RDK in the News

The Xumo Stream Box era is underway at Comcast. The operator announced Tuesday that it has launched the Xumo Stream Box for no added cost to broadband customers who don’t take Comcast’s traditional pay-TV service. In addition to broadband-only subscribers, Comcast is offering the Xumo Stream Box to customers who also bundle in the Xfinity Mobile service. Comcast is…

Xumo, the Comcast-Charter Communications streaming joint venture, has kicked off its national rollout by making its new “Stream Box” available to Charter customers. Xumo said it plans to extend access to the device to Comcast broadband customers “soon.” The Stream Box launch across Charter’s footprint (56.2 million homes passed at the end of Q2 2023) arrives about two months after Charter…

Doug Lowther, CEO of Irdeto, and Jason Briggs, President of RDK Management, talk to DTVE about challenges and requirements of building a super-aggregation play and how RDK – and Irdeto – can help deliver it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzAH_MFqLc0…

RDK President Jason Briggs gives Julian Clover an update on the rollout of the new RDK6.…

Ahead of the 2023 RDK Summit in Amsterdam, RDK Management has announced RDK6 – the newest open-source software bundle designed to power video customer-premise equipment (CPE) for pay TV operators worldwide. RDK6 is designed to further streamline the development and deployment of video functionality and apps across IP and hybrid QAM/DVB set-top boxes and will be available in Q4 2023.…

The latest update to the RDK video software (RDK-V) is designed to improve efficiency of deploying video services and, critically, apps across IP and hybrid cable QAM/DVB set-top boxes. It is the latest effort from RDK to match Android TV’s app onboarding process. RDK Management has released the newest open-source software bundle to its technology stack. Announced ahead of…