HGI, the global organisation for publishing requirements for the Smart Home, has announced at Broadband World Forum 2014 that it will be taking a new direction as it moves towards its tenth anniversary and continues to define the enabling platforms and APIs, enabling service providers to achieve the smart home of the future. The major […]
Market research firm Infonetics Research has released excerpts from its Q2 2014 Set-Top Boxes and Pay TV Subscribers report, which tracks IP, cable, satellite, and DTT set-top boxes and OTT media servers. “The global STB market is in a
French set-top box maker Netgem saw revenues fall 15 per cent in its Q3 period (to €20.5 million, from €24.2 million in the previous year), and reflecting a 14 per cent fall off in sales. Netgem reported that supplies of its boxes to Australia during this year had fallen back and that it did not […]
Thailand’s National Broadcasting & Telecommunications Commission is expected to allow viewers to use its subsidised voucher scheme to buy satellite set-top boxes. Up until now the vouchers could only be used to buy digital terrestrial receivers, or new digitally-equipped TV sets. “Even though some network operators plan to expand their coverage, we are worrying that […]
UK digital communications company EE is to become a quad-play operator with the launch of EE TV, which it describes as the UK’s most advanced TV service. According to the company, EE TV puts mobile at the heart of the TV experience, and works seamlessly with home TVs, tablets and smartphones, allowing customers to access […]
Pace, a specialist in digital TV and broadband technologies, has announced that Indian cable MSO, Radiant Digitek Network, has selected its pre-integrated middleware, conditional access and STB solution to deliver premium TV services to its subscribers. Radiant Digitek, a major cable MSO in the Rajasthan region of North India, have selected the turnkey Pace solution […]
In the wake of this year’s IBC show, Wyplay has revealed some insights on the structure of its Frog Community, now totalling 70 Licensee companies, amongst which 24 are technology services firms, with their staff dedicated to digital TV and convergence projects totalling more than 8,500 people. Thanks to these Scaling Partners, Wyplay can multiply […]
Serbia’s government says that around 38 per cent of homes in the country will have to buy a new digital set-top box because their TV sets are not suitable for digital TV reception. Serbia’s Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications Tatjana Matic said the upcoming changes to all-digital broadcasting would impact 800,000 – 1 million […]
A growing number of US households are relying on dedicated set-top/plug-in devices (otherwise known as Digital Media Players) to watch Netflix on a TV set, according to a GfK study, Over-the-Top TV 2014. By contrast, video game systems – while still the most common hardware for Netflix viewing on a TV screen – are used […]
JainHits, India’s HITS-based Direct to Network (DTN) service – the digital cable TV distribution platform in India, selected set-tops from ARRIS’s HMC portfolio to deliver digital video services across the nation. According to The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), India is set to witness digitalisation of approximately 100 million homes by the end of […]