In Q4 2010, 36.8 million broadband Consumer Premises Equipment units shipped, a 1.2 per cent increase from the previous quarter and a 0.8 per cent increase from the same quarter last year.  Total revenues were $1.6 billion, remaining flat from the previous quarter and a 0.3 per cent increase from the same quarter last year, […]

Amino Technologies has secured a follow-on order to provide its hybrid/OTT technology to support Telecom Italia’s deployment of its Cubovision all-in-one multimedia broadband service. Launched in December 2010, Cubovision offers home TV access to a range of digital terrestrial TV channels, leading web TV sources, and pay-per-view films as well as personal content such as […]

Jungo, an NDS Group company and provider of unified software solutions for residential gateways, has launched Panorama, its next generation remote management system for DSL, Cable and Fibre service providers. Jungo Panorama enables the management of home Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) as well as broadband and video services, handling the connected home as a whole […]

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 […]

The delayed launch of open IPTV platform YouView will result in a product that has been worth waiting for, according to the operation’s CEO, Richard Halton. He told delegates at the DTG Summit that the platform had been proved ready and would undergo extensive trials by the end of 2011, prior to a full commercial […]

According to a report from The Diffusion Group (TDG), approximately one-third of broadband users in the US connect a PC to their TV specifically to enjoy PC or online video on the “big screen” at least once a year. Michael Greeson, founding partner and director of research at TDG, notes that, despite substantial early efforts […]

Simon Woodward, CEO of digital TV software provider ANT, has implied that delays in agreeing product specifications that deliver the benefit of merged linear and Internet TV has affected the company’s revenues. Woodward’s comments came as ANT reported a seven per cent drop in full year revenue to £4.35million (€5.14m) last year from £4.70 million […]

Technicolor achieved Q4 revenues of €1.155 billion, up 21.4 per cent vs. Q4 2009, second half revenues over all were €2.075 billion up 17 per cent. Nonetheless annual turnover was down 1.2 per cent on 2009 though EBITDA was 1.2 per cent up at €505 million, a margin of 14 per cent. A net loss […]

Motorola Mobility Holdings has filed a suit against TiVo claiming infringement of its patents for digital video recorders. In the complaint, filed in Texas, Motorola contends that it owns multiple patents related to DVRs, including some from the mid-1990s by a group of engineers whose company was later purchased by a Motorola subsidiary. It suggests […]

Harmonic has announced that U.S. cable operator Midcontinent Communications has deployed Harmonic’s Narrowcast Services Gateway(TM) (NSG) 9000 universal edgeQAM for its new DOCSIS 3.0-based service. Harmonic’s edgeQAM technology provides the flexibility, scalability, and output density to enable Midcontinent Communications to bring faster internet speeds – up to 50 Mbps – to its residential and business […]