The new Netgear ReadyNAS Ultra family of 2, 4, and 6-Bay NAS (Network Attach Storage) solutions are pushing the boundary of what can be done with a home NAS. 
Green Wave Reality has announced plans to start selling its home energy management platform in Europe, North America and Asia, plus they are developing an intellegent LED lighting solution to reduce home energy use. 
Crestron is schedule to release a new connected home controller called the UFO-4X. Equip with touchscreen and control buttons the UFO wireless handheld controller is set-top box
Broadcom Accelerate TV Channel Change With FastRTV
Submitted by Patrick on Mon, 08/23/2010 - 18:19
The transition from analogue to digital television brought many benefits except it is slow when browsing between channels. Though the slow channel change isn’t enough to make us want to go back it can be frustrating at times. Broadcom is promising to change this with its recently released FastRTV SoC solution, a channel change acceleration technology for suppliers of STB (set-top box). Broadcom said FastRTV is will also allow you to change your channels up to 5 times faster. Read more »
Sky Deutschland HD Set-Top Box and Sky+ DVR To Use Broadcom’s SoC Solution
Submitted by chw on Tue, 08/17/2010 - 22:35
Leading pay TV provider Sky Deutschland has selected Broadcom SoC solution (BCM7325 and BCM7335) for its next generation HD Set-top Box and DVR (Digital Video Recorder) services. Sky Deutschland provides satellite, cable and internet services to approximately 95 percent of Germany and 85 percent of Austria. The new energy-efficient single chip solution will help Sky to provide multi-channel high definition viewing and digital video recording functionality for subscribers. Read more »
STMicroelectronics SoC Powers Dish TV Digital TV Solution
Submitted by chw on Mon, 08/02/2010 - 21:18
STMicroelectronics as announced that Dish TV, India's largest Direct-To-Home (DTH) company, with 7.5 Million subscribers, latest set-top boxes are powered by STMicroelectronics’ STi5189 and STi7111 System-on-Chip (SoC) solution. The STB (set-top box) decoder ICs embedded in Dish TV set-top boxes are capable of delivering Standard-Definition (SD) and High-Definition (HD) television viewing. The new set-top boxes are currently being rolled out to Dish TV customers throughout India. Read more »
Netgem To Demonstrate New Set-top Box Features at IBC 2010
Submitted by chw on Tue, 07/20/2010 - 14:19
Netgem has promised to showcase a host of connected home solutions at this year’s IBC show in Amsterdam. The company has confirmed its participation in the event and said they will be showing the latest technologies and demonstrating some of Netgem’s new functionality offered in their STB set-top box range, which is geared at providing new business opportunity for service providers. Read more »
Bharti Airtel Selected Dolby Digital Plus for DTH Set-top Box
Submitted by chw on Thu, 06/24/2010 - 11:00India’s Bharti Airtel has selected Dolby Digital Plus as the surround sound format for its new HD Direct-to-Home service and set-top boxes. According to Dobly Laboratories, Bharti Airtel chose their audio format as part of their plans to offer customers HD content with up to 7.1 channels of surround sound. Read more »
China's Digital Home Market Is Looking Up For Broadcom
Submitted by Patrick on Fri, 04/23/2010 - 08:41
At the moment the Chinese technology market represents many different things to technology companies. For one company in particular it seems to be a market of opportunities. At this year’s China Content Broadcasting Network (CCNB) Conference Broadcom, a supplier of semiconductor for wired and wireless systems, introduced products specially design for the Chinese converging network market. Read more »
TiVo Launched Digital Video Recorder Set-top Box TiVo Premiere
Submitted by Patrick on Fri, 03/05/2010 - 20:49A year after the joint marketing partnership between TiVo and Best Buy, TiVo this week announced the released of their TiVo Premiere and TiVo Premiere XL set-top boxes. The new set of Digital Video Recorder (DVR) combines access to cable programming, on-demand movies, music and web videos all in the same box. Read more »
BT Vision IPTV Customers Get New Vision+ Set-top Box
Submitted by chw on Fri, 01/29/2010 - 17:26
Within the next few weeks or months the BBC Trust will announce their decision of whether the BBC should go ahead with canvas project. In the meantime Pace, a Digital TV technology supplier announced that they have released a new set-top box called “Vision+” for BT Vision IPTV customers. Read more »
Next Generation System-on-a-Chip Set-top Box Solutions from Broadcom
Submitted by chw on Tue, 10/27/2009 - 10:28Broadcom, a fables semiconductor company that specializes in wired and wireless home networking solution, this week announced a new HD cable set-top-box system-on-a-chip (SoC) solution with their BCM7119 and BCM7125 chips. The new technology will allow manufacturers and cable service provider to offer the latest in connected home technology at a cheaper price. Read more »
The Set-top Box to Have: Netgear's Digital Entertainer Live (EVA2000)
Submitted by Patrick on Thu, 09/10/2009 - 13:44
The New Digital Entertainer from Netgear is the Set-to Box to have this year. If you are looking for a all in one next generation Set-top Box then the Digital Entertainer Live is the gadget to have. Launched on Tuesday the Digital Entertainer Live (EVA2000) is the newest in the internet connected Set-top Box in the Netgear's Digital Entertainer family product family. From the Digital Entertainer Live you can access your downloaded movies, music, access YouTube. Rather than having to watch your online videos on a small computer screens, you and your family can now enjoy your media collections stored on USB storage devices, computers and network storage directly on your HDTV; from the comfort of their couch. Read more »
