Advanced Television

PVR

TiVo joins MoCA

TiVo, the specialist in advanced television services has joined MoCA, the worldwide standard for home entertainment networking, as an Associate level member. TiVo pioneered the DVR and engages multiple channels for distribution of its products including retail and service provider.  MoCA has seen deployment of its technology in multiroom DVR among all three pay TV […]

September 16, 2010

UPC remote record

UPC Nederland has demonstrated  its new ‘Remote Recording’ application. This will allow UPC Digital TV customers, when they are traveling or online at work to set up recording on their UPC Media boxes from their iPhone, iPad, other mobile browsers or online. ‘Remote Recording’ is available as a free service to customers. The service has […]

September 13, 2010

TiVo, Samsung team up for advanced PVR

  Advanced television services and PVR specialist Tivo and Samsung Electronics have teamed to develop an advanced, TiVo-ready, high definition PVR set-top box for digital video broadcasting (DVB) operators. To bring this new PVR set-top box offering to market, Samsung has licensed TiVo’s Hardware Porting Kit and will work with TiVo to build a TiVo […]

September 12, 2010From Colin Mann in Amsterdam

Super Slim DVR

EchoStar Europe announced has debuted what it considers to be the slimmest digital video recorder (DVR) in the world. The state-of-the-art case houses all the technology you’d expect from a high-end DVR including solid state recording and conditional access, and while measuring just 9mm in height, it is a fraction of the size of other […]

September 11, 2010From Nick Snow in Amsterdam

DVR STBs from SanDisk and NDS

Flash memory card specialist SanDisk and digital pay-TV technology solutions provider NDS have successfully combined NDS MediaHighway set-top box (STB) software and SanDisk P4 solid state drives (SSD) to enable a new range of lower cost set-top box (STB) with DVR like functionality. By provisioning a STB with a small amount of storage, operators can […]

September 9, 2010From Colin Mann in Amsterdam

Set Top Box Round Table 2010

The Set Top Box has been key to all new television developments in the last 20 years but has it had its day? Will functionality migrate to the Cloud leaving the STB as a ‘dumb’ thin client, or does a new future as the home gateway and hub of the smart home await?

August 29, 2010

Home Networks feature from Euromedia 2010

Home Networks Feature Euromedia MAR/APR 2010 THE SEAMLESS TRANSPORT OF ANY MEDIA TO ANY DEVICE AROUND THE HOME IS THE MOST IMPORTANT NEAR-TERM CHALLENGE FOR SERVICE PROVIDERS. IT IS A SIMPLE PROBLEM THAT HAS MANY – OFTEN COMPLEX – SOLUTIONS. COLIN MANN FINDS OUT WHAT THE OPTIONS ARE FROM A RANGE OF INDUSTRY EXPERTS

August 13, 2010