The Indian set-top box (STB) market has been increasing at a steady pace over the past few years, according to ABI Research, with a strong surge of consumers moving to satellite platforms during 2011, representing 80 per cent of the Indian market. Despite the large cable TV subscriber base in India, the firm anticipates that […]
Content protection and multiscreen television solutions provider Nagra is introducing a broadcast-to-IP gateway which will allow live TV to be delivered to IP-enabled devices without impacting a consumer’s existing live TV viewing experience. “While OTT is a hot topic, broadcast TV is still the most effective and reliable technology to deliver quality content and programming,” […]
At The Cable Show, TiVo has announced two major enhancements to its whole-home viewing solution. Its IP set-top box, delivers the TiVo experience on secondary televisions throughout the home. TiVo Stream, provides transcoding to enable content viewing on mobile devices. Through these new products, operators working with TiVo can give their subscribers the content they […]
South Africa’s Dept. of Communications is gearing up for local production of set-top boxes. The government office is seeking a manufacturer to help cope with demand as the country switches off its analogue TV transmissions. Reportedly 36 bidders have formally applied for the contracts up for grabs. South Africa starts migrating to digital TV later […]
ALi Corporation, a provider of set-top box (STB) system-on-chip (SoC) solutions, has announced that its M3911 Networking Media Processor has been selected by VideoWeb, a German OTT (Over-the-top) service provider, to be integrated into the newly launched B12 product line of OTT set top boxes for the international market. B12 is especially designed for OTT […]
YouView, the set-top box business headed by Alan Sugar, will not be up and running until the end of 2012. The joint venture between BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, TalkTalk, BT and Arqiva had been due to launch, following a series of delays, this spring. They insisted the important thing was hitting the high […]
Fetch TV STBs will lose Sky’s on-demand video service Sky Go next month, despite finding a new home. Fetch TV, a Freeview+ HD recorder with on-demand services, went into administration in January but has now been bought by online entertainment service ShopTo.net. However, Sky has chosen not to renew its contract from the new owner, […]
EchoStar Technologies is withdrawing from the US cable set-top box market and is to cease development of its Aria platform immediately as a result of poor sales, the company told Multichannel News. Instead, the company is to shift resources to support what it describes as it “unique intellectual property and advanced content-delivery technologies”. The company […]
IN Media has begun to ship new Android based Tablet PCs with Telephony capabilities using CDMA and GSM SIM Cards. “We are now on course with our revenue targets as the consumers are now looking at Tablet PCs for their day to day infotainment needs. Combining Telephone capabilities has resulted in making Tablet PCs the […]
Findings from two recent reports by market research firm Infonetics Research suggest that pay-TV operators continue to increase their investments in MPEG-4 encoders, while despite healthy unit growth in set-top box (STB) sales, revenue was flat. “Two of the most interesting trends in the video equipment and set-top box markets are 1) across the board, […]