EL SEGUNDO, USA: Broadcom, Cisco, DIRECTV and Samsung are forming an alliance to develop a specification for a full-featured “pixel accurate” Remote User Interface (RUI) that will form the core of the new RVU technology.
The RVU Alliance complements and benefits existing industry interoperability initiatives and underscores its founders’ commitment to the sharing of digital content in the connected home.
Highlights/Key facts:
* RVU Alliance’s pixel accurate RUI technology will provide an identical user experience on all RVU-based thin client CE devices throughout the connected home, including digital TVs (DTVs), digital media adapters (DMAs) and set-top boxes (STBs).
* Refinements to the user experience can be deployed in the home with a single update in the RVU-based media server appearing on all subscribing thin client CE devices.
* RVU technology is expected to accelerate the availability of service provider content throughout the connected home. A server-controlled, common user experience helps enable the rapid introduction of new features and applications that typically accompany commercial content.
* One important industry interoperability initiative is the Digital Living Network AllianceSM (DLNA®), of which RVU Alliance founders are promoting members.
The RVU Alliance is an Oregon-based non-profit mutual benefit corporation with membership participation at Founding Promoter, Promoter and Contributor levels. www.rvualliance.org
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Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Red hot IPTV set top market is cooling
USA: The IP set top box market grew 55 percent in 2008, but such breakneck growth will not continue, reports In-Stat.
Many telcos have already launched TV services, so there are fewer new customer prospects. In addition, the economic climate is sapping investment in new telco TV systems.
Established telco TV providers like France Telecom, AT&T, Free, British Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, and China Telecom provided much of the subscriber growth that drives the demand for IP set top boxes. We expect this situation to continue in 2009 and 2010. However with few new deployments, unit shipments of IP set top boxes will see only slight increases in 2009 and 2010.
Recent research by In-Stat found the following:
* More than 50 percent of 2009 IP set top box unit shipments in Western Europe will have hard disk drives.
* Among the key technology trends are improved power management and support for 3D graphics, multiple codecs, and open software platforms.
* The average bill of materials for an HD IP set top box will fall below $50 in 2010.
* Among the semiconductor competitors providing solutions for the IP set-top box market are Broadcom, CopperGate, Intel, NXP, Sigma Designs, and STMicroelectronics.
* Motorola held onto the top market share position in IP set-top boxes in 2008, but its market share slipped from 2007 as Cisco ramped up shipments.
Many telcos have already launched TV services, so there are fewer new customer prospects. In addition, the economic climate is sapping investment in new telco TV systems.
Established telco TV providers like France Telecom, AT&T, Free, British Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, and China Telecom provided much of the subscriber growth that drives the demand for IP set top boxes. We expect this situation to continue in 2009 and 2010. However with few new deployments, unit shipments of IP set top boxes will see only slight increases in 2009 and 2010.
Recent research by In-Stat found the following:
* More than 50 percent of 2009 IP set top box unit shipments in Western Europe will have hard disk drives.
* Among the key technology trends are improved power management and support for 3D graphics, multiple codecs, and open software platforms.
* The average bill of materials for an HD IP set top box will fall below $50 in 2010.
* Among the semiconductor competitors providing solutions for the IP set-top box market are Broadcom, CopperGate, Intel, NXP, Sigma Designs, and STMicroelectronics.
* Motorola held onto the top market share position in IP set-top boxes in 2008, but its market share slipped from 2007 as Cisco ramped up shipments.
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