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Residential gateway market to triple from 2012 to 2015

Residential gateways are expected to become the new hub of the so-called digital living room when they take over from set-top boxes, with the vigorous gateway market projected to triple from 2012 to 2015, according to a report from information and analytics provider IHS. Shipments of residential gateways and thin client boxes that act as […]

February 29, 2012

Canada’s Rogers unveils next-gen home entertainment

Canadian cable communications and entertainment company Rogers Communications has unveiled NextBox 2.0, a suite of new features designed to transform the home entertainment experience, allowing people to access live and recorded TV programmes from any room in the home. The initiative better allows it to compete with telco BCE’s Fibe IPTV service. “Canadians are increasingly […]

February 27, 2012

Google plans home entertainment system

Google is planning to launch an own-brand home entertainment system, an Android device that would allow users to download music and other content and stream it to devices around the home with a smartphone or tablet acting as controller The move is revealed at in a recent filing with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to […]

February 10, 2012

Genexis acquires PacketFront CPE business

Genexis – a European market specialist in home gateways for fibre-to-the-home – has acquired the CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) business unit of PacketFront. All activities of the business unit will be fully integrated into Genexis and its new subsidiary – Genexis AB – based in Stockholm, Sweden. “This acquisition marks an important step in Genexis’ […]

February 2, 2012

Networking technology used by 50%+ of broadband homes

According to research from Futuresource Consulting, of the 600 million global broadband homes at the end of 2011, 400 million deployed home networking technology. By 2015, expectations are for 650 million of the 700 million broadband homes to be interacting with networked devices. Growth for broadband equipment including modems and new generation digital media gateways […]

January 30, 2012

Amino selects Celeno Wi-Fi

Amino Communications, specialists in IPTV/OTT solutions, has selected Celeno Communications, a provider of semiconductors for multimedia Wi-Fi home networking applications, to provide a range of wireless products that complement Amino’s range of IPTV STBs. Celeno’s OptimizAIR technology will help Amino offer whole home Wi-Fi networking robust enough for HD IPTV distribution, multi-room DVR and OTT […]

January 24, 2012

Wi-Fi home video devices 600m units in 2015

The popularity of OTT video has created a demand for Wi-Fi in the entertainment cluster of home living rooms. Increasingly, home video entertainment devices such as digital TVs, Blu-ray players, game consoles, and all versions of STBs are coming to the market Wi-Fi-connected, so the devices can connect to the web and to each other. […]

January 18, 2012

CEA: Home media landscape shifting to digital content

Findings from a study by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) suggest that more than half (53 per cent) of online US adults watch some form of streaming or downloaded video content in the home. Those consumers have a distinct preference for streaming video versus downloading content, as 51 per cent view streaming content and spend […]

January 18, 2012

Multiband MoCA adaptor

Actiontec Electronics and Entropic have announced the new Multi-band MoCA Network Adapter that supports all three pay TV segments in the same device. The adapter leverages MoCA technology to deliver pay-TV services to every corner of the home. The latest collaboration between Actiontec and Entropic marks the first MoCA adapter that supports both the high […]

January 11, 2012

Consumers demand seamless, pervasive connectivity

Semiconductor solutions specialist Broadcom has unveiled the results of a new consumer poll that demonstrates increased appetite for seamless and pervasive connections. The November 2011 poll of 1,025 consumers explored technology trends on the go, in the home, and on the road and revealed details of consumers’ desire for a more connected lifestyle. In response […]

December 12, 2011