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dabs.com turns TVs smart with STB

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 […]

June 7, 2013

DirecTV to add home security to STBs

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 […]

June 6, 2013By Chris Forrester

Fox appeals Dish’s Ad-skip ruling

News Corp’s Fox Broadcasting has asked a federal appeals court to overrule a district judge and halt Dish Network’s AutoHop ad-skipping service that it says threatens television’s advertising system. Dish’s PrimeTime Anytime allows subscribers to automatically record the entire prime-time line-up of all four major US broadcast networks every night. It’s similar to a VoD […]

June 5, 2013

Vubiquity launches AnyVU streaming with TiVo

Vubiquity, a provider of multiplatform video services, and TiVo have announced a partnership integrating Vubiquity’s AnyVU Streaming service with the TiVo user experience. AnyVU Streaming allows service providers to quickly launch a multiplatform offering with a deep content library. The TiVo user interface foundation will now allow for integration of ViewNow, Vubiquity’s subscription movie package, […]

June 5, 2013

iWedia software powers WinGo TV Box

iWedia has deployed its Teatro-3.5 software solution for Android IPTV STB in the TV box of WinGo, a wholly owned subsidiary of Swiss telecom operator Swisscom. The IPTV edition of Teatro-3.5 software solution for Android STB seamlessly integrates all the multicast and connectivity components necessary to give support to managed IPTV and OTT services with […]

May 31, 2013

YouView: 60% of users view VoD

YouView has revealed it is on its way to reaching 400,000 homes across the UK, just 8 months after launch. The subscription-free service, offering 7 day catch-up and on-demand TV, has also released on demand viewing statistics for the first time citing over 2.2 million VoD plays per week, with around 60 per cent of […]

May 30, 2013

STBs trump Smart TVs for catch-up

New data from MediaBug – Decipher’s bi-annual media tech tracker – have revealed that in homes in which both a Smart TV and a VoD enabled STB are present, an overwhelming 73 per cent choose to access their catch-up TV through the STB. The main reason given is ‘quick to access’, which highlights a key […]

May 30, 2013

Home Gateway to the past?

Gatekeeping is a cornerstone of academic media theory – that boom industry of the Noughties. But it is a theory under strain as the idea of a few privileged outlets choosing what content is relayed and in what form, and thereby shaping cultural and political agendas, seems less convincing in the Internet driven, social media […]

May 30, 2013

Merger boosts evolution of home wireline networks

Industry bodies HomeGrid Forum and the HomePNA Alliance have merged to create a single organisation focused on promoting advanced wired home networking technologies. The combined entity, under the HomeGrid Forum banner, will promote the smooth transition of all current generation wireline home networking technologies to G.hn, the ‘any wire’ technology defined by ITU-T open international […]

May 29, 2013By Colin Mann

Motive technology for Digiturk

Digiturk, the largest satellite broadcaster in Turkey with over 2.5 million subscribers, has begun providing set-top boxes which include Motive’s Television Anytime Anywhere technology to consumers. The company estimates that at least 100,000 of Digiturk’s subscribers will receive set-top boxes with Motive’s technology. Leonard M. Fertig, CEO of Motive commented: “The commercial deployment by Digiturk […]

May 29, 2013