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[Freeband TV News] ADB highlights TV/PC content convergence using hybrid set-top ...: "At IBC 2009, we will show how our high performance and hybrid set-top boxes enhance the consumer TV experience and reduce total cost of ownership to enable operators to deliver this new television experience while minimising capital and operating costs. We'll demonstrate how our proven software expertise delivers the combination of performance, stability and user-friendly interfaces that ensure content convergence remains a television experience, and not a ”˜techie' PC endurance.

[Unfiltered] Analyst predicts IP STB revival | Unfiltered: Growth of IP STBs is likely to remain positive as more and more service providers start hopping onto the interactive bi-directional TV bandwagon in a bid to save their hemorrhaging revenues. At the same time, the increasingly sophisticated consumer market (especially in mature economies) also works in tandem to help with the push.

[Digital TV Software News] 57 Million Internet Set-top Boxes By 2012: A new global report from MRG shows how OTT (Over-the-Top) video services will offer new opportunities for IPTV & Cable Operators and media owners to expand their reach through TV-centric open Internet services. Revenues in 2012 should exceed $11 billion, with Internet Set-top Box (ISTB) penetration (including game consoles) exceeding 57 million.

[Market Research Reports - New Releases] The Chinese Market for Digital Set-Top Boxes - 2009 Edition: However, current development of cable, satellite, IP and terrestrial STBs in China vary greatly, as do their growth forecasts. The primary aim of this research is to assess the current situation of the Chinese digital STB market and to forecast the future development of the industry. 

[MaldivianDigital® :: Forum] digiGO! ”” The Digital (R)Evolutionâ™ - MaldivianDigital® :: Forum: The end-to-end solution includes the Cisco SD encoder Model D9034, HD encoder Model D9054, Cisco Digital Content Manager (DCM) Model D9900 with IP statistical multiplexing functionality. In addition, the platform includes the Cisco ROSA® Network Management System, which has been specially developed to allow TV 2 Norway to quickly assign more bandwidth to the HD signal when required to suit operational conditions.

[Digital TV Software News] Entropic and Sigma Announce MoCA Enabled Set-Top Box Collaboration: Using Entropic's third-generation, MoCA 1.1 compliant EN2510 single-chip solution, and Sigma Designs' SMP8654 Media Processor SoC, the Cable TV and IPTV Set-Top Box reference designs are optimized to enable a cost-effective IP network, capable of delivering outstanding HD .“The collaboration with Entropic for our Cable TV and IPTV reference designs will enable higher quality solutions with faster time-to-market for the rapid deployment of MoCA enabled set-top boxes.” .

[Telecom Redux] Telecom Redux incorporating Wireless Business Review - Set top ...: Parks reckons the global analogue-to-digital TV transition, along with new distribution channels such as DTT, IPTV, and over-the-top (OTT) video services, will intensify competition in the television service market. The company reasons that carriers and manufacturers looking for a competitive advantage will replace their current installed base of STBs with advanced models capable of supporting applications such as time- and place-shifting and Internet-based offerings.

[Mashable Jobs Job Site] Senior Web Developer for Set Top Box Applications Job, Synacor ...: STB Technologies: DVB, MPEG2, MPEG4, PVR/DVR, HD-TV, Graphics/OSD, Audio/Video, IPTV • Experience performing systems integration, end-to-end testing, and deployment of applications, systems, and tools in support of interactive television .

[Broadband TV News] IPTV set-top market is 'cooling down' | Broadband TV News: “Established IPTV providers such as France Telecom, AT&T, Free, British Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, and China Telecom provided much of the subscriber growth that drives the demand for IP set top boxes,” said Michelle Abraham, In-Stat analyst, in a statement.

[ABI Research - Digital Home Industry Blog Feed] Global Set-Top Box (STB) Markets Forecast Update: It includes forecast analysis of STBs by platform (CATV, IPTV, DBS, DTT), region (North America, Western Europe, Central/Eastern Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, Middle East Africa), compression technology (MPEG-2/4), and shipments of HD boxes (standard and PVR).

[Lafayette Pro Fiber Blog] Lafayette Pro Fiber Blog: Set Top Box Follies: Cox and LUS: LUS points out that every other IPTV-using network has already received this waiver and that all they are asking for is the same waiver that Verizon and other established IPTV providers have already secured. To ask new entrants who are actually competing and using the new technology to offer a cheaper, faster, more innovative system is to bear a burden the established corporations do would be stunningly counter-productive.

[PR Hub] Redefining Television at IBC: ActiveVideo Networks to Showcase ...: COLOGNE, Germany - ActiveVideo Networks(TM) (www.activevideo.com/) announced today that it has reached an agreement to acquire Avinity Systems BV, bringing together the two leading providers of cloud-based interactive TV platforms and applications, and expanding the reach and availability of the Web-based user experiences that are redefining interactive television (iTV 2.0). The transaction, which was announced at the ANGA Cable Trade Fair here, strengthens ActiveVideo Networks' technology and application offerings and creates a global leader in the fast-growing market for delivery of cloud-based services to televisions around the world.

[akeebo blog] akeebo blog: BUSINESS IN THE 21ST CENTURY - ANTICIPATED CHANGES ...: Social networking (MySpace, Facebook), video sharing (YouTube), photo sharing (Flickr), Wikipedia (as an example of wiki-economics), P2P….the list is endless. All this has been made possible because there are very flexible and open protocols built on the top of IP that support universal collaboration using personal computers.

[BriefingRoom on Broadcast Engineering Magazine] Falcon IP/Complete and Harmonic Inc. Partner to Provide Total ...: 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, Mo., 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.

[ABI Research - Digital Home Industry Blog Feed] IP Video Set-Top Boxes: These combine IP video with one of three other video platforms: cable, satellite, or terrestrial. This report also provides operator-vendor insight, market-share analysis worldwide and in various regions, and SWOT analysis of the major vendors in the IP STB space.

[InteractiveTV Today [itvt]] Kaonmedia Licenses ANT Galio Client for New Range of Set-Top Boxes ...: "We made the decision to build our new set-top boxes based on the ANT Galio platform because of ANT's focus on encouraging market collaboration to accelerate innovation and its ongoing commitment to open standards," Konan Jeong, Kaonmedia's project and sales director for worldwide broadcasting and IPTV operation projects, said in a prepared statement. "This approach gives us access to a community of content developers building new applications and services that can add value to the retailers and operators we engage with." Added Sean Kim, ANT's VP and general manager for the Asia and Russia markets: "This agreement equips Kaonmedia with the next generation of innovation for its new set-top box range and supports its continued strong footing across the global market.

[Telecom News Now - The JS&A Blog] Telecom News Now - The JS&A Blog » Blog Archive » KIT digital Wins ...: KIT VX centralizes video asset management, and allows for multiple users within client organizations to have different access rights to content to help ensure appropriate distribution, promotion and creation of content. The platform includes a robust content management system (CMS) for managing large amounts of text, documents, images, audio and video-or elements of the platform can be integrated with existing content management systems via the platform’s advanced application programming interfaces (APIs) that include a number of pre-built, modular extensions.

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