Beenius Interactive TV middleware developer has unveiled its new Android Set-Top Box (STB) client. The Android app extends Beenius’ Beesmart open and flexible interactive TV middleware platform, providing greater choice to operators and their customers and supporting the move towards connected TV. Operators benefit from the lower deployment costs of Android along with the power […]
Canal+ is beta testing an OTT version of its digital bouquet Canalsat. A number of subscribers are reported to have received a dedicated version of the OTT-enabled “Cube” STB to access Canalsat channels via the Internet directly to their TV. The Cube STB must be connected to a DTT antenna in order to receive all […]
Hong Kong-based set-top box manufacturer Skyworth has a 38 per cent market share of India’s fast-growing set-top box sector, according to CIOL.com. The supply of boxes into India has grown 5 per cent since the previous quarter. Skyworth is closely followed by Cisco, and Skynet holds 59 per cent of the market between them and […]
TalkTalk says that it is the UK’s fastest-growing pay-TV service, after revealing that it has signed the 500,000th customer to its YouView-powered offering. The telco launched its budget TV service less than 12 months ago. “Reaching this milestone in less than a year is a great achievement, but it’s just the beginning,” said Dido Harding, […]
The smart set-top box and dongle market is expected to pass 18 million units in 2013 – higher than originally forecasted due to the arrival of Google’s Chromecast device. According to analysis firm ABI Research, overall the market is expected to grow with a 10.8 per cent CAGR (2013 to 2018) with less saturated and […]
India’s government is looking at guaranteeing the production on locally manufactured set-top boxes. The scheme under consideration by the country’s Ministry of Information & Broadcasting would see 40 per cent of indigenous output “reserved” by the government in a bid to promote local sales. Local production would also soften the blow caused by the plummeting […]
One of India’s major cable MSOs, Manthan, says it will install 3.6 million digital set-top boxes in and around Kolkata and Bengal region during 2014 at a cost of more than $69 million. Manthan’s headquarters are in Kolkata, and one of its directors Sudip Ghosh, said it would be signing an additional $18 million contract […]
INSIDE Secure has announced that Korean fabless semiconductor maker Telechips has embedded the INSIDE DRM Fusion Agent solutions for high-bandwidth digital content protection (HDCP) and digital transmission content protection (DTCP-IP) into its newest TCC892X family of set-top box multimedia application processors. Using the INSIDE solutions and a trusted execution environment (TEE) based on the Solacia […]
EKT (Eagle Kingdom Technologies), a leading supplier of advanced STB solutions was selected by Telefónica Czech Republic to supply their new interactive STB solution. Based on an Entropic ARM Cortex A-9 secure integrated circuit (IC) solution, Telefónica’s customers can now experience true HD graphical user interface capabilities together with the latest features in IPTV interactivity. […]
Global Pay-TV STB shipments continue to grow, with demand expected to peak at 180 million units in 2016, according to research from Futuresource Consulting. “Despite the overall STB market topping out this year, this is entirely due to erosion of the free-to-air segment. We’re going to see the trinity of cable, pay satellite and IPTV […]