DVR / PVR (Digital Video Recorder/Personal Video Recorder) News

Cabot Communications becomes first DVB middleware provider to achieve Freeview Playback Group 1 and 2 compliance
Sep 9, 2007 – Cabot Communications has announced that Aurora XT, Cabot's DVB middleware suite, has achieved Freeview Playback Group 1 & 2 compliance. Cabot is the first software vendor to achieve this accreditation and the middleware is already validated on multiple platforms and chip sets.
News categories: Cabot Communications, DVR, IBCShow, MHEG-5, Middleware, Set Top Box, Terrestrial, UK

Pace to supply HD PVR to MultiChoice Africa
Sep 8, 2007 – Pace Micro Technology (LSE:PIC) has announced an agreement with MultiChoice Africa to supply its market leading high definition (HD) personal video recorders (PVRs).
News categories: Pace Micro Technology, Multichoice Africa, Africa, Digital TV, DVB-S2, DVR, IBCShow, Middleware, Satellite, Set Top Box

Dreampark Debuts PVR Control with Mobile Devices
Sep 8, 2007 – Dreampark has announced the debut of Dreampark's mobile personal video recorder (PVR) solution enabling consumers the added control and flexibility in recording TV programming on their PVR.
News categories: DVR, IBCShow, IPTV, Middleware, Mobile, Set Top Box

S3 and Nagravision Deliver Pre-Integrated Software To Pay TV Operators and STB Manufacturers
Sep 8, 2007 – Silicon & Software Systems (S3) has announced that it signed an agreement with Nagravision, a Kudelski Group (SWX:KUD) company, to provide highly integrated software solutions to the pay TV operator and Set-Top Box (STB) manufacturer markets.
News categories: Nagravision, Silicon & Software Systems (S3), Cable TV, Conditional Access, Digital TV, DVR, IBCShow, IPTV, Middleware, Satellite, Set Top Box, Software

IP Vision Signs Agreement with Entriq for Hybrid Platform
Sep 7, 2007 – IP Vision, the UK's independent hybrid DTT/IPTV specialists, has announced an agreement with Entriq, the world leader in pay media, to build a fully integrated service for the delivery of on-demand video content directly to digital terrestrial TV receivers.
News categories: Broadband, Content Protection, Digital TV, DVR, IBCShow, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Streaming, Terrestrial, UK

Pace demonstrates standards-based whole home digital TV using DLNA
Sep 7, 2007 – Pace Micro Technology (LSE:PIC) has announced that it will be joined at IBC by Macrovision to demonstrate how operators can use Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) specifications to enable a whole home multiroom offering for their subscribers.
News categories: Digital TV, DRM, DVR, IBCShow, Set Top Box, Smart Home

Pace & Inxstor showcase place-shifting technology for operators
Sep 7, 2007 – Pace Micro (LSE:PIC) and Inxstor, developers of a unique embedded secure place-shifting system, are demonstrating at IBC2007 how content stored on a personal video recorder (PVR) in the home can be accessed using 'place-shifting' technology over the internet.
News categories: Pace Micro Technology, Inxstor, Broadband, Digital TV, DRM, DVR, IBCShow, Media Player, Middleware, Placeshifting, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Software, Streaming, UK

Pace & Cachelogic showcase P2P future using PVR technology
Sep 7, 2007 – Pace Micro Technology (LSE:PIC) and CacheLogic are demonstrating at IBC2007 how assisted peer-to-peer (P2P) delivery networks could change the way consumers access content, including payTV, in the future.
News categories: Broadband, Digital TV, DVR, IBCShow, Streaming

Philips Demonstrates Personal TV Channels
Sep 7, 2007 – At the International Broadcast Convention (IBC) in Amsterdam, Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) and eventIS demonstrate a new way of personalized access to audiovisual media: Personal TV Channels, known under the Philips trademark Aprico.tv.
News categories: DVR, IBCShow, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Software