According to a report from Futuresource Consulting, the recent €550 million acquisition by Technicolor of the Cisco set-top box and related home broadband equipment business, reflects a common trend in a shrinking, yet substantial, $20 billion global STB market place, claiming (at least) 13 per cent of the global STB market place and a combined […]
Sky’s ground-breaking ‘Project Ethan’ set-top box is ready to be announced shortly, according to widespread media reports over the weekend. The UK’s Sunday Telegraph said the unit, now dubbed the SkyQ box, will enable users to record four channels at the same time and – at long last – permit subscribers to transfer some programming […]
In a move that it says creates a global leader in customer premises equipment (CPE), Technicolor is buying Cisco’s CPE business for €550 million in cash and stock. Technicolor says the deal will see its Connected Home business achieve adjusted EBITDA in excess of €200 million in 2016. The move signals further consolidation of the sector following ARRIS’s acquisition […]
Amino Technologies, the provider of digital entertainment solutions for IPTV, Internet TV and in-home multimedia distribution, has conditionally agreed to acquire the entire issued share capital of broadcast hybrid TV and connected home solutions provider Entone for a total consideration of $73 million (€67.2 million). Donald McGarva, Chief Executive of Amino, said the proposed acquisition […]
Wyplay, creator of software solutions for pay-TV operators, and global semiconductor specialist STMicroelectronics have disclosed their contributions to the development of Canal+ Group’s new Cube S set-top-box. The hybrid OTT / broadcast set-top-box runs Wyplay’s open source Frog Client middleware, integrated by Wyplay’s professional services team on top of a hardened Linux kernel with the […]
India’s Bharti Airtel Digital TV intends making more of its own set-top boxes. The plan is to support the nation’s ‘Make in India’ project and to make goods and products locally in order to save imports and the duties on imported boxes. Shashi Arora, CEO, DTH/Media, Bharti Airtel said: “We are proud to partner with […]
The head of New Mexico’s Spaceport Authority told a special US investigation committee that she was hoping Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic ‘SpaceShip Two’ sub-orbital space plane would start regular commercial flights next summer, but not before July. However, Christine Anderson added something of a sting in the tail of her answer by saying that […]
India’s giant Hinduja Group is to launch the nation’s second HITS (Headend-in-the-Sky) service. Subhash Chandra’s Zee operation already has a similar service running. Hinduja’s proposal is to launch NXT Digital in August. It received its formal licence to operate on July 14. Hinduja Ventures investment arm says it will be targeting India’s Phase III and […]
Telesystem has launched the first third-generation DTT box in Italy, based on the DVB-T2 standard and equipped with the latest video compression codec HEVC. The Telesystem TS6800T2 HEVC arrives on the Italian market one year before July 1st 2016 deadline, established by law, that sets the mandatory technical requirements for DTT boxes, in view of […]
Humax and Freesat have launched the most compact Freetime set-top box recorder to date, bringing the benefits of the subscription free satellite TV service to a wider group of space-conscious consumers. Integrated Wi-Fi has been built-in to the new PVR range for seamless access to Freesat’s Freetime on-demand and catch-up players including BBC iPlayer, ITV […]