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

DivX Announces Licensing Agreement with AMD to Allow Support of DivX Video with AMD Xilleon™ Processors
Jan 16, 2008 – DivX (NASDAQ:DIVX) has announced a licensing agreement with semiconductor supplier AMD (NYSE:AMD) allowing AMD to include DivX® video technology with specific AMD Xilleon™ processors to power a broad range of next-generation digital TVs worldwide.
News categories: DivX, AMD, Digital TV, Licensing, Media Player, Semiconductor

MultiChoice Licenses onHandTV from S3
Jan 15, 2008 – Silicon & Software Systems (S3) has announced that leading Pay-TV operator MultiChoice has licensed S3's onHandTV™ Software Development Kit (SDK) for DVB-H to further develop their interactive Mobile Broadcast TV services.
News categories: Silicon & Software Systems, MultiChoice, Digital TV, Middleware, Mobile, South Africa

More than 3.5 million programmes accessed via BBC iPlayer in first fortnight
Jan 15, 2008 – Over 3.5 million programmes have been streamed or downloaded on demand via the BBC iPlayer within a fortnight of its marketing launch on Christmas Day.
News categories: BBC iPlayer, Broadband, Digital TV, Media Player, Streaming, UK

Top Ten IPTV Carriers
Jan 14, 2008 – Light Reading has looked around the world and identified the operators that have the most IPTV subscribers and then ranked them in order.
News categories: Belgium, Broadband, China, Digital TV, France, Hong Kong, IPTV, Italy, Market Research, Middleware, Spain, Subscribers, Sweden, Taiwan

OpenTV Selected by TrueVisions UBC for PVR Launch
Jan 10, 2008 – OpenTV (NASDAQ GM: OPTV) has announced today that TrueVisions UBC, Thailand's leading digital pay-TV operator, has selected OpenTV's middleware solution to enable and power their new PVR services.
News categories: OpenTV, TrueVisions UBC, Digital TV, DVR, Middleware, Satellite, Set Top Box, Thailand

CyberLink Features Full Range of Digital TV Solutions at CES 2008
Jan 10, 2008 – CyberLink (5203.TW) has announced that it will demonstrate its latest offerings for premium TV-on-PCs, TV-on-the Go, and placeshifting TV solutions during CES at the Las Vegas Hilton, Suite 2365.
News categories: CyberLink, Cable TV, CES2025, IPTV, Media Player, Mobile, Placeshifting, Satellite, Streaming, Terrestrial

Hitachi Optimizes Audio Visual Storage Manager
Jan 9, 2008 – Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) has announced a number of design enhancements to its AVSM™ (Audio-Visual Storage Manager) software technology, including compatibility with Broadcom's set-top box (STB) system-on-chip (SoC) solutions.
News categories: Hitachi Global Storage, Broadcom, CES2025, Digital TV, DVR, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

Sunplus and Ocean Blue Collaborate to Develop Interactive, Mobile TV Platform
Jan 9, 2008 – Sunplus Technology (TAIEX: 2401, LSE: SUPD) and Ocean Blue Software have collaborated to develop a portable Freeview DVB-T platform with full interactive features.
News categories: Ocean Blue, Sunplus, CES2025, Digital TV, MHEG-5, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Tablet, Terrestrial, UK

Alticast's AltiCaptor Blu-ray Disc Solution Integrated in HitachiSoft Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD Universal Player Platform
Jan 8, 2008 – Alticast has announced that its AltiCaptor Blu-ray™ Disc Java (BDJ) solution was selected by Hitachi Software Engineering Co., Ltd. (HitachiSoft) for its future Blu-ray Disc customers.
News categories: Alticast, HitachiSoft, Broadcom, Blu-ray, Digital TV, Middleware, Semiconductor