MaxLinear, a provider of integrated radio frequency and mixed-signal integrated circuits, has revealed that Technicolor has selected its MxL683 for a new hybrid satellite / terrestrial (ISDB-T) HD STB for the Latin America market. The new STB, for DTH satellite operators in Latin America, integrates multiple reception and connectivity technologies and simplifies installation with just […]
China’s EKT (Eagle Kingdom Technologies), a supplier of advanced STB solutions and iP4 (iP4.tv GmbH), a developer of advanced STB middleware called solidTV, have joined forces in a merger that sees a seamless integration of the iP4.tv STB middleware and the Advanced Hardware solutions from EKT. The merger allows EKT to offer cost effective solutions […]
Ian Mecklenburgh, Virgin Media’s director of consumer platforms, was non-committal about the future of Virgin’s TiVO once Liberty is in control. He conceded that Liberty had made big investments in their proprietary Horizon system, but equally “there is an install base of 1.5 million TiVos and that carries a lot of weight.” Mecklenburgh did enthuse […]
Myriad Group, the company creating and connecting communities across mobile and TV, has announced that Pace has selected Myriad’s Java technology for use in their RDK compliant set-top boxes. The JVM is a key component of the Comcast Reference Design Kit (RDK), a pre-integrated software bundle for set-top boxes, multi-tuner video gateways and client devices […]
The anticipated analogue switch-off in territories beyond North America and Western Europe is expected to increase the demand for DVB-T2 set-top-boxes in 2015, the next milestone year established by the ITU for switching to digital, according to ABI Research. The firm notes that a number of countries in Eastern Europe and Middle-East Africa are hoping […]
Online retail giant Amazon is planning to introduce a device later this year dedicated to streaming video over the Internet into customers’ homes. According to reports, the box will plug into TVs and give users access to Amazon’s expanding video offerings. Those include its à la carte Video on Demand store, which features newer films […]
HGI, the global organisation for publishing requirements for the Smart Home, welcomes the EnOcean Alliance as a new Associate Member. The EnOcean Alliance is a non-profit organisation with an established ecosystem and experience in the building automation sector, more than 250,000 equipped buildings and 300 member companies. The common ground is EnOcean’s energy harvesting wireless […]
Pace has announced its Interim Management Statement for the four months to April 23rd 2013. At its Annual General Meeting Allan Leighton, Chairman said: “I am pleased to report that Pace has made an encouraging start to the new financial year with strong revenue growth in the period, in line with our expectations. We expect […]
New software for the YouView Humax box is now available for retail and BT customers and will be rolled out over the next two weeks. The software will be available on Talk Talk YouView boxes shortly afterwards This software introduces a number of enhancements and new features: – An enhancement to searching for programmes that […]
HGI, the global organisation for setting requirements for the digital home, has published a requirements document that sets out common industry approach to troubleshooting. Document HGI -RW016 entitled Home Gateway and Home Network Diagnostics Module Requirements specifies both an overall diagnostics architecture as well as a set of diaqnostic functions in the Home Gateway (HG) […]