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 […]
Marvell has announced a collaboration with SK Broadband, which has launched B TV Smart – an IPTV set-top-box with Google services in the Korean market. B TV Smart is powered by Marvell’s ARMADA 1500 Plus system-on-chip (SoC) platform, a full HD media processor designed for a vast array of Smart video products. By leveraging the […]
ALi Corporation, a Set-Top Box solution provider, has announced that ALi’s STB chipsets have incorporated middleware solutions from ACCESS STB Labs, a media and entertainment software development company based in Bangalore, India, offering end-to-end innovative and cost-effective solutions for Digital TV market. Every market is looking to optimize ARPU(average revenue per user) from subscribers, and […]
SFR has launched its hybrid set-top box powered by Marvell’s ARMADA 1500 Plus system-on-chip (SoC) platform. The ARMADA 1500 Plus is a full HD media processor designed for a wide range of Smart video products. The ARMADA 1500 Plus will power SFR’s hybrid set-top boxes to enable Google services for Smart TV. “I’m very proud […]
Media and entertainment technology specialist Technicolor has agreed a global partnership with Telefonica as its strategic satellite set-top box provider to support the mass launch of the operator’s HD services campaign, kicking off in Latin America (Brazil, Chile, Peru and Colombia). In parallel, and as part of the agreement, Technicolor will equally provide support in […]
While CES serves as a showcase for new products like Ultra-HD TVs, these products won’t ship in high-enough volume in 2014 to rescue the traditional consumer electronics (CE) device from a decline in revenue this year, according to IHS. Worldwide CE manufacturing revenue will fall to $250 billion in 2014, down 2 per cent from […]
Entropic has completed the integration of the Cryptography Research CryptoFirewall security core technology into its advanced line of multimedia STB system-on-a-chip (SoC) products. By incorporating CRI’s technology into its SoCs, Entropic can help ensure its products protect against signal theft and content piracy. Entropic’s ARM-based advanced STB SoC solutions are designed for hybrid broadcast/IP pay […]
Opera Software, together with TechniSat Digital, a consumer-electronics manufacturer, and Verimatrix, a specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for digital TV services, has announced that the latest TechniSat hybrid STBs will be powered by the Opera Software Development Kit (SDK) and protected by advanced Verimatrix security solutions. Opera Software and TechniSat have been partnering for […]
Entropic, a specialist in semiconductor solutions for the connected home, is working with Nagra, the digital TV division of the Kudelski Group and independent provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions. Through this engagement, Entropic will embed Nagra’s latest Nagra-On-Chip Security (NOCS 3) conditional access and digital rights management technology into its complete line […]