Dune HD, the specialist in full HD media players and connected set-top boxes, has unveiled its new HEVC-capable Dune HD TV-204. It says it is the leading IP set-top vendor to demonstrate HEVC compatibility publicly with the TV-204, the first cost-effective full-featured set-top box to support HEVC. According to Dune HD, HEVC-encoded content can be […]

The world is about to start embracing the new HEVC compression standard in readiness for Ultra-HDTV and greater transmission efficiencies for all networks. What will this mean for consumers?  How are chipset manufacturers addressing the challenges of getting product to market?  Are set-top box manufacturers ready for these changes? How expensive will the transition be […]

AirTies Wireless Networks, a supplier of advanced wireless and OTT/IPTV technologies, is launching a new family of HEVC/4K set-top boxes that offer satellite-quality live and on-demand video to any subscriber with a broadband connection.  By harnessing the compression capabilities of High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), AirTies’ new generation of STBs offer double the video quality […]

EKT (Eagle Kingdom Technologies), a supplier of advanced STB solutions have created the first Hybrid STB that plugs directly into the mains power. The model DIP5026, is a PowerPlug style STB that plugs directly into the main power socket eliminating the need for a separate power adaptor commonly required in today’s Hybrid Set Top Boxes. […]

Market research firm Infonetics has excerpts from its 4th quarter 2013 and year-end STBs and pay-TV subscribers report, which tracks IP, cable, satellite, and DTT STBs, and OTT media servers. “The overall STB market declined

ZTE Corporation, a global supplier of IPTV, VoD and mobile systems for telecoms, has announced its selection of Oregan Networks, a London based Digital TV software company, as a supplier of key Set Top Box technology components, as well as design and integration expertise for premium hybrid PayTV projects. The product of this collaboration is […]

ALi Corporation, a STB solution provider, has confirmed the launch of M3932, a HD smart STB SoC solution based on the latest Android 4.4 KitKat, targeting applications including smart DVB or IPTV set-top boxes, OTT multimedia players, hybrid set-top boxes, and TV dongles. Mass production of M3932 is scheduled in Q2 2014. M3932’s dual-core ARM […]

ABOX42, a provider of IPTV & OTT DVB Smart STBs and services, has announced its new X-Series Smart STB Platform based on the Broadcom BCM7251 high performance multi-HD/Ultra HD IP system-on-chip (SoC) with integrated high-performance dual-core Brahma15 10,000 DMIPs ARMv7 processors. The new X-Series Smart STB will provide high end functionality with up to now […]

Eric Brandt, Broadcom’s CFO spoke at the recent Morgan Stanley Technology & Media conference, and the chip company’s recent progress and expectations were discussed by the analysts present. Brandt said: “Broadband is a good business. Last year was particularly strong on the set-top box side, [which] picked up, outgrew its peers probably overall in broadband […]

ALi Corporation, a Set-Top Box (STB) system-on-chip (SoC) solution provider, has announced that ALi’s ATSC STB SoC solution has been adopted for design-in with set-top boxes from Funai Electric, a Japanese consumer electronics company. The partnership solution is aimed to bring optimum cost/performance value to the Mexican market, where the digital rollover is scheduled to […]