Silicon and processor technology specialist Intel is to open a facility in the Shoreditch area of London to focus on the user experience and design capability necessary to support the media and communications industries’ response to the always-on, connected era of media consumption. Eric Huggers, Corporate Vice President, and General Manager, Intel Digital Home Group, […]
There’s increased speculation on Wall Street that DVR specialist TiVo is a ripe take-over target. A cluster of analysts have identified some well-know names as being potential buyers, not least Microsoft and Google. The logic, they say, is that with TiVo’s extremely long-running legal squabble now done and dusted – and the probability of similar […]
Dolby Laboratories has revealed that Dolby Digital Plus and Dolby Digital have been selected as optional technologies for China’s recently released national Digital Terrestrial Multimedia Broadcasting (DTMB) Receiver Specification for set-top boxes and TVs, which will go into effect on November 1s, 2011. The release of China’s national DTMB Receiver Specification adds to the growing […]
Prisa TV, owner of DTH platform Digital Plus, has signed an agreement with Cisco whereby the technology company will provide the platform Digital Plus with new and state-of-the-art set-top-boxes. The deal forms part of a far-reaching reorganisation plan of Prisa that will also launch a multimedia platform, developed by IBM and Autonomy, for content and […]
Tilgin, a provider of solutions for multiplay and next-generation broadband access, has announced a full Gigabit platform for Home Gateways. The new platform, named Simba, is designed for 10 times today’s Internet use, the possibility to run all services over WiFi, downloadable applications and secure access at high speeds.
Netgem has signed an agreement with Virgin Mobile France, the French Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO), for the launch of its Virgin Box TV offering. Netgem will provide its hardware and software technologies to enable Virgin Mobile France customers to access its quadruple-play services (broadband, broadcast, fixed-line and mobile telephony). Virgin Mobile France will unveil […]
Rovi and LG Electronics have signed multi-year licencing agreements that expand their relationship and provide further integration of DivX technology into a wider range of consumer electronics devices. LG’s latest agreements support its plans to continue to promote the technology on devices beyond Blu-ray Disc players, to ultimately include HDTVs, in-car players, set-top boxes, tablets […]
Renesas Electronics, a provider of advanced semiconductor solutions, has announced the availability of its new system-on-chip (SoC) for STBs, the EMMA3SE/P, which supports the video standards used for digital television broadcasts worldwide and a wide variety of video formats required to play Internet-based content. The EMMA3SE/P SoC integrates in a single chip the functions necessary […]
Sigma Designs, the specialist in connected media platforms, has unveiled its most advanced platform reference design, enabling an experience only found in devices that are combined with networking gateways. Sigma Designs will add more fuel to the growing market of set-top-boxes by enabling these products to stream HD content from the Web, in 1080p, via […]
DVR software specialist SageTV has revealed on its website that it has been acquired by Google. The likelihood is that Google will add SageTV’s TiVo-like recording capability to GoogleTV and the Google cloud. “We’re thrilled to announce that SageTV has been acquired by Google,” said the statement. “Since 2002, we’ve worked to change the TV […]