ALi Corp, the Taiwanese-based integrated circuit manufacturer, says it has now shipped more than 300 million set-top box ‘system-on-a-chip’ devices, representing a CAGR increase of 43 per cent since 2005. “We are very pleased with our continuing success and the whole company is excited that we have climbed over another hill,” said Ben Lin, President […]
Freeview, the UK’s biggest digital television service, has revealed that after strong quarterly sales of 1.3 million Freeview HD televisions and STBs, the number of Freeview HD units sold reached 4.4 million by the end of December 20111. The strong sales performance of Freeview HD is echoed across the product portfolio; year-on-year sales of Freeview […]
Amino Technologies, the UK STB maker and solutions provider for in-home multimedia distribution, has announced audited results for the year ending November 30th 2011 showing year-on-year growth in revenue, operating profit, margins and cash generation. Turnover was up 18 per cent to £51.8 million (€62m) with gross profit up 16 per cent to £14.5 million […]
Technicolor has reached a milestone by selling 10 million Digital Transport Adapters (DTAs) to North American cable operators. Technicolor’s DTA is a one-way cable set-top-box that enables cable operators to move to an all-digital infrastructure quickly and cost-efficiently by delivering digital-quality video and audio service to existing analogue cable customers. The product was designed in […]
AirTies Wireless Networks has confirmed it will deliver OTT STBs to Digiturk, Turkey’s largest satellite operator, targeting Turks abroad. The AirTies and Digiturk partnership makes DigiturkWebTV’s premium content and LigTv HD available to subscribers abroad in real time, VoD and playback up to 12 hours after initial screening. Subscribers abroad can adjust the broadcast schedule […]
Hybrid STBs are a fast-growing segment of the worldwide STB market says NPD In-Stat. The boxes include a TV tuner and an Internet connection. Hybrid STBs are appearing in all service categories and new usage models and applications have provided momentum. As television services begin employing applications that are Internet-connected, hybrid STBs are emerging as […]
Venezuela has selected the Japan/Brazilian ISDB-T variant for its digital terrestrial TV broadcasts. President Hugo Chavez has now signed off on the project which allows local set-top box production to begin. Chavez received a high-profile delegation last week led by Argentina’s Minister of Infrastructure, Julio de Vido, who showed the Venezuelans examples of set-top boxes, […]
Amino Communications, specialists in IPTV/OTT solutions, has selected Celeno Communications, a provider of semiconductors for multimedia Wi-Fi home networking applications, to provide a range of wireless products that complement Amino’s range of IPTV STBs. Celeno’s OptimizAIR technology will help Amino offer whole home Wi-Fi networking robust enough for HD IPTV distribution, multi-room DVR and OTT […]
SES has revealed that TNTSAT, the French digital terrestrial offer on satellite broadcast via ASTRA, reached a total of 3.3 million STBs sold at the end of 2011. This represents an increase of 650,000 compared to the end of 2010. The TNTSAT offer was launched in March 2007 and supported the transition from analogue to […]
The popularity of OTT video has created a demand for Wi-Fi in the entertainment cluster of home living rooms. Increasingly, home video entertainment devices such as digital TVs, Blu-ray players, game consoles, and all versions of STBs are coming to the market Wi-Fi-connected, so the devices can connect to the web and to each other. […]