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• Set-Top Box Manufacturers Respond to Increasing Risks, ABI Research Observes

  - 2007-12-17

  NEW YORK -- The status of the STB (Set-Top Box) within pay-TV households faces significant risk from the development of two-way, digital-cable-ready TVs, media centers, and residential gateways, among others. And STB manufacturers are responding in several ways.

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• Facing Challenges, Set-Top Box Makers Will Respond with Advanced Features, Says ABI Research

  - 2007-10-10

  NEW YORK -- As revenue from standard STB (Set-top Box) sales declines along with demand in the period 2008 to 2012, STB vendors will initially rely on firmer markets for DBS Digital Broadcast Satellite, IPTV IP Television, and DTT Digital Terrestrial Television STBs. However, according to a new study from...

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• Digital Set-Top Boxes Will Peak in North America during the Year 2009, while DTT Gains Global Traction, According to ABI Research

  - 2007-09-20

  NEW YORK -- Annual shipment trends for DTT Digital Terrestrial Television-enabled STBs (Set-Top Boxes) will be uneven over the next several years as the timing of digital switchover and DTT service availability varies dramatically from country to country, according to a recent study from ABI Research. A decline in Western...

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• New Features, IP Hybrids and Retail STB Will Drive Set-top Box Markets Past 2010, says ABI Research

  - 2007-08-03

  NEW YORK -- The market for STBs (set-top boxes) will grow at a steady pace through the end of the decade before easing slightly, as service upgrades to existing pay-TV customers are completed and the market shifts from new-technology growth to growth driven by the addition of new pay-TV subscribers....

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• Asian Set-Top Box Vendors Using Growing Local Market Share as Springboard for Export, Says ABI Research

  - 2007-04-23

  NEW YORK -- The newest release of ABI Research's set-top box research report shows that Samsung, Coship and other Chinese and South Korean STB vendors collectively account for over 55% of the Asia-Pacific STB market, which is growing faster, in terms of subscribers, than the rest of the world. Moreover,...

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• China's growing subscriber base will lead the Asia-Pacific charge to higher-end set-top boxes, says ABI Research.(MARKET INTELLIGENCE)

  - 2007-03-01

  Consumers in the Asia-Pacific region will increasingly opt for higher-end set-top boxes that support personal video recorder PVR and high-definition features, according to a new study from ABI Research. Consumers in the Asia-Pacific region will increasingly opt for higher-end set-top boxes that support personal...

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• ABI Research Sees Increased Momentum for Media Server Technology Across PC, Set-Top Box, and Consumer Electronics Market in 2006

  - 2006-11-13

  NEW YORK -- The media server market is gaining significant momentum as large end-user platform vendors release new products across the different product categories for digital distribution and content shifting both in the home and over the Internet. ABI Research believes that a media server strategy is fast becoming a...

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• ABI research sees increased momentum for media server technology across PC, set-top box, and consumer electronics market in 2006.(MARKET INTELLIGENCE)

  - 2006-11-01

  The media server market is gaining significant momentum as large end-user platform vendors release new products across the different product categories for digital distribution and content shifting both in the home and over the Internet. ABI Resear The media server market is gaining significant...

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• Satellite Operators Will Drive High Growth Rates for the Hybrid Set-Top Box, says ABI Research

  - 2006-09-19

  NEW YORK -- The recent temporary suspension of BSkyB's broadband movie download service, due to the release of a utility that circumvented digital rights management in Windows Media files, has focused attention on a new phenomenon: satellite operators have found a way to offer video-on-demand in competition with cable and...

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• ABI Research Revises Set-Top Box Shipments Forecasts in Response to Quiet DBS Business Model Shift

  - 2006-08-16

  OYSTER BAY, N.Y. -- Direct Broadcast Satellite providers have traditionally left their customers' purchases of the required set-top box to the open retail environment. But in a quiet change of tack, some have begun introducing STB lease or buyback schemes reminiscent of cable operators' arrangements. This trend has led ABI...

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