TELUS is launching a new wireless digital box for Optik TV subscribers, giving customers the freedom to move their TV anywhere in the home – or yard – without the need to plug it into a TV outlet. This means Optik customers can rearrange the room without tripping over cords, move the TV to the […]
Global Pay-TV STB shipments continue to grow, with demand expected to peak at 180 million units in 2016, according to research from Futuresource Consulting. “Despite the overall STB market topping out this year, this is entirely due to erosion of the free-to-air segment. We’re going to see the trinity of cable, pay satellite and IPTV […]
John Chambers, Chairman and CEO of Cisco, has suggested that the company’s set-top box business has adversely affected its profitability and that transitioning customers to cloud-based technology will address the problem. In an earnings call to discuss Cisco’s Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2013 Financial Results, Chambers said that the problem in its service provider […]
In the wake of US DTH satellite pay-TV operators DirecTV and Dish reporting subscriber numbers for the second quarter of 2013, analysis from SNL Kagan unit Multimedia Research Group suggests that subscriber declines are not necessarily hurting set-top box suppliers. According to Michelle Abraham, Senior Research Analyst at SNL Kagan,
TiVo Research and Analytics, the largest provider of single-source TV viewing and purchase data for advertisers and networks, announced the addition of Sheryl Harkins, previously a 17 year veteran with Nielsen, as its SVP of CPG Sales. TRA launched its leading single-source advertising optimization solution in 2008 and since then has served over 45 […]
A year ago, a typical DTH set-top box might have cost 800 Rupees (about $20 at the time). Now they cost nearer 1600 Rupees (worth $26 a today’s exchange rate). The difference entirely caused by the dramatic decline of the Rupee against most other major currencies. But the price rise means that millions of Indians […]
Time Warner Cable is to be handed two Emmy Awards for Technology and Engineering for 2013 for network DVRs and video-on-demand dynamic ad insertion. TiVo was awarded for its personalisation and video search platform. One TWC award recognised the MSO’s “Pioneering Work in Implementation and Deployment of a Network DVR”, with that work going back […]
Liberty Global has launched its Horizon set-top for UPC Ireland. Mark Coan, vice-president sales and marketing of UPC Ireland, said that with the introduction of Horizon it was “taking television to the next level.” The service is designed to offer TV, broadband and phone services in one box, with 100Mb broadband as standard as part […]
Wireless set-top box suppliers AirTies says it will showcase its “innovative” wireless networking receiver at the upcoming IBC technology show in Amsterdam, as well as its solution for H.265/HEVC set-top box. Turkish-based AirTies says it will demo a 4 x 4 video ‘bridge’ to handle the 802.11ac wireless standard The Air 4820 enables almost triple […]
PeerTV’s set top box has now completed successful field trials with a major telecoms provider in Europe. The PeerTV set top box is a small unit, around the size of a calculator, enabling broadcast content distributed via the internet to be downloaded directly onto a normal TV screen. The service also makes websites such as […]