Cablemás, Mexico’s second largest cable operator is expanding its digital service offering to include next-generation IP video services using the Conax security platform and Evolution hybrid IP set-tops and DVRs. Cablemás has continued to grow its subscriber base through its bouquet of value-added triple play services. Now Cablemás can also offer the advantages of a […]
Market research firm Infonetics Research has released excerpts from its STB Features and Vendor Leadership: Global Service Provider Survey, which captures service providers‚ requirements for IP-based STBs to deliver video services. “Although low-cost set-top boxes designed to deliver basic video services over broadband infrastructure were the hallmark of IPTV services, strong competition and the need […]
Technicolor, one of the main suppliers named as a provider of STBs for YouView has pulled out of the supply deal. The French manufacturer, the world’s number three by units sold, was slated as a supplier of budget STBs. Technicolor hasn’t said why it is dropping the deal, though producing at the cost required to […]
In a filing with the FCC, Ron Wheeler, SVP of Content Protection for Fox Group stated that “in the course of renegotiating a contract with one of Fox’s multichannel video programming distribution (“MVPD”) partners, the MVPD has told Fox that it intends in the near future to make its subscription and on-demand video services available […]
Pace in 2010 became the world’s No. 1 seller of set-top boxes in terms of unit shipments on an annual basis, surpassing Motorola, new IHS Screen Digest research indicates. Pace’s STB shipments grew by 21.1 per cent in 2010 to 20.7 million units, up from 17.1 million in 2009. Motorola’s shipments rose only 4.2 per […]
Pace, whose share price took a hit when, despite respectable numbers, it missed forecast because, it said, of a delayed US order, has now issued a downbeat interim statement. It says that while volume shipments and revenues have continued to meet Pace’s expectations (Q1 2011 revenues up 24 per cent on Q1 2010), profitability has […]
DVR specialist TiVo has teamed up with entertainment and communications provider Comcast to enable access to Comcast’s robust library of Xfinity TV On Demand content on TiVo Premiere set-top boxes sold at retail. For the first time, Comcast customers in select markets will be able to use a TiVo Premiere box to enjoy a fully […]
Bridge Technologies has announced a partnership with leading South African broadcast and telecommunications system integrator Concilium Technologies. Based in Centurion, Concilium represents many of the world’s leading broadcast video, audio, and monitoring equipment manufacturers, and now includes the VideoBRIDGE line of digital media monitoring products in its portfolio. VideoBRIDGE is the most comprehensive advanced headend […]
ANT, a provider of software and services for the delivery of digital TV, has announced that Good Mind Industries (GMI) has selected the ANT Galio HbbTV Platform for its new range of STBs. Working closely with German distributor COMAG, the product line is to be targeted at the HbbTV (Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV) retail market […]
A senior Cisco executive has predicted that set-top boxes as we know them today could almost disappear as cable migrates to IP video, and services are increasingly driven by new, cloud-based infrastructures that support new screens such as Apple ‘s iPad. “Set-tops are clearly moving to the point where they are either a piece of […]