USA (United States of America) Digital TV News

Cable MSOs Take a Shortcut to Compete with Telco IPTV, Report Finds
Jun 3, 2009 – Rather than wait for tru2way to fully develop, cable operators are planning to roll out interactive TV services to compete with telco IPTV by deploying existing technology that can deliver interactive features to legacy set-top boxes.
News categories: Light Reading, Cable TV, Digital TV, Market Research, Middleware, Set Top Box, USA

Entone Hydra Selected By Valley Telecom
Jun 3, 2009 – Entone has announced that its Hydra HD™ IP video gateway has been chosen by Valley TeleCom Group for their IPTV service rollout. Valley Telecom delivers digital telephone, Internet and IPTV services to customers in Arizona and New Mexico.
News categories: Entone, Valley TeleCom, Digital TV, IPTV, Set Top Box, Smart Home, USA

Big Growth Ahead for Connected HDTVs, Blu-ray Players and Digital Media Adapters
Jun 1, 2009 – Connectivity will be a force to reckon with according to Yankee Group's connected device forecast, which predicts more than 60 percent of U.S. households will have a home network by 2013.
News categories: Yankee Group, Blu-ray, Digital TV, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Smart TV, Streaming, USA

TiVo subscriptions down 139k in quarter to end-April '09
May 27, 2009 – TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO) has reported financial results for the first quarter ended April 30, 2009. TiVo-Owned subscription gross additions for the first quarter were approximately 37,000, compared to 48,000 gross additions for the year-ago period.
News categories: TiVo Inc, Australia, Cable TV, Canada, DVR, Mexico, New Zealand, Results, Set Top Box, Streaming, Subscribers, Taiwan, USA

More than 50% of Mobile TV Subscribers from APAC by 2013
May 27, 2009 – According to research from RNCOS, the Asia-Pacific region will account for more than 50% of global Mobile TV subscribers by the end of 2013 due to the rapid technological developments in countries like China, Japan, South Korea and India.
News categories: RNCOS, 5G, China, Digital TV, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Market Research, Mexico, Mobile, Russia, Spain, UK, USA

Latin America dances to a digital tune
May 27, 2009 – Research from Informa Telecoms & Media shows that digital TV will make significant progress in Latin America over the next five years. Digital TV households will more than treble in that time - from 12.2 million at present to 37.1 million by 2014.
News categories: Informa Telecoms & Media, Argentina, Brazil, Cable TV, Canada, Chile, Digital TV, Market Research, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Satellite, Subscribers, USA, Venezuela

Zoran Introduces SupraHD® 787 HDTV Processors for 1080P DTV
May 27, 2009 – Zoran (NASDAQ: ZRAN) has announced that its advanced SupraHD® 787 HDTV processors are now available to qualified DTV manufacturers supplying the premium ATSC digital TV market in the U.S.
News categories: Zoran, ATSC 3, Digital TV, ICs, Semiconductor, Smart TV, USA

Microsoft and Netflix Enhance Movie and TV Watching on the PC
May 20, 2009 – Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has announced that more than 12,000 movies and TV episodes from Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) are now available to watch instantly on the PC using Windows Media Center on PCs with Windows Vista Home Premium or Ultimate.
News categories: Windows Media, Netflix, Digital TV, Streaming, USA

LG and DivX Announce World's First HD 1080p DivX® Certified Blu-ray Player
May 19, 2009 – DivX (Nasdaq: DIVX) and LG Electronics (KSE: 066570.KS) have announced the first LG Blu-ray Disc player (the LG BD390) capable of playing back 1080p high-definition (HD) DivX® video files.
News categories: DivX, LG Electronics, Blu-ray, Digital TV, Europe, Media Player, Streaming, USA