STB specialist Pace has announced the availability of what it claims is the first Freeview+ HD PVR to be available to consumers in the UK. The Philips-branded box, designed by Pace, is now available to buy from retail outlets in good time for the start of the World Cup in June. The Freeview HD signal […]

Preliminary results from IMS Research's forthcoming 2010 study on The World Market for Set-top Boxes and iDTVs has revealed that nearly 26 per cent of EMEA's digital STB shipments were deployed into Eastern Europe in 2009. By 2012, IMS Research estimates that Eastern Europe will comprise nearly 33 per cent of EMEA's digital STB shipments. […]

Cisco has completed its acquisition of the STB business of DVN. Listed in Hong Kong with major operations in China, DVN is a market and technology leader in digital cable solutions in China and shares Cisco’s vision of a high-performance, scalable and services-rich cable interactive platform extending into every home. The newly-acquired business will run […]

Pace Networks, a specialised division of Pace plc, has signed Kromtek as its latest Networks Approved Partner (NAP). United Arab Emirates-based Kromtek will rollout the MultiDweller distribution platform to its payTV customers in India, opening up payTV and other entertainment services as the sub-continent moves from analogue to digital. Kromtek will also target hotels in […]

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has latched on to the disruptive technology formed when DLNA is combined with DTCP-IP and a form of high-bandwidth no-new-wire networking, and seems determined to use the opportunity to mandate the end of the pay-TV digital STB. The Commission wants to allow any CE manufacturer's devices to access pay-TV […]

TiVo has announced general availability of a new TiVo Wireless N Network Adapter. The adapter is designed to help consumers transfer and download broadband content within the home at a faster speed, making the most of TiVo Premiere and TiVo Premiere XL music, web and mobile features.

The global market for IPTV set-top boxes will rapidly increase in terms of shipments and revenue in the years to come, offering increased competition to legacy products in the STB market, according to a report from iSuppli. Sales of IPTV set-top boxes will grow from 19.4 million units in 2009 to 58 million in 2014, […]

Set-top box maker Pace has predicted a World Cup sales boost as pay-television firms rush out HD technology ahead of this summer’s football tournament. Pace said sales for the first six months of 2010 would outstrip the second half of 2009, although trading for the overall year will be in line with expectations. The firm […]

Sky has confirmed that its Sky Player service is to launch on the UK’s first Freeview HD box as part of an expansion across Humax’s new range of digital boxes. Viewers will soon be able to watch Sky programming live and on-demand in HD on the Humax HD-FOX T2, which launched in February 2010 and […]

Airtel digital TV- the DTH service from Bharti Airtel – has confirmed the launch of 'Airtel digital TV Recorder', an enhanced STB with capability to record live television, anytime, anywhere. Airtel offers customers the convenience, to record their favourite shows using their mobile phones from anywhere in the world. Airtel digital TV Recorder is available […]