digital TV, Middleware, Smart TV, Streaming, USA

SiBEAM Partners With VIZIO to Develop Wireless Solutions Using The WirelessHD Standard
Jan 4, 2010 – VIZIO has announced that it has chosen to add WirelessHD technology and SiBEAM 60 GHz chipsets, based on the globally available WirelessHD standard, for a new line of LCD HDTVs and wireless HDMI adapters.
News categories: SiBEAM, VIZIO, CES2025, Digital TV, Semiconductor, Smart Home, Smart TV, USA

LG Electronics Introduces First Mobile DTV In U.S. Designed to Receive Rugged Mobile DTV Signals
Dec 31, 2009 – LG Electronics is introducing the industry's first portable, battery-operated mobile DTV in the United States, designed to receive new rugged over-the-air signals being transmitted by local broadcasters.
News categories: LG Electronics, CES2025, Mobile, Semiconductor, Smart TV, USA

Axcera and WTVE-TV Demonstrate First-Ever ATSC M/H Mobile DTV Single Frequency Network
Dec 18, 2009 – Axcera and WTVE-TV Channel 51 have announced the first trial deployment of ATSC-M/H Mobile DTV in a multi-transmitter Distributed Transmission System (DTS), also known as a Single Frequency Network (SFN).
News categories: Axcera, WTVE, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Mobile, USA

Thomson files for bankruptcy protection in U.S.
Dec 17, 2009 – Thomson (Euronext: 18453; NYSE: TMS) has reportedly filed for Chapter 15 protection in a New York bankruptcy court to protect its U.S. assets from creditors.
News categories: Thomson, Digital TV, Finance, Gateway, Set Top Box, USA

Ofcom releases International Communications Market report
Dec 17, 2009 – Ofcom's International Communications Market data provides a snapshot of the communications market in twelve major economies and the four fast growing economies of Brazil, India, Russia and China in the five years to 2008.
News categories: Ofcom, Brazil, Cable TV, Canada, China, Digital TV, France, Germany, India, IPTV, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Market Research, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Satellite, Spain, Sweden, Terrestrial, UK, USA

ATSC Launches Certification Program For Mobile Digital TV Equipment
Dec 16, 2009 – The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) has launched a certification program for broadcast equipment and consumer receiving devices that comply with the new A/153 ATSC Mobile Digital Television (DTV) Standard.
News categories: ATSC, Digital TV, Mobile, USA

Social Media Meets the Set-Top Box with FreedTV
Dec 16, 2009 – FreedTV has announced the first cross-platform social media television application supporting real-time connectivity to mainstream television set-top boxes (STBs).
News categories: FreedTV, Apps, Cable TV, Digital TV, Middleware, Set Top Box, Social TV, Streaming, USA