Middleware and Operating System (OS) News

MRG announces new leaders in its Global IPTV Market Leaders Report
Oct 22, 2009 – MRG has announced new leaders in the Global IPTV Market Leaders Report -- October 2009 (MLR), which tracks the top 120 IPTV vendors in 24 regional sectors based on the installed base of 6 video systems products in over 800 IPTV Operations.
News categories: MRG, Content Distribution, Content Protection, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Middleware, Set Top Box

ISDB broadcasting in Argentina to begin in 2 months
Oct 20, 2009 – Argentina will begin the first tests of its ISDB-based Sistema de TV Digital Terrestre digital TV service in the next two months, with the goal of covering about 400 cities and towns by 2011.
News categories: Argentina, Digital TV, ISDB-T, Middleware, Mobile, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

Opera Software supports HbbTV
Oct 15, 2009 – Opera Software has announced that it has joined the cross-industry consortium that is leading the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) initiative.
News categories: Opera Software, HbbTV, HbbTV, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Smart TV, Streaming

Open IPTV Forum makes public Release 1 Profiles Specification
Oct 8, 2009 – The Open IPTV Forum (OIPF) has announced the publication of the Profiles specification for its Release 1 Solution. This specification is accompanied by a revision (Version 1.1) of its seven-volume Release 1 IPTV Solution specification.
News categories: Open IPTV Forum, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware

CANAL OVERSEAS Selects NDS to Deliver External PVR with a Flash EPG
Oct 7, 2009 – NDS has announced that CANAL OVERSEAS (Paris:VIV) is introducing a personal video recorder (PVR) service with a Flash™-based Electronic Programme Guide (EPG) developed by NDS.
News categories: NDS Group, CANAL OVERSEAS, Caribbean, Digital TV, DVR, Mascarene Islands, Middleware, Satellite, Set Top Box

Sigma Commits Android™ Support Across Its Line of Consumer Media Processors
Oct 6, 2009 – Sigma Designs (Nasdaq: SIGM) has announced its commitment to broad scale support of the Android™ operating system on its media processor SoCs.
News categories: OESF, Sigma Designs, MIPS Technologies, Blu-ray, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

Latens and GoDB Offer Solution for Indian Cable
Oct 6, 2009 – Latens has announced that its software CAS has been successfully integrated with GoDB Tech's middleware platform.
News categories: Latens, GoDB, Cable TV, Conditional Access, India, Middleware

Chongqing Cable TV Launches On-Demand TV Services With Espial MediaBase
Oct 6, 2009 – Espial® (TSX: ESP) has announced that Chongqing Cable TV Network has selected Espial MediaBase to power their on-demand services. Chongqing Cable TV is located in the southwest of China and provides TV services to 4.2 million subscribers.
News categories: Espial, Chongqing Cable, Huawei, Cable TV, China, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Middleware

McObject Set-Top Box Embedded Software Shortens Development Time
Oct 5, 2009 – McObject® has announced the availability of its eXtremeDB™ embedded software platform for set-top box electronic programming guides (EPGs), enabling providers of set-top boxes to reduce costs and offer a richer tool for end-users.
News categories: McObject, Digital TV, Middleware, Set Top Box