The PowerVu D9050 HDTV encoder and the PowerVu D9834 satellite receiver are among the products to be introduced at the show.

Scientific-Atlanta has created the PowerVu Program Receiver to solve a problem cable programmers face in the expensive process of providing a new digital receiver to thousands of headends to replace the current analog signal. The PowerVu enables programmers to roll out digital services, increase the number of channels

Scientific-Atlanta's service arm, SciCare Broadband Services, will help Charter Communications Inc. with network readiness plans for 27 cable sites. SciCare helps cable operators manage and maintain digital interactive networks and integrate and launch ITV services. In this case SciCare will provide assistance in netwo

Starting this fall, Lifetime's west coast affiliates are scheduled to begin receiving their program feeds through PowerVu receivers.

North America, Asia and Europe receive unique Golf Channel programming from a separate Scientific-Atlanta PowerVu encoding system.

Rainbow Media Holdings LLC has selected Scientific Atlanta 's PowerVu digital content distribution systems as part of the analog to digital transition of North American affiliate program delivery. "Our analog-to-digital content distribution transition is a major benchmark in our program delivery timeline and we kne

Cable provider Telewest has launched Britain's first major HD service, getting a bit of an edge on DBS firm BSkyB and broadcaster BBC, among other future content providers which are gearing up for their own HD rollouts later this year. Telewest, a public company founded 22 years ago, is one of two major cable firms i

The delivery of HD signals over cable TV systems just picked up a bit more steam with Scientific-Atlanta's announcement that it has two new HD demodulators targeted for cable applications. Since over-the-air broadcasts use 8VSB modulation for DTV and cable systems generally use 256QAM, cable head-ends require demodulat