The global market for connected devices that allow users to access the Internet is set to surpass 6 billion units this year, as new products including mobile phones, tablets and computers enter the electronics ecosystem, according to a report from IHS Technology. Worldwide production of connected equipment will amount to
A BBC TV programme has captured criminal gangs on film offering the public pirated pay-TV services for a fraction of the official fees. Fraudsters were caught on camera selling modified set-top boxes which could access top-level BSkyB packages for as little as £10 a month instead of the correct £80. The amount of piracy could […]
A former employee of Virgin Media, Paul Hartrick, who headed up the cable company’s team in Derby, UK, is being pursued with a claim for about £2.5 million (€3m) in lost profits for the company. Hartrick was convicted in February last year when Derby Crown Court found him and three others guilty of importing set-top […]
Freesat, the subscription free satellite TV service, has published strong Q4 results, adding 31,000 homes and bringing total households served to over 1.8 million. Freesat now reaches over 3.8 million UK viewers. Freesat’s continuing growth demonstrates the clear attraction of premium TV on a subscription-free basis. With a Freesat box, viewers have access to over […]
Kartina and PeerTV are pleased to announce the launch of the Kartina IQ set top box which has been developed jointly by the two companies. The new Kartina IQ set top box is based on PeerTV’s eTV system. Russian specialist PPV TV operator Kartina targets the fast growing Russian expatriate market globally and is forecasting […]
High-performance digital media specialist Dune HD has selected Broadcom’s BCM7356 satellite system-on-a-chip (SoC) for its next generation STB deployments. With integrated Ethernet connectivity and interface options to connect with Broadcom’s Wi-Fi and powerline solutions, the single chip solution allows Dune HD to deliver seamless multi-room DVR viewing while reducing cost and power requirements. For more […]
TikiLIVE has revealed it now offers Adaptive Bitrate Streaming for VoD accessed from Roku set-top boxes. With adaptive bitrate streaming, Eyepartner’s TikiLIVE starts at the lowest bitrate first which minimises loading time and continually adjusts to the viewer’s Internet connection to limit buffering and unexpected skipping. Adaptive streaming automatically senses changes in the stream that’s […]
DirecTV’s Genie, Liberty Global’s Horizon, Dish’s Hopper and the boxes that power Comcast’s X1 service have something in common other than better marketing names than an older generation of boxes more commonly known by model names such as “DCT6200”. These feature-rich boxes bring more tuners to centralise DVR resources (minimising DVR conflicts), as well as […]
ALi Corporation, a Set-Top Box (STB) solution provider, has joined forces with Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solution provider, and started mass production shipping of a DVB-T2 set-top box solution to a national telecommunication operator for deployment in the Republic of Belarus. In the Republic of Belarus with about 3.7 million […]
Motive Television has been informed by Digiturk, the largest satellite broadcaster in Turkey with over 2.5 million subscribers, that during 2013 approximately 115,000 set-top boxes containing Motive’s technology were provided to subscriber homes. A similar figure is anticipated for the year 2014. This exceeds the estimates given by Motive in May 2013 when it announced […]