Hardware (DVD, TV, PMP, Set-top Box, …) News

Skyworks ramps up OTT STB analogue and RF component shipments
Feb 2, 2015 – Skyworks Solutions (NASDAQ:SWKS) has announced that it is ramping front-end modules, wireless connectivity switches, power amplifiers, low noise amplifiers, and power management solutions for streaming media and smart TV applications.
News categories: Skyworks Solutions, John O'Neill, Barbara Kraus, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Streaming, Worldwide

Broadcom reports Q4 and Full Year 2014 results
Jan 29, 2015 – Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM) has reported results for its fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2014. Net revenue for the fourth quarter was $2.14 billion, an increase of 3.8% compared with the fourth quarter of 2013.
News categories: Broadcom, Results, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Worldwide

Time Warner Cable video subscribers down 38,000 in 4Q 2014
Jan 29, 2015 – Time Warner Cable (NYSE:TWC) has reported results for its fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2014. Residential video revenue decreased primarily due to a year-over-year decline of 408,000 in video subscribers.
News categories: Time Warner Cable, Cable TV, DVR, Results, Subscribers, USA

1 in 8 Australian households now have a Smart TV
Jan 28, 2015 – 1 in 8 Australian households now have a Smart TV—almost a sixfold increase over the last four years, data from Roy Morgan Research shows. As well as Smart TVs, there are numerous other ways to give regular TVs access to internet content.
News categories: Roy Morgan, Tim Martin, Australia, Digital TV, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Streaming

STMicroelectronics reports 4Q 2014 results
Jan 28, 2015 – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) has reported results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2014. Net revenues decreased 3.0% sequentially. On a year-over-year basis, net revenues decreased 9.2%.
News categories: STMicroelectronics, Android TV, DOCSIS, RDK, Results, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Worldwide

SmartLabs upgrades IPTV service at Georgia's Caucasus Online
Jan 27, 2015 – SmartLabs has announced the implementation of its interactive TV solution at Caucasus Online and the migration of the existing subscriber base to an upgraded TV service. Caucasus Online is Georgia’s leading broadband provider.
News categories: SmartLabs, Caucasus Online, Mikhail Grachev, Nikolai Tchiaureli, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Georgia, IPTV, Middleware, Set Top Box

Sigma Designs to distribute reference designs with Frog by Wyplay pre-integrated
Jan 27, 2015 – Sigma Designs (NASDAQ: SIGM) has announced at CSTB that it is contributing the source code for the port of the Frog by Wyplay STB middleware on its SMP8758 4K UltraHD chipset and will distribute development boards with the Reference Implementation pre-loaded in binary.
News categories: Sigma Designs, Wyplay, Mustafa Ozgen, Jacques Bourgninaud, CSTB, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Streaming

A streaming media player in 40% of U.S. internet homes by 2017
Jan 26, 2015 – By Q1 2017, 40 percent of U.S. Internet homes will have a streaming media player, bringing the total number of homes with these devices to 39 million, according to the new NPD Connected Intelligence Connected Home Forecast.
News categories: NPD Connected Intelligence, John Buffone, Digital TV, Market Research, Set Top Box, Streaming, USA

NEOTION, Broadpeak and Eutelsat to show OTT over satellite at CSTB
Jan 23, 2015 – NEOTION has announced that it has teamed up with Broadpeak and Eutelsat to provide a solution to enable OTT services for smartphones, tablets and 4K screens delivered over satellite. The joint solution will be presented at CSTB 2015.
News categories: NEOTION, Broadpeak, Eutelsat, Christophe Genevois, Jacques Le Mancq, Content Distribution, CSTB, Digital TV, Gateway, Satellite, Worldwide