The company's chip are built for DVB-H, which is slowly emerging as the standard, at least in Europe, where the EU is close to mandating the technology as a preferred standard.
CellMetric, Cisco, Digital TV Labs, Humax, NXP Semiconductors, Panasonic, ProTelevision Technologies, Screen Service, SIDSA, Sony, ST Microelectronics an
Apple's market share is slipping: it accounted for nearly three-quarters ( 74.4%) of all online movie sales in 2009. Its competitors are taking a few bites here and there: Microsoft has increased its market share from 11.6% to 17.9%. It offers titles via the X-Box 360 and Microsoft Zune. Sony, which sells movies online through the PlayStation 3 player and select Sony Bravia HDTVs, has gone from 5.7 % to 7.2% in 2010. The rest of the bunch accounts collectively for 10.4% of the market, up from 8.3% in 2009--and that includes Wal-Mart's Vudu se
iSuppli said online movie sales increased 60%in 2010, but the company did not release actual sales numbers
Walmart has used its retail power and influence to get Vudu installed on a range of new devices that it would normally not have had access to, such as Sony’s PlayStati
es: the new Apple TV has no hard disc
in the US, digital rental transactions rose more than 50 per cent in 2010 to 38m, compared with 25m transactions in 2009.