Advanced Television

STB

Air Ties / Ekioh UI

AirTies ahas nnounced a strategic partnership with Ekioh who design innovative user interfaces (UIs) and browsers for embedded systems like set-top boxes. AirTies is previewing set-top boxes running the Ekioh UIs and browsers, designed to offer ease of use and a better interactive experience for graphics and animation, at this year’s IPTV World Forum. AirTies […]

March 22, 2011From IP&TV World Forum

Humax licenses Intertrust Marlin technology for YouView STBs

Korean manufacturer Humax has licensed Intertrust’s Marlin Client SDK for its development of digital STBs for YouView in the UK. Humax is one of the largest manufacturers of Internet and digital television STBs for network carriers, broadcasters and service providers around the world. “The market for IPTV services in the UK is growing rapidly and […]

March 22, 2011From IP&TV World Forum

Opera and TARA HbbTV solution

Opera Software and TARA Systems, the independent provider of flexible software solutions for TVs and other devices, have announced the availability of a fully-integrated HbbTV solution for connected TVs and STBs. The released solution gives manufacturers improved flexibility and planning reliability. Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) brings viewers the richness of broadcast interactive services combined […]

March 22, 2011From IP&TV World Forum

AirTies incorporates ABR for OTT

AirTies is incorporating support for Adaptive Bit Rate (ABR) standards into its future and existing range of set-top boxes.  AirTies will be supporting both the Microsoft Smooth Streaming and Apple’s HTTP Live Streaming approach to live video streaming which cuts the video traffic into chunks and adapts it dynamically to available bandwidth to offer an […]

March 21, 2011

Pace NET development

Pace has signed a deal to expand its two year partnership with NET, the largest multi-service cable company in Latin America. Under the deal, Pace will develop new platforms to enable NET to deploy advanced digital services to its customers. Pace has also reached a significant milestone by shipping one million of its SD Zapper […]

March 17, 2011

NDS extends contract with DirecTV

NDS has renewed its agreement with DirecTV, the US satellite pay-TV operator, to continue to deliver STB software and DVR technology to DirecTV US and DirecTV Latin America through January 2016. The contract sees the extension of the relationship between NDS and DirecTV to supply set-top box software across the platform, originally established in 2005. […]

March 16, 2011

Pace joins HomePNA Alliance

The HomePNA Alliance has confirmed that Pace has joined the HomePNA Board of Directors as a Promoter Member. Pace supplies STB and gateway solutions to operators around the world for applications such as IPTV, which rely on high performance home networks such as HomePNA to operate.

March 16, 2011

LOVEFiLM with Onyx browser

LOVEFiLM has launched its WatchNow video service on Oregan Networks’ Onyx media browser, which will further increase LOVEFiLM’s platform capability to address a broader cross section of Internet-connected televisions and set-top boxes. The new partnership with Oregan Networkswill broaden LOVEFiLM’s current service distribution to a host of new connected devices including Cello iViewer televisions and […]

March 14, 2011

Pace buys raise sales 17.4%

UK set top maker Pace PLC has reported its full year’s for 2010 with a 17.4 per cent year-on-year increase in sales to £1.331 billion with organic (extracting acquisitions) revenue up 9.7 per cent. Adjusted EBITA is up 35.6 per cent to £103.6 million (2009: £76.4m) with organic business contributing £94.3 million and acquisitions £9.3 […]

March 8, 2011

UK Radioplayer launching this month

UK Radioplayer, the BBC-backed online player for more than 200 UK radio stations, is set to launch on March 31st . It will be the first time that both the BBC and commercial radio stations have come together on a single online radio player. The Internet radio player has been in development for the last […]

March 8, 2011