Samsung will ship 1.11 million set-top boxes to the U.S. firm.

Samsung Electronics , in cooperation with NDS, has released a new IP set top box designed for consumer access to IPTV. The new gateway will allow broadcasters, telecommunications companies and broadband providers to use existing networks to transmit additional channels and high-definition picture quality to their vie

Samsung is working with TeliaSonera, Sweden's dominant Telco, to develop a Smart TV-based IPTV package that will end the need for a separate set top box.

I received several email messages concerning my article last week on the Funai set-top box with "Smart Antenna" technology. In the article, I said "This may be Funai's first ATSC set-top box" based on not seeing any set-top boxes listed on the Funai Web site. Several readers let me know they owned Funai set-top boxes

U.S. Digital Television (USDTV), the subscription based over-the-air DTV service, will be using ATI's Xilleon MPEG decoder/processor chip and the NXT2004 VSB/QAM receiver chip in its set-top boxes. The ATI press release ATI Enables USDTV's New Low-Cost Alternative to Cable TV , quoted Richard Johnson, COO of USDTV,

The DCT6000 platform builds on Motorola's previous DCT5100 and DCT5200 set-tops.

CableLabs certified a Samsung integrated digital television set (DTV) with CableCard support that connects directly to cable television systems and receives one-way digital programs like HDTV via cable and without requiring a set-top box. The DTVs are interoperable on digital cable systems throughout the United States

Although a prototype DTV tuner for ATSC reception with a CEA-909 interference controlling a smart antenna was demonstrated at NAB over two years ago, the first set-top box using this technology wasn't announced until last week. ATI Technologies Inc. said Funai Electric will use ATI's XILLEON 226 and NXT2004 chips