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

As Online Video Enters the Living Room, User Interfaces Begin the Transition to Web Based Technologies
Jul 29, 2008 – While the rest of the consumer electronics and pay-TV worlds are still stuck in more traditional native code environments, the push for online video and social communities in the living room has resulted in ever-increasing interest in HTML and other web-based technologies on consumer TVs.
News categories: ABI Research, Digital TV, Market Research, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Smart TV, Streaming

LG Electronics and Funai Electric Sign Tru2way™ MOU
Jul 28, 2008 – CableLabs has announced that LG Electronics (Seoul:066570) and Funai Electric (Tokyo:6839) have signed the multi-industry tru2way™ Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).
News categories: CableLabs, LG Electronics, Funai, Cable TV, Content Protection, Digital TV, Middleware, Smart TV, USA

Minerva and Avail Media Drive IPTV Market Growth in North America
Jul 24, 2008 – Minerva Networks and Avail Media have announced that they have already installed a joint solution that greatly simplifies the deployment of IPTV services at 23 North American sites.
News categories: Minerva Networks, Avail Media, PorchLight Communications, Content Distribution, IPTV, Middleware, USA

Thomson: First Half 2008 Results
Jul 24, 2008 – In 2Q08 Thomson (Paris: 18453, NYSE:TMS) shipped 2.8 million satellite set-top boxes, 1.5 million cable set-top boxes and modems/eMTAs, and 2.9 million access products for telecom operators - making a total of 7.3 million in the quarter.
News categories: Thomson, Cable Modem, Cable TV, Digital TV, Gateway, IPTV, Middleware, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box

i-Vision China - First To Release CMMB Mobile Multimedia Player on MIDs
Jul 23, 2008 – At the China SARFT CMMB Administrative Bureau press event with Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and mobile device manufacturers, i-Vision demonstrated its latest CMMB device software and the various TV applications that it supports on MIDs, Netbooks and UMPCs.
News categories: i-Vision, China, Digital TV, Media Player, Middleware, Mobile, Tablet

Samsung's MediaLive: the Ultimate HDTV Accessory, Bringing Digital Content from the PC to the Big-Screen
Jul 23, 2008 – MediaLive from Samsung (Seoul:005930) delivers digital content in real-time from Windows Media Center on a PC running Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows Vista to the big screen of a Samsung HDTV via a wireless or wired home network.
News categories: Samsung Electronics, Digital TV, Media Player, Smart Home, Smart TV, Streaming, USA

Ocean Blue develops hot-plug USB software to turn TVs and set-top boxes into PVRs
Jul 23, 2008 – Ocean Blue has developed a hot-plug USB software extension for set-top boxes and integrated Digital TVs that allows consumers to activate PVR functionality on low-cost base models by simply plugging in a USB memory stick or USB hard drive.
News categories: Ocean Blue Software, Digital TV, DVR, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart TV

IPTV Network Services Selects Latens ECOsystem to Provide IPTV Services to Over 45,000 Subscribers In Utah
Jul 22, 2008 – Latens has announced that IPTV Network Services, LLC., a consortium company of several IPTV service providers in the state of Utah, has successfully deployed the Latens ECOsystem (ECO) to enable its IPTV offering.
News categories: Latens, Conditional Access, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, USA, Video Exchange

TiVo Provides YouTube Videos Directly to the Television
Jul 17, 2008 – TiVo (NASDAQ: TIVO) has announced the availability of YouTube videos on the TV via a TiVo® DVR. Broadband-connected subscribers with TiVo Series3™ and TiVo HD DVRs can now access millions of user generated videos hosted on YouTube.
News categories: TiVo Inc, Digital TV, DVR, Media Player, Set Top Box, Streaming, USA