US consumer electronics trade body the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has voiced its opposition to the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding a test procedure for set-top boxes. Doug Johnson, vice president of technology policy, described the department’s rulemaking for set-top boxes as “wasteful and unnecessary” in light of industry leadership and accomplishment on energy efficiency in [...]
Korea’s KAON will launch DTH and Hybrid DTH/IP platforms for Brazil’s GVT in 2013. “GVT of Brazil and Kaon have entered into a cooperation with respect to the new advanced Satellite(DTH) and Hybrid DTH/IP platforms to be launched in accordance with new GVT service offerings in Brazil. First products will hit the market during the 1st Half of 2013. GVT [...]
India´s ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) says that 5.9 million analogue TV homes are yet to install STBs in 38 cities covered under Phase II of its digitisation process. Digitisation in these cities as of March 20th has reached 65 per cent of homes out of which 26.24 per cent of homes are covered by DTH satellite transmission. The [...]
Pixsan Digital Software Ltd, a UK based specialist digital TV software development company, today announced that is has partnered with Really Simple Software, Inc., makers of the award-winning Simple.TV streaming DVR, to bring Simple.TV to the European, Middle East and African markets. Furthermore, Pixsan also says it will be ready with a Freeview version of the Simple.TV DVR and service [...]
Dune HD, award-winning manufacturer of Full HD media players and connected boxes for home users and operators, has announced that its innovative Dune HD Connect has won Best TV Consumer Device at the seventh annual TV Connect Awards. The world’s smallest Full HD set top box media player, the Dune HD Connect simply plugs into a subscriber’s TV HDMI socket [...]
Altech Multimedia, a provider of innovative products and services to the Global Multimedia market, and Digiturk, a digital platform operator in Turkey, will jointly launch a next generation hybrid set-top box aimed at the evolving markets in Turkey and beyond. This marks a new milestone within a long partnership between the two companies; Altech Multimedia has supplied over 200,000 PVR products to [...]
Motorola Mobility’s Fourth Annual Media Engagement Barometer reveals that consumers are watching an enormous amount of video, in some surprising ways, in unexpected places. Motorola Mobility’s Media Engagement Barometer is an independent global study of video consumption habits among 9,500 consumers in 17 countries. The study looks closely at new and emerging content trends, such as multi-screen habits and recording [...]
Verimatrix, the specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for multi-network, multi-screen digital TV services around the globe, has unveiled ViewRight Gateway, a new component of the Verimatrix Video Content Authority (VCAS) architecture, and one of the options available in the ViewRight ONE multi-network client security suite. According to Verimatrix, ViewRight Gateway efficiently and securely manages the format translation process for [...]
Hillcrest Labs has announced that Intel’s newest reference design kit for IPTV set-top boxes (STBs) and media servers will use Hillcrest’s patented Freespace in-air pointing and motion control technology. With the Freespace Motion Engine™ software embedded on the Intel Media Server Reference Design (MSRD) kit and controlled by a handheld remote control, TV operators can provide subscribers the ability to [...]
Alticast, a specialist in interactive TV open standard software solutions, hastoday announced that it will provide cloud-based PVR solutions for KT SkyLife, Korea’s number one satellite broadcaster. The Alticast powered cloud PVR service is planned to launch in the second half of 2013 and will be a first for the Korean market. KT SkyLife is a digital satellite & IPTV [...]
