Comcast, the nation’s largest pay TV provider is working with Netflix to bring the streaming service to Comcast’s X1 cloud-based TV platform, making it easier for customers to watch Orange is the New Black and other streaming TV series. The deal is surprising because the two companies have been at odds in the past over […]
Hybrid set top boxes are a fast-growing segment of the worldwide set top box market. These boxes include a TV tuner and an Internet connection. It’s similar to hybrid vehicles that combine a gasoline engine with an electric motor. Hybrid STBs are appearing in all service categories and new usage models and applications have provided […]
The arrival of high-powered end-user devices such as the Apple iPad is driving cable network operators to demand more sophisticated set-top boxes (STBs) from equipment suppliers, a trend that will have a significant impact on the STB sector over the next several years, according to the latest report from Heavy Reading Cable Industry Insider. Set-Tops […]
While media server PCs form the majority of the devices used to store and distribute multimedia content around the home, set-top boxes (STBs) and consumer electronics devices such as video game consoles will capture increasing shares of the home media server market over the next five years. A new Research Brief from ABI Research forecasts […]
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