USA (United States of America) Digital TV News

PLAYSTATION®Network's Video Delivery Service to Offer Movies and TV Shows for Purchase and TV Shows for Purchase and Rental Through PLAYSTATION®3 and PSP® (PlayStation®Portable)
Jul 15, 2008 – Sony (Tokyo: 6758; NYSE: SNE) Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) has launched the company's new video delivery service on PLAYSTATION®Store for PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™) and PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) systems in the United States.
News categories: Sony Computer Entertainment, Digital TV, Gaming, Portable, Streaming, Tablet, USA

Hauppauge selects NXP PC TV system-on-chip for award-winning dual hybrid PC TV tuner
Jul 14, 2008 – NXP Semiconductors has announced that Hauppauge Computer Works has selected the NXP SAA7164E PC TV system-on-chip (SOC), as well as its latest generation silicon tuner TDA18271HD, to power the Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2250 PCI Express tuner.
News categories: NXP, Hauppauge, ATSC 3, Cable TV, Digital TV, Peripherals / Accessories, Semiconductor, Terrestrial, USA

Zoran-Powered Apex Digital Converter Box Supporting Analog Pass-Through Gains NTIA Approval
Jul 11, 2008 – Zoran (Nasdaq: ZRAN) has announced that Apex Digital's SupraHD® 741 processor-powered ATSC Converter Box has been approved by the NTIA for use in the Coupon-Eligible Converter Box (CECB) program supporting U.S. digital broadcast conversion.
News categories: Zoran, Apex Digital, ATSC 3, Digital TV, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Terrestrial, USA

WhereverTV Delivers Hundreds of International Television Channels to Any Standard TV with the Introduction of the WhereverTV Receiver
Jul 9, 2008 – WhereverTV, a pioneer in delivering international television programming available on the Internet directly to TVs, has announced the launch of the WhereverTV Receiver and service at the SINO Consumer Electronics Show.
News categories: WhereverTV, Digital TV, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Streaming, USA

New Zenith Digital TV Converter Box With Analog Pass-Through Capability now Available
Jul 8, 2008 – Responding to surging demand for digital-to-analog TV converter boxes, the new Zenith DTT901 digital TV tuner - with analog pass-through for pickup of low-power TV stations - is now available nationwide.
News categories: Zenith, ATSC 3, Digital TV, Set Top Box, Terrestrial, USA

Thomson Signs Purchase Agreement with Comcast for Digital-to-Analog Adapters
Jul 7, 2008 – Thomson (Euronext Paris: 18453; NYSE: TMS) has announced that it has entered into a purchase agreement with Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) to be a supplier of digital-to-analog (DTA) adapters.
News categories: Thomson, Comcast, Cable TV, Digital TV, Set Top Box, USA

AT&T to stop marketing DISH Network programming services
Jul 1, 2008 – DISH Network (Nasdaq: DISH) has received a notice of termination from AT&T (NYSE:T) of the agreement under which AT&T markets DISH Network programming services. As a result, the Commercial Agreement will terminate on December 31, 2008.
News categories: DISH Network, AT&T, Broadband, Digital TV, Satellite, USA

Half of US Cable Subscribers Will Have "tru2way" by 2013
Jul 1, 2008 – Operators are finally starting to deploy tru2way STBs and in 2013 about half of all US cable subscribers will have a tru2way STB. But according to ABI Research, many obstacles and interoperability challenges must be overcome along the way.
News categories: ABI Research, Cable TV, Digital TV, Market Research, Middleware, Set Top Box, USA

Cable TV specification could revive living room PC
Jun 30, 2008 – A new specification that defines a two-way digital cable TV link is being developed by CableLabs. The standard is essentially a PC version of CableLabs' Open Cable Application Platform (OCAP) specification.
News categories: CableLabs, Cable TV, Digital TV, Middleware, Peripherals / Accessories, Streaming, USA