CONNECTIONS Europe Welcomes New Sponsor

Parks Associates welcomes Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB) as a 2010 Advisory Sponsor for the CONNECTIONS Europe Summit in Amsterdam.

Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB) provides set-top solutions to the worldwide digital television industry. We supply advanced customer premise equipment across all transmission platforms including cable, IPTV, satellite, and terrestrial. We strive to bring to market innovative solutions that help our customers deliver the best consumer TV experience. A leader in hybrid set-top devices with deep software expertise, ADB enables the Internet/TV content convergence, letting operators provide innovative services such as push video-on-demand, multi-room DVR, interactive TV, over-the-top applications and more. We fine-tune the entire software and hardware set-top solution for each operator’s specific infrastructure to deliver peak performance. With over 15 million digital set-top devices sold to a global customer base, our products have been recognised for being among the industry’s most advanced and reliable.

For more information, visit www.adb.com.

Technicolor reaches 100 million digital set-top box milestone

Technicolor, formerly Thomson, a worldwide leader of services to content creators, has reached the milestone of delivering 100 million digital set-top boxes over multi networks since it entered the market in 1994.

Technicolor’s success is largely thanks to the contracts it has won with major clients in a global marketplace. In North America, Technicolor’s first digital satellite STB customer, DIRECTV remains a loyal customer today. In Latin America, Technicolor provides set-top boxes to key players including DIRECTV Latin America and Sky Brazil and Sky Mexico, while in Europe, it has nurtured relationships with leading names including UPC Broadband and News Corp. affiliates such as BSkyB, as well as HOT, in the Middle East, and Astro of Malaysia and Tata Sky in the Asia-Pacific.

For many of its global customers, Technicolor has established long-term relationships and garnered repeat business thanks to its ongoing product evolution for all technology platforms, including digital cable, satellite television, terrestrial broadcasting and IPTV.

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