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Amazon said to offer TV set-top box for streaming web video

2013-04-26 00:57:38| IT Services - Topix.net

Amazon.com , the world's largest online retailer, plans to release a television set-top box that would stream video over the Internet into customers' homes, people with knowledge of the matter said.

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Broadcom and ST tie for top spot in Set-top Box IC market

2013-04-25 18:30:29| Digital TV News

Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM) and STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) tied in unit shipments for the worldwide set-top box IC Market in 2012, with both delivering between 85 and 86 million video SoCs for set-top boxes, according to ABI Research.

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Amazon to launch set-top box for video services - report

2013-04-25 08:33:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) Amazon.com plans to release a set-top box to support its streaming video services, people with knowledge of the matter told Bloomberg. The device, due later this year, will connect to televisions and also provide access to Amazon's expanding video services, which include the Amazon Video on Demand store and Prime Instant Video. The box is being developed by Amazon's Lab126 division in Cupertino, California and run by Malachy Moynihan, a former vice president at Cisco Systems who worked on the company's various consumer video initiatives. No details on pricing or the name of the device were known yet.

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The economics behind Amazon's possible set-top box gambit

2013-04-24 22:49:07| CNET News.com

A Wedbush Securities analyst believes the opportunity could be huge if the retail giant gives away its Amazon Instant Video service for a year to consumers who buy a set-top box. [Read more]

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