The likely price of set-top converter boxes for South Africa’s upcoming digital terrestrial TV service has been dramatically cut back. Originally expected to cost around R700 ($83.60) they are now expected to cost nearer R400 ($48). South Africa’s director-general of Communications, Themba Phiri says the government needs to stump up an extra R2.6 billion in […]
Australian set-top based Internet TV service FetchTV is quickly expanding its subscriber base after the bundling of its service with its partners iiNet and Optus. As of July, iiNet has begun promoting a bundle of services that includes Fetch television along with Internet and phone services. This follows the bundling of Fetch with Optus’s broadband […]
TiVo, the DVR specialist, has confirmed the launch of its TiVo Premiere 4, a set-top box designed to solve programme scheduling conflicts and allow families to record all of their favourite shows, while simultaneously serving as the hub to a TiVo whole home-setup. The STB offers four digital tuners to record four programmes simultaneously, up […]
Apple is in talks with some of the biggest US cable operators about letting consumers use an Apple device as a set-top box for live television and other content, according to reports. The talks illustrate that Apple is seeking a less radical path to expand in television than it has contemplated in the past, namely […]
Multi-screen video software specialist SeaChange International and advanced television entertainment expert TiVo have announced the availability of their joint Cardio solution for cable television operators to deliver an advanced video-on-demand (VoD) experience to subscribers using TiVo set-top boxes including the latest multi-tuner DVR models. This new generation Cardio solution now supports Cisco digital cable platforms […]
Portugal’s National Communications Authority (Anacom) has decided to extend by four months the reimbursement and subsidy programmes for Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) decoders. Initially, the initiative was intended to run until June 30th. However, Anacom first extended the deadline until August 31st and now introduced a new extension until December 2012, in order for the […]
Transformation of a relatively mature pay-TV market and a surge in OTT services are identified as two key drivers in the growth of video infrastructure sales, according to findings from market intelligence specialist Synergy Research Group. The firm’s research suggests that the video infrastructure market generated revenues of $32 billion for technology vendors in 2011, […]
MStar Semiconductor has joined the Multimedia over Coax Alliance as an Associate member. MStar is a global IC provider for high volume consumer electronics markets, including TV and STB. “As a major player in STB controller SoCs, advanced security ICs and other chipsets for the digital TV sector, we see an increasing requirement for MoCA […]
Spanish media group Prisa TV, owner of digital DTH platform Canal Plus, is developing, along with Cisco, a new generation of its iPlus STB to be launched in 2013 in an attempt to strenghthen its interactive capacity and integrate new functionalities. Currently, its iPlus hybrid-PVR subscriber total stands at 574,440 with a growth of 33.2 per cent […]
With the deadline for conversion of cable system to digital format in four metros ending on October 31st, just half of households in Mumbai have been covered with STBs. A review by the I&B Ministry has revealed that 50 per cent of cable TV homes in the metropolis have already been installed with STBs. While […]