French set-top box maker Technicolor, (which used to trade as Thomson) saw revenues fall back significantly in Q3, at €837 million, down nine per cent y-o-y. Technicolor’s technology-based revenues slumped 25 per cent when compared to last year’s same quarter. Its Entertainment division, which includes elements such as digital cinema, grew 6.2 per cent, helped […]

Pioneer Telephone Cooperative, one of the largest telcos in North America, is to deploy Amino’s Aminet A540 DVR IPTV/OTT set-top boxes as part of its Pioneer DTV IPTV service. Pioneer serves over 40,000 customers across more than 74 communities in Western Oklahoma. Under the Pioneer DTV brand, the cooperative offers up to 161 entertainment channels […]

Pace might be struggling to get its hands on set-top box hard drives, but news from South America is that it has won part of a 1 million box order for 2012 from DirecTV for its Argentina operation. The news came from DirecTV Argentina. The order is split between Pace and Technicolor, and says that […]

Amino Communications, an IPTV/OTT solutions provider, has secured a contract to provide SkitterTV with its latest OTT-enhanced Aminet IPTV set-top boxes. A hybrid IPTV/over-the-top video platform, SkitterTV enables telecom service providers to encode, configure, deliver and monetise streaming media services by combining live TV, audio, web video and personal media assets in one converged entertainment […]

Set-top box specialists Pace on October 20th issued a Profits Warning, its third in the past 18 months, because the Thailand floods had hit the supply of hard drives for its PVRs. Pace is likely not to be alone. Western Digital, the manufacturer hardest hit by the monsoon floods, supplies about one third of the […]

Pace has issued a statement giving an update on the effect of Western Digital’s Thailand factory closure and 2011 Operating profit guidance: “Following the recent announcement by Western Digital Corporation that it has suspended production of hard disk drives at its manufacturing facilities in Thailand as a result of severe flooding, Pace has completed an […]

Apple Airplay subscribers can now watch BBC content on their TVs via Apple’s set-top box. The international version of the iPlayer has been available exclusively on iPad tablets since its launch earlier this year. Matthew Littleford, general manager for the global iPlayer, said it was “constantly looking” for ways to develop and evolve the global […]

Hybrid STBs are rapidly being deployed by pay-TV operators worldwide to help them deliver advanced services and manage bandwidth scarcity in broadcast networks, reports ABI. In 2010, only 40 per cent of STBs worldwide featured hybrid capabilities, with many not yet enabled by software as operators were not ready to deploy IP video services. Hybrid […]

HBO and Roku are launching HBO GO on the Roku streaming platform. With HBO GO on Roku, consumers will be able instantly to access more than 1,400 titles, including every episode of every season of the best HBO shows – streamed to their TVs for convenient, on-demand viewing from the comfort of home. Expected to […]

M-Net, a subscription-funded television channel in South Africa, believes the country would be far better off scrapping plans to build pricey set-top boxes for digital terrestrial television and instead should use the money in other ways. Karen Willenberg, the broadcaster’s director of legal and regulatory affairs, says instead the country should consider the use of […]