USA (United States of America) Digital TV News

CinemaNow Selects Widevine® to Enable Multiplatform Content Distribution to Consumer Electronics Devices and PCs
Aug 18, 2008 – Widevine Technologies has announced that it has been selected by CinemaNow to secure multiplatform distribution of CinemaNow content to major consumer electronics (CE) devices and PCs.
News categories: Widevine, CinemaNow, Content Protection, Digital TV, DRM, Gaming, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Streaming, Tablet, USA

Participation By "Over-the-Air" Households in TV Converter Box Coupon Program On Track as Nation Marks Six Months Until DTV Transition Concludes
Aug 18, 2008 – The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has announced that nearly 6.4 million 'over-the-air' TV households have requested about 12 million coupons from the TV Converter Box Coupon Program.
News categories: National Telecommunications and Information Administration, ATSC 3, Digital TV, Market Research, Set Top Box, Terrestrial, USA

Broadcom Announces Leading Single-Chip Cable Set-Top Box Digital-to-Analog Adapter Solution
Aug 18, 2008 – Broadcom (Nasdaq: BRCM) has announced a new digital-to-analog (DTA) system-on-a-chip (SoC), BCM3545, that enables cable set-top box (STB) OEMs to provide cable operators with a cost effective device that transitions analog customers to digital.
News categories: Broadcom, Cable TV, Digital TV, ICs, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, USA

Request for Proposals - The Set Top Box and Audience Research
Aug 15, 2008 – The Council for Research Excellence has issued an RFP to conduct an examination of how various vendors' STBs capture and report tuning, from which will emerge learning as to the viability of using STB data as a measure of video tuning behavior.
News categories: Nielsen Media Research, Council for Research Excellence, Cable TV, DVR, Market Research, Set Top Box, TV Services, USA

North America TV Shipments Surge 28% Y/Y in Q2'08
Aug 14, 2008 – Despite a weaker US economy and rising energy prices that directly impact consumers budgets, North American TV shipments climbed a remarkably strong 26% Q/Q and 28% Y/Y in Q2'08 to more than 9.3M units, according to DisplaySearch.
News categories: DisplaySearch, Canada, Digital TV, Market Research, North America, Smart TV, USA

EchoStar™ Signs tru2way™ Host Device License Agreement with CableLabs®
Aug 11, 2008 – EchoStar Technologies (NASDAQ:SATS) signals its intent to build set-top boxes for the cable industry with its recent signing of the tru2way™ Host Device License Agreement with CableLabs®.
News categories: EchoStar, CableLabs, tru2way, Cable TV, Content Protection, Digital TV, Middleware, Set Top Box, USA

RCN Reports Second Quarter 2008 Results
Aug 7, 2008 – RCN Corporation (NASDAQ: RCNI) has announced its results for the second quarter 2008. Total revenue generating units increased 4% from last year to approximately 909,000. At quarter-end, RCN's digital video penetration rate rose to 75%.
News categories: RCN Corp, Cable TV, Results, Subscribers, USA

ATSC Converter Box Demand in US Drives Growth of Taiwan's Digital Terrestrial STB Industry in 2008
Aug 7, 2008 – According to Taiwan's Market Intelligence Center, owing to ATSC converter box demand in the United States, the Taiwanese digital terrestrial set top box industry's shipment volume is estimated at 1.27 million units in the first half of 2008.
News categories: Market Intelligence Center, ATSC 3, Digital TV, Market Research, Set Top Box, Taiwan, Terrestrial, USA

Consolidated Communications Holdings Reports Second Quarter 2008 Results
Aug 7, 2008 – Consolidated Communications Holdings (Nasdaq: CNSL) has reported results for the second quarter and six-month period ended June 30, 2008. IPTV subscribers were 14,112, an increase of 4,535, or 47.4%.
News categories: Consolidated Communications, DVR, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, USA