Tag Archives: set-top box

Shipments of set-top boxes and media streamers are expected to grow 1% globally in 2019 following a period of “market stagnation,” according to Futuresource Consulting. The res... More

In a landscape dominated by SVOD and OTT services, the big question for many pay-TV operators is: how can the traditional set-top box (STB) evolve? And the question is urgent: oper... More

Major Hollywood studios and streamers won an early battle in a copyright fight with TickBox on Tuesday. A California federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against the strea... More

As part of its quest to reduce piracy, the MPAA continues to spend money on its lobbying activities, hoping to sway lawmakers in its direction. While the lobbying talks take pla... More

These days Kodi, and Kodi Box are almost synonymous with streaming-based piracy - given how widespread the use of so-called Kodi boxes are. But Kodi isn't designed for piracy in mi... More

By Eric Hybertson, Evolution Digital - Network DVR (nDVR) is the latest evolution in recording TV shows for time-shifted viewing. Recordable VHS tapes and VCRs gave way to stan... More

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai has taken his predecessor's cable TV set-top box plan off the table. The proposal from former Chairman Tom Wheeler was officiall... More

Despite a trend that is seeing the functionality of set-top boxes being virtualized in smart TVs, gaming consoles, mobile devices and TV-connected streaming devices, the set-top bo... More

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proposal was originally scheduled to go up for a vote in September, but it was pulled from the regulatory agenda with reports that the C... More

Evolution Digital today announced that its eBOX IP Hybrid Set-Top Box received a 4.5 Diamond star rating out of a maximum 5 in Broadband Technology Report’s 2016 Diamond Technolo... More

In a surprise move, the FCC has announced at Thursday's open meeting, it won't be taking up a proposal touted as the beginning of the end of expensive cable set-top boxes. FCC c... More

This Thursday the FCC is scheduled to vote on a rule that would require pay-TV operators in the United States to make their services available on third-party devices and apps in ad... More

Earlier this year, the head of the Federal Communications Commission proposed a plan to help TV viewers ditch cable set-top boxes. At first glance, the plan seemed like a winner �... More

Some Hollywood heavy hitters want the FCC to know that they remain strongly opposed to the app-based set-top proposal FCC chairman Tom Wheeler introduced last week. That is accordi... More

A diverse group of creative industry companies, advocacy groups, labor unions, associations, and programmers that raised concerns in April and May about the Federal Communications ... More

Evolution Digital today announces that it has shipped 12 million digital set-top boxes to cable operators around the world, a landmark achievement for the rapidly growing IP Video ... More

Opponents of a Federal Communications Commission plan to reform the television set-top box market pushed back Tuesday on the idea that the agency could manage their arrangements wi... More

Kevin Speedy, Freecast: As its fate is debated within the halls of power by multi-billion dollar corporations, it’s easy to forget that the cable set top box is just a device... More

The FCC has a bunch of questions for cable operators and other backers of an app-based “ditch the box” compromise proposal on promoting competitive navigation devices. That is ... More

Cable giant Comcast will allow popular web video streaming service Netflix onto its X1 platform, the companies confirmed after being asked by Recode about talks to do so. Said t... More