Evoca Sourcing New ‘Pilot’ Set-Top From CommScope for Q1 Deployment

Evoca, the ATSC 3.0-based content delivery service, picked CommScope to source a next-generation Android TV set-top with “integrated dual multimode” ATSC 1.0 and 3.0 tuners, “marking one of the first times this technology combination is being made available for general consumer use,” said the companies Wednesday. CommScope’s new VIP7802-ATSC set-top, Pilot by Evoca, will be deployed to new subscribers on Evoca’s converged broadcast-broadband platform, beginning in Q1, they said. The Pilot set-top is a “cost-effective way” to roll out the Evoca service to subscribers “as we launch in multiple television markets,” said CEO Todd Achilles. “We intend to make a similar product available to other broadcasters.”