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 […]
India is already embracing digital TV as far as its major urban areas are concerned. But the nation’s Phase III and IV scheme calls for digitisation to drill down to much smaller towns and villages. And the bottom line for India’s cable industry is a need for another 110 million set-top boxes or converters. India’s […]
The global installed base of conditional access (CA) clients in set-top boxes (STB) is expected to exceed 1 billion units for the first time in 2014 as growth is driven by expanding demand in the emerging regions of Latin America, India and China. The installed base of CA STB clients will rise to 1.1 billion […]
South Africa’s government is again facing problems of kick-starting is much-delayed digital terrestrial TV system. South Africa is starting its analogue to digital TV conversion process but the project has been badly affected by the lack of low-cost set-top boxes. South Africa’s government had planned to produce 5 million inexpensive boxes and had budgeted R2.4 […]
According to market intelligence firm TDG’s most recent consumer research project, Video Behavior in the Age of Quantum Media, of the 28 per cent of consumers likely to purchase an Internet set-top box (iSTB) in the next six months, 56 per cent indicate their motivation is due in some degree to their desire to use […]
IPTV and hybrid/OTT innovator Amino Communications is to integrate VUDU’s subscription-free, video-on-demand movie service into its powerful Live Home Media Centre IPTV platform. The new service element will allow Amino’s network operator customers to deliver VUDU’s extensive catalogue of blockbusters, Hollywood classics and independent films to customers deploying the powerful new IPTV set-top box. Pre-integrated […]
The global market for connectable set-top boxes (STBs) is expected to surge by 91 per cent from 2012 through 2017, driven by a number of factors including the adoption of multimedia home gateways (MHGs). Worldwide shipments of connectable STBs are forecast to rise to 125.6 million units in 2017, up from 65.8 million in 2012, […]
Samsung Electronics America has confirmed the availability of the Samsung Smart Media Player, bringing live TV content and all of the Smart TV apps to consumer’s current TVs that lack Smart Hub capabilities. Packed with more than 100 Smart Apps including Amazon Instant Video, Netflix, VUDU and YouTube, the Smart Media Player also enables viewers […]
A national survey conducted by AlphaWise and quoted by Morgan Stanley, states that enthusiasm for UK free-to-view digital service YouView has tumbled. “The proportion of consumers indicating that they are very/somewhat likely to adopt YouView has fallen from 14 per cent to 9 per cent since May,” says AlphaWise. AlphaWise concludes that they continue to […]