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From CCBN: Set-Top Box Tech Tailored For China’s Growing Cable Market

 By: Sarah Murry Posted: Mar. 21, 2013

BEIJING — From the floor of the China Content Broadcasting Network show this week, one trend is clear: Growth is on the horizon for the cable television landscape in China.

Today’s cable industry in China is expanding at full tilt for a number of reasons. First, a change in administration is expected to bring a boost to the economy and increase capital spending on infrastructure. Second, a sweeping Next-Generation Broadband initiative and a nationwide transition from analog to digital broadcast …

Pay TV Goes Global: Countdown to Russia’s Digital Transition

 By: Dana Brzozkiewicz Posted: Jan. 28, 2013

Paid television services are on a growth tear in countries around the world — and Russia is emerging as a standout.

At the CSTB Conference in Moscow this week, Broadcom’s Dan Marotta, executive vice president and general manager of the Broadband Communications Group, will address the attendees from the keynote stage to talk about the technologies that enable the portability of video and introduce the company’s latest offerings for the country’s upcoming switch to digital TV.

“Russian audiences increasingly …

VentureBeat Interview: Highlights from CES with CTO Henry Samueli

 By: Sarah Murry Posted: Jan. 16, 2013

VentureBeat‘s Dean Takahashi sat down with Broadcom co-founder, Chairman and Chief Technical Officer Henry Samueli at the company’s booth during last week’s International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

The resulting interview, “Explore the Internet’s future with Broadcom’s broadband pipe dreamer Henry Samueli,” zeroed in on the inevitable bandwidth bottlenecks in the home as consumers demand higher quality video content and expect to watch that content on multiple devices. Samueli talks about how HEVC for Ultra HD TVs and …

Broadband Around the Globe: Highlights from Broadcom’s International Press Event

 By: Rachel Rosmarin Posted: Jan. 11, 2013

Along the halls of the Consumer Electronics Show, its impossible to ignore the international feel of the show. Attendees flock to Las Vegas from around the world and converge on the show floor speaking dozens of languages.

As a global company, Broadcom certainly launches products that drive innovation in different international markets and has an interest in demonstrating the technology trends from across the globe.

At the show this week, Broadcom hosted a press conference for the journalists who …

DLNA’s CES Mission: Premium Content on Any Device in Your Home

 By: Nick Kim Posted: Jan. 09, 2013

“Connecting everything” is Broadcom’s tagline, but we’re not the only ones living up to its ideals. The DLNA (the Digital Living Network Alliance) is on the floor this week at the International Consumer Electronics Show demonstrating that it, too, is into connecting everything.

This year at CES, the DLNA group is joining forces with other connected-home organizations (MoCA, Wi-Fi Alliance and HomePlug) to show off all the ways it can give consumers their media content.

It’s pretty much …

IPTV Gets Supercharged with 5G WiFi

 By: Sarah Murry Posted: Jan. 08, 2013

Perhaps the most salient feature of the “always-on” digital age is that consumers want their content, and they want it now.

Whether it’s viewed on a smart TV, a tablet or a smartphone, streamed via an Internet-connected set-top box or stored on a laptop and beamed to another device, the expectation is still the same: Access to content should be easy, seamless, and available anytime, anywhere in the home.

For cable, satellite and other pay-TV operators around the world, the …

Netgear Picks Broadcom for Powerline Push

 By: Sarah Murry Posted: Jan. 07, 2013

They call it “no-hassle networking.”

It’s a phrase that’s music to our ears this week at the International Consumer Electronics Show, where every kind of shiny, new gadget is vying for both an Internet connection and spot in our homes.

We’ve talked about the simplicity and intuitiveness of Powerline Communications and how the HomePlug Alliance, a Broadcom partner and champion of Powerline networking standard HomePlug AV, is taking the technology to the next level with new products all …

Broadcom and CRI Thwart Set-Top Box Content Pirates

 By: Aaron Schmidt Posted: Jan. 03, 2013

In the age of on-demand television — where DVRs, Netflix and mobile streaming give viewers instant access to their favorite programming — the broadcasters themselves haven’t moved much. Shaken by the piracy that has been compromising their content since the arrival of the Internet, broadcasters have been almost overly cautious about protecting their programming.

They’re kind of justified. Take this recent example: The uber-popular HBO series “Game of Thrones” saw so much pirating that the number of downloads per episode almost …

Powerline Communications: Standard Outlets Boost Home Networks

 By: Dana Brzozkiewicz Posted: Dec. 03, 2012

The original in-home network – the series of wires and outlets that carry standard electricity from kitchen to bedroom to living room – will soon be taking connectivity to the next level. With a recent standards revamp for a technology known as Powerline Communications, or PLC, the everyday wall outlets that are already powering consumer electronics devices in the home are being tapped to provide access to the Internet, too.

That’s an important development for the consumer electronics industry as …

Beyond “Triple Play”: Innovation on Display at Broadband World Forum

 By: Sarah Murry Posted: Oct. 16, 2012

You’ve undoubtedly heard of “triple play” — the digital phone, TV and Internet package that telecom, cable and satellite companies have been pushing to consumers for the past decade. By offering an affordable bundle to consumers, the adoption rate of broadband has been growing around the world — one third of all households now have Internet.

As a result of that growth, two things happened: customers started expecting richer connectivity experiences and competitors started to differentiate their services.  For a company …

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