The UK STB maker Pace has posted a 22.5 per cent rise in full-year core earnings, driven by high demand for its next-generation media servers in the US. Pace, whose US customer base includes Comcast, AT&T and DirecTV, said it expected revenue of about $2.70 billion this year, with an operating margin of around 8.5 […]
ZTE Corporation, a publicly-listed global provider of telecommunications equipment, network solutions and mobile devices has been ranked number one globally in three major market segments: middleware, VoD and STBs by the IPTV Global Market Leader Report (year end 2013 edition) issued by Multimedia Research Group (MRG). ZTE reached the top
In 2013 ABI Research estimates one out of every ten US pay-TV households had access to applications on the set-top box – applications include news and information services, service provider specific apps, OTT video, games, and music services. By 2019 nearly 40 per cent of
A record 313,000 cable MSO subscriptions added in the fourth quarter helped advanced television entertainment market specialist TiVo report its best-ever full-year Service and Technology revenues. Reporting financial results for the fourth quarter and Fiscal Year ended January 31, 2014, Tom Rogers, President and CEO of TiVo, said this was another solid quarter for TiVo […]
ALi Corporation, an STB solution provider, has announced that iWedia, a provider of software solutions for TV devices, is providing its latest SAT/TER>IP server software on ALi’s chipsets for broadcast to broadband gateways. An early adopter of the SAT>IP standard, iWedia has developed an end-to-end solution including both a server and a client software. iWedia […]
The founders of TiVo are shifting their focus from broadcast TV to broadband Internet with a new device designed to make it easier for people to find and manage video. The sequel gets underway this week in the US with the release of the Qplay, a $49 set-top-box that sorts and streams video clips from […]
Chinese telecoms technology company ZTE has used Mobile World Congress to unveil a 4K/p60 set-top box. The device uses Broadcom’s latest BCM7252 chip and can handle Ultra-HDTV’s 4K x 2K/p60 (3840 x 2160 pixels) processing and decoding. ZTE says its set-top solution (ZXV10-B803) supports the H.265 advanced compression algorithm with the same quality as H.264. […]
BT has unveiled the ‘next generation’ version of its YouView set top box. Manufactured by Humax, the updated STB – dubbed YouView+ – houses a new processor to deliver better performances and will be supplied to all new BT TV customers signing up to the service henceforth. The STB is two-thirds the size of the […]
HDTV, and the country’s digitisation process, is massively boosting the supply and sale of set-top digital converter boxes in India. A study from Frost & Sullivan states that India will need another 23 million new boxes this year. The study says that in 2013 some
Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB) has shipped its 50 millionth device. With each broadband gateway featuring 30 million lines of code and the new Wideband set-top box 100 million lines, ADB’s software engineers’ code would now stretch to the edge of our solar system. Every year, 55 million TV viewers consume 80 billion hours of TV […]