Digital TV News: Michelle Abraham

Steady Growth Seen in Worldwide 3G Mobile TV Services
Jun 9, 2008 – 3G mobile TV services may complement or compete with mobile TV broadcasting, depending on the intentions of the mobile operator, reports In-Stat.
News categories: In-Stat, 5G, Digital TV, Market Research, Mobile, Subscribers

Industry's Lowest-Power Full HD H.264 Codecs With the Broadest Feature Set Unveiled by Qpixel
Jun 1, 2008 – Qpixel Technology has unveiled, at Computex, its High Definition (HD) QL303 and QL305 codecs, the latest members of its industry-leading, low-power, H.264 codec family.
News categories: Qpixel, Camcorder, Digital TV, ICs, Mobile, Portable, Semiconductor

DivX® Now Showing on Blu-ray DVD Players
Mar 12, 2008 – DivX, Inc. (NASDAQ:DIVX) has announced that it has granted DivX® Certification to six new Blu-ray DVD players from Panasonic, Philips, and Denon.
News categories: DivX, Blu-ray, Digital TV, DVD, Media Player

IP Set Top Market Doubled in 2007
Mar 11, 2008 – The IP set top box market almost doubled in 2007 as more boxes were needed to supply new subscribers that telcos added to their TV services, reports In-Stat.
News categories: In-Stat, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Market Research, Set Top Box

Telco TV Continues Expansion in Europe, N. America
Feb 5, 2008 – The availability of telco TV services continues to expand to new countries just as availability expands within those countries as higher bandwidth networks are built to deliver video, reports In-Stat.
News categories: In-Stat, Digital TV, Europe, IPTV, Market Research, North America, Subscribers

Horizon Semiconductors Fuels the Broadcast Market With Native 1080/60p High Definition Professional Encoder IC
Jan 7, 2008 – Horizon Semiconductors has announced the immediate availability of a multi-standard native 1080/60p professional encoder IC for the Cable, Satellite, Telco, Terrestrial and Mobile triple/quad-play broadcast markets.
News categories: Horizon Semiconductors, Cable TV, CES2024, Content Distribution, Digital TV, ICs, IPTV, Mobile, Satellite, Semiconductor, Terrestrial

Broadcom and Microsoft Collaborate on Next-Generation IPTV System-on-a-Chip
Jan 6, 2008 – The collaboration includes Microsoft and Broadcom working together to enable the popular Microsoft Mediaroom™ IPTV client software to operate on next-generation set-top boxes (STBs) utilizing the Broadcom® BCM7405 system on a chip (SOC).
News categories: Microsoft, Broadcom, BT TV, In-Stat, Christine Heckart, Richard Nelson, Richard Griffiths, Michelle Abraham, CES2024, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

Horizon Semiconductors Delivers Revolutionary Single Chip Native 1080/60p High Definition Transcoder for Next-Generation Set-Top Boxes, Media Players, iVDRs and Location-Free TV
Oct 15, 2007 – Horizon Semiconductors has announced the immediate availability of the industry's first single chip multi-standard native 1080/60p Transcoder for the triple-play/quad-play Cable, Satellite and IPTV Set-Top Box, Digital Video Recorder and Home Media Center, Blu-Ray/HD-DVD player and recorder, iVDRs, place shifting boxes and location-free TV markets.
News categories: Horizon Semiconductors, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, ICs, IPTV, Optical Disc Recorder, Placeshifting, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

Technology Shifting in Real-Time Broadcast MPEG Encoder Market According to In-Stat
Oct 9, 2007 – The real-time broadcast MPEG encoder market is growing as new digital TV providers and TV channels are launched and HD content grows, reports In-Stat. There is also a large shift taking place, as H.264 is replacing MPEG-2 as the compression technology of choice in many of the segments.
News categories: In-Stat, Cable TV, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Semiconductor, Terrestrial