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RVU provides pixel accurate representation of a Pay TV user interface on devices not supplied by the operator. US satellite giant DirecTV will pioneer the concept this year, starting on Samsung TVs.…
ADB Group’s pending acquisition of Pirelli Broadband adds solutions expertise in fixed and mobile broadband access and IP home networking. The strategy is to deliver consumer-friendly content convergence in the home, but not device convergence.…
IMS Research believes in-home telco-branded tablets will account for 30% of tablet sales in 2015, highlighting the rise of the ‘companion screen’. One of the first providers, Ericsson, has been demonstrating its IPTV Remote at Cable-Tec Expo.…
When it comes to the connected home there is one common denominator the industry can rely on: DLNA. Beyond that there is still strong debate about the best architectures and physical layers.…
North American consumers are starting to enjoy multi-room DVR services and this is viewed as a natural first step towards a fully Connected Home environment in Europe. Consumers ‘get it’ and there could be direct revenue benefits.…
The Multimedia over Coax Alliance has ratified MoCA 2.0, which further boosts bandwidth capacity and reliability for video home networking. European operators who are struggling with wireless and powerline reliability are expected to benefit.…
SoC vendor Broadcom has had a busy 2010 demonstrating how Pay TV operators can deliver whole home experiences, including HD DVR, harnessing technologies like MoCA, DLNA and RUI. The trend is towards utilising thin clients around the home.…
Pace, Motorola, Technicolor, Cisco and Humax make up the IMS top five for worldwide shipments. Overall, STB shipments increased by 18% over 2008, driven by analogue switch-off in large terrestrial markets.…
ActiveVideo and SMiT have partnered to enable operator-branded interfaces on CI Plus modules, boosting the opportunity to monetize customers with VOD and other interactive services while avoiding the cost of new set-top boxes.…
‘R’ wants a residential gateway architecture that separates the middleware from the hardware to provide device and vendor flexibility. Jungo believes this approach, and open applications development, represents the future of home networking…
Paul Bristow at Pay TV solution vendor ADB says Pay TV DMA could be a threat to the set-top business…but only if Pay TV operators stop caring about branding, programme guides and presentation.…
IMS Research says the Commission wants to allow any CE devices to access Pay TV content to foster competition and innovation in ‘smart video devices’. The proposed rule would disrupt a $4.7 billion market.…
IMS Research says the ‘open-standard secure home media network’ threatens to replace the high-value interactive STB with inexpensive open-standard thin clients, causing major disruption to the Pay TV set-top market but saving network operators money.…
The MoCA Alliance is confident there are enough coax outlets in UK, French, Polish and Dutch homes to provide a viable addressable market for coax based home networking. The technology has major backers.…
DLNA works for real, but someone like Apple has to step in to make it usable. Ben Schwarz tests out the standard at home while making dinner.…
Cisco is looking to keep shareholders happy by investing in video…
New televisions are being developed to support broadband-enabled interactivity and over-the-top HD content services.…
Echostar and Dish Networks delay order to disable DVRs and royalty payments to TiVo.…
New research from Harris Interactive has claimed that 11% of US homes now own an HD-DVD player, compared to 7% which own a Blu-ray player…
Microsoft have done it again and struck another deal with a pay-TV operator…
Account of a work-in-progress demo of the new Sky-on-XBOX service…
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