For a company that was founded just about 23 years ago, Broadcom Corp has indeed come a long way. Founded by a student-professor combo, it is...
MUMBAI: Enhancing its set top boxes (STBs) and gateways for its six million subscribers, DEN Networks has tied up with STMicroelectronics (ST), the global semiconductor manufacturer...
When he is not actively focused on growing the business of the company, he is a family man. He spent eight years at his current group’s parent company– Indian...
Paris (France) May 14, 2014 – Technicolor (Euronext Paris: TCH; OTCQX: TCLRY) announces an agreement with Tata Sky, India’s leading direct to home (DTH) service provider...
NEW DELHI: A campaign “Cable ka Shahenshah, DTH ka Baap” has been launched by JAINHITS, India’s only HITS based Direct to Network (DTN) service, relating to quality of services...
MUMBAI: Two hard-to-miss campaigns have been doing the rounds of television, radio and digital media lately. One, launched by sports broadcaster Star Sports, hits out...
KOLKATA: China’s Shenzhen Coship Electronics Co Ltd, a cable television and broadband equipment maker, plans to set up a set-top box (STB) manufacturing facility in India. ...
KOLKATA: West Bengal is embracing the digitisation process open heartedly. So while earlier the MSOs from the state got together to speed up the gross billing...
These are changing times for the Indian cable TV industry, what with gross (consumer) billing starting in phase I cities and 27 January being the last...
MUMBAI: The easier a process becomes, the better it is. It seems this is the process that Maharashtra Cable Operators’ Foundation (MCOF) has opted for in...
Mumbai: 2013: To give its customers a festive gift this Diwali, Videocon d2h, the fastest growing DTH brand in the country, has announced reduction in the...
MUMBAI: Netflix is in talks with several US cable companies with the aim of making its video streaming app available on set-top boxes, according to various...
MUMBAI: Comigo, the creator of a comprehensive multi-screen TV platform, has announced the launch of a new generation of smart set-top-box, named Comigo Duo. Featuring...
KOLKATA: Kolkata is seeing some frenetic activity on the cable TV front. The city’s multisystem operators (MSO) have started switching off signals in several pockets in...
KOLKATA: With the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) pressuring service providers in Kolkata to disconnect the television connections of customers for not submitting the subscriber...
MUMBAI: The ongoing struggle, regarding the entertainment tax, between the Cable Operators & Distributors Association (CODA) and the Maharashtra State government has reached the next level....
NEW DELHI: Google is joining several other technology companies in the race to launch an online version of pay television and has recently approached media companies...
MUMBAI: Revenues for the consumer electronics (CE) industry are projected to grow nearly three per cent, reaching a new record-high of $209.6 billion, according to the...
NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) just released a Consultation Paper on the issues issues arising out of the provision of the direct-to-home...
MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has set the ball rolling for CAS (conditional access system). Not resting just on fixing the maximum rate...
MUMBAI: Tata Sky Ltd, the joint venture between the Tata Group and Star, has inked a partnership with Humax to support the launch of its Direct-to-Home...
MUMBAI: Tata Sky Ltd has joined hands with Thomson for set-top-boxes (STBs) to support the launch of its direct-to-home (DTH) service in mid 2006. Thomson, well...
MUMBAI: Motorola Inc. has reached the final stages of acquiring the Swedish IPTV equipment specialist Kreatel Communications AB. The companies expect to complete the deal by...
MUMBAI: Cable TV networks are slashing prices and working out consumer friendly schemes to push their digital set-top boxes (STBs), ahead of the launch of Tata...
MUMBAI: American digital television platofrm DirecTV has selected LG Electronics as the first supplier of digital high-definition television (HDTV) set-top boxes based on new video compression...
TV Pulse 2005, the annual research initiative put together by the Joint Industry Body (JIB) and Tam Media, series continues with the paper – A study...
MUMBAI / BANGALORE: STMicroelectronics has announced that its worldwide shipments of set-top box (STB) during 2004 has reached 66 million units. This marks the greatest number...
MUMBAI: STMicroelectronics has announced that its worldwide shipments of set-top box (STB) during 2004 has reached 66 million units. This marks the greatest number of units...
MUMBAI: French Electronics and media services company Thomson has outlined a strategic growth map for the next two years. As far as the media and entertainment...
NEW DELHI: Indian pubcaster Doordarshan’s proposed DTH television venture is becoming a bit of a joke with a prolonged delay in launching the KU-band service increasingly...
NEW DELHI: Broadcast and cable sector regulator is giving the government various options to choose from in the case of conditional access system and pricing control....
MUMBAI: Thomson has announced that it is acquiring a major stake in Nokia/CITIC Digital Technology (NCDT). Thomson delivers integrated solutions (technologies, equipment and services) for the...
NEW DELHI: India’s pubcaster Doordarshan, looking at launching a direct-to-home (DTH) television service in the third week of June, is hopeful that most of the popular...
MUMBAI: Foxtel announced launch of digital subscription TV platform in Australia with NDS technology. NDS group plc, a News Corporation company and provider of technology solutions...
Surajeet Dasgupta, living in the Chittaranjan Park area of South Delhi, is not unduly perturbed that at the stroke of midnight (or so the cable operators...
NEW DELHI: The government is not sure about the future of conditional access system (CAS) in either Delhi or in Mumbai and Kolkata. It is also...
NEW DELHI: In what may be an embarrassing situation for the central government, CODA (Cable Operator and Distributor Association) spokesperson and Shiv Sena Vibhag Pramukh and...
NEW DELHI: An air of uncertainty hangs over the information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry as the cities, where conditional access system (CAS) is to be introduced...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Well, it’s almost time to officially bid adieu to CAS (conditional access system) in Mumbai and, in all probability, in Kolkata too. Delhi was...
NEW DELHI: The consumers of cable television in Delhi may have to bear the wrath of the cable industry if indications are anything to go by...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: The government is optimistic. A section of the cable fraternity is sceptical, while another section airs cautious optimism (“with these politicians you never know,”...
MUMBAI: Advent Computer Services Ltd will soon introduce its interactive TVs to the market, according to a press release dated 11 August. With this people can...
NEW DELHI: India’s finance ministry would extend by two months the tax sop on import of set-top boxes (STBs) needed for implementing conditional access system. The...
NEW DELHI: Media baron Subhash Chandra crossed another milestone today. The information & broadcasting ministry today cleared his Essel group’s letter of intent to operate a...
MUMBAI: The numbers for Hinduja TMT are in. Total income and net profit for the quarter have travelled north by 42 per cent and 21 per...
NEW DELHI: It is not just the pay broadcasters that the government sees as at fault over the mess that is CAS. The government is miffed...
WASHINGTON: Microsoft Corp. has announced that Time Warner Cable plans to perform a trial of the Microsoft® TV Interactive Programme Guide (IPG) software in Beaumont, Texas....
NEW DELHI: Political uncertainty over conditional access systems (CAS) notwithstanding, the government today made the right noises and, reportedly, conveyed to broadcasters and multi-system operators (MSOs)...
MUMBAI: There is no logic in banning advertisements on pay TV channels but higher subscription rates might allow pay channels to reduce their dependence on ad...
MUMBAI: The Shiv Sena stance on CAS remains unsoftened. Shiv Sena supremo chief Bal Thackeray, who had reportedly eased up on his objections to conditional access...

