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Televation in-home streaming from Motorola

At the NCTA Cable Show in Chicago, Motorola Mobility has unveiled another tool aimed at allowing cable operators to provide their customers with the ability to watch live TV on a connected IP device anywhere around the home. Motorola Televation is a broadband device that works with a Wi-Fi router, and employs a 1GHz digital […]

June 14, 2011

DTT STB shipments 45m in 2015

Despite a challenging 2010 for the worldwide digital set-top box market, In-Stat predicts that better news is on the horizon. According to the research firm, total unit shipments decreased by 7 per cent in 2010, with 2011 also likely to be a challenging year. Looking ahead, fuelled primarily by the analogue-to-digital transition as well as […]

June 13, 2011

Motorola gets DTLA nod for digital transmission content protection

Motorola Mobility has confirmed that its Internet Protocol Rights Management-Home Network (IPRM-HN) technology has passed the Digital Transmission Licensing Administrator’s (DTLA) approval process as an “approved output and recording technology” for digital transmission content protection (DTCP). As interest in delivering media beyond the TV screen rapidly increases, the DTLA approval gives service providers confidence in […]

June 13, 2011

Alcatel-Lucent, thePlatform team up for TV Everywhere

Alcatel-Lucent and online video management and publishing specialist thePlatform have formed a strategic alliance to help cable and IPTV providers deliver a new generation of video services to their subscribers’ TVs, PCs, tablets, mobile phones and more. The companies have joined forces to offer a multiscreen video platform that supports the delivery of live scheduled […]

June 13, 2011By Colin Mann

TiVo’s family homecoming

Advanced television services and DVR specialist TiVo has chosen Chicago’s NCTA Cable Show to unveil the next generation of its whole home solution, with the addition of robust HD video streaming and two new set-tops to its service provider product family. TiVo Premiere Q, the company’s first-ever quad-tuner gateway set-top box, and TiVo Preview, its […]

June 13, 2011

Motorola’s Medios Xperience delivers personalised TV viewing

Motorola Mobility is aiming to place greater control into consumers’ hands to personalise their TV viewing across multiple devices anywhere in the home with the launch of its Medios Xperience platform. As part of the Medios multi-screen service management software suite, the cloud-based applications platform allows service providers to merge video content with social networking, […]

June 13, 2011

Pay-TV STB market softens, as hybrids boom

Infonetics Research has released excerpts from its first quarter 2011 Cable, Satellite, IPTV, and OTT Set-Top Boxes and Subscribers market size, market share, and forecast report. “Despite a quarter-over-quarter decline in the global set-top box market, all major segments are up from this time a year ago in both revenue and shipments, indicating that the […]

June 7, 2011

Sezmi and Netgem team up

Multi-screen hybrid television platform provider Sezmi Corporation and connected home solutions specialist Netgem have formed a partnership to include Netgem’s set-top-box hardware and software as part of Sezmi’s comprehensive TV offering. Sezmi brings a differentiated multi-screen TV experience to consumers with a system that adapts to varying network capabilities alleviating the need for service providers […]

June 7, 2011By Colin Mann

ADB to supply Kft with set-top solution

Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB) has confirmed it will deliver the ADB-2850ST hybrid digital set-top box, pre-integrated with its award-winning Carbo user interface to Business Telecom. Using the ADB-2850ST platform, Kft will create an enhanced consumer TV experience for its subscribers. Users will be able to quickly and easily access a broad range of high definition […]

June 1, 2011

New Sunrise DVB from Ocean Blue

Ocean Blue Software has released a new version of its Sunrise DVB software to support multi-core CPUs and multi-tasking. The move comes as processing power built into TVs and PVRs reaches new levels, and will allow manufacturers to take full advantage of the power; offering faster, richer user interfaces. The enhancement means Sunrise DVB is […]

June 1, 2011