Gracenote has announced that its eyeQ Interactive Program Guide (IPG) will be available in smart TVs from Vestel, providing the consumer electronics leader a global solution for TV programme listings.  In addition, Vestel is developing iPad and Android Apps that will allow TV viewers to interact with and control their Vestel-developed smart TVs with a […]

Technicolor has deployed its home automation tablet MediaTouch HomePilot as part of Swisscom’s “Quing Home” smart secure living offering. This first-of-a-kind solution in Switzerland combines security, automation, and energy management in one package to create a true smart home ecosystem, all controlled from the Quing Home’s managed tablet or from the smartphone application. Connected to […]

Oregan Networks plans to add “on the go” recording and viewing capability to its hybrid DTV platform, catering for both current and future MSO deployments. With new multiscreen EPG and PVR applications, running on Android and Apple iOS companion devices, consumers will be able to: Synchronise their tablets, laptops and smart phones with the living […]

Digisoft.tv, a global provider of set-top box middleware for the cable, satellite, terrestrial and telecommunications industry, has announced the integration of RedKey – the market leading MHEG 5 engine, into its set-top box middleware stack; Iris.  The company will offer MHEG as a standard part of its DVB based offering.  This will include the interaction […]

S3 Group, an international digital TV company, and Teleplan have been selected by Sky Deutschland AG to deliver a suite of products and services targeted at increasing the quality of experience for its subscribers. The solution, which incorporates a number of different StormTest products from S3 Group and services from Teleplan, will be deployed in […]

Oregan Networks, the British IPTV software and systems specialist, has announced that Batelco, the largest telecom operator and ISP in Bahrain, has based the country’s first broadband video service on STBs using Oregan’s technology. Through the BlackBox video service, Batelco offers the full spectrum of benefits of its advanced fibre optic backbone infrastructure, which now […]

Oregan Networks, the British IPTV software and systems specialist, announces that Batelco, the largest telecom operator and ISP in Bahrain, has based the country’s first broadband video service on Set Top Boxes, using Oregan’s technology. Through the BlackBox video service, Batelco offers the full spectrum of benefits of its advanced fibre optic backbone infrastructure, which […]

CASBAA and international media and technology law firm Olswang have launched Singapore’s first online directory of digital content available from legitimate sources. The pilot directory is available to all at finddigitaltv.com and allows users to search for content by genre, device or just search for content that is free. The directory is being launched in […]

Multichannel provider UKTV, a commercial television network in the UK co-owned by BBC Worldwide and Scripps Networks Interactive, has secured a deal for a fourth DTT channel slot. Dave Ja Vu, a catch up service for entertainment channel Dave, will hold Freeview channel 25 for a limited time from January 2013 while UKTV firms up […]