Nielsen, a global information and measurement company, and Kantar Media, a unit of Kantar, an information, insight and consultancy group that is part of WPP, have inked a multi-year agreement providing Nielsen with STB data from Kantar Media’s DIRECTView service for use in local TV audience measurement. Nielsen has developed a proprietary, hybrid methodology for […]
UK-based STB supplier Amino Technologies’ revenues for the half-year ending May 31st grew 36.2 per cent to £24.7 million from £18.1 million in the year earlier period. Revenues in the UK fell to £0.5 million from £0.9 million, while revenue from the Netherlands grew to £3.9 million from £3.4 million. Revenue from Russia fell to […]
A US trade agency said it will let stand a judge’s finding that Cablevision Systems infringed a patent owned by Verizon Communications and will consider banning imports of set-top boxes used by Cablevision. Verizon filed the patent-infringement complaint last year at the US International Trade Commission, seeking an order that would block imports of set-top […]
PeerTV, a provider of technology solutions for the OTT market, has announced the immediate availability of evaluation samples of its Android-based Internet TV STB, ES-550. The product is now entering its customer testing phase and is expected to be formally released during the IBC exhibition in Amsterdam in September. “Android is expected to become the […]
The Asia-Pacific region will lead STB growth for the next five years, with shipments approaching 50 per cent of the STBs sold worldwide in 2013-2015 before falling off slightly. Established players delivering cable boxes to China, including Jiuzhou and Coship, stand to gain in market share as unit shipments and ASP increase in Asia. Huawei […]
Zenterio is proud to announce that it has successfully passed the BeeSmart certification for the STC‐ZI3040 set top box, equipped with the market leading Zenterio ZiDS software stack. This is an important milestone as it opens up the possibilities of using the full range of the Zenterio STB portfolio in a BeeSmart environment. Zenterio is […]
NDS has revealed that BSkyB has deployed a customised implementation of NDS’ advanced set-top box software for its Sky+HD boxes. As well as enabling the launch of Sky’s Anytime+ VoD service, the component based architecture of the set-top box software enables Sky to evolve the complete end-user experience to meet changing customer needs faster than […]
Worldwide set top box revenue, as a whole, will decline slightly in 2011 over 2010, with Latin America and Middle East/Africa the only regions showing any increase in shipments. However, despite the general maturation of the market, IP set top box shipments are forecast to increase by over 1 million units in 2011 according to […]
Rovi Corporation has inked an agreement with Charter Communications enabling Charter to distribute Rovi TotalGuide Solution on Charter’s set-top boxes, mobile and tablet devices and the Web. In addition, the multi-year agreement includes a licence to the Rovi Remote Record Scheduling Application for i-Guide and Passport Guide and for the use of the Rovi interactive […]
DVRs have entered the mainstream and their increasing presence in the home means that by 2015 Screen Digest expects 17 per cent of US viewing and more than 14 per cent of UK viewing will be non-linear, either from DVRs or on-demand non-linear ‘transmissions’. However, the report also cites some caveats: For example, in Germany, […]