Digital TV News: Play TV

Panasonic first with Freeview Play TVs
Feb 23, 2015 – Digital UK and Freeview have announced that Panasonic will be the first manufacturer to launch TVs featuring the Freeview Play connected TV service. Panasonic will make Freeview Play available in its new 2015 line-up of VIERA TVs.
News categories: Digital UK, Freeview, Panasonic, Ilse Howling, Guy North, Digital TV, Middleware, Smart TV, Streaming, UK

ALi Corp integrates ACCESS NetFront DLNA with STB ICs
Mar 14, 2013 – ACCESS CO. has announced that ALi Corporation has selected ACCESS' DLNA solution NetFront™ Living Connect SDK to integrate with its set-top-box (STB) systems-on-a-chip. The ACCESS-powered ALi SoCs will ship to STB manufacturers from Q2, 2013.
News categories: ACCESS CO, ALi Corp, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart Home

Orange selects Movea for gesture-controlled set-top box
Jan 3, 2013 – Movea has announced a collaboration with Orange on the first large scale commercial deployment of a gesture-control set-top box. The Orange Livebox Play TV® set-top box will run Movea's SmartMotion Server to deliver a more fun and intuitive way for people to enjoy digital content on the TV.
News categories: Movea, Orange, Digital TV, France, Middleware, Set Top Box

STMicroelectronics Leads the Way to the Ultimate Connected Home
Sep 6, 2012 – At IBC, STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) is demonstrating the company's STiH416 ('Orly') connected-home System-on-Chip (SoC) device with Twonky Server software from PacketVideo to enable the ultimate connected-home experience.
News categories: STMicroelectronics, PacketVideo, Digital TV, Gateway, Home Server, IBC2023, Placeshifting, Semiconductor, Smart Home

Viasat adds 30,000 premium pay-TV subscribers in 4Q09
Feb 11, 2010 – MTG (OMX: MTGA, MTGB) has announced results for the period ended 31 December 2009. For the quarter, Viasat added 21,000 net premium IPTV and satellite (DTH) subscribers in the Nordic region, and 9,000 net DTH subscribers in the Baltics and Ukraine.
News categories: MTG, Baltics, Denmark, DVR, Estonia, Finland, IPTV, Norway, Results, Russia, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden, Ukraine

Interactive TV's Present and Future to be Featured at The Cable Show '09
Mar 26, 2009 – Enhanced TV and tru2way™ interactive TV applications will play a major role at The Cable Show '09 being held April 1-3 at the Washington, D.C. Convention Center, the annual convention of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association.
News categories: The Cable Show, CableLabs, Cable TV, Middleware

UK PlayTV™ shipments reach 85,000 in the first week
Oct 2, 2008 – New products from Sony (Tokyo: 6758; NYSE: SNE) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) allow customers to get Freeview via a PlayStation®3 (PS3) and via a Windows Media Center home PC. A successful trial of DVB-T2 brings HD a step closer.
News categories: Freeview, Sony Computer Entertainment, Microsoft, Digital TV, DVB-T2, Gaming, Market Research, Streaming, Terrestrial, UK

NEOTION unveils the T.NERGY flyweight set-top, a Micro MPEG-4 IP box"¦ but with all-in-one Maxi features
Sep 14, 2008 – NEOTION has announced the T.NERGY: the smallest MPEG-4 set-top ever made. Powered by the fully in-house designed NP5+ NEOTION processor, the T.NERGY is a genuine IP box that measures less than 4 inches (7 by 9 cm), and weights only 82 grams.
News categories: NEOTION, Digital TV, IBC2023, IPTV, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

EchoStar™ Signs tru2way™ Host Device License Agreement with CableLabs®
Aug 11, 2008 – EchoStar Technologies (NASDAQ:SATS) signals its intent to build set-top boxes for the cable industry with its recent signing of the tru2way™ Host Device License Agreement with CableLabs®.
News categories: EchoStar, CableLabs, tru2way, Cable TV, Content Protection, Digital TV, Middleware, Set Top Box, USA