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 …

Ultra HD Heads to the Living Room with Broadcom’s Video Technology

By: Sarah Murry Posted: Mar. 20, 2013

The arrival of Ultra HD (Ultra High Definition) television, which took center stage at January’s Consumer Electronics Show, is poised to be the next big thing in home entertainment. With display resolutions of about 4,000 x 2,000 pixels on screens that reach some 84 inches, the larger-than-life viewing experience is one that consumers are already excited about.

But before people can start enjoying all that those screens have to offer, the video content distributors — the IPTV, cable and satellite …

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 …

From CES 2013: Dish Hopper DVR Powered by Broadcom [Video]

By: Peter Zhao Posted: Jan. 11, 2013

Broadcom partner Dish Network made a splash last year when it trotted out a real, live joey (that’s a baby kangaroo, for the non-Aussies) to introduce the Hopper, a digital video recorder that lets consumers watch TV in any room of the house.

Cute, furry marsupials are a tough act to follow, but Dish is making a go of it again with it’s newest Hopper DVR. The biggest addition this year is that Dish was able to integrate Slingbox’s …

Boxee’s Latest Set-Top Creation on Display at CES

By: Nawar Fadil Posted: Jan. 10, 2013

The 2010 debut of the Boxee Box garnered a lot of attention for the scrappy Israeli startup with the same name, drawing some appeal for its hefty tech chops, as well as its eye-catching industrial design.

This year, Boxee TV is back with a new, sleeker design and a $99 price tag that’s sure to catch the attention of price-conscious consumers looking for some extra freedom when it comes to watching television. Certainly, the concept of what Boxee offers — a …

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 …

Tech Overdrive: Inside the Broadcom Booth at CES

By: Rachel Rosmarin Posted: Jan. 08, 2013

The technology practically jumps out at you when you walk into Broadcom’s booth at the International Consumer Electronics Show.

As the annual CES show kicked off in Las Vegas, a flood of industry analysts, reporters, customers and executives converged on the the company’s red-emblazoned private booth, complete with 350 linear feet of live demos. All were there to gawk at Broadcom’s latest and greatest connectivity-related designs, which will roll out in consumer devices over the next year and a half.…

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 …

Home Theater of the Future: Ultra HD Gets Real at CES

By: Rachel Rosmarin Posted: Jan. 08, 2013

By now you’ve likely heard that the buzz around 4KTV, or Ultra HD, has reached a deafening roar during the first day of this year’s International Consumer Electronics Show.

Hundreds of thousands of show-goers are flocking to exhibitors’ booths today to watch television — not for the programming, but rather for the picture quality. Ultra HD TV (or Ultra High Definition) is the insider’s lingo for an upcoming display technology the Consumer Electronics Association has defined as delivering a …

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