Digital TV News: PCTV

Mirics develops global solution for TV on a PC utilizing software demodulation
May 28, 2008 – Mirics Semiconductor has announced the Mirics FlexiTV™ broadcast receiver, a complete RF, host interface and software demodulation solution enabling the reception of analog and digital TV to become a standard feature on all notebook PCs.
News categories: Mirics, ATSC 3, Digital TV, DTMB, ICs, Peripherals / Accessories, Semiconductor, Terrestrial

Many Solutions Competing for Role as Living Room Media Hub
May 28, 2008 – Consumers are moving beyond basic PC-to-PC networks as they look to connect devices to the home network to access and share the growing array of digital content from the Internet, as well as from their own capture devices.
News categories: ABI Research, Gaming, Gateway, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Streaming

DiBcom Has Shipped Ten Million Mobile TV Components
May 6, 2008 – DiBcom has reached a decisive milestone in the emerging Digital Mobile TV market having delivered over 10 million components to different segments of the market.
News categories: DiBcom, Digital TV, In-Car, Market Research, Mobile, Semiconductor, Tablet, Terrestrial

NXP Launches World's Smallest Single-chip Triple-mode PCTV Solution
Mar 6, 2008 – In a move to bring a high-quality anytime, anywhere TV viewing experience to ultra-mobile computers, NXP Semiconductors has launched the world's smallest single-chip PCTV solution - SAA7231 - that supports worldwide broadcast standards.
News categories: NXP, Content Protection, Digital TV, ICs, Peripherals / Accessories, Satellite, Semiconductor, Terrestrial

New NXP Solutions Bring Most Advanced PCTV Capabilities to Notebook and Desktop PCs
Nov 26, 2007 – NXP has announced the arrival of two brand new additions to its PCTV family. The SAA7164BE and SAA7163AE are new PC TV processors designed to bring multi-streaming and PVR capabilities to desktop and notebook multimedia PC TV USB applications.
News categories: NXP, CES2024, Digital TV, DVR, ICs, Peripherals / Accessories, Semiconductor

IMS Research Finds HP Primarily Responsible for Doubling of U.S. Market for Digital TV Tuner Cards on the PC
Oct 30, 2007 – "HP has taken an aggressive first step in transforming the PCTV market from one driven by the aftermarket to one driven by the OEMs," said Stephen Froehlich, analyst at IMS Research.
News categories: IMS Research, ATSC 3, Canada, Digital TV, Market Research, Mobile, North America, Peripherals / Accessories, Terrestrial, USA

Inuk Selects Widevine to Secure UK's First IPTV Deployment to PCs
Sep 7, 2007 – Widevine has announced that UK-based Inuk Networks has chosen Widevine Cypher® for the PC to protect and enable its secure delivery of premium broadcast channels and video-on-demand content for its Freewire service -- the nation's first PCTV deployment launching this month.
News categories: Widevine, Inuk Networks, Content Protection, Digital TV, IBC2023, Streaming, UK, Watermarking

Widevine® to Announce Managed Network Deployment for PCTV at IBC 2007
Aug 29, 2007 – Widevine Technologies will speak on multiplatform, multiformat copy protection and demonstrate solutions to enable secure delivery of multimedia content to telco, cable, mobile and internet service providers at IBC 2007.
News categories: Conditional Access, Content Protection, DRM, IBC2023, Watermarking

Pinnacle Systems uses DiBcom chipset for PCTV DVB-T Flash Stick
Jul 5, 2007 – DiBcom has announced that its leading chipset, the “”two-in-one”” DIB7070-P, which includes a tuner and demodulator, is being used by Pinnacle Systems, Inc. for its new Pinnacle PCTV(TM) DVB-T Flash Stick.” More …
News categories: Digital TV, Semiconductor, Streaming, Terrestrial