Altech Multimedia, a provider of innovative products and services to the Global Multimedia market, and Digiturk, digital platform operator in Turkey, today will jointly launch a next generation hybrid set-top box aimed at the evolving markets in Turkey and beyond. This marks a new milestone within a long partnership between the two companies; Altech Multimedia has supplied […]
Edge-Core Networks Corporation, the professional networking solution provider, have selected Digisoft.tv as their middleware partner. By selecting Digisoft’s Iris platform, Edge-Core benefit from the expertise that Digisoft offer in the digital set-top box software arena, and can continue to provide customers with technically advanced and cost-effective products. Michael Liao, VP of Smart Home Media Business […]
Pace has commenced deliveries of its Media Gateway and client device platform to support new converged home services for GET subscribers. The Pace Media Gateway and companion HD client device delivers media content and data to a variety of devices, giving subscribers the freedom to utilise GET’s services when and where they want around the […]
TiVo, as well as increasing subscribers, is accumulating cash largely from a very successful series of patent disputes. CEO Tom Rogers says that the company continues evaluating certain potential acquisitions. Rogers, speaking at Deutsche Bank’s media and telecom conference in New York on March 4th, said that TiVo’s cash balance at the end of its […]
Set-top box maker Pace has revealed that its full-year profit had increased by 46 per cent – boosted by higher demand from US clients such as DirecTV and Comcast. Pace forecast that 2013 revenue would be almost at last year’s levels. The company, which supplies decoders to global television operators such as Virgin Media and […]
Cumulative shipments of ALi’s standard definition STB chipsets have reached 10 million units in the China cable pay TV market, with coverage in 23 provinces and regions. High definition solutions are also available in mass production quantities in three provinces. Backed by the impressive track record and moving forward to the coming year, ALi continues […]
India’s cable and DTH operators have reacted furiously to the news that India’s finance minister has levied a 5 per cent extra import tax on set-top boxes – raising the overall tax to 10 per cent. They are complaining that the tax hike could not have come at a worse time. Almost all STBs are […]
An irreverent commercial featuring Alki David, the controversial billionaire and founder of FilmOn.TV, has started airing in New York offering consumers five hundred live TV Channels as well as DVR storage space for free. The offering includes all the local Major Networks NBC CBS Fox and ABC as well as a wide range of premium […]
Dish has accused CBS of telling one of the network’s stars, Kaley Cuoco of The Big Bang Theory, to delete a Twitter message promoting the Hopper to her 1.2 million followers. Dish’s chief executive, Joe Clayton, a chance to say on Twitter: “It’s disappointing that CBS – once the exemplar of editorial independence and innovation […]
India’s New Delhi government is to double customs duties on imported set-top boxes in an attempt to promote local production and sales of digital converter boxes. The new tax is set at 10 per cent, and was outlined by India’s finance minister in his budget speech. The problem, however, is that India’s local manufacturing scene […]