Freesat has revealed that it's sold over 750,000 units since the service launched last year, and could breach the one million mark early next year. Freesat managing director Emma Scott said that the company sold over 200,000 units in the three months up to September 30th 2009. The firm’s results surpassed Sky’s reported 94,000 new […]
Seven Media Group has unveiled its on-demand television content strategy as competitors scramble to deliver new video services to Australians’ TV screens over the Internet. The group, whose Hybrid TV subsidiary owns the licence for the TiVo TV set-top box in Australia and New Zealand, will offer TV series via the broadband-connected TiVo on a […]
TiVo and Virgin Media have entered into a strategic partnership under which TiVo will develop Virgin Media's next generation TV platform. Under the mutually exclusive agreement, TiVo will develop a converged television and broadband interactive interface to power Virgin Media's next generation, high definition set top boxes. The terms of the deal are not disclosed. […]
Pace, global developer of digital TV technologies, has confirmed it will be providing the HD DVR set-top boxes to support a new, advanced service offering from Latin America's largest cable operator, Argentina's Cablevisión. Pace's set-top box, developed exclusively for operators like Cablevisión, will be launched in conjunction with the new MAX service at the end […]
Google has signed a licence agreement with DVR company TiVo that enables the Internet search provider to integrate TiVo set-top box viewing data into its measurement of audiences for inventory sold through the Google TV Ads platform. The deal adds approximately 3.6 million subscribers to the universe of set-top boxes that Google TV Ads has […]
Michael Barry, Head of Programming at UK telco BT, has confirmed that the next set-top box to be issued for its hybrid DTT/IPTV service BT Vision will be capable of receiving Freeview HD terrestrial channels. Freeview HD broadcasts will start to become available in the UK from next month, starting in the Granada region and […]
IPTV set-top box manufacturer and software developer, Netgem, has been chosen by Telstra to supply set top box device and software for the T-Box service in Australia. T-Box will offer content from its BigPond movie store brand along with Australian terrestrial free-to-air high definition and standard definition television channels seamlessly together on a home television.
Motorola is to sell its Connected Home Division, including the world's biggest STB business, according to the NY Times. The newspapers says sources at Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan, hired to advise on strategic options, are now recommending a three-way split with networks being sold off and the remaining company separated between the mobile phone […]
Cisco has announced a definitive agreement to acquire the set-top box business of DVN Limited. Listed in Hong Kong with major operations in China, DVN is a market and technology expert in digital cable solutions in China. Under the terms of the agreement, Cisco will pay up to $44.5 million for the set-top box business […]
ZillionTV, the streaming video set-top box-maker backed by Disney, Fox, Sony and Warner Bros, has laid off an undisclosed number of staff. A former employee reports that the company let go roughly a third of its 100-member workforce; ZillionTV would only confirm that it "realigned its resources," as part of a shift in its overall […]