Digital TV News: NetCom

Verimatrix Enables Secure Delivery of Premium Content for IOL Netcom's Unique On-Demand IPTV Business Model
May 5, 2008 – IOL Netcom has selected Verimatrix as the content security provider for its on-demand IPTV service, India's first IP-based on-demand television service to more than 250,000 subscribers.
News categories: Verimatrix, IOL Netcom, Content Protection, Digital TV, India, Streaming

Broadcom Demonstrates Industry's First Single-Chip High Definition Set-Top Box Solution With China AVS Support
Mar 21, 2008 – Broadcom (Nasdaq: BRCM) has announced that it is the first company to demonstrate single-chip high definition (HD) audio video coding standard (AVS) for digital set-top box (STB) applications.
News categories: Broadcom, Sunniwell, CCBN, China, Digital TV, DVR, ICs, IPTV, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

China Netcom First Commercialized AVS-IPTV in Dalian
Mar 18, 2008 – On February 28, China's home-grown IPTV system (AVS-IPTV) based on the second-generation source coding standard (AVS) was put into commercial use by the Dalian Branch of China Netcom (HKSE: 0906; NYSE: CN).
News categories: China Netcom, China, Digital TV, IPTV

CEVA and NBICC Collaborate to Add China's AVS Video Standard to Portfolio of Audio/Video Codecs for CEVA's MM2000 Platform
Mar 10, 2008 – CEVA (NASDAQ: CEVA / LSE: CVA) has announced a collaboration with the Ningbo CAS IC Design Center (NBICC) to add China's Audio Video Coding Standard (AVS) to the portfolio of codecs available for CEVA's MM2000™ programmable multimedia platform.
News categories: CEVA, CAS-ICT, China, IPTV, Semiconductor, Silicon IP

Vweb showcases its 'Secured Digital Home' Extravaganza at CES 2008
Jan 7, 2008 – As a leader in MPEG compression and broadband video networking technologies, Vweb will be demonstrating its single chip Quad Channel MPEG-1, 2, 4, H.263 and H.264 A/V CODEC solutions for the Secured Digital Home.
News categories: Vweb, Broadband, Cable TV, CES2024, China, Digital TV, IPTV, Italy, Japan, Mobile, Placeshifting, Router, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Tablet

ZTE to Build World's First AVS-IPTV Commercial Network with China Netcom Group
Dec 5, 2007 – ZTE Corporation has won the world's first AVS-IPTV commercial network development bid offered by the China Netcom Group. Under the contract, ZTE will be the sole provider of IPTV network solutions for the project.
News categories: ZTE, China Netcom, China, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV

Sigma Designs to Showcase IPTV Set-Top Box and UWB Wireless Solutions at TelcoTV 2007
Oct 24, 2007 – Sigma Designs (Nasdaq:SIGM) has announced that it will conduct a range of IPTV and UWB wireless technology demonstrations of the company's media processor and software solutions at TelcoTV 2007.
News categories: Sigma Designs, IPTV, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart Home

MRG Releases September 2007 Global IPTV Market Leaders Report
Oct 10, 2007 – MRG announces the "IPTV Market Leaders Report - September 2007," which tracks the top 120 IPTV vendors in 24 regional sub-sectors based on their installed base for 6 product areas in over 600 IPTV Operations and 8 million subscribers worldwide.
News categories: Multimedia Research Group (MRG), Conditional Access, Content Distribution, Content Protection, Digital TV, DRM, IPTV, Market Research, Middleware, Set Top Box

UTStarcom RollingStream IPTV Solution Tops 310,500 Live Commercial Subscribers in China
Aug 7, 2007 – UTStarcom (Nasdaq: UTSI) has announced that the company's award-winning RollingStream(TM) end-to-end IPTV solution currently supports more than 310,500 live subscribers in 19 commercial deployments with both China Telecom and China Netcom with a total system capacity of nearly 625,000 subscribers between the two operators.
News categories: China, Digital TV, IPTV, Subscribers