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MUMBAI: Multi-system operators (MSOs) have in store 200,000 set-top boxes (STBs) and orders have been placed for importing more to meet the growing demand from consumers,...
MUMBAI/DELHI: Multi-system operators (MSOs) are under stress and strain to meet the demand for set-top boxes (STBs) as conditional access system (Cas) has come into effect...
Cable TV is in the midst of transition. We are seeing Cas being just implemented. Consumers are wanting set-top boxes (STBs) so that they can see...
MUMBAI: Hathway Cable & Datacom has launched digital cable TV service in Mysore through a fibre linkup from Bangalore. The multi-system operator (MSO) will have the...
MUMBAI : IndusInd Media and Communications Ltd (IMCL), which runs the media business of Hinduja TMT including Incablenet, has appointed Samson Jesudas as its chief marketing...
MUMBAI: Multi-system operators (MSOs) have initiated talks with some broadcasters for providing their bouquet of pay channels at special rates in the conditional access system (CAS)...
MUMBAI: Conexant Systems Inc., a supplier of semiconductor solutions for broadband communications and the digital home, has announced that its CX2430X family of MPEG decoders for...
MUMBAI: News broadcaster CNN will air CNN Future Summit: World in Motion on 23 November. The event will be held at Singapore to discuss the future...
MUMBAI: Software major Microsoft and set-top box manufacturers Cisco Systems, Motorola, Philips and Tatung have announced that advanced system-on-a-chip (SoC) set-tops are available. This product will...
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...
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has laid out a fertile ground for digital cable TV take off. The formula is simple: price everything low...
MUMBAI: Rajan Raheja-promoted Hathway Cable & Datacom plans to raise Rs 1 billion as debt to fund the first phase of conditional access system (CAS). The...
MUMBAI: The Geneva-headquartered STMicroelectronics, the supplier of silicon chips for set-top boxes (STBs), and Dahua Technology Ltd, China’s cable and IPTV dual-mode STB provider, have announced...
NEW DELHI: Cable TV consumers are in for a pleasant surprise as cable operators will now be put under stringent monitoring relating to quality of service....
MUMBAI: Mahanagar Telecom Nigam Ltd (MTNL) has signed content delivery network affiliation contracts with Aksh Optifibre Ltd and IOL Broadband Ltd, which would allow the state-owned...
MUMBAI: The ad war between direct-to-home (DTH) service providers and cable TV operators has started. Soon after Dish TV ran a full page campaign on print...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Tata Sky Ltd, the $ 500 million joint venture between Tata Sons and the Rupert Murdoch-owned Star Group, today officially announced its arrival as...
MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has proposed that cable TV service providers in conditional access system (CAS) areas to offer digital set-top boxes...
MUMBAI: China Digital Media Corporation, a provider of cable and digital television services and content in China, has announced that it has reached a record level...
NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today released a draft regulation on quality of service for CAS areas. The draft regulation covers areas...
MUMBAI: Even as the government is assimilating views of the various industry stakeholders on how to roll out conditional access system (CAS) smoothly, multi-system operators (MSOs)...
MUMBAI: The uncertainty over the implementation of conditional access system (CAS) is not over yet. The government will take a call on whether it should move...
One after another, the complaints are gathering. Not enough set-top boxes (STBs); insufficient time to effectively and smoothly roll out conditional access system (CAS); and no...
MUMBAI: The digital set-top box (STB) that will sit in consumer homes to receive pay channels will come cheap. Facing the threat of competition from direct-to-home...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: India’s finance minister P Chidambaram, while presenting the 2006 Union Budget, hailed by experts as a “fine” one, today preferred to ignore...
NEW DELHI: The Indian Broadcasting Foundation has petitioned the government to remove the disparity between the electronic and print media by seeking exemption from service tax...
MUMBAI: California-based MatrixStream Technologies will be demonstrating its H.264 AVC (advance video codec) video on demand and IPTV Set Top Box (STB) and PC Player capable...
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: Facing an uphill task to sell digital set-top boxes (STBs), Hinduja-owned, Incablenet, has decided to offer them free on a trial basis to their direct...
MUMBAI: NDS, the prominent provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV together with Blockbuster Digital Entertainment, set-top box (STB) supplier ADB and VOD (Video on Demand)...
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...
For almost one year, IndusInd Media & Communications (IMCL) has been an organisation in turmoil. Several senior executives have left the company, frustrated at the slow...
NEW DELHI: Evan as the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) rides roughshod over the broadcast sector, the protagonists (read broadcasters vs the cable fraternity) are...
MUMBAI: Okay, all those broadcast and cable industry people who were apprehensive that Reliance would be steam-rolling its way into their territory, can now breathe easy...
MUMBAI: Tam is ready to measure telivision ratings on any delivery platform – direct-to-home (DTH), broadband or conditional access system (Cas). Once a minimum penetration level...
MUMBAI: The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF), an apex body of broadcasting companies, will soon submit before the information & broadcasting ministry its viewpoint on the recent...
NEW DELHI: The Hong Kong-based Media Partners Asia (MPA) has been selected by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) as one of the consultants and...
NEW DELHI: All those in the industry that have been waiting for India’s broadcast and cable regulator, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), to come out...
NEW DELHI: Proposing that any new TV channel seeking to beam into India ought to be mandated through a set-top box in a digital mode, multi-system...
MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India today released another consultation paper on the broadcasting and distribution of TV channels, following talks with various stakeholders in...
MUMBAI: DG2L Technologies, Inc., the premier provider of next-generation digital media technologies and producer of the most advanced set-top box solution, announced on 31 March that...
MUMBAI: Below is a presentation made by InCableNet to the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce clearing up the air on “Some myths propagated on CAS”....
MUMBAI: Given below is the response in full issued by the Indian broadcasting Foundation to the Telecom Authority of India: Without Prejudice To The Preliminary Submissions,...
NEW DELHI: Conditional access system (CAS) may not have got completely derailed yet. But a day after speaking of co-operation (in a meeting between Delhi chief...
NEW DELHI: Delhi’s cable fraternity is breathing a sigh of relief following the postponement of a hearing on a public interest litigation (PIL) in a Delhi...
NEW DELHI: Conditional access system, like Banquo’s ghost, just refuses to go away. Just when everybody, including the government, thought it has been given a quiet...
You have to give it to the Hong Kong-based James Field, director solutions, NDS Asia Pacific. Field might be staring at another tough assignment as he...
MUMBAI: The television sector can hope for a faster redressal of its ills with the appointment of Sony Entertainment Television India CEO Kunal Dasgupta as the...
With reference to the article dated 30 September, “MSOs now look to push set tops as Premium Offering,” on Indiantelevision where Hathway’s name is featured, we’d...
NEW DELHI: Multi-system operators (MSOs) are meeting the information and broadcasting (I&B) minister Ravi Shankar Prasad around 3.30 pm today on conditional access system (CAS). One...
