Cryptography Research, a division of Rambus, has signed a licence agreement with EchoStar Technologies to adopt the Cryptography Research CryptoFirewall security core for use with EchoStar set-top-box technologies to protect against TV signal theft. “We are committed to the strongest and most advanced security solutions and pleased to be integrating the CryptoFirewall core into our […]
Ocean Blue Software’s Sunrise DVB stack and PVR core support Broadcom’s chipset range for set top boxes. Ocean Blue’s broadly deployed middleware solution is now available for Broadcom’s set-top box chipset range, offering a feature rich capability for DVB-T/T2, S/S2 and C solutions. This includes Freeview HD, PVR, USB PVR, and MHEG-5 that can be […]
TiVo Research and Analytics, a wholly-owned subsidiary of TiVo, has announced the launch of TRA Cross Media Measurement, which enables advertisers, agencies and television networks to measure household-level exposure across TV and online advertising campaigns and content for more than 100,000 households – the industry’s largest single-source, naturally occurring data set of its kind by […]
Some major US broadcast networks will not carry Dish’s advertisements for its ‘Dish Hopper’ ad-skipping technology. On Sunday, Dish managed cleverly to circumvent Fox’s apparent ban by sponsoring a racing car at the all-important Daytona 500 NASCAR race. Car 95 was the Leavine Family Racing’s Ford Fusion driven by Scott Speed, and it was neatly […]
One giant Indian MSO, Tamul Nadu Cable Comms (TCCL), says it needs the best part of 3 million new digital set-top boxes for its own analogue-to-digital conversion plan. Currently TCCL has only some 200,000 set-top boxes deployed, and is looking to supply 500,000-750,000 new boxes by the end of April, and expects to install close […]
Dish Network’s president Charlie Ergen said he is hopeful that despite ongoing ‘AutoHop’ litigation with some network broadcasters, the upcoming Disney contract negotiations would go smoothly. “Obviously we’re a very large customer of Disney, and our checks are pretty big. We have negotiations every year with major programmers. Some that we’re in litigation with, while […]
Cisco won significant standard definition set-top box business in India in the quarter ending January 26th 2013. Cisco shipped 1.3 million boxes in the fourth quarter compared with 850K in the third quarter, with a large portion of the increase coming from India. Cisco CEO John Chambers remarked that the company has “been more selective […]
Rentrak, a company that precisely measures movies and TV everywhere, announced the release of Total Audience Viewing which combines DVR and VoD viewership information with that of the live TV audience. Previously, no report has shown the total audience viewing lift of programme audiences over a month period of time (28 days). With the new […]
Cisco executives have taken steps to clarify the company’s commitment to its set-top box business in the wake of comments made in an analyst call by Chairman and CEO John Chambers that that it was “walking away” from low-margin STB business. Writing in a Cisco blog posted by Senior Vice President and General Manager Service […]
Verimatrix, the specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for multi-network, multi-screen digital TV services around the globe, and Swedish triple-play operator Com Hem, have confirmed that the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS) has been selected to secure Com Hem’s advanced multi-screen TV services scheduled to launch Spring 2013. The new service will be delivered […]