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[Digital Cable TV News] Surging IPTV Subscriber Base Drives Set-top Box Sales in Q4 2008: “While the IPTV set-top box market continues to grow despite price declines, the cable and satellite set-top markets have begun to contract,” said Greg Collins, Vice President at Dell’Oro Group. with Cisco gaining share in cable and Motorola gaining in IPTV.

[Untitled] Report: Growing IPTV Numbers Drove Set-Top Sales in 4Q :: Cable360: indicates that the IPTV subscriber base grew by 3.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2008 to reach 23 million subscribers at the end of last year, nearly double the number at the end of 2007. While Europe, Middle East, and Africa remained the largest market for unit shipments of IPTV set-top boxes, North America drove the market's revenue growth in the fourth quarter as AT&T and Verizon continued to aggressively promote their television services.

[TechPulse 360] Market For IPTV Bucks The Recession And Grows « TechPulse 360: Despite price declines, the market for IPTV set-top boxes is seeing growth, but the market for set-top boxes supporting cable and satellite services is shrinking, says Dell’Oro Vice President Greg Collins. an interesting tussle between Cisco Systems and Motorola, the top box makers.

[The India Post] IPTV Services Launched for Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL ...: The award-winning VCAS for IPTV has been designed to take advantage of IP-based, bi-directional networks by leveraging mature, proven two-way Internet security protocols, a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) public/private key pair system and X.509 digital certificates. Verimatrix’s downloadable security system for IPTV clients is not only more secure, it enables less expensive set-top box hardware and can be updated or renewed as required to combat the pirates attacks.

[Rapid TV News - RSS Feed] NDS opens Chinese R&D facility - Rapid TV News: They add: “Service providers are increasingly focused on monetising digital content following the introduction of the Ping-Yi process which will see the deployment of digital TV throughout China by 2015. In order to help them achieve this goal NDS will undertake development and integration projects dedicated to creating revenue-enhancing, quick-to-market services and applications like customised interactive services, games and user interfaces among other service enhancements.”

[CyberMedia India Online Limited - IT News] Verimatrix powers BSNLs IPTV service - CIOL News Reports: Verimatrix's downloadable security system for IPTV clients was not only secure, but would also enable less expensive set-top box hardware and could be updated or renewed as required to combat the pirates attacks. VCAS for IPTV had been integrated with SeaChange's middleware and video-on-demand (VOD) server for BSNL's service.

[BizTech2.com India] Biztech India > BSNL Selects Verimatrix Content Security System ...: Verimatrix, a provider of content security technologies that enhance the value of pay-TV networks, has announced that its Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS) for IPTV has been deployed to protect IPTV services to Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) customers. The state-owned telecommunications operator has embarked on a nation-wide launch in conjunction with Smart Digivision Private (SDPL) and is planning to serve several IPTV subscribers over the next three years.

[TVover.net] Surging IPTV Subscriber Base Drives STB Sales in the Q4 of 2008: “While the IPTV set-top box market continues to grow despite price declines, the cable and satellite set-top markets have begun to contract,” said Greg Collins, Vice President at Dell’Oro Group. “For 2009, we are expecting that unit shipments for all segments will increase with a higher percentage of units being high definition capable with a slowing in the trend toward integrated DVRs due to increased use of set-top boxes with multi-room DVR functionality,” he added.

[BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily - Barron's Online] Tech Trader Daily - Barron’s Online : Broadcom: RBC Ups Target ...: Meanwhile, the company also seems to be gaining some traction in the IPTV set-top box market. Permalink | Trackback URL: http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2009/03/23/broadcom-rbc-ups-target-gets-25g-work-from-nokia/trackback/ ...

[blog maverick] Why Do Internet People Think Content People Are Stupid ? - updated ...: The vast majority of broadband internet users already subscribe to a video service, so for most people they would not even notice a change.  So it would make absolutely zero sense for legit content providers to compete with the most consistent and largest source of revenue they have.  In fact, because the TV Everywhere approach will most likely not only increase the value of cable, telco video and sat video subscriptions, but also increase the value of broadband and mobile internet subscriptions (because of the content and the fact  the video can be hosted intra- network and deliver far better quality), TV Everywhere should be a no brainer

[Gauravpmotwani's Weblog] IMPACT OF THE UNION BUDGET(08-09) « Gauravpmotwani’s Weblog: The exemption of customs duty will bring broadcasting equipment like set top boxes on par with rates applicable on telecom equipment and provide a fillip to the DTH industry that uses set top boxes. The cable TV operators, direct-to-home operators and IPTV operators like DISH TV and broadcasters like Zee, NDTV and TV18 would benefit from this move.

[BuddeBlog] BuddeBlog » Blog Archive » Australian broadcasting market at ...: By 2009, the move towards flat panel TVs had further accelerated with CRT TVs only constituting a very small proportion of TV sales as the price of the smaller screen LCD TVs and standard definition plasmas had dropped further. This trend will continue to accelerate through to 2010 as CRT televisions should by that time be totally phased out by retailers.

[itvt] Amino Launches USB Plug-In PVR Solution for Existing Set-Top Boxes: At the IBC show in Amsterdam earlier this month, Cambridge, UK-based IPTV set-top box manufacturer, Amino Communications, launched a plug-in PVR solution that leverages the USB drive of the company’s existing set-top boxes, and that thus enables telcos to upsell PVR functionality without having to initially deploy expensive hard drive-equipped set-tops. According to the company, the plug-in solution allows operators to use different drives with capabilities ranging from basic pause-live-TV to full-fledged PVR.

[Disruption Matters] Disruption Matters » Blog Archive » Will Internet TV Kill IPTV?: Bet on set-top-boxes with PVR features and open to support Internet TV, including competitors offering for video downloads. Make YouTube and iTunes just another TV channel in your catalog. Position your set-top-box in the living room before someone else does and makes yours replaceable.

[MediaPost | Media News] MediaPost Publications Why Interactive TV Is The New Reality 03/16 ...: Consumers don't have to purchase special equipment -- they can go interactive using their existing digital set-top-box and remote control. And over 32 million households in the U.S. already have the ability to go interactive.(This number could quickly double according to an SNL Kagan report that expects up to 25 million new cable-enabled homes to become interactive by year's end.)

[Broadband Presentations] HDTV State of the art and perspectives for European public ...: Displays HD Ready (720p/1080i) HD Ready 1080p Platform DVB-T(2) DVB-C DVB-S(2) IPTV Open Internet Game machines E.g. 1080p/60 PS3 !

[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.

[[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.

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