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MultTV launches IPTV in Brazil

by Alan Spencer

Albis-elcon has announced that the Brazilian service provider MultTV, has launched a new IPTV offering powered by its SceneGate 8073 STBs. The STB is sized 85 mm x 85 mm x 35 mm and …

Tags:IPTV| Large Display Monitor| LATAM| STBs| Vol 24 - Issue 23

YouView Uses Alexa for Voice Control

by Yvette Raikes

The UK’s YouView FTA DTT platform has used the Alexa Video Skill API to make it easier for viewers to control its content and apps. The company says that all of its 2.4 million …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| STBs| UK (United Kingdom)| Voice Input| Vol 24 - Issue 23

Eurofins Uses SmarDTV’S CAM Platform

by Yvette Raikes

Swiss company SmarDTV is supplying its CAM platform to Eurofins Digital Testing for its CI Plus 1.4 test tool. The tool allows automation of integrated digital TV and testing of CI STBs. The 1.4 …

Neotion adds Arris and Viaccess-Orca CAMs

by Milos Pavlovic

Neotion has announced two new CAMs for Arris Titanium and for Viaccess-Orca. The Arris product supports Arris’s Titanium Content Security solution for DVB cardless Pay-TV whatever the reception mode: satellite, terrestrial or cable. It …

Tags:DRM & Content Protection| Large Display Monitor| Security| STBs| Vol 24 - Issue 21

Comcast Starts HDR Roll Out

by Bob Raikes

Comcast has started to deploy a new DVR for its X1 platform that can support UltraHD and HDR 10 to new customers. The box is made by Arris and includes an HDMI input as …

Opera TV Partners with ALi Corporation to Accelerate Hybrid OTT Set Top Box Chipset Deployments

by Isaac Oburu

Opera TV, the market leader in enabling OTT, and ALi Corporation, a leading Set-Top Box (STB) chipset provider, today announced the integration of Opera TV’s solution into ALi Corp.’s System-on-a-Chip (SoC) Set-Top Boxes (STB). …

Tags:OTT Video| STBs

Com Hem Retains Tivo, but adds Android

by Bob Raikes

Broadband TV News reports that at the Connected TV World Summit, Thomas Helbo, the CTO of Com Hem, the Swedish Pay TV operator, said that it will launch an Android-based STB that will be …

Tags:Android| Large Display Monitor| STBs| Vol 24 - Issue 20

RSCrypto Uses Frog by Wyplay

by Yvette Raikes

The group using Frog by Wyplay now includes conditional access security company RSCrypto and numbers over 150. RSCrypto uses the open source software to allow operators to have control over their own security.

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Software| STBs| Vol 24 - Issue 20

Amino Allows STB Owners to Move to Cloud

by Bob Raikes

Amino, the UK-based IP/Cloud video software and device specialist, said that its new Amino Enable virtual set-top box software is able to let TV operators migrate to an all IP/Cloud future. By upcycling existing …

Tags:Cloud TV| Large Display Monitor| STBs| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 24 - Issue 19

LDM Vol 24 Issue 19 Product Round-up

by Bob Raikes

We missed it at the time, but as it’s one of only a small number of models with this size, we thought we would mention that Acer is shipping the XR382CQK, a 38″ 21:9 …

ADB to supply STBs and RDK Software to Portuguese Nowo

by Alan Spencer

ADB and Portuguese telecommunications and multimedia service provider, Nowo, have formed a partnership to implement the commercial launch of a TV service with ADB STB hardware and ADB RDK middleware. The partnership aims to …

Sofia Digital Makes Reference Streaming App for HbbTV

by Bob Raikes

The HbbTV Association has chosen Sofia Digital to implement a reference application and provide sample content for online streaming of DRM protected video to HbbTV enabled televisions and set-top boxes. Sofia Digital is a …