In our recent STB survey, service providers rated STB features most important to them, which include support for HDMI inputs for 1080p picture quality, integrated hard drive for PVR support, USB inputs for external memory, the use of SoCs (system-on-a-chip) in the design, and environmentally friendly features,” Mastrangelo added.
According to the report, Amino is the most installed IP STB vendor, illustrating its long history as an IP-STB vendor, particularly among operators that were early pioneers in IPTV.
For the Set-Top Box Features and Vendor Leadership: Global Service Provider Survey, Infonetics interviewed purchase decision-makers with incumbent carriers (76 percent) and competitive operators (24 percent) from North America (47 percent), EMEA (47 percent), and Central and Latin America (6 percent).
Carriers were asked by Infonetics about their preferred IP STB features, including those related to video codec support, container and wrapper format, picture and photo format support, and audio codec support. Respondents also weighed in on IP STB tuners, overall IP STB features, home networking and media sharing technologies, IP STB hard drive capacity, and manufactures (including vendors installed now and under evaluation for purchases, the “top three IP STB suppliers,” and their familiarity with various manufacturers).
IP STB vendors named by serviced providers in response to survey questions include ADB, Amino, Cisco, Entone, Huawei, Humax, Motorola, Netgem, Pace, Sagecom, Samsung, Technicolor, and others.
By TelecomLead.com Team
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