Amino Technologies, the provider of digital entertainment solutions for IPTV, Internet TV and in-home multimedia distribution, has conditionally agreed to acquire the entire issued share capital of broadcast hybrid TV and connected home solutions provider Entone for a total consideration of $73 million (€67.2 million). Donald McGarva, Chief Executive of Amino, said the proposed acquisition […]
Wyplay, creator of software solutions for pay-TV operators, and global semiconductor specialist STMicroelectronics have disclosed their contributions to the development of Canal+ Group’s new Cube S set-top-box. The hybrid OTT / broadcast set-top-box runs Wyplay’s open source Frog Client middleware, integrated by Wyplay’s professional services team on top of a hardened Linux kernel with the […]
Connected television in Germany and Austria has now passed the threshold into rapid and sustained growth, The total number of SVoD subscriber grew by 46 per cent in the first six months of 2015, according to consulting firm Deadline Media TV. This is without any noticeable cord cutting.The primary challenge of OTT TV is to […]
New Zealand’s DTT provider Freeview has launched a new platform designed to give New Zealanders easy access to on-demand video services on their TVs – FreeviewPlus. In a New Zealand first, FreeviewPlus uses Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) to enable seamless integration and switching between broadcast TV and on-demand services. The service is free to […]
Arqiva and Pixsan have partnered to launch an ‘out-of-the-box’ hybrid TV solution for any TV and set-top-box. Those looking to expand into the wholesale hybrid TV market, can now launch their own HbbTV-based device solution, with features including a backwards EPG and all the broadcaster catch-up TV players. Tom Cape, Director of Connected Solutions at […]
Australian free-to-air service Freeview has unveiled the aerialBox T2100, the first set-top box (STB) certified for FreeviewPlus, the new TV hybrid TV service that provides access to more content and services from the Freeview networks. The FreeviewPlus technology seamlessly combines broadband and broadcast TV, also enabling the free-to-air networks to introduce a range of new […]
Media and device testing specialists, Digital TV Labs has launched what it claims isthe world’s first independent ‘HbbTV App Lab’ to assist HbbTV Application Developers in testing their applications on a wide range of real HbbTV devices to ensure interoperability in the real world. In a predominantly horizontal, retail market, HbbTV devices can show a […]
The Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) has commenced hybrid TV services on their HD channels with HbbTV technology by Sofia Digital. The TRT Plus services are available via TRT’s HD TV channels broadcasted via Turksat satellite, covering Turkey and most of the European countries for all HbbTV enabled DVB-S2 receivers. The hybrid platform and […]
Estonian digital television operator Levira has started hybrid-TV services with their Freeview “TasutaTV” terrestrial TV platform. The services cover all the major free-to-air channels and can be used throughout Estonia with a HbbTV-compatible smart TV. The hybrid services and platform have been developed together with Sofia Digital. The TasutaTV HbbTV-based “HübriidTV” service offers rich EPG […]
The HbbTV Association, a global initiative dedicated to providing an open standard for the delivery of broadcast and broadband services through connected TVs and set-top boxes, has released the new HbbTV 2.0 specification. HbbTV 2.0 paves the way for a new wave of consumer TV services based on advances including companion device support, HTML5 user […]