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

Dreampark Delivers IPTV Middleware to TUÅ  TELEKOM
Dec 3, 2007 – Dreampark announced its first customer in Central Europe when the Slovenian IPTV provider TUÅ  TELEKOM chose Dreamgallery™ as the middleware for its IPTV solution in Slovenia.
News categories: Dreampark, TUÅ  TELEKOM, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, Slovenia

TiVo and Nero Partner to Deliver the TV Experience to the Personal Computer
Nov 28, 2007 – Nero and TiVo (Nasdaq: TIVO) have announced that they have entered into an agreement to further enable the connected digital home by integrating TiVo's TV user experience with Nero's next generation of PC software.
News categories: TiVo, Nero, Digital TV, DVR, Media Player, Streaming, USA

Broadcom and RaisingSun Collaborate to Deliver Industry's First Digital TV Solution for China's Television Market
Nov 28, 2007 – Broadcom (Nasdaq: BRCM) has announced a collaboration with RaisingSun Digital Video Technology Company of Shanghai, China, that provides the industry's first complete digital television (DTV) solution for China's television market.
News categories: Broadcom, iTVware, ATSC 3, China, Digital TV, DTMB, Middleware, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Terrestrial

On2 Technologies and Texas Instruments Collaborate on Video Devices Providing Optimized Codec Performance
Nov 26, 2007 – On2 Technologies (AMEX:ONT) has announced an extensive agreement with Texas Instruments (TI) (NYSE: TXN), under which the two companies will collaborate on technology to implement On2's TrueMotion® VP6™ and VP7™ video compression formats on TI's OMAP™ Platform and DaVinci™ technology for mobile handsets and digital video applications.
News categories: On2, Texas Instruments (TI), Digital TV, Media Player, Mobile, Semiconductor

S&T wins Freesat MHEG5 biz
Nov 25, 2007 – Freesat is the BBC-backed free-to-view satellite service due for launch early next year. Strategy & Technology Ltd has won the contract to integrate MHEG5 into the system.
News categories: Strategy & Technology, Digital TV, MHEG-5, Middleware, Satellite, UK

Grid-TV selects Mimundo TV Player
Nov 21, 2007 – Grid-TV and Mimundo are working together to establish an innovative Hybrid TV solution for the consumer market. The main focus of the partnership is on convergent applications for PC users to deliver mass market TV together with special interest channels, whether 24/7 program or on demand.
News categories: Mimundo, Grid-TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Media Player, Streaming

SecureMedia and BEE MediaSoft Announce Integration of Encryptonite ONE™ System with BEE's Vision TV Platform for Next-Generation IPTV
Nov 20, 2007 – SecureMedia and BEE MediaSoft ("BEE") have announced that SecureMedia's Encryptonite ONE™ CA/DRM System has been seamlessly integrated with BEE's Vision TV Platform, enabling TV service providers to offer enhanced, totally protected digital TV services.
News categories: SecureMedia, BEE MediaSoft, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, DRM, IPTV, Middleware, Video Exchange

Analog Devices And RealNetworks Team To Provide Key Video Technology In Portable Media Players
Nov 20, 2007 – Analog Devices (NYSE: ADI) has announced that it is working with RealNetworks® to provide the latest generation of Personal Media featuring full D1 broadcast resolution playback of RealVideo® and RealAudio® media files, the same formats used in RealPlayer®.
News categories: Analog Devices, RealNetworks, Aigo, Digital TV, Media Player, Semiconductor, Streaming, Tablet

Report Presents The Development of STB Markets in China and Abroad and Also Studies the STB Application Market
Nov 15, 2007 – According to ResearchInChina, global sales of set-top boxes reached over 70 million units in 2005, of which satellite STBs were 60%. In China, digital cable TV set-top box sales volume will reach 25 million units by 2008.
News categories: ResearchInChina, Cable TV, China, Conditional Access, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Market Research, Middleware, Satellite, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Terrestrial