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. […]
Alticast, a specialist in interactive television, has announced that its Alticast Media Cloud Platform has enabled Korean Telecom’s (KT) SkyLife, South Korea’s leading satellite television broadcaster, to launch its “SkyLife on Demand” service, in what it claims is the world’s first large-scale deployment of a Cloud-based PVR service. “Our new Cloud-based SOD service is the […]
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 […]
The Opera TV Store is set to bring hundreds of apps to all TiVo set-top boxes for US cable operator RCN. It is the first pay-TV cable operator to launch Opera Software’s app platform on its TiVo devices, and the first TiVo operator deployment following the partnership to bring the Opera TV Store to TiVo […]
The global market for connected devices that allow users to access the Internet is set to surpass 6 billion units this year, as new products including mobile phones, tablets and computers enter the electronics ecosystem, according to a report from IHS Technology. Worldwide production of connected equipment will amount to
Virgin Media has connected its two millionth TiVo customer since launching the service in December 2010. Commenting on the milestone, Scott Kewley, Virgin Media’s director of digital entertainment, said: “Reaching two million TiVo customers is a huge milestone for us and we’re delighted so many people are enjoying what we believe is the best way […]
TV viewers increasingly are watching programmes on their own schedule, according to a Nielsen study. In the past year, time-shifting of television content grew by almost