USA (United States of America) Digital TV News

Minerva and Avail Media Drive IPTV Market Growth in North America
Jul 24, 2008 – Minerva Networks and Avail Media have announced that they have already installed a joint solution that greatly simplifies the deployment of IPTV services at 23 North American sites.
News categories: Minerva Networks, Avail Media, PorchLight Communications, Content Distribution, IPTV, Middleware, USA

WRAL to Broadcast Local Mobile Digital TV Signals
Jul 23, 2008 – Digital television pioneer WRAL and the CBC New Media Group are sponsoring North Carolina's first field test of mobile digital television (DTV) technology in the Raleigh-Durham television market.
News categories: Open Mobile Video Coalition, Capitol Broadcasting Company, Digital TV, Mobile, USA

Samsung's MediaLive: the Ultimate HDTV Accessory, Bringing Digital Content from the PC to the Big-Screen
Jul 23, 2008 – MediaLive from Samsung (Seoul:005930) delivers digital content in real-time from Windows Media Center on a PC running Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows Vista to the big screen of a Samsung HDTV via a wireless or wired home network.
News categories: Samsung Electronics, Digital TV, Media Player, Smart Home, Smart TV, Streaming, USA

AT&T Delivers Solid Second-Quarter Results
Jul 23, 2008 – AT&T (NYSE:T) U-verse TV, the company's next-generation IP-based video service, continued its strong ramp during the second quarter, with a net subscriber gain of 170,000 to reach 549,000 in service.
News categories: AT&T, Broadband, Digital TV, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, USA

Asia-Pacific Continues to Lead in FTTH Market Penetration
Jul 23, 2008 – Asia consolidated its position as the global leader in next-generation broadband while the United States and Europe also continued to experience robust growth in FTTH, according to the FTTH Councils of Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America.
News categories: FTTH Council, Broadband, China, Denmark, Fibre, Hong Kong, Iceland, IPTV, Italy, Japan, Korea, Market Research, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Slovenia, Subscribers, Sweden, Taiwan, USA

Entropic working with Echostar on Band Translation Switch
Jul 22, 2008 – Entropic Communications (Nasdaq:ENTR) has announced that the company is working with EchoStar (Nasdaq:SATS) to develop additional outdoor units leveraging Entropic's Band Translation Switch (BTS) technology.
News categories: Entropic Communications, EchoStar, Digital TV, LNB, Satellite, Semiconductor, USA

IPTV Network Services Selects Latens ECOsystem to Provide IPTV Services to Over 45,000 Subscribers In Utah
Jul 22, 2008 – Latens has announced that IPTV Network Services, LLC., a consortium company of several IPTV service providers in the state of Utah, has successfully deployed the Latens ECOsystem (ECO) to enable its IPTV offering.
News categories: Latens, Conditional Access, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, USA, Video Exchange

TiVo Provides YouTube Videos Directly to the Television
Jul 17, 2008 – TiVo (NASDAQ: TIVO) has announced the availability of YouTube videos on the TV via a TiVo® DVR. Broadband-connected subscribers with TiVo Series3™ and TiVo HD DVRs can now access millions of user generated videos hosted on YouTube.
News categories: TiVo Inc, Digital TV, DVR, Media Player, Set Top Box, Streaming, USA

UpdateLogic® Obtains Licensing Agreement with SANYO Manufacturing Corporation for UpdateTV® Firmware Update Solution
Jul 15, 2008 – UpdateLogic has announced that Sanyo (Tokyo: 6764) Manufacturing has licensed its UpdateTV solution for its digital TVs. The UpdateTV technology enables Sanyo digital TVs to transparently and automatically download firmware upgrades nationwide.
News categories: UpdateLogic, Sanyo, ATSC 3, Digital TV, Smart TV, Software, Terrestrial, USA