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[Communications Engineering & Design Headline News] Broadcom has chips for STBs in Asia/Pac: According to In-Stat market research, there are more than 37 million digital cable subs in China; the research operation projects that number to reach 135 million by 2013, with set-top box revenue in China expected to peak at $1.3 billion in 2011.

[ABA DSS - Free to Air Satellite TV Community] UK headquartered Amino Communications sold its two millionth ...: “Reaching the two million milestone is a strong vindication of Amino’s leading product range.” said Andrew Burke, CEO of Amino. “We now have deployments in over 80 countries worldwide with customers selecting our products because of a powerful combination of advanced functionality, competitive pricing and award-winning design.

[Digital TV News] Türk Telekom Selects Envivio Encoding Platform for IPTV Service Launch: This all-IP, all-digital processing of content eliminates the need for traditional intermediate analog or digital video and audio interfaces between MPEG-2 decoders and MPEG-4 encoders, resulting in reduced cost and improved picture quality. Service reliability is ensured using an M:N automatic redundancy system controlled by the Envivio 4Manager Network Management System.

[Electronic Engineering News Digest] NXP and Roku Enable Instant Enjoyment of New Release Movies: Specifically designed for low cost, high performance HD IPTV set-top box solutions, the NXP PNX8935 supports the latest high definition video standards including MPEG-4 AVC (h.264) and VC-1. The PNX8935 is a multi-format source decoder that combines a MIPS application processor with a dedicated audio processor and powerful multi-standard video decoder (MSVD).

[IPTV News at IPTV Watch] Alpha Networks launches new generation IP-STB: Alpha’s IP-STB uses a dual-core SoC hardware platform and supports high performance 64-bit DDRII memory and extensive video/audio decoding capability, including HD/SD H.264/AVC, HD/SD AVS, VC-1, HD/SD MPEG-2, DivX3/4/5/6, AAC, Dolby, MP3, and WMA.

[Broadband Presentations] What is IPTV :: BBC: Network friendliness: Through the NetworkAdaptation Layer, H.264 bit streams can be easilytransported over different networks.© BBC 2008IPTV/Internet TV Platforms/OperatorsOPERATOR MIDDLEWARE CODEC DELIVERYNETWORKMANAGEDNETWORKTiscali (client-sideJava)h.264 ADSL YESBT Vision Mediaroom h.264 ADSL YESVirgin Liberate(Seac-change)Mpeg 2 Hybrid fibreco-axYESFreesat MHEG 1.06turboNotimplementedAny -dependent onispNOFreeview(other than BTvision)MHEG Dependant onISPAny -dependent onispNO© BBC 2008CommonIPTV/VODmodels© BBC 2008Server(contains video)Server Side Video / Client Side ApplicationStreamed VideoContains:- application code previously downloadedSet Top BoxInstructions forvideo(play, ff, rw,pause)are sent to server4a - Common modelsDisadvantages-Slower to load video-Longer round trip to serverbattling against bandwidthAdvantages-Greater capacity for videoon servers than set-top/pc© BBC 2008Server(contains video and app)Server Side Video / Server Side AppStreamed VideoANDStreamed Applicationcontains:- no storage in the boxSet Top BoxInstructions forvideo(play, ff, rw,pause)AND to navigatethe appare sent to server4b - Common modelsDisadvantages-Slower to load video/app-Longer round trip to serverbattling against bandwidth/contention ratioAdvantages-Greater capacity for video-Larger app size formore functionality© BBC 20084c - Common modelsSet Top Box/PVRClient Side App / Client Side Videocontains:- application code previously downloaded- video previously downloadedDisadvantages-Inability to leverage serverfor capacity.Advantages-Quick seamless transitionsbetween video and scenes.-Store app locally and takebox from a to b (i.e. toa friends house)© BBC 2008Set Top Box/PVRPeer-to- Peer Video / Client Side Applicationcontains:- application code previously downloaded- video streamed from other pcs/boxes4d - Common modelsvideovideovideovideoDisadvantages-Longer round trip tothrough networkAdvantages-Leverage other PC/set-tops with the same videofor speedy download© BBC 2008IPTVPC MOBILE STBBROWSER APP MHEG 1.06MHEG TurboICTVMEDIA ROOMMozilla IEWindows Media PlayerReal PlayerFlashLiberateMiddlewares on devicesJoost Bablegum© BBC 2008OtherFactors© BBC 20085 - Other Factors• Digital Rights Management (DRM)• Security (logging in / privacy)• Messaging• Mobile Devices• Authoring• Video Delivery• Games consoles• User experience & design© BBC 2008IPTV OverviewThanks for your timeAny Questions ?© BBC 2008

[Digital Set-top Box News] ADB delivers HD DVR to Télégenève-naxoo, Switzerland: Advanced Digital Broadcast (SIX:ADBN), a leading supplier of technology to the global digital television industry, announced today that it has delivered the ADB-5810CX, high definition cable set-top box with digital video recorder to Télégenève for the launch of its new HDTV service in Geneva and Valais regions. The units will be marketed as the “DRIVEBOX HD”

[Vator.tv pitches] Vator.tv - MultiMediaXmission, Inc. company profile: His experience includes spearheading the invention and development of current HDTV Standard for the US (while in Philips), DBS for the US, MPEG-2/MPEG-4/H.263/H.264/DVD worldwide, PacketCable applications, and head-end manufacturing. The company's management team has an extensive track record in hardware, software and integrated circuit design and development, applications engineering and customer support, manufacturing, high-tech marketing and high-end software and systems sales and sales management.

[Bits] Obama’s Balancing Act on Digital TV - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com: well you only have your selves to blame there or rather your broadcasters that chose this oddball US standard over DVB, you should have gone with the generic world standard DVB-T(2) protocol that just lives ghost/shadow bounced signals and saved loads of cash in the process as the chipsets are many and varyed, theres DVB-T,DVB-S,DVB-H and DVB-C plust the newest DVB-*2 variants that give you even more bandwidth to play with.

[The Briefing Room] RTL II installs DVB over IP solution - DVC and Exterity deliver ...: At the users’ PCs the DVB streams are decoded with the avediaCentre software and can be displayed live on the PC monitors. Additionally, avediaCentre allows the local recording of the streams to the PC hard disk, .

[ABI Research - Wireless Industry Blog Feed] IP Video Set-Top Boxes Market Research Report from ABI Research: MARKET AND BUSINESS-MODEL ISSUES 2.1 Telecom-Operator Strategies for Delivering Video 2.1.1 True IPTV 2.1.2 RF Overlay 2.1.3 Other Hybrid Networks 2.2 Differentiating Service from the Competition 2.2.1 Pricing 2.2.2 Consumer Relations and Service 2.2.3 Dynamic Video Interactivity 2.2.4 Local Programming and Services 2.2.5 Voice and Data Integration 2.2.6 Remote Service Management 2.2.7 Interactive Advertising 2.3 Regulatory Restrictions on IPTV and Solutions 2.3.1 Video Hurdles 2.3.1.1 Broadcast Restrictions 2.3.1.2 Franchising 2.3.2 Hybrid Network Solutions 2.4 Home Networking Issues 2.4.1 Number of TVs 2.4.2 Evolution of Digital TVs 2.4.3 Video Servers and Residential Gateways 2.4.4 Home-Network Routing Technologies 2.5 IP STB Contracts and Operator-Vendor Relationships 2.5.1 Asia-Pacific Relationships 2.5.2 North America Relationships 2.5.3 Western Europe Relationships 2.5.4 Eastern Europe Relationships 2.6 IP STB Vendor Market Share

[[itvt] Bloggit] ITV Report: Introducing “IPTV Set-Top Boxes and the Subscriber ...: And although they seem to get the most attention, the availability of advanced video codecs isn’t the only change currently taking place: another very important change impacting the IP set-top box space–and discussed in depth in this paper–has to do with the microprocessors that drive set-top boxes. We’re now transitioning from an era where you had multiple dedicated microprocessors for core-processing, application-processing and video-decoding to an era where a single processor can do all of these things.

[Briefing Room on SVConline] HaiVision and Zixi Provide First Low-Latency HD (1080i) Video ...: For a fraction of the cost of traditional long-haul video delivery methods such as CDN, satellite, or dedicated or leased lines, Zixi delivers SD and full HD quality video in real time to anywhere in the world on any device using existing network infrastructure. Zixi uses patented end-to-end, real-time clock synchronization that enables timely delivery and recovery of lost packets, ensuring low or zero latency delivery of HD video over standard IP connections without quality of service guarantees and without any tradeoffs among resolution, pauses for re-buffering, and startup delay.

[Andrew Burke's IPTV Blog] Consolidation or separation? « Andrew Burke’s IPTV Blog: Suddenly everyone is talking up solutions offering internet-resident, broadband-delivered video to the television screen using PC-like codec technology (Flash, WM, H.264), limited DRM (or CA in IPTV speak), no quality of service and fair encoding quality.

[Briefing Room on SVConline] HaiVision 2009 NAB Show Preview | Briefing Room on SVConline: The MAKO-HD also supports computer output encoding to H.264, at up to 1280×768 resolution and 60 frames per second, which is ideal for command and control applications. With advanced features such as WXGA encoding, multiple stream output, HiLo streaming, Adobe Flash® compatibility, and traffic shaping, the MAKO-HD is ideal for any network video challenge over LAN, WAN, or satellite.

[Broadband Presentations] The network as the platform for Web 2 :: Cisco: Cisco Confidentialpcampoli 17 7 Of Top 10 IPTV European Telco Use Cisco IP Network Solutions IP NGN Core & Carrier Ethernet Of the 5 Microsoft TV Commercial deployments in Europe, Cisco Provides End to End IP Network Solutions & STBs To .

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