DISH has launched an add-on to its Hopper Whole-Home HD DVR platform in the US, increasing the tuner capacity of the Hopper experience. DISH’s Super Joey adds two network tuners to the Hopper’s three native tuners, allowing a household to record up to eight shows simultaneously. “We know TV viewers have searched for years for […]
Pace has been selected by beIN Sports, a pay-TV provider of the MENA region, as one of the suppliers of the network’s next generation Home Media Servers and HD STB products. Pace’s STBs will enable beIN Sports to reach millions of households across the region with their exclusive HD coverage of sporting competitions including the […]
Eric Brandt, Broadcom’s CFO spoke at the recent Morgan Stanley Technology & Media conference, and the chip company’s recent progress and expectations were discussed by the analysts present. Brandt said: “Broadband is a good business. Last year was particularly strong on the set-top box side, [which] picked up, outgrew its peers probably overall in broadband […]
ALi Corporation, a Set-Top Box (STB) system-on-chip (SoC) solution provider, has announced that ALi’s ATSC STB SoC solution has been adopted for design-in with set-top boxes from Funai Electric, a Japanese consumer electronics company. The partnership solution is aimed to bring optimum cost/performance value to the Mexican market, where the digital rollover is scheduled to […]
Humax has launched a new 2TB version of the YouView DTR-T1010, delivering all the features of on-demand TV service YouView, now with 1,200 hours of standard definition recording space and up to 500 hours for HD TV programmes and movies. Available exclusively from Humax Direct, the new set top box offers over 70 live free-to-air […]
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 […]