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Time Warner Cable Begins IPTV Trial

by Tom Allen

Time Warner Cable has begun a Roku trial in New York – its first IP-only video trial. Participants will be able to access TWC’s video service, through its own network, using a Roku Streaming …

Actions Launches Leading-edge 64-bit 4K Chipset for Global OTT Set-top Box Market

by Isaac Oburu

Actions Semiconductor Co., Ltd. (“Actions Semiconductor” or “the Company”), one of China’s leading fabless semiconductor companies that provides comprehensive portable multimedia and mobile internet system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions for portable consumer electronics, today announced the …

Tags:Semiconductors| SOCs| STBs

Actions Looks to 64-bit for STB Market

by Tom Allen

China’s Actions Semiconductor has launched the GT7 chipset: a 64-bit octa-core device (quad-core CPU and GPU) for OTT set-top boxes (STBs). Featuring HEVC decoding, the GT7 enables UltraHD playback from online sources. RJ45 and …

TechniSat Brings UltraHD to the Home

by Tom Allen

TechniSat is now selling an UltraHD STB in Germany, which can decode HEVC signals. The Digit Isio STC+ is also able to play UltraHD content at 60fps through HDMI, and supports HDCP 2.2. It …

Tags:HEVC (H.265)| Large Display Monitor| STBs| UltraHD| Vol 22 - Issue 45

DTT Receiver Makers Under Spotlight in SA

by Milos Pavlovic

Digitag reports that the Department of Communication in South Africa is to formally investigate the procurement of adaptors for the digital switchover. Twenty six companies were authorised to make the receivers, but there have …

Tags:DTV| Large Display Monitor| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| STBs| Vol 22 - Issue 44

Technicolor Builds 20 millionth STB for DIRECTV PanAmericana

by Milos Pavlovic

Technicolor said that it has built 20 million STBs for DirecTV PanAmericana since 1993. DirecTV PanAmericana provides services in 9 territories: Argentina, Caribbean, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and Uruguay.

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LATAM| STBs| Technicolor| Vol 22 - Issue 44

SkyQ Will be Sky’s First UltraHD STB

by Tom Allen

The SkyQ set-top box (SkyQ Box Will Challenge OTT Operators), according to The Telegraph, will support UltraHD content. The company is said to be working ‘furiously’ to get the STB out as soon as …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Sky| STBs| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 22 - Issue 44

Comcast Will Produce UHD HDR STB

by Tom Allen

Comcast has said that it is preparing an HDR-capable UltraHD STB for launch next year. The Xi6 will be ‘more advanced’ than this year’s Xi4, which was Comcast’s first UltraHD STB.

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 43

by Tom Allen

The new Apple TV box can now be pre-ordered in 80 countries. The 32GB model costs $150 and the 64GB costs $200. Deliveries should begin to arrive on the 30th October. The price of …

Global STB Market to Hit $24 Billion by 2022

by Milos Pavlovic

Transparency Market Research released a new report that forecasts that the global STB market will reach a value of $24 billion by 2022, with CAGR of 6.4% from 2015 onwards. The firm said that …

Humax is Open to UltraHD STB

by Tom Allen

Humax may launch a version of its Freeview Play box that can support UltraHD streaming, once it adopts new chipsets. Commercial director Graham North said, at the launch of Humax’s new FVP-4000T box, that …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| STBs| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 22 - Issue 41

Google Shares New Android TV Partners

by Tom Allen

TCL, Hisense and other ‘unnamed’ makers have just been announced as new Android TV partners by Google. Although the US firm did not mention other companies by name, we know that Grundig is one …