Germany - Aachen to launch DTT services
January 27, 2006 (DigiTAG) – Plans have been announced for the launch of DTT services in the city of Aachen, a German city located near the border with Belgium and the Netherlands.

Spain - Uni2 to launch IPTV by end of quarter
January 27, 2006 (TeleGeography) – France Télécom’s Spanish telco Uni2 is planning to launch IPTV services under the Wanadoo Spain banner before the end of the first quarter, becoming the latest in a growing line of operators looking to break into the broadband TV market.

Amaru Inc. Companies Launch Global IPTV Service In USA & Asian Markets With Japanese Technology Partner Zentek
January 27, 2006 – Amaru Inc (AMRU) through its Singapore-based subsidiary M2B World Pte. Ltd., and its Hollywood-based company, M2B World Inc., together with its technology partner Zentek Technology Singapore (Zentek), announced the launching of a Global IPTV service that will offer consumers 40 channels of video on-demand (VOD) content delivered to their television screens via a broadband connection. Reflecting the brands continuing promise to offer the latest in entertainment delivery solutions, it has also announced that it expects to roll-out the first of 10,000 units of its set-top boxes in June of 2006 as well, jointly aimed at US and Singaporean consumers.
All content for this Global IPTV service are exclusively provided by M2B World. While on the technology side, it is partnering Zentek Technology Singapore (Zentek) for the design of the set-top boxes and for technical service support to customers on a worldwide basis.
Amaru Inc and its M2B World subsidiaries target to ship 250,000 set-top boxes worldwide within this year. The set-top box is pre-bundled with a monthly subscription for the 40 channels of content. Consumers will be able to order online and from local retail channels. Further details of the subscription plan and content line-up will be released by the end of February together with preview screenings to the media.

RadioScape Leads Development of Chinese Market for Digital Audio and Multimedia Broadcasting
January 27, 2006 - RadioScape, a world leader in digital audio and multimedia broadcast technology, is leading the adoption of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) and Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) in China through the supply of the very latest Professional DMB/DAB Broadcast Systems to a number of major broadcasters. Systems have already been installed at Beijing Jolon Digital Media Broadcasting, Shanghai Oriental Pearl (Group), and Guangdong Yue Guang Digital Multimedia Broadcasting. Further contracts are expected soon from other leading broadcasters. DMB services for both audio and mobile TV will be on air by the second quarter of this year.
RadioScape has been involved in numerous trials of T-DMB and sending multimedia over Enhanced Packet Mode in both Asia and Europe. Its Professional Broadcast Systems and Research and Test Systems were used in the development of the DMB standard and compatible receiver handsets. T-DMB can provide H.264 QCIF (355 x 288 pixels) at a frame rate of 25 to 30 fps using 384 to 768 Kbps. The DMB broadcasts are anticipated to cover news, music videos, sports, education, movies and simultaneous transmission of terrestrial TV programmes. DAB radio will also be broadcast bringing the benefits of digital clarity and a wide range of content.

TANDBERG Television wins US MPEG-4 IPTV order for $10m
January 27, 2006 - TANDBERG Television (TAT.OL) today announced that it has received an order from a leading digital television service provider in the United States, valued at US$10m. The contract will see TANDBERG Television deliver MPEG-4 AVC SD compression systems during the first half of 2006, in support of that customer's deployment of IPTV super-headend platforms.

Penthera Secures Series A Funding; Accelerates Commercialization of Mobile Digital TV
January 26, 2006 - Penthera Technologies, Inc., a software provider for mobile broadcast multimedia, including video and audio services, today announced the close of $6.6 million in Series A preferred funding, which was led by Warburg Pincus and included Modeo™ LLC, a subsidiary of Crown Castle International Corporation, and ITU Ventures.
Penthera™ provides an end-to-end software solution, Athena™, which delivers live television and radio to mobile devices such as handsets, PDAs and laptops. Modeo is expected to integrate Penthera’s technology with its broadcast mobile video service, which is planned to launch commercially in select U.S. markets later this year.

Telenet Digital TV achieves major milestone
January 26, 2006 - This week, Telenet’s sales of Digiboxes reached 100,000. The company also started supplying the Digicorder. By means of an automatic software download, the Digicorder’s recording function will be activated during the coming months.

Cyprus - A new milestone for Telephony, Internet and Television, all through a single connection by PrimeTel
January 26, 2006 - Starting from April, PrimeTel, the strategic partner of the Electricity Authority of Cyprus in the field of telecommunications, will offer, Telephony, Internet and Television services, all through one single connection. This was announced during a press conference that was held on Thursday January 26, 2006. This unique service offering is a new milestone in providing complete Voice, Data and Video services.
By taking advantage of today’s technology, PrimeTel has created a new advanced platform and has incorporated, into a single package, Fixed Telephony, Broadband Internet and Digital Television, the globally well-known product Triple Play (Voice, Data, Video). All services will be offered through a simple and easy-to-use equipment and a normal telephone line.
Used for the first time in Cyprus, ADSL2+ technology allows a data transmission speed of up to 24 Mbps, which is much higher of the speeds that are currently offered by the existing conventional ADSL service.

France Telecom Plans Euro IPTV Assault
January 26, 2006 (Light Reading) - France Telecom SA is to take advantage of its telco TV experience in its domestic market by launching IPTV services in neighboring European markets in 2006, according to Benjamin Schwarz, the executive leading the services push.

DMB, Wibro Launching into Canada
January 26, 2006 (ETNEWS) - The Ministry of Information and Communication said on January 25 that Silicon Valley Overseas IT Support Center (iPARK) at the Korea IT Industry Promotion Agency exchanged a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for cooperation in DMB and Wibro with the Telecommunication Laboratories, the largest information and telecommunication laboratory in Canada.

Broadcom Reports Fourth Quarter and Year 2005 Results
January 26, 2006 - Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM) today reported unaudited financial results for its fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2005.
Net revenue for the fourth quarter of 2005 was $820.6 million, an increase of 18.1% from the $695.0 million reported for the third quarter of 2005 and an increase of 52.1% from the $539.4 million reported for the fourth quarter of 2004. Net income computed in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) for the fourth quarter of 2005 was $194.8 million, or $.50 per share (diluted), compared with GAAP net income of $132.7 million, or $.35 per share (diluted), for the third quarter of 2005, and GAAP net income of $71.1 million, or $.20 per share (diluted), for the fourth quarter of 2004.

BitBand Unveils Next Generation Video Server at TVoDSL 2006 Triple Play Showcase
January 26, 2006 - BitBand, a leading provider of video delivery over IP solutions, announced today that it is expanding the company's offering in the IPTV market space with the presentation of a new high capacity video streaming server at TVoDSL 2006 in Paris this week.
BitBand's leading recording technology with the new generation platform allows the company to cater to increasing variations of TV on Demand and Video on Demand applications such as instant recording, program restart, classic NPVR and Pause-live TV (PLTV). The outcome is a Telco-optimized video delivery solution that enables revenue generating services today and in the future with fast ROI and quick time to market.

tvtv to collaborate with YooMedia for EPG and interactive digital television services
January 26, 2006 - YooMedia, the AIM-traded interactive content and services provider, has signed an agreement with tvtv, a branch of Sony United Kingdom Ltd, to provide bandwidth for transmission of rich EPG data through Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) in the UK.
tvtv is aggregating and transmitting TV metadata through Internet, analog and digital broadcast in Europe. The service enables advanced EPG functionality on TV sets, digital set-top-boxes, personal video recorders, DVD recorders, personal computers and mobile phones. Device manufacturers, using the tvtv EPG data service, can design their own user interface and offer consumers easy to use, state of the art devices with inter-connectivity within mobile, internet and broadcast platforms.
In addition, YooMedia and tvtv will collaborate to research and develop additional interactive digital television services via or in conjunction with the EPG, such as enhanced on-screen TV magazines and interactive television advertising.

India - ISRO sees mobile TV as the new money-spinner — Mobile video tech to be packed on to Insat-4E
January 26, 2006 (Hindu Business Line) - IN the world of entertainment, what after digital radio and DTH? Don't tell this yet to the cops who flag you down for touching the cell phone while driving - in around three years from now, you could be watching television while you move around in your car, on highways, ships or what have you, if national space agency ISRO has its way.

T-2, Slovenia's new Triple Play Service Provider, uses Netcentrex IP-based communication solutions
January 26, 2006 - Netcentrex , the leading enabler of converged voice-video-data networks and next-generation services, and T-2, the first company to offer VDSL Internet access and triple play services in Slovenia, announced today that T-2 uses Netcentrex solutions for its IP-based communications management and delivery.
T-2, a Maribor-based company owned by financial firm Zvon Ena Holding, aims to gain 25% market share and become Slovenia's leading alternative service provider over the next few years. To reach this goal, T-2 needed a very high value offering. So the company deployed triple play services combining traditional Internet access with fixed telephony, video communication and 120-channel digital television using new very high speed digital subscriber line (VDSL) technologies to ensure quality of access and delivery.

Tata Sky Selects NDS Systems to Create India's Most Advanced Digital and Interactive DTH Service
January 26, 2006 - NDS Group plc, the leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay TV, today announced that NDS end-to-end solutions have been chosen by Tata Sky for the launch of the company's direct-to-home (DTH) pay-TV service in India in mid-2006. Tata Sky is the 80:20 joint venture between TATA Group and STAR Group.

IPTV Start-up Edgeware Receives Venture Capital for Market Entry
January 26, 2006 – Edgeware, a start-up company developing uniquely scalable and cost efficient high performance servers for ondemand television services, today announced the successful conclusion of a Series A financing round with the leading Nordic early stage venture capital firm Creandum.
Edgeware is a technology leading system vendor, targeting interactive television and video on demand (VoD) applications in IPTV and cable TV networks. Based on a novel video streaming and solid-state content storage architecture, Edgeware's revolutionizing server products significantly improve streaming capacity, functionality, service quality and profitability for service providers.

Trident Microsystems Reports Financial Results for Second Quarter of Fiscal Year 2006
January 25, 2006 - Trident Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: TRID) a leading provider of digital TV semiconductor technology today announced for the second quarter of fiscal 2006, ended December 31, 2005, the company achieved net revenues of $40,614,000, a sequential increase of 22% from the $33,204,000 reported in the immediately preceding quarter, and a year over year increase of 164% from $15,387,000 reported in the second fiscal quarter one year ago.
During the Consumer Electronics trade show in Las Vegas earlier this month, we were excited to see several top-tier OEMs showing many new 2006 LCDTV & PDP models with superb video quality using our sixth-generation SVP LX and SVP PX products. We also introduced and demonstrated our second-generation HiDTV Pro chip for the HDTV market as well as our new low-end SVP CX display processor chip. Both chips were very well received by OEM customers visiting our suite.

Widevine® Technologies Selected by Swedish Space Corporation and FastTV to Protect VOD, Broadcast Content
January 25, 2006 - Widevine Technologies, the world’s most deployed provider of downloadable content protection and digital forensics solutions, today announced that Swedish Space Corporation of Stockholm, Sweden, has chosen Widevine Cypher® Suite to provide content protection distributed through it’s IPTV uplink and downlink service, Stockholm Teleport. SSC distributes linear broadcast and VOD content across their satellite and broadband network to downstream operators, including Scandinavia’s FastTV.
Swedish Space Corporation provides IPTV playout services to city and regional networks across Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Widevine has delivered a comprehensive content protection solution used to secure playout from SSC’s downlink sites. SSC and Widevine have integrated Widevine Cypher into an IPTV delivery infrastructure that initially includes middleware from Dreampark and Kreatel set-top boxes for IPTV operator, FastTV. The Cypher Franchise component of the suite offers content protection to downstream operators at a fraction of the cost of a complete system. Built upon an open content protection platform, Widevine Cypher Suite flexibly interoperates with each operator’s middleware, consumer premises equipment and VOD servers.

LSI Logic Reports Q4 Revenue Increase of 21% Year-Over-Year
January 25, 2006 - LSI Logic Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today reported fourth quarter 2005 revenues of $506 million, a sequential increase of 5% compared to the $482 million reported in the third quarter of 2005, and a 21% increase compared to the $420 million reported in the fourth quarter of 2004.

GlobeCast Operates New IPTV Bouquet for France Telecom's MaLigne TV
January 25, 2006 - GlobeCast, a global content management and delivery company , was chosen by France Telecom's IPTV arm MaLigne TV for technical management of the French operator's newest IPTV bouquet, Le Bouquet TV, beginning with its launch on February 1st.

Envivio Becomes Leading Provider of MPEG-4 Video Headends for New Wave of IPTV Services in China
January 25, 2006 - In 2005, Envivio Inc. sold more than 300 channels of encoding systems for IPTV installations in China and is now the leading provider of broadcast quality MPEG-4 video headends in the country. At present, four independent China-based IPTV trials and services are using the 4Caster™ Broadcast Series encoders to power IP applications for live television.
Last year, Envivio won an unprecedented number of bids from service providers and integrators in the IPTV, mobile, broadcast and enterprise market sectors. The company more than tripled the number of encoding systems shipped in the previous year to deliver over 1,000 encoders in 2005. In September, Envivio reached an industry milestone by shipping its 1,500th encoding system. A first in the industry, the number was reached by shipping actual working MPEG-4 encoders, as opposed to shipping MPEG-2 encoders that are capable of upgrading to AVC/H.264.

Four Digital TV Operators Start Business in Qingdao
January 25, 2006 (TMCnet/SinoCast via COMTEX) - Four digital TV operators simultaneously started offering services in Qingdao City of eastern China's Shandong Province on January 18.

For IPTV Set Top Box Vendors, the Consolidation Dance Has Started
January 25, 2006 - With 2006 just under way, there is already a chill wind blowing through the halls of many of the IPTV set top box vendors. As TDG predicted in mid-2005, the consolidation of the IPTV set top box market is now underway. With last week's announcement that Motorola has agreed to buy Kreatel, the Swedish manufacturer of IPTV set top boxes - coupled with last year's announcement of Cisco's move to purchase Scientific Atlanta - the 500 pound gorillas have officially arrived. This is a "good news/bad news" proposition for the remaining IPTV STB vendors. The good news: their market is now large enough to warrant the attention of the big boys. The bad news: they demand a huge share of the market!

Microsoft: LatAm to see IPTV services offered in 2006
January 25, 2006 (BNamericas) - Latin America will start to see commercial success with internet TV (IPTV) services in 2006, Renato Cortrim, regional business manager in Latin America's southern cone for Microsoft told BNamericas.

Amino Selected for Canal Digital's IPTV Deployment
January 25, 2006 - Amino, leading IPTV software and consumer premises equipment provider, today confirmed that it has worked with Canal Digital to bring IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) services to subscribers within the Nordic region. Canal Digital deployed AmiNET110 IPTV set-top boxes to subscriber homes to offer full IPTV services by the end of 2005.

Denmark's TDC chooses Alcatel for global IPTV and triple play deployment
January 25, 2006 - TDC, Denmark's largest telecom and cable TV operator, today announced that it has selected Alcatel for the deployment of its Internet protocol television (IPTV) offering. The solution will include the Microsoft TV IPTV Edition software platform and Alcatel's services integration. This will enable TDC to provide viewers in the Nordic region with an enriched user experience: one that is simple, personalized and predictable.

South Africa - Pay-TV licence battle to be launched this month
January 25, 2006 (Cape Argus) - South Africa's communications regulator will invite bids for pay-TV licences by the end of the month, paving the way for competition to Naspers Ltd's DStv monopoly in Africa.

Hungary - Debate over digital TV bill hinges on regulation of content
January 25, 2006 (BBJ) - Parliament's speedy approval of a bill on digital television broadcasting could give Hungary an advantage when frequency bands are allocated in May and June; still, the bill is being contested by those who wish to see the medium's broadcast content overseen by state authorities, rather than liberalized, Minister of IT and Communications Kálmán Kovacs said yesterday, after a meeting of Hungary's parliamentary parties to discuss the bill.

Mauritius - Slow start for DTT services
January 25, 2006 (DigiTAG) - DTT has taken off slowly in Mauritius. Reasons given include the lack of public awareness about DTT services and a weak content offer.

SIDSA Launches A New Mobile TV Business Platform
January 25, 2006 (Mobile Europe) - SIDSA, the international provider of digital TV and broadband solutions, products and services, has launched a Mobile TV platform, SIDSA Polaris, to meet the highly increasing demand for technical, pre-commercial and commercial DVB-H services, both concerning pay and free to air TV.

Second Meeting of ATSC Essential Patent Holders to be Held February 8; MPEG LA Call for Essential Patents Continues
January 24, 2006 - MPEG LA today announced that the next meeting of ATSC essential patent holders will be held February 8 in New York City. The meeting is part of a continuing effort to address the market's demonstrated need for a single license consisting of essential patents for the digital terrestrial television standard known as ATSC. ATSC, which has been adopted for the transmission and reception of digital television broadcast signals in the United States, incorporates the RF modulation format known as 8-VSB in addition to other technologies.
MPEG LA continues to welcome the submission of patents for an evaluation of their essentiality to the ATSC standard in order to include in one license as much essential intellectual property as possible for the convenience of the marketplace. Any party that believes it has patents that are essential to the standard and wishes to join the ATSC Patent Portfolio License is invited to submit its patents for evaluation by MPEG LA's patent experts. Further information, along with terms and procedures governing patent submissions, can be found at http://www.mpegla.com/pid/atsc/.

Digital TV To Outpace Broadband Internet in Europe by 2010
January 24, 2006 - The market for 'digital home' services (TV, broadband internet and telephony) in Europe is set to take off in 2006, according to a study by Booz Allen Hamilton titled, "The Future Role of Cable in Shaping the Digital Home in Europe". By 2010, digital TV (DTV) will be available in 60% of European households enabling consumers to access new services, including interactive television. Thus, DTV will replace broadband internet as the principal driver of growth of Europe's digital economy.

Mobile TV Germany - Network Performance, Content, Devices Receive Failing Grades
January 24, 2006 - Strategy Analytics, the global research and consulting company, today released, "Mobile TV Germany: Failing Grades on Content and Network Performances," which concludes that current generation Mobile TV services in Germany are failing to impress users due to poor network performance, lack of compelling content and inadequate devices.
While T-Mobile's Handy TV out-scored Vodafone Live! Mobile TV, users were unimpressed with the experience delivered by both services. Handy TV was rated 5 points higher than Vodafone Live! Overall, and was marginally preferred in all categories including audiovisual quality and usability.

STMicroelectronics Reports 2005 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Revenues and Earnings
January 24, 2006 - STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) reported financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2005.
• In digital consumer, ST launched the STB7109, the company's second-generation H.264 high-definition TV (HDTV) AVC and VC-1 decoder. Building on the success of the STB7100, the world's first single-chip AVC and MPEG-2 decoder, the STB7109 adds VC-1 decoding, improved security, connectivity features, and support for emerging DVD formats and security standards.
• Adding to the multiple design wins already achieved by both the STB7100 and STB7109, Loewe GmbH adopted the STB7100 for use across its high-end integrated DTV product range and Sagem and ST announced the availability of the world's first MPEG-4 set-top boxes (STBs) based on a single-chip decoder, enabling broadcasters and service operators worldwide to offer end users HDTV and/or many more TV channels, by using their existing broadcast network. The new STB7100-based boxes are being rolled out for satellite, IPTV, and terrestrial broadcast by several operators including Canal+, France-Telecom and Telecom Italia. Additionally, the STB7100, together with ST's STB0899 front-end satellite demodulator, is being used in a Philips STB for Premiere.
• ST announced that it had developed an affordable, ready-to-implement HDTV platform for the Japanese market with BHA Corporation. The two companies plan to use this platform to catalyze the adoption of digital TV in Japan. In China, ST's affiliate company Shanghai-BMC released a complete middleware solution for STBs intended for the Chinese market, as well as for international operators. And for the first time in Brazil, the transmission of a digital terrestrial TV (DTT) signal in HDTV format was publicly demonstrated from a transmitter to an end-user terminal, by ST working in conjunction with leading Brazilian laboratories and universities.

Orca Releases RiGHTv 4.5, Introducing an IPTV Service Delivery Platform to Enable True Open Platform Capabilities
January 24, 2005 - Orca Interactive, a global market leader in developing middleware and applications for IPTV, announced today the release of Orca RiGHTv™ 4.5 with an evolution of the middleware's architecture into a Service Delivery Platform (SDP), a service creation and delivery system for accelerating time to market of interactive TV applications and services.
In the fast growing IPTV industry, operators need to respond to changes in the market and in consumer needs and behavior. Orca's RiGHTv SDP environment answers this need by providing the service control and flexibility for operators to quickly and easily introduce an unlimited number of revenue generating and targeted services and applications from various vendors, thus reducing operation cost, cost of ownership and business risk. The integrated TV experience of multiple applications increases customer satisfaction and loyalty and allows service bundling for pricing and promotion.
Orca's SDP serves as an integration hub for the 3rd party application developers with the OSS / BSS (operational and business support systems), the IPTV value chain components such as video servers, CA/DRM and encoders, and the set-top boxes (STBs) in use in the households. By allowing operators to rapidly evolve their IPTV service, with minimum service integration overhead, the SDP reduces the cost of building and managing services on the IPTV network.

Continental Vista Broadcasting Group Launches WhiteBlox At Industry's Largest Television Conference
January 24, 2006 - Continental Vista Broadcasting Group Inc., the industry's leading broadcast-network solutions provider, today announced the launch of its newest property, WhiteBlox, at the NATPE show in Las Vegas on Jan. 24 - 26, 2006. WhiteBlox delivers dynamic, powerful simple building blocks to help companies launch their own private-label broadband networks and will be unveiling its new brand and technology at the show to the television and entertainment community.

DAVE.TV™ Rolls Out Revolutionary Content Publishing Network Through IPTV Platform
January 24, 2006 - DAVE.TV™, a global IPTV digital entertainment distribution network, today announces the launch of its Content Publishing Network enabling content owners and publishers, for the first time, to deliver their content simultaneously to the TV, PC, portable and mobile devices all over the world and across multiple service provider networks. DAVE.TV develops IPTV platforms for service providers such as Telcos, CLECs, MSOs and ISPs. DAVE.TV will be exhibiting at the NATPE Conference in Las Vegas January 24-26, 2006 in Booth #748 in the ITA Alternative Upfronts Digital Village.

DiBcom announces first significant DVB-H chip order
January 23, 2006 - DiBcom announced today that it has received a major order of DIB7000-H from a leading cell phone manufacturer for delivery in volume beginning in Q2’06 for the European market. The DIB7000-H, the world’s first DVB-H chipset for receiving digital terrestrial TV in accordance with the DVB-H standard, was introduced one year ago.

New IP set-top box series from Kreatel promotes HDTV over DSL networks
January 23, 2006 - Kreatel® Communications announces the launch of the latest addition to its IP-STB family at the upcoming TVoDSL show in Paris, January 25-27, 2006. The Kreatel IP-STB 1900 series addresses the consumer desire for high definition television (HDTV) and the operator interest in adding a broad range of services.
With the launch of the Kreatel IP-STB 1900 series, Kreatel introduces a series of IPTV set-top boxes that support operators in broadcasting high definition television and video on demand in DSL networks. Supported video formats include among others H.264 (MPEG-4 AVC), VC-1 (Windows Media® 9) and MPEG-2.

Widevine® Technologies, Sigma Designs® Enter Partnership Agreement
January 23, 2006 - Widevine Technologies, the world’s most deployed provider of downloadable content protection and digital forensic solutions, and Sigma Designs, a leader in digital media processing solutions for consumer electronics, today announced they have entered into a partnership agreement.
Under the agreement, the patented Widevine Cypher® Virtual SmartCard™ is pre-integrated with Sigma Designs’ EM8620 and SMP8630 series. This enables telco, cable, satellite, Internet and wireless service providers to offer secure content delivery to consumer devices powered by Sigma Designs’ chipsets. The Widevine Digital Media Processor Partner Program enables consumer electronics manufacturers a faster time to market with content protection for video operators around the world.
Widevine Ready and Widevine Secured partners represent the widest range of consumer premises equipment, middleware and VOD vendors for IP video in the world, offering operators the broadest flexibility, choice and control over their IP video business.

IPTV Set-top-Box, Headend Equipment and Middleware Markets to Reach $1.5 Billion in 2013
January 23, 2006 - According to recently released report from Dittberner Associates Inc. the IPTV market for set-top-boxes, headend equipment and middleware will reach $1.5 Billion in 2013.

Market Segments	2013
Set-top-box Market	$744,106,000
Headend Equipment Market	$176,103,000
Middleware	$614,356,000
Total	$1,534,566

New Collaboration Integrates Latens Software Security with Simac Broadcast's ‘Best of Breed' Video Distribution Systems
January 23, 2006 - Latens, the pioneer of next generation software based security for IPTV and Pay-TV and System Integrator Simac Broadcast today announced that they are collaborating to provide Simac Broadcast's customers with video distribution solutions pre-integrated with Latens next generation Content & Revenue Protection systems for Pay-TV and IPTV.

New Software Setting Stage for Mainstream Consumer Media Networking
January 23, 2006 - New home network management software will improve ease-of-use for consumers and reduce the level of customer support required, reports In-Stat. The hardware-agnostic consumer network management and setup software market will expand at a compound annual growth rate of well over 100% for both aggressive and conservative forecast scenarios, the high-tech market research firm says.
A recent report by In-Stat found the following regarding this market:
• Market drivers include an easier way to setup and manage consumers' networks, especially as the complexity factor is growing with more network-capable devices. This reduces service calls, benefiting the consumer, equipment vendor, and service provider.
• Drivers also include special functionalities, like remote access, which can add to providers' revenue streams as well as they add to the value of a home network for consumers.
• Support will need to be integrated into home network management software that will support networking via powerline, HPNA, and coax.

Industry Leaders Form Alliance to Foster Growth of Mobile Digital TV and Accelerate DVB-H Deployment in North America
January 23, 2006 - Today, a group of the industry's leading wireless and entertainment companies announced the formation of a new organization created to promote the growth and evolution of Digital Video Broadcasting – Handheld (DVB-H), an open procedure standard for broadcast digital TV reception on mobile devices. The organization, called the Mobile DTV Alliance, includes representatives from Intel Corporation, Modeo, Motorola, Nokia and Texas Instruments (TI).

Amino Technologies plc Acquisition of SJ Consulting for £1.3M
January 23, 2006 - Amino Technologies plc ('Amino'; stock code: AMO), the Cambridge based broadband network software and systems company, has acquired SJ Consulting Limited ('SJC') for a total consideration of £1.3 million.
Based in Cambridge, England, SJC is a software company that has developed advanced video codec products such as MPEG4 (H.264) and Windows Media/VC1. The intellectual property for these codec products has been licensed and deployed in an array of set top boxes for several customers including Amino.
The company's primary focus is in embedded systems design, particularly for advanced networked equipment using technologies such as MPEG, ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) and wireless Ethernet. SJC also has considerable experience of video-on-demand systems, having participated in the 'leading edge' Cambridge video-on-demand trial.

Renesas Technology Releases "WMA/DRM Decode Middleware" SH-Mobile software supporting "Windows Media® DRM 10 for Portable Devices"
January 23, 2006 - Renesas Technology Corp. today announced "WMA/DRM Decode Middleware" supporting Microsoft Corporation's digital rights copyright management technology "Windows Media® DRM 10 for Portable Devices" as application development software for mobile phones using an SH-Mobile application processor. The new WMA/DRM Decode Middleware will be available from January 31, 2006 in Japan.

Softel vdm, Inc. Releases MyTinyTV: Live TV for Pocket PCs
January 23, 2006 (PRNewswire) - Couch potatoes may soon be a thing of the past, thanks to Softel vdm, Inc.'s release of MyTinyTV 1.0. The program allows anyone to watch real-time television on a Pocket PC - on the road across the Internet and wherever WiFi is available, which gives viewers many more exciting seating options than the living room sofa.

UK's Homechoice for sale for 200 mln stg - paper
January 22, 2006 (Reuters) - British TV-over-broadband service Homechoice is up for sale with a price tag of about 200 million pounds ($352 million), and has attracted the interest of British satellite broadcaster BSkyB, the Sunday Express newspaper said.

India - Bharti to enter IPTV to offer voice,video, data over phoneline
January 22, 2006 (Economic Times) - Making a synergistic move, Sunil Mittal's Bharti is set to enter the niche "Internet Protocol TV" (IPTV) segment where video content would be offered through its telephone lines.

MatrixStream to release world's first High Definition IPTV
January 22, 2006 (PressZoom) - MatrixStream Technologies, Inc., will soon be releasing the world’s first H.264 AVC (advance video codec) Video on Demand and IPTV Set Top Box (STB) and PC Player capable of the highest of high definition (HD) signal formats with 1080 vertical pixels by 1920 horizontal pixels.