SoftAtHome and Anevia Delivers Digital Home Entertainment
SoftAtHome, a company created by Orange to help service providers deliver convergent applications for the Digital Home, announced today a partnership with Anevia, a leading supplier of IPTV and Video on Demand (VoD) solutions. Under the partnership the two companies have integrated SoftAtHome Operating Platform running on Set Top Boxes (STB) with Anevia’s Video on Demand (VoD) back-end servers to provide telecommunication companies and service providers with the key components to deploy new video services.
Consumers can now digitally stream movies from Sonic Solutions including new releases from major Hollywood studios often on the day and date the DVD release is available - on Blu-ray Disc players from LG Electronics. 
VUDU announced today that the VUDU service is the first to offer titles from Buena Vista Home Entertainment (now Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment) for download-to-own in high definition. Beginning today, VUDU users can select from a collection of over 60 titles featuring recent hits, such as Doubt and High School Musical 3, as well as past favorites, such as No Country for Old Men, The Sixth Sense and National Treasure.
Entropic Technorati Profile Communications a leading provider of silicon solutions to enable connected home entertainment, announced that its next-generation Channel Stacking Switch (CSS) technology has been tapped by several OEMs for the large free-to-air (FTA) European satellite market.
Nero, creators of liquid media technology, today announced that Nero MediaHome Essentials software will be bundled with the 
Renesas Technology announced the SH-MobileHD1 application processor (product number: SH7370), the first in the industry to deliver low-power Full High-Definition (1,920 × 1,080 pixels, abbreviated “Full HD”) video recording, playback, and streaming support key for the next generation of IP video applications. Sample shipments will begin on April 23, 2009 in Japan.
Macrovision Solutions Corporation announced that Paramount Home Entertainment has agreed to license Macrovision's content protection products, ACP and RipGuard. ACP and RipGuard provide protection against unauthorized copying of content across packaged media such as DVD as well as electronic channels such as the Internet, cable and DBS.
Entropic communications inc, a leading provider of silicon solutions to enable connected home entertainment, announced that Cox Communications, the third-largest cable television company in the United States, is adopting 
Communication and high-performance processors provider RMI Corporation, announced the availability of its Home Media Player® Application Development Kit (ADK) challenging the television and the PC for multimedia consumption in the home.
NETGEAR announced the worldwide availability of the 