USA (United States of America) Digital TV News

Nighthawk Systems Announces Purchase of IPTV Assets/Technology
Oct 15, 2007 – Nighthawk Systems (OTCBB: NIHK), a leading provider of intelligent wireless power management and emergency notification solutions, announced today that it has purchased the IPTV set-top box business assets of Eagle Broadband (OTCBB: EAGB).
News categories: Eagle Broadband, Nighthawk, Digital TV, IPTV, MandA, Set Top Box, USA

Comcast Rollout of TiVo Box Begins
Oct 11, 2007 – After more than two years of promises and delays, Comcast Corp. has finally begun rolling out its first set-top boxes that run TiVo's digital video recording technology.
News categories: Comcast, TiVo, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Set Top Box, USA

Arkwest Communications Chooses Latens FCAS Conditional Access to Secure New IPTV Services
Oct 11, 2007 – Latens Systems has announced that Arkwest Communications, an Arkansas based telecommunications provider, has deployed the Latens Foundation CA solution (FCAS) to secure the its Pay-TV and VOD content.
News categories: Latens, Arkwest, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, IPTV, USA

Charter Communications to Sell Services in Over 700 Wal-Mart Stores
Oct 11, 2007 – Charter Communications (NASDAQ: CHTR) has announced that it will make its services available to consumers in over 700 Wal-Mart stores covering 93 percent of Charter's territory.
News categories: Charter Communications, Broadband, Cable TV, USA

Sungil Telecom Presents the Industry-First Digital-to-Analog TV Converter Box to US Market
Oct 10, 2007 – SUNGIL TELECOM has announced that their Digital-to-Analog (D2A) Converter Box will allow people to watch digital television on their analog TV sets in time for February 17, 2009 - the official US analog switch-off date.
News categories: Sungil Telecom, SYNET, Korea IT Research Institute (KITRI), Set Top Box, Terrestrial, USA

HUTRO Proudly Presents the Digital-to-Analog Set-Top Box to Analog TV Owners in the USA
Oct 10, 2007 – HUTRO has announced their first Digital-to-Analog (D2A) Set-Top Box to prepare analog TV owners for the analog switch-off date set for February 17, 2009.
News categories: HUTRO, SYNET, Korea IT Research Institute (KITRI), Set Top Box, Terrestrial, USA

AT&T Acquires Wireless Spectrum from Aloha Partners
Oct 9, 2007 – AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) has announced that its board of directors has approved an agreement to purchase spectrum licenses covering 196 million people in the 700 MHz frequency band from Aloha Partners.
News categories: AT&T, Aloha Partners, Digital TV, MandA, Mobile, USA

LG Electronics Digital-to-Analog Converter Box Certified by U.S. Commerce Department
Oct 8, 2007 – In a key milestone in the nation's transition to digital television (DTV), the digital-to-analog converter box developed by LG Electronics has been officially certified for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) digital-to-analog converter box program.
News categories: LG Electronics, National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), ATSC 3, Digital TV, Set Top Box, Terrestrial, USA

Triple-Play Bundles Work, but Quadruple-Play Packages are not yet Proven, says Analysys
Oct 8, 2007 – Experience demonstrates that triple-play bundles of TV, voice and broadband services have proven themselves as a means of increasing market share. Incumbent operators have used quadruple-play services as a defence against competitors' TV-based triple-play bundles, but without noticeable success.
News categories: Analysys, Australia, Austria, Czech Republic, Digital TV, France, Hong Kong, IPTV, Market Research, Mobile, Sweden, UK, USA