Digital TV News: MRG

Revolutionary Powerline Communications Technology With MIMO Announced by Sigma Designs
Jun 11, 2010 – Sigma Designs (NASDAQ: SIGM) has announced that it is the first company to deliver MIMO features over power line communications chipsets. MIMO delivers up to twice the performance of existing power line solutions when used with G.hn.
News categories: Sigma Designs, ICs, Semiconductor, Smart Home

Spring 2010 Global IPTV Market Leaders Report Released
May 11, 2010 – MRG has announced new leaders in its global IPTV Market Leaders Report. The report ranks over vendors within the six product categories of Access Ports, Content Protection/DRM, Set-top-Boxes, Middleware, Video Headend, and Video-on-Demand.
News categories: MRG, Content Distribution, Content Protection, Digital TV, DRM, IPTV, Market Research, Middleware, Set Top Box, Subscribers

Global IPTV Forecast Exceeds MRG 2009 Prediction by 2M Subscribers
Dec 7, 2009 – MRG has announced the latest edition of its IPTV Global Forecast. The new forecast indicates that global IPTV subscribers will grow from 28 million in 2009 to 83 million in 2013, a compound annual growth rate of 31%.
News categories: Multimedia Research Group, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Subscribers

MRG announces new leaders in its Global IPTV Market Leaders Report
Oct 22, 2009 – MRG has announced new leaders in the Global IPTV Market Leaders Report -- October 2009 (MLR), which tracks the top 120 IPTV vendors in 24 regional sectors based on the installed base of 6 video systems products in over 800 IPTV Operations.
News categories: MRG, Content Distribution, Content Protection, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Middleware, Set Top Box

Alcatel-Lucent provides Vodafone Portugal IPTV details
Sep 21, 2009 – The Vodafone (London:VOD) 'Casa TV' IPTV service in Portugal re-uses the network architecture developed with Alcatel-Lucent (Paris, NYSE: ALU) for providing broadband and voice services. The middleware and DRM are Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) products.
News categories: Alcatel-Lucent, Vodafone, Gianluca Baini, Jorge Bento, Christine Heckart, Content Distribution, DRM, IPTV, Middleware, Portugal

57 Million Internet Set-top Boxes By 2012
Aug 12, 2009 – A new global report from MRG shows how OTT (Over-the-Top) video services will offer new opportunities for IPTV & Cable Operators and media owners to expand their reach through TV-centric open Internet services.
News categories: MRG, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Streaming

UTStarcom a Leader in China, India IPTV Markets
Jun 30, 2009 – UTStarcom (Nasdaq: UTSI) was named the leading Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) provider in Asia in Multimedia Research Group's (MRG, Inc.) latest Global IPTV Market Leaders Report.
News categories: UTStarcom, Multimedia Research Group, Asia, China, Content Distribution, Content Protection, India, IPTV, Market Research, Middleware, Set Top Box, Subscribers

Hybrid IPTV Set-top Boxes 'Jump-starting' IPTV Services
Jun 23, 2009 – A new global report from MRG shows how hybrid IPTV set-top boxes (STBs) are helping IPTV Operators 'jump-start' early service deployment or extend the reach of their existing video IP Networks.
News categories: MRG, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

MRG's Global IPTV Forecast Advises Watchful Optimism for 2009
Jun 8, 2009 – A new IPTV Global Forecast Report from MRG, Inc. shows that 2008 IPTV subscribers ended up at 21.3 million, resulting in projected subscriber growth of 26.9 million in 2009 to over 81 million in 2013.
News categories: MRG, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Market Research, Subscribers