USA (United States of America) Digital TV News

Cox Achieves with Double-Digit Growth in Digital Services
May 14, 2008 – Cox Communications has announced highlights of its first quarter performance which demonstrated double-digit year-over-year growth in each of its core digital residential services - digital cable, high-speed Internet and telephone.
News categories: Cox Communications, Cable TV, Digital TV, Subscribers, USA

AT&T U-verse TV Becomes First Early Adopter of EPA ENERGY STAR Requirements for Set-Top Boxes
May 14, 2008 – As an ENERGY STAR participant AT&T (NYSE:T) will provide U-verse TV customers with Motorola (NYSE: MOT) and Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) receivers that meet the new ENERGY STAR efficiency criteria well in advance of Jan. 1, 2009 when thay go into effect.
News categories: ENERGY STAR, AT&T U-verse, Motorola, Cisco Systems, Digital TV, IPTV, Regulation, Set Top Box, USA

Harris Corporation to Jumpstart Mobile TV Transition with First Transmission Solution for New ATSC Mobile Handheld Proposal
May 14, 2008 – Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) has announced that it will introduce the first full mobile digital TV transmission platform to meet the new Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) solution that was proposed today by LG Electronics and Samsung.
News categories: Harris, Content Distribution, Mobile, USA

LG and Samsung Join Forces to Develop and Promote Mobile Digital TV Standard
May 14, 2008 – LG and Samsung have announced that they will propose their jointly developed technology as the North American technology standard for mobile DTV.
News categories: LG Electronics, Samsung, Digital TV, Mobile, USA

Funai Electric to Demonstrate Residential Gateway Supporting Cable's All Digital Transition at The Cable Show '08 in New Orleans
May 13, 2008 – Funai Electric (TSE/OSE 6839) will exhibit a new residential gateway at The Cable Show in New Orleans. Funai developed the residential gateway for the U.S. cable market with core technology based on TeraPIX™ silicon from BroadLogic.
News categories: Funai, BroadLogic, Cable TV, Digital TV, Gateway, Semiconductor, USA

Thomson Selects Vidiom's OCAP™ Software
May 13, 2008 – Vidiom Systems has announced that Thomson (NYSE: TMS) has chosen Vidiom's OCAP software for their cable set-top boxes (STB).
News categories: Vidiom, Thomson, Cable TV, Digital TV, Middleware, Set Top Box, USA

Funai Electric Exhibits Tru2way™ Set Top Box at The Cable Show '08 in New Orleans
May 13, 2008 – Funai Electric (TSE/OSE 6839) has announced that it will exhibit a tru2way™ set top box, developed in collaboration with its middleware partner Vividlogic, at The Cable Show '08, May 18-20 in New Orleans.
News categories: Funai, VividLogic, Cable TV, Digital TV, Middleware, Set Top Box, USA

DISH Network Reports First Quarter 2008 Financial Results
May 13, 2008 – DISH Network (Nasdaq:DISH) added approximately 35,000 net new subscribers during the quarter ended March 31, 2008, giving the company approximately 13.815 million subscribers as of that date.
News categories: DISH Network, Digital TV, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers, USA

NDS Selected by Cox Communications to Implement its Next-Generation, Set-top Box User Interface
May 13, 2008 – NDS (NASDAQ: NNDS) has announced that it has been chosen by Cox Communications to implement its next-generation video user interface (UI).
News categories: NDS Group, Cox Communications, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Middleware, Set Top Box, USA