A senior Comcast executive has revealed that the cable TV giant is looking to enhance viewers’ personalised TV experience by leveraging its IP technology and ‘cloud’ servers in its network. Writing in a company blog, Sam Schwartz, President, Comcast Converged Products, notes that at any given time, Comcast video customers have access to an almost […]

Telenor’s Canal Digital is launching its new connected ADB STB  in September, as a prelude to its launch of a TiVo-based platform. Canal Digital CEO Patrik Hofbauer said “We will launch the ADB box now – TiVo is a higher-end solution that will take longer.” He said Canal Digital will provide some over-the-top services to […]

Harvard International has announced a partnership with ANT, a provider of software and services for the delivery of digital TV, to design and develop software for the next generation of STB products. These will provide HD DTR (high definition digital television recorder) functionality and enable the delivery of services that combine digital media with broadband […]

Cablemás, Mexico’s second largest cable operator is expanding its digital service offering to include next-generation IP video services using the Conax security platform and Evolution hybrid IP set-tops and DVRs. Cablemás has continued to grow its subscriber base through its bouquet of value-added triple play services. Now Cablemás can also offer the advantages of a […]

Interoperability standards group the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) has released new Interoperability Guidelines for the playback of high-quality, premium commercial video. The new standard addresses the increasing demand for simplified access to premium commercial content throughout the home, including movies and network television programming. Developed in conjunction with global cable, satellite and telecommunications service […]

US pay-TV service DirecTV has started field trial testing for its DirecTV Home Media Centre aimed at providing customers with a ‘receiver-less’ solution for many TVs in their homes. The launch of field trial testing for DirecTV’s model HR34 RVU-enabled server, the heart of the DirecTV Home Media Centre, marks a major milestone both for […]

The first episode of this year’s Doctor Who, entitled ‘The Impossible Astronaut’, has set a DVR record. Kantar Media’s analysis of BARB data – the official UK TV ratings – shows that the episode was the most recorded TV event of all time. A combination of an incredibly warm Easter Saturday and an unusually early […]

AT&T has announced the launch of new AT&T U-verse TV Total Home DVR features which gives U-verse customers the ability to pause and rewind live TV on any U-verse receiver in the home. With AT&T U-verse Total Home DVR’s latest enhancements, customers can control, record and play back shows on non-DVR TVs and pause or […]

Market research firm Infonetics Research has released excerpts from its STB Features and Vendor Leadership: Global Service Provider Survey, which captures service providers‚ requirements for IP-based STBs to deliver video services. “Although low-cost set-top boxes designed to deliver basic video services over broadband infrastructure were the hallmark of IPTV services, strong competition and the need […]