USA (United States of America) Digital TV News

SureWest Video RGUs up 100 in 3Q09
Oct 29, 2009 – SureWest Communications (Nasdaq: SURW) has announced results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2009. Broadband Residential revenues increased 12% year-over-year to $29.4 million due to 10% growth in average revenue per user (ARPU).
News categories: SureWest, Fibre, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, USA

Q2-09 was a Record-Setting Mobile TV Quarter
Oct 28, 2009 – Issue No. 10 of the quarterly TeleAnalytics Mobile TV Tracking Service (TMTS) quantitatively substantiates the position taken back in Q3-08 that the worldwide Mobile TV adoption/sales would not be much upset by the financial crisis.
News categories: TeleAnalytics, 5G, Brazil, China, Digital TV, Europe, ISDB-T, Japan, Korea, Market Research, Mobile, Russia, SBTVD, USA

Pace Set to Launch Multiroom DVR with Multiple Cable Operators
Oct 28, 2009 – Pace (LSE:PIC) has announced that multiple cable operators, including Buckeye Cablevision, Mediacom, Sunflower Broadband, and others, are already nearing completion of field trials for Pace's Home Content Sharing (HCS) solution.
News categories: Pace plc, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Home Server, Smart Home, USA

Verizon adds 191,000 FiOS TV customers in 3Q09
Oct 26, 2009 – Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ) has reported its results for the third quarter of 2009. Verizon added 191,000 net new FiOS TV customers to give 2.7 million FiOS TV customers at the end of the quarter, a 67.7 percent year-over-year increase.
News categories: Verizon, Fibre, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, USA

AT&T adds one million U-Verse TV subscribers Y-o-Y
Oct 22, 2009 – AT&T (NYSE:T) has reported third-quarter results. AT&T U-verse TV subscribers increased by 240,000 -- versus a net gain of 232,000 in the year-earlier third quarter -- to reach 1.8 million, up more than 1.0 million over the past year.
News categories: AT&T, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, USA

US on Track to Surpass 5 Million Telco TV Subs in 2009
Oct 21, 2009 – AT&T and Verizon are expected to post double-digit IPTV subscriber growth in their respective third quarter releases, according to analyst firm Strategy Analytics.
News categories: Strategy Analytics, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Subscribers, USA

DEG Releases Third Quarter U.S. Home Entertainment Results
Oct 19, 2009 – DEG has released third quarter U.S. sales figures for the home entertainment industry. Blu-ray Disc software sales continue to show dramatic growth with overall sales up 83 percent for the year and playback devices in 11.7 million U.S. households.
News categories: Digital Entertainment Group, Blu-ray, Digital TV, DVD, Market Research, USA

Samsung Develops World's First Single Chip for ATSC Mobile Digital TV
Oct 16, 2009 – Samsung Electronics (Seoul: 005930) has announced that it has successfully developed the world's first single chip compatible with the newly approved North American mobile digital TV broadcasting standard.
News categories: Samsung Electronics, ATSC, Digital TV, ICs, Mobile, Semiconductor, USA

ATSC Adopts Mobile Digital TV Standard
Oct 16, 2009 – The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) has announced the approval of A/153 ATSC Mobile DTV Standard. The ballot, tallied at midnight Oct. 15, was approved with overwhelming support by the full ATSC membership.
News categories: ATSC, Digital TV, Mobile, USA