SmarDTV, a Kudelski Group company, has announced that its third generation System-In-Package (SIP) technology has been selected by Altech, a specialist in set-top box technologies with manufacturing facilities in South Africa, to provide the local retail market with a new HD set-top box for OpenView HD, South Africa’s first free-to-air digital satellite TV platform. SmarDTV’s […]
South Africa’s recently appointed Minister of Communications, Ayanda Dlodlo, is reportedly dumping her predecessor’s strategy which backed non-encryption of digital set-top boxes. The former minister, Faith Muthambi, had favoured ‘open’ digital receivers despite the ruling African National Congress political party that boxes needed to be encrypted. Muthambi was replaced in March. Muthambi’s approach was designed […]
From May 20th, Vodafone Spain will start charging new subscribers €3 a month to “rent” their set-top-box as it seeks to gain more finance for its TV rights investments. Until now the STB was free of charge for all subscribers. The current pay-TV subscribers, and those who subscribe before that date, will not have to […]
The Basque Country-based cable operator Euskaltel is launching a new 4K set-top-box this month with Android technology for current and new clients. The company is also upgrading its network with the deployment of DOCSIS 3.1 covering 24 per cent of its network, with plans to surpass 40 per cent in June. Euskaltel currently has 275,000 […]
Technology firm Triple-C is launching SMART in partnership with Vonetize, the new IPTV service for the Israeli market, with STB solutions spcialist WeTek (www.wetek.com) providing customised Set-top boxes fully adapted to both Triple C’s network and Vonetize’s content distribution service. “This collaboration with Triple-C and Vonetize clearly conveys our vision and translates how bound and […]
Philippine multi-play operator PLDT is introducing the next generation of its TVolution streaming box for its customers. PLDT worked with streaming pioneer Roku to deliver to its customers a fully-proven solution that is easy to use and loaded with “great” content. “Filipinos will be the first in Asia to stream the best in entertainment using […]
The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that the sale of a multimedia player which enables films that are available illegally on the Internet to be viewed easily and for free on a television screen could constitute an infringement of copyright, suggesting that the temporary reproduction on a multimedia player of a […]
The number of French homes with a connected TV rose to 56.8 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2016, up from 54.8 per cent a year earlier, according to a survey from French broadcast authority CSA. The most popular connection method for French onine viewers is via a set-top box provided by their ISP […]
ABOX42, a supplier of IPTV, OTT and hybrid-DVB advanced STB solutions and end-to-end smart home solutions to operators worldwide, has expanded further globally by launching fully configured and certified M30 and M50 STB Platforms into the US market. ABOX42 has successfully completed its first Operator projects in North America with its latest Platforms, cooperating with […]
Set-top box maker Arris is being investigated by the US International Trade Commission (ITC) over alleged patent infringements on boxes supplied to a number of US cable MSOs as well as DirecTV’s Genie users. The allegations come from two Sony subsidiaries (Sony Corp, from Tokyo and Sony Electronics, based in San Diego) and say that […]