Echostar-owned Slingmedia is deploying its Slingbox-350 models in Brazil. The Sling technology allows users to use the device to shift incoming broadcast content to any other device via WiFi, 3G or 4G connections. Brazil is the first Latino country to get Slingbox, which can be used by any of the region’s pay-TV operators including Sky […]
Altech Multimedia, a provider of innovative products and services to the Global Multimedia market, and DBS Satellite Services Ltd. (“YES”), the only satellite TV platform in Israel since 1998, have signed an agreement for the provision of the new generation of set-top boxes to the Israeli Pay-TV market. This deal, which was signed during IBC […]
Reports have emerged in the US that cable MSO Liberty Global is in talks to acquire Intel’s planned online pay-TV service, possibly in tandem with US telco Verizon, which late October was rumoured to be interested in the OnCue set-top box. Such a move seems unlikely given the fact that Liberty Global is rolling out […]
TalkTalk has shrugged off the football rights war between bigger rivals BSkyB and BT as the telecoms group added 167,000 TV customers in the last three months. “That’s more TV customers than BT, Sky and Virgin put together,” said chief executive Dido Harding. “Not everyone wants to pay a premium for TV sport.” TalkTalk – […]
South Africa’s Communications Minister Yunus Carrim has criticised state broadcaster the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) over its declaration that it will not support conditional access of digital terrestrial set-top boxes, suggesting that the public broadcaster cannot decide for government, with any such policy being determined by the Cabinet. Carrim said while the SABC’s views […]
The Pay-TV market is one of the biggest revenue contributors to the global STB market across the globe. With the large number of channel choices available to subscribers, consumers are increasingly subscribing to more channels. Further, digitalisation is likely to increase the subscription of pay-TV as subscription-based TV services are more popular in the digital […]
STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor expert, has announced that MitraStar Technology, a specialist in the networking DMS (Design and Manufacturing Service) industry, has selected ST’s STiH273 system-on-chip to produce STBs for Kbro Broadband, one of Taiwan’s largest cable television operators. ST’s highly-integrated, secure and optimised HD cable chipset is set to accelerate Taiwan’s transition to digital […]
Online entertainment service Netflix has added a third operator to its cable TV partners, with Denmark’s Waoo! following Virgin Media in the UK and Sweden’s Com Hem in offering subscribers the ability to access Netflix content via their set-top boxes. Anders B Christjansen, CEO of Waoo!, said such a co-operation was obvious and a perfect […]
Qualcomm the mobile chip giant is aiming to break into the set-top box (STB) chip business and shake up the market, says IHS. California-based Qualcomm is a serious contender to the current STB duopoly held by Broadcom and French-Italian maker STMicroelectronics. Both Broadcom and STM sit atop the $2 billion market for set-top box processors, […]
Market research firm Infonetics Research has released excerpts from its Q2 2013 Set-Top Boxes and Pay TV Subscribers market share and forecast report, which tracks IP, cable, satellite, and DTT STBs and OTT media servers. “The STB market is in the midst of a series of significant technology shifts, and these changes are resulting in […]