Set-top box (STB) manufacturer Amino, which was ranked world leader in the pure IPTV STB market by ABI Research, will showcase its IPTV STBs at the NAB Show. This is the third consecutive year that Amino has taken first place in ABI’s rankings.

The STB represents a significant proportion of the per-customer capital expenditures. As such, if service providers have the long-term goal of switching entirely to the IP domain, they must consider the type of STB they are deploying. The STB market is punctuated by two distinct types of services, hybrid and pure, with the difference being one between “enhanced broadcast” and an all-IP approach to TV content delivery. Migrating from hybrid to pure IPTV requires the deployed equipment to have sufficient IP capability to handle all service requirements. According to Amino, some hybrid systems currently available do not have the IPTV technology elements to do this.

Amino’s AmiNET series of IPTV STBs has been used in commercial deployments and trials in more than 80 countries. The vendor’s principal clients are telecommunications, broadcast and hospitality service operators. The line of STBs includes MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 encoding standards, for SD/HD TV, personal video recording and home networking.

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