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Pace brings ‘Whole Home’ to IBC

Pace will be previewing its Whole Home solution at IBC 2013. The ‘Whole Home’ solution enables service providers to distribute linear Pay-TV services and on-demand content to connected set-top boxes, tablets, smartphones, games consoles and connected TVs throughout the home. It offers an opportunity for Pay-TV and broadband providers to extend their content reach, whilst […]

September 9, 2013

Dune HD for Volia

Dune HD and VOLIA, the Ukrainian pay-TV operator serving more than 1.5 million customers across its footprint of over 29 cities, have announced a major partnership agreement. As a result of a public tender, Dune HD STBs have been accepted by VOLIA, with Dune HD chosen as a supplier of Over-the-Top (OTT) STBs for this […]

September 9, 2013

TiVo, Entone partner for IPTV solution

Hybrid TV and Connected Home solutions specialist Entone is teaming up with advanced television services pioneer TiVo, to offer an integrated solution for IPTV operators that combines Entone’s hybrid IPTV devices with the TiVo user experience. The partnership aims to give service providers greater deployment flexibility and improved economics and provides for integration with TiVo’s […]

September 5, 2013

Beenius app for Android STBs

Beenius Interactive TV middleware developer has unveiled its new Android Set-Top Box (STB) client. The Android app extends Beenius’ Beesmart open and flexible interactive TV middleware platform, providing greater choice to operators and their customers and supporting the move towards connected TV. Operators benefit from the lower deployment costs of Android along with the power […]

September 5, 2013

Canalsat tests OTT Cube

Canal+ is beta testing an OTT version of its digital bouquet Canalsat. A number of subscribers are reported to have received a dedicated version of the OTT-enabled “Cube” STB to access Canalsat channels via the Internet directly to their TV. The Cube STB must be connected to a DTT antenna in order to receive all […]

September 4, 2013

Skyworth dominates India STB market

Hong Kong-based set-top box manufacturer Skyworth has a 38 per cent market share of India’s fast-growing set-top box sector, according to CIOL.com.  The supply of boxes into India has grown 5 per cent since the previous quarter. Skyworth is closely followed by Cisco, and Skynet holds 59 per cent of the market between them and […]

September 3, 2013By Chris Forrester

TiVo adds Opera software to Roamio

Opera Software and TiVo have announced a technology integration to enhance the power of web technologies on TiVo devices with the Opera Devices SDK, as well as open up the world of HTML5 TV apps through the Opera TV Store. This partnership will enable TiVo to bring the latest web and HTML5 content to cable […]

August 30, 2013

Sky adds Wi-Fi to PVRs

BSkyB has revealed that its new Sky+HD and Sky+HD 2TB boxes are both now available with built-in Wi-Fi for the first time. The new Sky+HD and Sky+HD 2TB personal video recorders (PVR) connect wirelessly to a home Wi-Fi network. Once connected, customers can instantly access Sky’s On Demand service, including up to the last 30 […]

August 29, 2013

TiVo: Good results, but questions remain

DVR specialist TiVo turned in excellent numbers for its Q2 trading period, with revenue just topping $100 million, and about $30 million better than most analysts had expected. TiVo’s subs numbers are also at a record high, at 3.6 million (33 per cent up y-o-y), and even churn (at 1.5 per cent/month) is better than […]

August 28, 2013By Chris Forrester

TalkTalk TV surpasses 500,000 customers

TalkTalk says that it is the UK’s fastest-growing pay-TV service, after revealing that it has signed the 500,000th customer to its YouView-powered offering. The telco launched its budget TV service less than 12 months ago. “Reaching this milestone in less than a year is a great achievement, but it’s just the beginning,” said Dido Harding, […]

August 28, 2013