Markets Served

Digital Home Business Unit

Provides PC-TV receivers and home media gateways allowing free-to-air as well as Pay-TV reception from DVB networks (satellite, cable and terrestrial). Products are targeted to the needs of home users, as well as to those of broadcasters (satellite, cable and terrestrial) looking to offer their subscribers with enhanced capabilities such as PVR or home-network distribution, based on PC architecture

The worldwide PC-TV hardware market is expected to reach $1.5billion by 2008.
The PC and Home-Network are becoming a platform for entertainment applications. This has recently been termed the Digital Home Revolution, resulting from technological advances as well as lifestyle changes.
A growing audience and especially younger viewers, prefers to spend free time in front of the PC, rather than the television. Broadcasters must retain this audience. Additionally, viewers are already educated about PVR capabilities such as time shifting, broadcast pause and digital recording.
The PC industry sees Digital TV as its next growth engine. Microsoft has recently launched Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, and new Entertainment PC models by leading vendors including Dell and HP appear in the market with exciting new capabilities and services.