Pace plc has released its Interim Management Statement for July 2012 to November 2012. It says revenues in the period were in line with management expectations and ahead of last year, driven largely by the launch of and strong demand for next generation Media Server products in North America. It expects revenue in H2 2012 […]
BSkyB is working with Roku on a set-top box to distribute to subscribers its new online TV service according to Anthony Wood, chief executive officer for Roku The hardware will connect TV sets to BSkyB’s Now TV, enabling customers to view movies, live sports and other videos available through the online service, Wood revealed in […]
Sky has launched an update to the Sky+ app that transforms the iPhone and iPod touch devices into a remote control, following these features being introduced on iPad earlier this year. The latest update to the Sky+ app for iPhone means viewers can now use the app to change channels as they watch live TV, […]
EchoStar and Dish Network have celebrated a legal victory after Judge Dolly Gee at a US District Court in California rejected Fox Broadcasting’s efforts to see Dish Network’s ‘Autohop’ ad-skipping technology banned. Fox had applied for an injunction. Fox says the Court’s decision did find that Autohop breached the broadcaster’s copyright, and they would be […]
Spanish cable operator Ono has reported an additional 22,000 TiVo customers during the third quarter, taking the total number of subscribers of its next-gen DVR service to 56,000. Although the service currently has the capacity to reach 6.5 million households it has not yet taken off in Spain. The company says it is getting very […]
Motive Television, the London-based television software and services company, has announced that Motive Television Services, its fully-owned subsidiary, has signed a five-year software licence agreement with Sagemcom Broadband for the use of Motive’s Television Anytime Anywhere technology in anticipation of the launch of commercial services by Digiturk in Turkey in the first quarter of 2013. […]
Market research firm Infonetics Research has released excerpts from its latest Home Networking Devices vendor market share and forecast report, which tracks residential gateways; broadband routers; HomePlug Powerline adapters; multimedia over coax (MoCA) set-top boxes (STBs), optical network terminals (ONTs), and coax-Ethernet adapters; and HPNA/G.hn adapters. “Among the wide variety of gear we track for […]
Walmart, the biggest retail chain in the US, is to start selling the Boxee TV on November 1st. Boxee unveiled the product earlier this month, saying that it should be considered a “No Limits DVR.” The device, which connects to the television, has no onboard storage, but acts as a DVR, thanks to cloud storage. […]
Following the pre-IBC release of selected findings, Digital TV technology consultancy Farncombe has confirmed the availability of a white paper – The Future of Cardless Broadcast Security. This takes an in-depth looks at the trends in technology and cost models that are driving operator requirements for video security in a rapidly-evolving marketplace. Highlights of the […]
ALi Corporation, a set-top-box solution provider, has announced that ALi and MNITI have agreed to join forces on introducing a reference STB solution to assist Russian STB manufacturers in the deployment of digital terrestrial television adopting the DVB-T2 standard. MNITI, Moscow Scientific-Research Television Institute, is the leading organisation in Russia in the field of television […]