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Is it Goodbye to Big Ego Leaders?
He'd said he was going to go at the end of June, and as good as his word, Sir Alan Sugar's given over the day-to-day running of Amstrad to plain Alun Webber, the managing director. The Hackney-born entrepreneur founded Amstrad at 21 and last year sold the...
Tags: Set-top Box, Set-top, Business, Tv & Home Theater, Entrepreneurship, Productivity, Personal Technology, Management, Joanna Higgins
Blog posts 2008-07-02
Rapid Video Browsing on a VCR using a TV Set-top Box
The era of interactive TV will be characterized by value-added services wherein users can shop, play games and receive video-on-demand - all using their television. This white paper describes the design and implementation of a rapid video browser that can easily be deployed on a TV set-top box to enhance...
Tags: TV & Home Theater, TVs, University of California, set-top box, VCR, TV, interactive TV, VoD, set-top, video, Web browser, game
White papers
What's on the T.V.: Trends in U.S. Set-Top Box Energy Use, Design, and Regulation
This paper summarizes the current state-of-knowledge of set-top box energy use in the U.S., and describes current and emerging strategies for reducing this use. What a set-top box is and does is rapidly evolving. If current trends continue, by 2010 electricity use by set-top boxes in the U.S. could approach...
Tags: TV & Home Theater, set-top, set-top box, satellite television, U.S., satellite, cable, strategy
White papers 2004-09-10

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Sigma Media Processors Power Advanced Communications' IPTV Set-Top Boxes Across Japan
Companies Enter Collaborative Relationship to Develop Next Generation IPTV Set-Top Boxes for the Japanese Market MILPITAS, Calif. -- Sigma Designs (NASDAQ:SIGM), a leader in digital media processing and wireless system-on-chip SoC solutions for consumer electronics, and Advanced Communications Co., Ltd Adcom, a Japanese communications technology company, today announced...
Articles 2008-06-25
OpenTV and FOXTEL Launch Quad Tuner High Definition PVR
OpenTV Core2[TM], With Integrated PVR Support, to Power FOXTEL HD+ Service SAN FRANCISCO -- OpenTV Corp. (NASDAQ:OPTV), a leading provider of solutions for the delivery of advanced digital television and advanced advertising services, today announced the commercial launch of the new FOXTEL iQ2 High Definition PVR, a quad...
Articles 2008-06-25
ANADIGICS Launches Family of Active Splitters Designed for Set-Top Boxes with Multiple Tuners
Splitter Portfolio Includes New Products Optimized for Equipment With MoCAR Multimedia over Coax Alliance Functionality WARREN, N.J., June 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ANADIGICS, Inc. today announced the launch of three new active splitters for use in CATV set-top boxes with multiple tuners: the APS3608, APS3611 and APS3623....
Articles 2008-06-24
Research and Markets: Networking Over Coax and Phone Wiring for Service Provider Deployments Worldwide Available Now
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/4b5bc7/networking_over_co) has announced the addition of the "Networking Over Coax and Phone Wiring for Service Provider Deployments Worldwide" report to their offering. Service providers are moving toward networking their set-top boxes together for video distribution and whole-home DVR applications. Existing-wire solutions are...
Articles 2008-06-24
UpdateLogic™ to Provide Update Services for Tru2way™ Interactive Cable Devices
UpdateTV[TM] Technology Can Automatically Deliver Software Fixes and Enhancements to Tru2way-enabled Digital Televisions and Set Top Boxes SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass. -- UpdateLogic[TM], Inc., the pioneer in solutions to distribute software fixes and enhancements to television devices, today announced support for tru2way[TM] technology - the rapidly emerging Java-based set of...
Articles 2008-06-24
Seasonally Weak Satellite Set-Top Box Sales Cause Market to Fall in First Quarter, According to Dell'Oro Group
High-Definition Accounted for More Than Half of the Units Shipped REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- Dell'Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the networking and telecommunications industries, reported today that the worldwide set-top box market contracted 6 percent sequentially to $3.5 billion in the first quarter of...
Articles 2008-06-23
Strategy Analytics: DBS Market Offers GaAs Volume Growth but Limited Revenues
DVR and Interactive Functionality Pushing Up LNB Numbers BOSTON -- Strategy Analytics' latest forecast, "GaAs Device Demand from Direct Broadcast Satellite Markets 2007-2012," projects healthy GaAs component demand through 2012, as direct broadcast satellite DBS platforms continue to implement digital video recorder capabilities that allow consumers to record...
Articles 2008-06-23
ANADIGICS Launches Fully Integrated 1 GHz Tuner for Set-Top Boxes
Low Noise, High Linearity Design Includes All RF Tuner Circuits in a Single Small Package WARREN, N.J., June 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ANADIGICS, Inc. today announced the launch of the AIT1032, a fully integrated, 1 GHz tuner that enables crystal-clear video in CATV set-top boxes, DVRs, PC...
Articles 2008-06-23
New Selector Switches From Cables To Go Provide Flexible, Affordable Digital Signage Implementations
LAS VEGAS -- Cables To Go[TM], a leading provider of high-performance cabling and connectivity solutions, today announced new selector switches for routing audio and video in smaller digital signage applications, such as schools and restaurants or for home installation. The 3x5 Component Video Matrix Selector Switch carries high-definition...
Articles 2008-06-18
Single-Chip Solution optimizes Wi-Fi USB adapter abilities
Intensi-Fi[R] XLR BCM4323 dual-band (2.4 and 5 GHz) 802.11n solution enables use of 20 x 52 mm USB adapters for connecting devices without built-in wireless capabilities to network. AccelerangeTM technology offers wireless performance and range to transfer HD content between devices, while ARM[R] processor and on-chip RAM can offload wireless...
Articles 2008-06-18
Broadband Networks selects Thomson's HD cable set-top boxes and HD PVR platform
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-18 June 2008-Broadband Networks selects Thomson's HD cable set-top boxes and HD PVR platformC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Thomson (Euronext Paris: 18453) (NYSE: TMS), a provider of video services, systems and technology, has announced that after successful delivery of MPEG-4 HD cable set-top boxes at the beginning of...
Articles 2008-06-18
Usen Corporation selects Opera web browser for new set-top boxes
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-17 June 2008-Usen Corporation selects Opera web browser for new set-top boxesC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Norwegian Internet browsers developer Opera Software ASA (OSE: OPERA) said on Tuesday (17 June) that the Japanese cable company Usen Corporation has selected the Opera browser for its set-top boxes. ...
Articles 2008-06-17
Amino launches cheaper digital-only set top box
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-17 June 2008-Amino launches cheaper digital-only set top boxC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Amino Communications, an IPTV equipment supplier, today (17 June) launched the AmiNET130M, a small factor High Definition HD IPTV STB Set Top Box. The STB complements the company's AmiNET130, but older legacy TV...
Articles 2008-06-17
Usen Corporation selects Opera web browser for new set-top boxes
NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT-17 June 2008-Usen Corporation selects Opera web browser for new set-top boxesC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Norwegian Internet browsers developer Opera Software ASA (OSE: OPERA) said on Tuesday (17 June) that the Japanese cable company Usen Corporation has selected the Opera browser for its set-top boxes....
Articles 2008-06-17
Runcom to Present the First WiMAX-TV at WiMAX Forum
AMSTERDAM, June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Runcom Technologies Ltd, disclosed today at the WiMAX Forum Global Congress 2008, the first Internet TV Set Top Box STB. The new WiMAX-TV solution integrates for the first time all the necessary components to quickly launch a mobile Internet TV service, from advanced encoding...
Articles 2008-06-17
On2 Joins MIPS® Alliance Program; Leading Video Codec Solutions Now Available for MIPS-Based™ Processors
TARRYTOWN, N.Y., June 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- On2 Technologies, Inc. , a leader in video compression solutions, announced today that it has joined the MIPSR Alliance Program to bring its highly efficient video compression solutions to designers using cores from MIPS Technologies . On2 will optimize its TrueMotionR VP6R decoder,...
Articles 2008-06-17
Empower Technologies Announces Significant Purchase Orders for High-Performance Single Board Computer
EPT's Pioneering Computer Enables Advanced Image Processing Capability for an Expanse of Intelligent Media Devices, Applications and Appliances RICHMOND, British Columbia -- Empower Technologies (TSX.V:EPT) announced today that the company has signed a purchase order agreement with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT for the purchase of Empower's...
Articles 2008-06-17
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