Having pioneered over-the-top (OTT) video streaming to TV sets, Roku on April 10 announced it shipped its 5-millionth Roku streaming player in the U.S. Starting out with Netflix in 2008, Roku set-top box (STB) users are now able instantly stream Internet-based video from a much...
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Sales of multimedia-over-coaxial cable (MoCA) devices are fueling sustained growth when it comes to home networking equipment in North America, according to a new report from Infonetics Research. Some $46 billion will be spent cumulatively on consumer home networking devices over the five years from...
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OTT set-top-box provider Boxee should see significantly increased sales for its Boxee TV unit thanks to a new Walmart distribution deal which places the box in 3,000 Walmart stores. Boxee TV offers access to OTT video content, integrated with an antenna for local broadcast channels,...
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ALVISO, CA and ANCHORAGE, AK–(Marketwire – Aug 21, 2012) – TiVo, Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO), a leader in the advanced television entertainment market, and General Communication, Inc. (“GCI”) (NASDAQ: GNCMA) announced today that GCI has selected TiVo to exclusively provide GCI’s next-gen whole home television solution...
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The traditional set-top box (STB) is living on borrowed time, at least for one pay-TV market segment–multiscreen service providers–according to a new report from IHS. Multiscreen service providers are defined by IHS as video service providers who offer pay-TV services across devices other than just...
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Plans continue to trickle out for the Google Fiber network, which is currently under construction in the Kansas Cities. The latest tidbit of info is a new Google Fiber IP set-top-box, the GFHD100, which showed up at the FCC (first reported by Engadget). The new...
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It’s E3 – the gaming industry’s annual tradeshow – week and news is flowing from Los Angeles on all of the latest developments concerning game consoles and the gaming industry as a whole. Microsoft was first up to highlight their new developments and they revealed...
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More than one in five U.S. households have a television connected to the Internet, according to ABI Research. The research firm noted that at least 21% of US households– some 27 million– either have an Internet-enabled TV, game console, Blu-ray player and/or smart set-top box...
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Tier 2 and 3 video service providers will have one less set-top box option now that EchoStar has revealed it no longer plans to offer its Aria solution in the U.S. Aria, which was launched just under a year ago, was designed specifically to meet...
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Microsoft announced today that three additional content partnerships are now available for the Xbox 360, including HBO Go, Xfinity TV (Comcast), and MLB.TV. That adds to a growing list of video and music options for Microsoft’s home entertainment gateway, also known as the Xbox 360 ...
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Growing production and consumer adoption of multi-purpose, networked computing devices is driving the emergence of digital multimedia homes, a trend that NPD In-Stat expects to continue. Shipments of “smart CE (consumer electronics) devices” will exceed 92 million units by 2016, according to the Scottsdale, Arizona-based...
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Just a couple of months back, we labeled a blog post about Boxee’s plans to integrate local over-the-air broadcast channels into their OTT set-top-box platform as “Boxee: The (OTT) Gloves Are Off.” We did so because Boxee, more than any other mainstream OTT player, seems...
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