- Connected TV Shipments Surge, Group Says | homemediamagazine.com
More than 45 million connected HDTVs, or about 20% of all flat-panel screens, will be shipped this year, with that number ballooning to 42%, or 119 million, by 2014, according to a quarterly report from DisplaySearch.
- The Hermes Project: Sky to sell Easynet?
Sky are said to be considering the sale of Easynet, the business ISP who they bought for £211m in 2005 in order to use their LLU infrastructure to get them a foothold in the residential broadband market.
- IP TV Times: The Return Of DRM
Some two years ago a number of industry players came together to create a DRM stadard that they hoped would take on Apple's iTunes and the pirating which has been decimating the content industry.
- UK viewers could get the iPlayer with Freesat
At the recent Freesat awards ceremony in London, the US based set top box maker, EchoStar, let it be known that it was looking at the free to view satellite digital TV provider Freesat as a future partner.
- Motorola keeps STB division
It has been a long time coming but finally Motorola has decided in which direction the company will be moving and its master plan of dividing the company into two is becoming more of a reality.
- RealID raises $200 million
RealID, the company behind the technology used to make the hit film Avatar in 3D, has raised around $200 million through an initial public offering (IPO) which is around 33 per cent higher than initially thought.
- SCTE Hires DOCSIS Developer To Be Its First CTO – 2010-07-20 12:30:00 | Multichannel News
The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers — as part an increased focus on Internet Protocol networking — has tapped broadband expert Daniel Howard to be the association's first chief technology officer.
- 100Mbps has arrived! Plusnet begins Fibre to the Premises Trial – Community Site News from Plusnet
We thought today would be rather timely to post an update about our fibre trials. Today saw the first customer in the UK to go live on BT’s Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) trial and he’s a Plusnet customer!
- Microsoft’s Xbox 360 slim records storming sales
It’s good news for Microsoft on the console front when it comes to the launch of the company’s new slim version of the Xbox 360.
- STB market defies global slowdown | News | Rapid TV News
A new report from IMS Research has revealed the robustness of the set-top box (STB) market, which when including DVRs, broke the 200 million barrier in 2009.
The report, "The World Market for Digital Set-top Boxes & iDTVs – 2010 Edition', found that uptake was driven by the fact that nearly 50 million TV households adopted free-to-air (FTA) and pay-digital services.
- Sky box supplier reveals green HD and 3D direction | News | Rapid TV News
To take advantage of what looks likely to be a spike in HD demand, one of Sky's technology suppliers has unveiled low-power devices capable of supporting the rich TV services.
In releasing details of the new boxes it has produced for its primary customer, Dublin-based S3 has revealed that Sky's new boxes have been designed to support future services launching in 2010 such as broadband-enabled video-on-demand and 3DTV.
- On Demand sets up German HD VoD service | News | Rapid TV News
Video-on-Demand (VoD) service provider On Demand Deutschland (ODD) has created a digital video library portal for German set-top-box manufacturer VideoWeb: HD Kino offers the owners of the hybrid satellite receiver VideoWeb 600S the possibility to watch streamed movies via the internet both in standard and high-definition quality (HDTV) on their conventional TV set.
