The market for pay-TV set-top boxes (STBs) will peak within the next three years, according to market analysts.
Annual unit sales will grow from 104 million in 2008 to a projected peak of127 million in 2012, said UK-based research firm Screen Digest.
By 2012 the market will be worth an estimated 10 billion euros.
Sales will begin to [...]
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Set-top box market to peak in 2012
The days of watching TV and videos the old way are quickly becoming numbered, with the introduction of Amazon’s Video on Demand coupled with the amazing new video player from Roku, which is powered by Philips-founded semiconductor pioneer, NXP.
Added to the existing Netflix subscriber service which comes with the Roku box, which was limited to [...]
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How long can DVDs hold out against VOD
Big things are looming for the high definition Video to IP market with the merger of the globe’s leading supplier of super-performing H.264 codecs and encoders, HaiVision Systems Inc., and world leading video software maker Video Furnace Inc.
The new company will be called HaiVision Network Video and will specialise in offering the base-to-base HD H.264 [...]
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HaiVision joins up with Video Furnace
Alpha Networks Inc launched its new generation IP-STB (set top box) at CeBIT 2009.
The STB has a software customisable platform to meet the needs of value added resellers and telcos.
It is designed to give telcos, Multiple Systems Operators, and carriers a STB that allows them to deliver multiple entertainment services and HD content to consumers. [...]
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Alpha Networks launches new generation IP-STB
There are no mixed signals coming from the announcement of the inclusion of Mixed Signals’ leading product Sentry in the finals of the prestigious IPTV World Series Awards for 2009, which the company hopes will give its product a foothold into the European and British markets.
The awards are part of the World Forum for IPTV [...]
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Mixed Signals? Sentry is IPTV awards finalist
