Sling Media, owned by Charlie Ergen’s Dish Network, has agreed terms with Belkin International over Belken’s alleged infringements of SlingMedia’s ‘placeshifting’ technology. The agreement was contained in papers filed on May 19th with the US International Trade Commission. Sling has asked the Commission to dismiss Belkin from its investigation into whether various other manufacturers were infringing six patents controlled by [...]
TiVo posted a narrower first-quarter loss after adding 277,000 pay-TV users – the most pay-TV subscribers gained in a quarter in seven years. The net loss of $10.3 million compared with a loss of $20.8 million year earlier. The company is currently holding “constructive” talks with Liberty Global which is buying Virgin Media, a TiVo customer, Chief Executive Officer Tom [...]
TalkTalk signed up 150,000 new subscribers to its YouView service in the first three months of this year – making it the UK’s fastest-growing new TV service. The leap took the total number of TV customers on the company’s network to more than 230,000 at the end of March, with 12,000 new customers taking the service each week. Early data [...]
Market research firm Infonetics Research has released excerpts from its latest Residential Gateway Strategies: Global Service Provider Survey. “Operators continue to morph their fixed broadband network strategies to focus not only on the size of the connection to the subscriber, but also on the services and revenue these broadband connections can deliver. Residential gateways are critical to ensuring the successful [...]
Espial, a specialist in on-demand TV software and solutions, has announced that global device manufacturer Harvard International has shipped its View21 and Goodmans STBs throughout the UK powered by Espial STB client and multiscreen software solutions. Leveraging the flexibility of the comprehensive platform, Harvard offers an engaging and application-rich television experience on STBs and second-screen devices such as tablets and [...]
According to data from TDG, home network diffusion among US broadband households has reached 84 per cent, up from 81 per cent in 2011. TDG’s latest report on the key trends impacting digital media, also notes that router placement and network-related behaviour is increasingly defined by streaming media as opposed to data-related activities. “Over the years, we have predicted and [...]
MaxLinear, a provider of integrated radio frequency and mixed-signal integrated circuits, has revealed that Technicolor has selected its MxL683 for a new hybrid satellite / terrestrial (ISDB-T) HD STB for the Latin America market. The new STB, for DTH satellite operators in Latin America, integrates multiple reception and connectivity technologies and simplifies installation with just a single cable from the [...]
China’s EKT (Eagle Kingdom Technologies), a supplier of advanced STB solutions and iP4 (iP4.tv GmbH), a developer of advanced STB middleware called solidTV, have joined forces in a merger that sees a seamless integration of the iP4.tv STB middleware and the Advanced Hardware solutions from EKT. The merger allows EKT to offer cost effective solutions ranging from Zappers through to [...]
Ian Mecklenburgh, Virgin Media’s director of consumer platforms, was non-committal about the future of Virgin’s TiVO once Liberty is in control. He conceded that Liberty had made big investments in their proprietary Horizon system, but equally “there is an install base of 1.5 million TiVos and that carries a lot of weight.” Mecklenburgh did enthuse on the latest improvements to [...]
Myriad Group, the company creating and connecting communities across mobile and TV, has announced that Pace has selected Myriad’s Java technology for use in their RDK compliant set-top boxes. The JVM is a key component of the Comcast Reference Design Kit (RDK), a pre-integrated software bundle for set-top boxes, multi-tuner video gateways and client devices that is rapidly being adopted [...]
