Software (Media Players, Middleware, Browsers, Stacks, …) News

SENSIO® 3D Format Standardized in DVD Standard
Jan 27, 2009 – SENSIO Technologies (TSX VENTURE:SIO) has announced that its SENSIO® 3D format has been officially accepted as an optional DVD standard like DTS for audio - the first 3D format to be recognized by a consumer standards organization.
News categories: SENSIO, Digital TV, DVD, Metaverse

Zodiac Interactive and Alticast Team on Tru2way™ Technology
Jan 26, 2009 – Zodiac Interactive and Alticast have announced that they will bundle Zodiac PowerUp™ for tru2way technology with Alticast AltiCaptor™. The combined solution will enable MSOs to deliver interactive services and applications and advanced VOD.
News categories: Zodiac Interactive, Alticast, Cable TV, Digital TV, Media Player, Middleware, Set Top Box, USA

Motive reaches digital home milestone with more than ten million devices under management
Jan 22, 2009 – Motive (Paris and NYSE: ALU) has announced that it has more than ten million devices under management with its Home Device Manager (HDM). Deployed with more than fifty service providers, Motive's HDM simplifies the management of services such as broadband, IPTV and VoIP.
News categories: Motive, Alcatel-Lucent, IPTV, Middleware, Smart Home

Blusens Relies on Sigma Designs' Technology to Empower HDTV Home Entertainment Device
Jan 22, 2009 – Sigma Designs (Nasdaq:SIGM) has announced that their SMP8634 has been selected by Blusens as the main processing unit in the Blusens 'blu:brain' HDTV Home Entertainment Device.
News categories: Sigma Designs, Blusens, LambdaStream, Digital TV, DVR, Middleware, Placeshifting, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Streaming, Terrestrial

Tatung receives STB order from Guangzhou Cable TV
Jan 21, 2009 – Tatung has received an IPTV set-top box (STB) order from Guangzhou Cable TV. The STBs for Guangzhou Cable TV will support Microsoft Mediaroom.
News categories: Tatung, Guangzhou Cable TV, China, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, Set Top Box

Axel Technologies Closes €2.4 million Investment Round To Boost The Development of Multistandard Mobile TV technology
Jan 20, 2009 – Axel Technologies has announced that they have secured a new €2.4 million investment for business and product development. Axel Technologies develops mobile TV technology that enables device manufactures to bring mobile TV to all portable devices.
News categories: Axel Technologies, Digital TV, Middleware, Mobile, Venture Capital

MTS Allstream first with Microsoft Mediaroom in Canada
Jan 19, 2009 – MTS Allstream (Toronto: MBT) has launched a new digital television service in Portage la Prairie. MTS is the first company in Canada to launch with technology from Alcatel-Lucent and using the Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV platform.
News categories: MTS Allstream, Microsoft, Kelvin Shepherd, Canada, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Middleware

BH Telecom selected Smart Com to build converged IPTV and IP telephony service delivery platform
Jan 16, 2009 – BH Telecom of Bosnia & Herzegovina has selected Smart Com to deliver and integrate a complete converged IPTV and IP telephony service delivery platform based on Smart Com's BeeSmart middleware.
News categories: Smart Com, BH Telecom, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware

Brazil's digital TV to go interactive in 2010
Jan 16, 2009 – Sales of Set-Top-Boxes fitted with the Brazilian interactive middleware 'Ginga' will start in December this year. The system will be interactive by 2010 instead of this year as originally planned.
News categories: Ginga, Brazil, Digital TV, Middleware, SBTVD, Set Top Box, Terrestrial