The anticipated analogue switch-off in territories beyond North America and Western Europe is expected to increase the demand for DVB-T2 set-top-boxes in 2015, the next milestone year established by the ITU for switching to digital, according to ABI Research. The firm notes that a number of countries in Eastern Europe and Middle-East Africa are hoping to satisfy this goal. With [...]
Online retail giant Amazon is planning to introduce a device later this year dedicated to streaming video over the Internet into customers’ homes. According to reports, the box will plug into TVs and give users access to Amazon’s expanding video offerings. Those include its à la carte Video on Demand store, which features newer films and TV shows, and its [...]
HGI, the global organisation for publishing requirements for the Smart Home, welcomes the EnOcean Alliance as a new Associate Member. The EnOcean Alliance is a non-profit organisation with an established ecosystem and experience in the building automation sector, more than 250,000 equipped buildings and 300 member companies. The common ground is EnOcean’s energy harvesting wireless technology which uses motion, light [...]
Pace has announced its Interim Management Statement for the four months to April 23rd 2013. At its Annual General Meeting Allan Leighton, Chairman said: “I am pleased to report that Pace has made an encouraging start to the new financial year with strong revenue growth in the period, in line with our expectations. We expect revenue for H1 2013 will [...]
New software for the YouView Humax box is now available for retail and BT customers and will be rolled out over the next two weeks. The software will be available on Talk Talk YouView boxes shortly afterwards This software introduces a number of enhancements and new features: – An enhancement to searching for programmes that are on now and next; [...]
HGI, the global organisation for setting requirements for the digital home, has published a requirements document that sets out common industry approach to troubleshooting. Document HGI -RW016 entitled Home Gateway and Home Network Diagnostics Module Requirements specifies both an overall diagnostics architecture as well as a set of diaqnostic functions in the Home Gateway (HG) that support a flexible troubleshooting [...]
STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor specialist, has revealed that its Orly system-on-chip (SoC) is powering a new generation of advanced set-top boxes from NTT Plala – an Internet / IPTV service provider in Japan. This STB has been developed by Sumitomo Electric Networks, a Japanese equipment producer for home entertainment and broadband service providers. ST’s Orly was selected as the high-end [...]
As the use of multiple connected devices in the home continues to increase year over year, home networks provide the foundation to connect mobile devices, appliances and systems in the home, according to Gartner. Gartner said that a network that shares a robust, reliable and fast fixed broadband access in the home will provide a cost-effective alternative to a metered [...]
Analogue TV signals were switched off this past weekend in 5 Indian states (Maharashtra, Punjab, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Haryana and the Union Territory of Chandigarh) according to data from India’s Information & Broadcasting Ministry (I&B). The Ministry says that more than 85 per cent of its digitisation targets had been met… From 38 target cities, 15 of them have achieved [...]
Spain’s ONO has seen its TiVo offering taken up by 150,000 customers, it says. At the end of 2012 it had 100,000 TiVo customers, 11% of its TV user base. The service is available across its entire fibre network, priced at just €5 per month. “Our goal is to continue expanding the number of users and continue working on new products,” [...]
