"set top" articles

Thanks to TVersity and PacketVideo for their sponsorship of CONNECTIONS™, and for having folks on hand to demonstrate their media aggregation software solutions. The basic premise is that all content, no matter where it's hosted, can be accessed when the companies' client software is installed on your different media servers. Although that is a fancy term, it's basically any computer that stores your personal or professional content.  In addition to providing for a...

Parks Associates and PacketVideo will host an Advanced TV Services Webcast on Thursday, May 26th, at 1 p.m. CENTRAL. Parks Associates will present new research on the key trends and technologies in interactive television services and provide a global overview of digital television services. We hope you can join us! This Webcast focuses specifically on: -- A global overview of digital television services -- Developments in “TV Everywhere” deployments -- Insight...

Today's television services throughout the world are provided with at least a non-interactive EPG, consisting of a menu of information on scheduled linear TV programming. Operators or broadcasters deliver these menus as a dedicated channel, broadcast by specialized systems located in the provider's central distribution facility. Customers can tune into these specialized channels in order to view all of the available linear TV channels and the current and upcoming programs available on...

Apple Inc . says sales of its redesigned set-top box will likely top 1 million units later this week. The device allows consumers to download TV shows and movies, and stream them to high-definition televisions, eliminating the need for late-night trips to the rental video store. Apple TV owners are clearly TV junkies. The consumer electronics giant says they’re renting and purchasing over 400,000 TV episodes and over 150,000 movies per day. The approaching one-million...

Connected home platform developer 4Home was acquired by Motorola today (12/01/10). 4Home will now become a part of Motorola’s Mobility division; terms of the deal have not yet been announced. 4Home’s solutions include energy management, healthcare monitoring, home security monitoring and entertainment management. 4Home, a Sunnyvale, CA based company, was founded in 2005 and has been a regular participant at Parks Associates’ CONNECTIONS conference. To date the company has...

BLINKX TO PROVIDE SEARCH, PERSONALISATION AND RECOMMENDATION FEATURE FOR AMINO’S AWARD-WINNING HYBRID/OTT SET-TOP BOX blinkx, the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced a partnership with Amino Communications , the world’s leading developer of pure IPTV and hybrid/OTT devices and solutions. Under the terms of the partnership, Amino and blinkx will develop an integrated search, recommendation and personalization solution powered by blinkx...

Instead of Netgem, it's ADB buying Pirelli Broadband, as reported by CED. The set-top box/residential gateway convergence continues.

I don't suppose that it will attract the zaniness associated with the release of Apple products, but the Boxee Box will be available on November 10 (Boxee and D-Link had previously reported the November date), and there will be a launch event in New York City. Just in case you're there...