USA (United States of America) Digital TV News

New Sony Blu-ray Player Integrates Streaming Internet Video
Sep 9, 2009 – Sony (Tokyo: 6758; NYSE: SNE) has introduced the BDP-N460 networked Blu-ray Disc™ player. Beside playing Blu-ray Discs and DVDs, the device instantly streams one of the largest collections of on-demand entertainment from the BRAVIA™ Internet Video platform.
News categories: Sony Corp, Blu-ray, Streaming, USA

LG Adds VUDU HD Movie Service to Wireless Blu-ray Disc Player
Sep 9, 2009 – LG Electronics has announced the addition of the HD streaming movie service from VUDU to the LG Wireless Network Blu-ray Player (model BD390). With VUDU, consumers can instantly buy or rent from an extensive library of movies and TV titles.
News categories: LG Electronics, VUDU, Blu-ray, Streaming, USA

The Americas Show Strong Broadband Growth and Widespread IPTV Adoption
Sep 8, 2009 – The Broadband Forum has announced the latest broadband and IPTV statistics, which show a strong performance in the Americas, both in broadband growth at 18 per cent and in IPTV adoption, where subscriptions grew by 86% over the last twelve months.
News categories: Broadband Forum, Point Topic, Africa, Asia, Brazil, Broadband, Canada, China, Digital TV, Europe, France, Germany, IPTV, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latin America, Market Research, Middle-East, North America, Subscribers, UK, USA

Santa Rosa Introduces HD & DVR IPTV Services Using Conklin-Intracom's fs|cdn®
Sep 8, 2009 – Santa Rosa Telephone Cooperative, with offices in Vernon, Seymour, and Haskell, Texas, has announced the deployment of Conklin-Intracom's fs|cdn® IPTV solution, for the delivery of HD video and Digital Video Recorder (DVR) services.
News categories: Conklin-Intracom, Santa Rosa Telephone Coop, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, USA

Mitsubishi America Ships VUDU Integrated 1080p Flat Panel LCD TVs
Sep 3, 2009 – Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America (MDEA) has announced it has begun shipping VUDU integrated 1080p Unisen™ LCD TVs, providing the consumer the opportunity to experience the seamless delivery of thousands of HD movies and TV shows.
News categories: Mitsubishi, VUDU, Smart TV, Streaming, USA

Gray Television Launches Mobile Digital Television
Sep 3, 2009 – On July 24, 2009, Gray Television's (NYSE: GTN, GTN.A) NBC affiliate, WOWT, in Omaha, Nebraska, unleashed its first 'mobile DTV' signal. Gray Television and WOWT are working with the Open Mobile Video Coalition on the pilot.
News categories: Open Mobile Video Coalition, WOWT, Gray Television, Digital TV, Mobile, USA

US IPTV Market Forecast to Hit 15.5 Million Subs by 2013
Sep 1, 2009 – The US IPTV market will grow from over 5 million subscribers in 2009 to 15.5 million by 2013, according to a report just published by analyst firm Strategy Analytics.
News categories: Strategy Analytics, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Subscribers, USA

Evolution Digital and Conax Awarded Multi-Stream CableCARD™ Qualification
Aug 28, 2009 – Evolution Digital and Conax have partnered to develop a Multi-stream CableCARD™ (M-Card™) specific to the North American cable market and were recently awarded qualification by CableLabs®.
News categories: Evolution Broadband, Conax, Cable TV, CAM, Content Protection, Digital TV, DVR, Middleware, Set Top Box, USA

Kudelski completes transition of CA to a service model
Aug 28, 2009 – The Kudelski Group (SIX:KUD.VX) has announced its half year 2009 results. During this period, the Group started to reap the fruits of the migration of a significant share of its digital TV conditional access deployed base to the service model.
News categories: Kudelski, Advertising, Brazil, Cable TV, CAM, Canada, Conditional Access, Content Distribution, Content Protection, Germany, IBCShow, IPTV, Mexico, Middleware, Mobile, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Spain, Streaming, Subscribers, Terrestrial, USA, Vietnam