Digital TV News: NEC Corp

NEC Electronics and Renesas Reach Agreement on Business Integration
Sep 16, 2009 – NEC Electronics (TSE:6723), Renesas, NEC Corp (TSE:6701), Hitachi (TSE:6501; NYSE:HIT) and Mitsubishi (TSE:6503) have signed an agreement to integrate business operations at NEC Electronics and Renesas with NEC Electronics being the surviving entity.
News categories: NEC Electronics, Renesas, MandA, Semiconductor

AAC Joint Patent Licensing Program Update
Jan 5, 2009 – Via Licensing has updated its Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) patent licensing program to enable licensees to secure rights to MPEG-2 AAC, MPEG-4 AAC, MPEG-4 High Efficiency AAC (HE AAC), and for the first time, HE AAC v.2, all under a single license.
News categories: Via Licensing, CES2024, Licensing, Mobile, Patent, Set Top Box, Smart TV

MRG's Global IPTV Market Leaders Report Reflects Market Resilience
Apr 2, 2008 – MRG has announced new leaders in the 'Global IPTV Market Leaders Report -- March 2008,' which tracks the top 120 IPTV vendors in 24 regional sub-segments based on the installed base of 6 video systems products in over 650 IPTV Operations.
News categories: MRG, Conditional Access, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Middleware, Set Top Box

Worldwide iPTV Service Revenues to Cross US$42.6 Billion by 2014, According to a New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.
Mar 12, 2008 – Worldwide Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) service revenues are forecast to cross US$42.6 billion by 2014. The number of IPTV subscribers in worldwide market is projected to exceed 248 million by that time.
News categories: Global Industry Analysts, Asia, Canada, Content Distribution, Content Protection, Digital TV, France, Germany, IPTV, Italy, Market Research, Middleware, Russia, Set Top Box, Spain, Subscribers, UK, USA

Full-Scale Introduction of IPTV Business for Communication Carriers; NEC targets 50 billion yen in sales after 3 years
Mar 11, 2008 – NEC has announced that it will launch a full-scale IPTV business with high-profile NGN (Next Generation Networks) carrier applications, providing End-to-End IPTV solutions and video delivery systems to the international market.
News categories: NEC Corp, CASCADE Limited, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, Set Top Box, Video Exchange

WirelessHD™ 1.0 Specification Launches With Widespread Industry Support
Jan 3, 2008 – WirelessHD has announced that it has completed the development of the first wireless specification for high-definition baseband video transmission and will present the format to Adopters in early 2008.
News categories: WirelessHD, Content Protection, Digital TV, Smart Home

CEATEC JAPAN 2007 to Become Largest International Showcase of Emerging Technology Trends
Sep 18, 2007 – The CEATEC JAPAN Organizing Committee announced the keynote lineup for CEATEC JAPAN 2007, one of the world's leading, comprehensive exhibitions of cutting-edge information technology (IT) and electronics technologies, scheduled to be held Oct. 2-6 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba Prefecture, Tokyo, Japan.
News categories: CEATEC JAPAN, Japan