Findings from research firm IHS suggest that despite the pay-TV industry’s increasing focus on delivering services to alternative devices such as PCs, smartphones and tablets, what it describes as its traditional flagship platform – the set-top box – continues to thrive, with market shipments set to hit record highs in 2013, 2014 and 2015. According […]
KartinaTV has confirmed that its Russian language TV service will now be available via Amino HD set-top boxes. The service provider has launched an advertising campaign to promote the service initially to the European market and later to the global Russian speaking audience. KartinaTV delivers TV content over the open Internet to Russian-speaking communities in […]
Access, a global provider of advanced software technologies to the mobile, beyond-PC and digital TV markets, is licensing the Reference Design Kit (RDK) software stack from Comcast to enhance the development and deployment of next-generation video services that support DLNA Premium Video Guidelines and HTML5. The RDK cuts the development time in half for set-top […]
Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB), a supplier of advanced solutions for the connected home, announced that it has delivered its advanced systems solution to the Polish cable operator, Vectra. All advanced two-way STBs that ADB has delivered to Vectra since 2009 feature DOCSIS 2.0, enabling them to be permanently online. As a result of this, Vectra […]
Samsung has acquired US web TV service Boxee in a deal reported to be worth $30 million. The move will enhance Samsung’s Smart TV offering. Announcing the deal in a company blog, ‘Team Boxee’ said: “We started on this journey six years ago, and have been at the forefront of the changing TV and video […]
Market research firm Infonetics Research has released excerpts from its Q1 2013 Set-Top Boxes and Pay TV Subscribers market share and forecast report, which tracks IP, cable, satellite and DTT STBs and OTT media servers. “Cable STBs bucked the seasonal trend in the first quarter of 2013, notching modest gains in both revenue and shipments,” […]
Technicolor has revealed that is delivered the 100th million set-top-box for DirecTV, the US providers of digital television entertainment services. For over 20 years, Technicolor has worked in partnership with DirecTV to provide a wide range of basic and advanced set-top-boxes for use in the US and throughout Latin America. “From the very beginning we […]
Dune HD and Hibox Systems announced at TV Connect Latin America that the full line of Dune HD TV Series connected set-top boxes, including the world’s smallest Dune HD Connect StickSTB, are fully integrated with the flexible IPTV and OTT platform from Hibox Systems. Together, the combined technologies give operators a powerful yet affordable solution for delivering IPTV and OTT content to […]
Marc Watson, CEO of BT TV, has said the telco will “stick around for the long term” with its sports channels and declared that the company had “deep pockets” to enable it to compete for premium sports rights. He said that BT wanted BT Sport to grow its whole consumer business in the UK, and […]
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 […]