IPTVision > Amino to buy Tilgin’s IPTV STB division

[Communications Engineering & Design Headline News] “Tilgin IPTV is the perfect acquisition for Amino, delivering an extended product portfolio with exciting leading-edge features, as well as valuable middleware partners and wider customer reach,” said Andrew Burke, CEO of Amino. “The market is demanding consolidation coupled with innovation, and Amino is ideally placed to deliver this elusive mix as the shape and nature of the IPTV industry evolves.”

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[TVover.net] Amino to Acquire IPTV STB Division from Tilgin - TVover.net: Based in Kista, Sweden, Tilgin IPTV is a leading edge technology player within the European IPTV market with a proven record in delivering large quantities of products and advanced systems having sold and delivered almost 500,000 STBs.

[IPTV News at IPTV Watch] Tilgin Sells IPTV Business To Amino: Swedish company, Tilgin AB, has sold its IPTV business to UK-based Amino Technologies Plc, in order to focus on expanding its profitable IP Residential Gateway business.

IPTV News: Tilgin's IPTV set-top box division offers a range of H.264 high-definition models within its 'Mood' product line, and the acquisition will also give Amino immediate access to additional middleware solutions, such as Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Networks. The acquisition will also extend the group's customer reach and enhance R&D synergies delivered through the development of common ST Micro-based STBs.

[FierceIPTV -] Amino to acquire Tilgin STB division - FierceIPTV: The moves comes amid a new forecast from ABI research suggesting the STB market could decline after 2012, yet Amino has made assertive moves in the sector with the connectivity options, feature support and design of its STBs. That work paid off last week at the TelcoTV 2008 event, where Amino won a Telco TV Vision award for Best Customer Premise Equipment, as well as the Best in Show award.

[Rapid TV News - RSS Feed] Amino buys Tilgin STBs - Rapid TV News: Based in Kista (north of Stockholm), Sweden, Tilgin IPTV is a leading edge technology player within the European IPTV market with a proven record in delivering large quantities of products and advanced systems having sold and delivered almost 500,000 STBs.

[SmallCapNews Headlines] SmallCapNews | Amino to acquire set-top box division from Tilgin: The acquisition will also give Amino immediate access to additional middleware solutions - such as Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Networks - as well as extending the group's customer reach. Amino said it also expects to enjoy R&D cost synergies delivered through the development and maintenance of common ST Micro based set-top boxes.

[Electronics Weekly News] Amino buys Swedish set-top box firm for £2.5m: The purchase of Tilgin which is based near Stockholm will bring to Cambridge based Amino an MPEG-4 HD IPTV set-top box business. The acquisition will also give Amino access to additional middleware solutions - such as Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Networks - as well as extending the Group's customer reach.

[Communications Engineering & Design Headline News] Set-top market may decline after ’12: ABI expects that demand for set-tops will diminish upon the completion in most developed countries of the transition to all-digital television broadcasting. The trend for over-the-top video will help push the demand for substitutions for the STB: residential gateways, media hubs, gaming boxes, and the integration of STB components into TVs themselves.

IPTV News: By comparison there were just 57,200 broadband subscribers globally in 1998, increasing nearly six-fold in the following 12 months to reach 280,890 in 1999, with DSL becoming the most popular choice of delivery method. The past ten years have seen a reported 600,000% increase in the number of subscribers, with a 300% increase in the last five years alone, to now reach 400mn.

[IPTV News at IPTV Watch] Allied Telesis and Comtrend Offer Interoperability for Bonded Solution: Allied intends to make use of Comtrend’s NexusLink 5631 as its bonded solutions modem for use with the company’s 11.0 firmware for its integrated Multiservice Access Platform that allows providers ADSL link bonding for added bandwidth use with IPTV channels.

[IPTV Daily] ipTV-Daily - Nov. 20 2008 Daily News: According to IDC, the number of Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) subscribers in Asia/Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ) is expected to grow from nearly 500K subscribers in 2004 to over 20 mln subscribers by 2009 with an impressive CAGR of 110% -- We think this actually be low and a consercative estimate. A meaningless chart is shown below.

[IPTV News at IPTV Watch] BT Vision Extends Comtrend Power Line Deal: BT Vision, which provides over 70 free TV and radio channels, is available to UK customers via a V-Box set-top box. It comes with two Comtrend Power Grid 902 adapters, pre-configured for plug-and-play home networking.

[itvt] Ericsson Launches IMS-Integrated IPTV Middleware « itvt: and describes it as bringing together various of its core products–including IPTV network infrastructure, video processing solutions and VOD technologies, as well as the new IMS-enabled IPTV middleware–with products from such companies as Accedo Broadband, Agama Technologies, Amino, HP, SecureMedia, Sun Microsystems, Tilgin, Verimatrix and ZyXEL. “Ericsson has combined its leading network solutions, digital television solutions, consulting and systems integration capabilities, with key industry partners, to launch an industry-shaping TV platform that delivers on the vision of the Individual TV Experience,”

[Connected TV] IBC 2008 Report: Ericsson launches world’s first IMS-integrated ...: Eugene Sarmiento, head of sales development, IPTV at Ericsson, told ConnectedTV that the move was a response to operators complaining that the business case for IPTV “is really tough.” The biggest element in the capex involved in an IPTV rollout is the set-top box, usually accounting for around 75% of the cost, and there has been “no easy way to create a new set-top box or to protect it without a proprietary solution,”

[IPTV News at IPTV Watch] Bada pushes Amity to front of business strategies: Swedish company, Tilgin AB, has sold its IPTV business to UK-based Amino Technologies Plc, in order to focus on expanding its profitable IP Residentia...

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