Astro, Malaysia’s largest pay-TV operator, aims to complete the conversion of its customers’ legacy set-top boxes to the B.yond HD platform by the year-end, said chief executive officer Datuk Rohana Rozhan. “We saw over 64 per cent of customers during the first quarter subscribing to HD and other value-added services, which in turn drove up our average revenue per user,” [...]
With claims of a “tropical heatwave” heading for the UK, telecoms group Virgin Media has partnered with US network The Weather Channel to launch a new service which will provide UK weather forecasts through its TiVO set-top box, as well as on its website and mobile website. The new TV app provides 24-hour and five-day forecasts for up to 10 [...]
Atlantic Broadband has partnered exclusively with TiVo to power its slate of digital entertainment services across TV, Web and Mobile platforms. Atlantic Broadband is the first US MSO to leverage TiVo’s complete product suite which delivers a unified experience that spans whole home DVR, HD STBs for non-DVR households, access to Internet delivered video and applications, and multi-screen viewing experiences [...]
Japanese telco NTT West will stream 4k video over the Internet to set-top boxes this week, in what it claims is the world’s first public test of the technology. NTT will conduct a three-day trial in Tokyo during a digital media seminar from June 12th to June 14th. The telco said it will use the MPEG-HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) [...]
International set-top box and broadband gateways vendor Sagemcom has joined MoCA as an Associate member. Sagemcom offers an extensive range of solutions: Digital STBs and DVR for all transmission media, xDSL/FTTH/cable gateways and Multimedia Home Gateways. “Integrating MoCA into our products will enable service providers to deliver a highly reliable in-home backbone for extending and enhancing existing Wi-Fi networks and [...]
TiVo has settled its pending patent litigation with Motorola (now owned by Google and Arris), Cisco and Time Warner Cable and that TiVo has agreed to enter into certain patent licenses with Arris, Cisco, and Google. As part of the settlement, Google and Cisco will pay TiVo an upfront lump-sum payment of $490 million, bringing the total from awards and [...]
Sky has refuted reports that it was close to making a deal with Microsoft to put the new Xbox One console into homes at a vastly reduced price. Specialist site MCV had reported that Microsoft was in talks with the broadcaster to sell Xbox One with Sky subscriptions. It was suggested that the device could work as a set-top-box or [...]
Statements made in Nairobi by officials from Chinese pay-TV operator StarTimes Group suggest the broadcaster has the whole of sub-Saharan Africa in its sights as far as pay-TV and the receiver technology side of the business is concerned. A StarTimes-organised seminar heard on June 3 that the broadcaster had now signed up more than 2.5 million subscribers across Africa. StarTimes [...]
dabs.com has unveiled its new STB capable of bringing on-demand TV, films and music to any television. The WDTV Play streaming media player from dabs.com offers access to an array of entertainment including the movies, trending Internet videos, music tracks and more. The digital multimedia receiver also provides easy access to popular Internet streaming services and apps including Netflix, Spotify, [...]
US pay-TV giant DirecTV says it will start offering home security to subscribers next year. DirecTV on June 5th acquired LifeShield, which specialises in monitoring doors, windows and offers various video camera options. DirecTV will then be matching the likes of Comcast and Time Warner Cable who already supply home security to subscribers. DirecTV says it will retain the name [...]
