EchoStar and Dish Network have celebrated a legal victory after Judge Dolly Gee at a US District Court in California rejected Fox Broadcasting’s efforts to see Dish Network’s ‘Autohop’ ad-skipping technology banned. Fox had applied for an injunction. Fox says the Court’s decision did find that Autohop breached the broadcaster’s copyright, and they would be […]
Spanish cable operator Ono has reported an additional 22,000 TiVo customers during the third quarter, taking the total number of subscribers of its next-gen DVR service to 56,000. Although the service currently has the capacity to reach 6.5 million households it has not yet taken off in Spain. The company says it is getting very […]
Motive Television, the London-based television software and services company, has announced that Motive Television Services, its fully-owned subsidiary, has signed a five-year software licence agreement with Sagemcom Broadband for the use of Motive’s Television Anytime Anywhere technology in anticipation of the launch of commercial services by Digiturk in Turkey in the first quarter of 2013. […]
Market research firm Infonetics Research has released excerpts from its latest Home Networking Devices vendor market share and forecast report, which tracks residential gateways; broadband routers; HomePlug Powerline adapters; multimedia over coax (MoCA) set-top boxes (STBs), optical network terminals (ONTs), and coax-Ethernet adapters; and HPNA/G.hn adapters. “Among the wide variety of gear we track for […]
Walmart, the biggest retail chain in the US, is to start selling the Boxee TV on November 1st. Boxee unveiled the product earlier this month, saying that it should be considered a “No Limits DVR.” The device, which connects to the television, has no onboard storage, but acts as a DVR, thanks to cloud storage. […]
Following the pre-IBC release of selected findings, Digital TV technology consultancy Farncombe has confirmed the availability of a white paper – The Future of Cardless Broadcast Security. This takes an in-depth looks at the trends in technology and cost models that are driving operator requirements for video security in a rapidly-evolving marketplace. Highlights of the […]
ALi Corporation, a set-top-box solution provider, has announced that ALi and MNITI have agreed to join forces on introducing a reference STB solution to assist Russian STB manufacturers in the deployment of digital terrestrial television adopting the DVB-T2 standard. MNITI, Moscow Scientific-Research Television Institute, is the leading organisation in Russia in the field of television […]
Market research firm Infonetics has released excerpts from two recent video reports; one tracking equipment sold to telco IPTV, cable video, and satellite video providers, and a second tracking IP, cable, satellite, and hybrid STBs and OTT media servers. “Thanks to a 7 per cent increase in encoder spending by North American cable and satellite […]
Pace has announced that it is licensing the Reference Development Kit (RDK) from Comcast, which significantly accelerates the set-top box and gateway development cycle. The RDK is a pre-integrated software bundle that creates a common framework for powering tru2way, IP or hybrid set-top boxes and video gateway devices. It accelerates the development and deployment of […]
TiVo’s lawyers were busy again in the tiny town of Marshall, Texas (pop 23,523), where it likes to file its patent infringement cases. This goes back to 2009 when TiVo bought a championship steer for the record sum of $10,000 at the local county show, and renamed it TiVo. Two weeks later the jury awarded […]