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[Digital Set-top Box News] Minerva and Sigma Designs Announce IPTV Set-Top Box Collaboration: Minerva and Sigma Designs have been working closely together to integrate their environments so that no third-party software components are needed to build a high-performance set-top box based on the companies’ complementary technologies. The tight integration between Minerva’s client software and Sigma Designs’ devices enables hardware manufactures to minimize development expenses and deliver cost-effective next-generation set-top boxes in a timely fashion.

[Shakk.Us / Published Links] In Depth: Beyond iPlayer: What's next for Video on Demand? / Shakk.Us: "You'll control the TV by the way you're feeling instead of using a remote control." IPTV increasingly prevalentVoD has been around for several years, but with the iPlayer having piqued viewers' interest, the market is about to go crazy thanks to plans led by the BBC to make IPTV a reality. IPTV is all about extra content delivered to homes using broadband, and it typically includes both live and on-demand programmes.

[Nearshore Journal] Nearshore Journal » EchoStar Europe Integrates Latens for ...: Available with either an integrated hard disk drive, or as a stand alone set-top box (HDX-400) with an upgrade path to DVR via plug in hard disk drive, the unit offers a great deal of flexibility to IPTV operators wishing to offer personalised digital television services. The platform has been designed to complement IP entertainment delivery with the addition of cable, satellite or terrestrial tuners to support traditional broadcast services in a single ‘convergent’

[InteractiveTV Today [itvt]] Minerva Networks in IPTV Integration Partnership with Sigma ...: IPTV middleware and applications provider, Minerva Networks, announced Wednesday that it has made various enhancements to its client software platform, which it says significantly reduce the effort required to deploy set-top boxes based on Sigma Designs' next-generation devices. According to the company, it has been working closely with Sigma Designs to integrate their respective environments so that no third-party software components are needed to built a high-performance set-top box based on the companies' technologies.

[Telecompetitor] Minerva and Sigma Designs Collaborate on Set-Top-Box | Telecompetitor: Minerva and Sigma Designs have been working closely together to integrate their environments so that no third-party software components are needed to build a high-performance set-top box based on the companies’ complementary technologies. The tight integration between Minerva’s client software and Sigma Designs’ devices enables hardware manufactures to minimize development expenses and deliver cost-effective next-generation set-top boxes in a timely fashion.

[IPTV News] Broadcom Announces HD Cable STB SoC With Integrated MoCA®: The BCM7125 cable STB SoC includes the same functionality as the BCM7119 but adds an integrated MoCA 1.1 interface that enables service providers to offer innovative whole-home digital media distribution services over coax, which in turn, enables subscribers to securely access, store and share a wide array of digital media content including HDTV programs, video-on-demand (VoD), DVR recordings, Internet content, video, music, photos and voice over IP (VoIP).

[Opera Press Releases] AirTies selects Opera for new High Definition IP set-top box: Opera Software today announced that AirTies, the rapidly growing, Turkey-based developer of wireless quad-play products for Europe, Asia and emerging markets, has selected Opera 9.5 for Devices for its new set-top box, Air 7120. Air 7120 is the state-of-the-art High Definition IP set-top-box with distinctive design and excellent wireless capabilities.

[Broadband TV News » Satellite] Market for hybrid IPTV STBs set to grow | Broadband TV News: Rebecca Kurlak, research analyst and author of the study, stated, “A few of the prime markets for IP STBs will continue to be in the US, France, Italy, Spain, and China. The US alone will experience a 42% increase in subscriber uptake by the end of 2009, mainly driven by AT&T’s U-Verse service.

[IPTV News] Digital cable set-top box demand falling in 2009: After a record-setting year in 2008, worldwide digital cable set top box (STB) demand is falling in 2009, reports In-Stat. The slowdown in unit shipments and revenue has generally been concentrated in the comparatively advanced cable markets in North America and Western Europe where the economic recession has driven reductions in operator capital expenditure (CAPEX) budgets.

[CAT-iq blog] Red Hot IPTV Set Top Market is Cooling: The IP set top box market grew 55 percent in 2008, but such breakneck growth will not continue, reports In-Stat. Many telcos have already launched TV services, so there are fewer new customer prospects.

[BriefingRoom on Broadcast Engineering Magazine] BUTLER-BREMER COMMUNICATIONS LAUNCHES CABLE IPTV SERVICE WITH ...: Falcon IP/Complete is a provider of an MPEG-4, end-to-end IPTV solution for the nation’s telecommunications industry, including government agencies, developer and business communities, and healthcare and education institutions. Privately held, with its headquarters in Malden, Missouri, Falcon IP/Complete blends the customer’s enterprise needs with its own ongoing communications training and research, to develop proven, exclusive, and cost-effective IPTV architectures and installations.

[CNET News.com] Report: Motorola looks to sell set-top box biz | Signal Strength ...: Marguerite Reardon has been covering the telecom beat for more than a decade and knows more about wireless and IP networking than she cares to admit. She has been a senior writer for CNET News since 2003, covering all things wireless and broadband related from iPhone launches to major telephone company mergers to IPTV developments.

[BriefingRoom on TelephonyOnline] ACCESSKEY IP HIGHLIGHTS SET TOP BOX SYSTEM | BriefingRoom on ...: television content (IPtv), navigate the internet, watch Video on Demand (VOD) offerings, play video or internet-based games, listen to music, make phone calls (VoIP), video conference, run a full array of computing applications, securely store data and more, all from a single device and service provider network. Its wholly owned subsidiary TeknoCreations was founded to participate in the explosive growth of Consumer Electronics and Business security needs.

[Technology & Gadgets] Iptv Technology | Technology & Gadgets: Internet protocol television or IPTV, is an increasingly popular technology for the transportation of data information and Audio and Video (AV), across an IP based digital network. Predictions are that compared to the current 3.3 million IPTV subscribers in the United States now, there module be around 12.7 million IPTV users by 2012.

[Jeff Vinson's IPTV Blog] HYBRID Set Top Boxes for IPTV « Jeff Vinson's IPTV Blog: Hybrid Set Top Boxes for IPTV allow smaller telcos (ILECs)  the ability to launch IPTV services faster and with lower headend costs than launching a complete digital service with local and national channels.  The Hybrid STB is a combo box with inputs for local free-to-air video channels (ATSC or cable) and an Ethernet or wireless connection for subscribed IPTV channels.  They also allow Over The Top (OTT) broadcasters a box for their niche sporting or expat content – cricket and football matches, Bollywood or Nigerian movies and rebroadcast native language TV over IP.

[SmartLabs news blog] SmartLabs news blog: SmartLabs turnes PiP on AmiNET110 on!: Amino Communications Chief Technical Officer Dominique Le Foll said: “The AmiNET 110 is one of the world’s most widely deployed IPTV STBs and it’s great to see SmartLabs innovating in this way to improve product functionality and the end user experience. As an independent company we place a great deal of emphasis on developing and working with a broad and deep eco-system –

[BriefingRoom on Broadcast Engineering Magazine] Harmonic To Demonstrate Multi-Screen, Network PVR and Transcoding ...: Our expectations and beliefs regarding these matters and the anticipated features and benefits of the products, solutions and technology to be shown at TelcoTV 2009 may not materialize, and actual results could differ materially from those projected. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are also subject to other risks and uncertainties, including those more fully described in Harmonic’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission including its recent Reports filed on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q.

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