USA (United States of America) Digital TV News

IP-PRIME® and Packet Vision to Provide Targeted Ad Insertion Capability for IPTV Deployments
Oct 23, 2007 – SES AMERICOM (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg stock exchanges: SESG) has announced that it has teamed with Packet Vision to enable telecommunications carriers using SES AMERICOM's IP-PRIME® IPTV service to generate advertising revenue through the insertion of targeted local ads.
News categories: SES, SES AMERICOM, Packet Vision, Advertising, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, USA

WD® Delivers Hundreds More Hours to High Definition Tivo® DVRs
Oct 23, 2007 – Expanding consumers' TV recording capabilities by as many as hundreds of hours, WD® (NYSE: WDC) has announced that its My DVR Expander™ external hard drives are verified compatible with TiVo® HD and TiVo Series3™ DVRs (digital video recorders).
News categories: Western Digital (WD), TiVo, Digital TV, DVR, USA

EchoStar Unveils ViP-TV, One of the Most Comprehensive IPTV Transport Platforms On the Market
Oct 23, 2007 – EchoStar (Nasdaq:DISH) and its subsidiary, EchoStar FSS (EFSSC), have announced the launch of ViP-TV™, through which EFFSC has the ability to transport over 300 channels of secure broadcast quality popular television programming via satellite to video providers that have obtained rights for distribution of programming over their wire-line networks.
News categories: EchoStar, ViP-TV, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Satellite, USA

Farmers Telecom Selects Latens FCAS Solution to Secure Content and Revenues of IPTV Services
Oct 23, 2007 – At TelcoTV, Latens Systems has announced that Farmers Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (FTC), a telecommunications company headquartered in Kingstree, South Carolina, has selected Latens' Foundation CA Solution (FCAS) to secure its IPTV services.
News categories: Latens, Farmers Telecom, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, Set Top Box, USA

Audience for Mobile Video Expanding Rapidly in the United States
Oct 23, 2007 – M:Metrics has released its latest figures on the mobile video market in the United States. At eight million in August, the total audience for those who viewed mobile video, either from the carrier deck or video content sent by a friend or family member, grew by 34 percent from January of this year.
News categories: M:Metrics, Full Release, Digital TV, Market Research, Mobile, USA

AT&T Delivers Strong Third-Quarter Results; Growth Highlighted by Robust Wireless Gains, Advances in Enterprise Services, Accelerated TV Ramp
Oct 23, 2007 – AT&T (NYSE:T) has posted strong third-quarter results and delivered its tenth consecutive quarter of double-digit growth in adjusted earnings per share. At the end of the third quarter, subscribers to AT&T's U-verse IP-based video service, totaled 126,000, up from 51,000 three months earlier.
News categories: AT&T, Full Release, Broadband, Digital TV, Fibre, IPTV, Mobile, Results, Subscribers, USA

ADB Launches IPTV DVR for North America
Oct 23, 2007 – Advanced Digital Broadcast (SWX:ADBN) has announced that it's high definition, hybrid, digital video recorder (DVR) the ADB-5810WX platform is now certified and ready for deployment in North America.
News categories: Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB), Border States Electric, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, North America, Set Top Box, USA

Consolidated Telecom Chooses Latens FCAS to Increase Security and Operational Flexibility for IPTV Services
Oct 22, 2007 – Latens Systems has announced that Consolidated Telcom, southwestern North Dakota's communications leader, has chosen the Latens Foundation CA solution (FCAS) to secure its IPTV services.
News categories: Latens Systems, Consolidated Telcom, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, Set Top Box, USA

HickoryTech Deploys Verimatrix Content Security Solution for Its Digital TV Service
Oct 22, 2007 – Verimatrix has announced at TelcoTV 2007 that its Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS™) for IPTV has been successfully deployed for HickoryTech's Digital TV service.
News categories: Verimatrix, HickoryTech, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, IPTV, USA