Pace CEO Neil Gaydon has told Broadband TV News that the purchase of Philips’ set-top box division was initiated earlier this year following an approach from the Dutch electronics company. […]
Philips to sell STB division to Pace
UPDATE: Philips today announced it has reached an agreement in principle to sell its Set-Top Boxes and Connectivity Solutions businesses, currently part of its Home Networks business unit within the […]
Pace suspends shares amid takeover talk
Pace Micro Technology has confirmed the company is in advanced discussions over an acquisition that under stock market rules would be classified as a reverse takeover. A statement from the […]
ITU announces first global set of standards for IPTV
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) announced the first set of global standards for Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) today. The standards were built with technical contributions from leading service providers and […]
First CI module for Entavio
The German pay-TV platform Entavio, part of SES-Astra, announced today that Common Interface modules will be available for the service from early next year. With the CI module, viewers will […]
Major advance for Slovenian IPTV
The Slovenian alternative carrier Tus Telekom is to employ an encoding solution from Envivio for its IPTV service. It will allow the telco to migrate from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 compression, […]
Greek digital mission for Ericsson
Ericsson is to supply a total solution and become the prime integrator of Metropolitan Area Networks (MAN) in Greece, according to a local report. Under the terms the deal, it […]
Further expansion of Numericable fibre-optic net
Numericable has announced it has further extended its fibre-optic network to the regions of Grenoble, Nimes and Perpignan. The French cablenet began the deployment of the technology in 2005 and […]
Sky Italia extends OpenTV agreement
OpenTV has confirmed that Sky Italia has extended its middleware licence agreement with a multi-year renewal. The agreement squashes any thoughts that the News Corp-owned DTH operation might instead look […]
Italy begins first DVB-SH mobile TV trial
The first trial of the satellite-delivered DVB-SH mobile TV technology is getting underway in Torino, Italy. It is being overseen by RAI Technological Strategies Dept, Raiway SpA and RAI Research […]