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STB

NetRange, IK World STB partnership

NetRange, a global provider of white-labelled, turnkey Smart TV and OTT ecosystems, has announced its partnership with IK World, the OTT STB ODM in China. This collaboration provides IK World with a combination of ACCESS’s NetFront Browser BE and NetRange’s NetRange Smart STB App Store on AOSP. “Our number one priority is to ensure that […]

February 2, 2022

Avatel TV launches in Spain

Avatel, a local telco operator operating mainly in rural areas, has launched Avatel TV, a platform developed by Viaccess Orca with up to 50 TV channels and a catalogue of 6,000 cinema, TV series and documentary titles. With a 4K STB based on Android technology, subscribers have access to the TV offer through two different […]

January 19, 2022From David Del Valle in Madrid

EKTRA selects CommScope’s home networks

CommScope, a global player in home network solutions, has partnered with EKTRA to provide its Balticum TV customers in Lithuania with the VIP7100 UHD set top solution. The VIP7100 is an interactive IP set top powered by the Android TV operating system (OS) and allows subscribers to enable both linear TV and various OTT streaming […]

December 21, 2021

MeeVu welcomes new operators from Eastern Europe

MeeVu, a new B2B multi-tenant OTT PaaS powered by UniqCast, is welcoming new operators from Eastern Europe MeeVu offers network operators from Eastern Europe the opportunity to launch multiscreen, interactive TV and bring added value to their customers. Leveraging UniqCast technology that provides live TV, catch-up TV, on-demand video, 4K content, and multitenant capabilities MeeVu […]

December 20, 2021

Enseo selects Verimatrix

Verimatrix, a specialist in powering the connected world with people-centred security, has announced that Texas-based Enseo, a technology services provider in hospitality, has selected Verimatrix anti-piracy tools to protect entertainment content for key customers. Delivered via the new set top boxes, the video services Enseo looked to protect against pirates needed specific watermarking technology to […]

December 2, 2021

Foxtel partners with Commscope for iQ5 device

CommScope, a global player in home networking solutions, has been selected by Australia’s Foxtel to provide their subscribers with the new iQ5 streaming set top box solution. The iQ5 set top box boasts a plug and play set-up, allowing customers to be streaming over 50,000 hours of content within minutes, with no cable or satellite […]

November 22, 2021

Eutelsat’s Sat.tv makes progress in MENA

Last year Eutelsat released its Sat.tv set-top box in the MENA region. The idea was to make it easy for viewers to arrange the hundreds of free-to-view channels available into simple to use menu options complete with channel logos and images. Most pay-TV operators have been doing this for years, but in the MENA market […]

October 13, 2021By Chris Forrester

Orange Slovensko launches Android TV STB on nangu.TV

nangu.TV, the media platform provider for IPTV and OTT services, has unveiled a new Android TV Operator Tier set-top box, run on the nangu.TV platform, in cooperation with Orange Slovensko and CommScope. Recently launched in the Slovak market, the new solution gives Orange customers a richer live and on-demand streaming entertainment experience. The joint efforts […]

October 4, 2021

Vodafone adds Facebook Watch to STB platform

Vodafone is to add Facebook Watch to Vodafone TV in Europe, becoming the first pay-TV operator in the region to offer the service on its set-top boxes. Vodafone TV is currently offering a cloud-based television service to 22 million customers across 10 markets in Europe, combining a variety of live and on-demand video content in […]

September 29, 2021

Universal Electronics voice-enabled remote controls for latest Astro STB

Universal Electronics, a global player in wireless universal control solutions for home entertainment and smart home devices, has begun providing voice-enabled remote controls to Astro for its latest generation Ultra set-top box. Astro is Malaysia’s leading content and consumer company, serving 5.7 million or 74 percent of Malaysian households, across TV, radio, digital and commerce platforms. […]

September 23, 2021