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

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

Inuk Networks launches world's first PC-based virtual set-top box; delivering a true TV experience to the PC
Sep 7, 2007 – Inuk Networks has announced the commercial launch of its igloo virtual set-top box software product. igloo enables IPTV platform operators to deliver a true television set-top box experience to a desktop or laptop computer or Mac using standards-based, technology-agnostic software.
News categories: Inuk Networks, Widevine, Digital TV, IPTV, Media Player, Middleware, Set Top Box, Software, Streaming, UK

Irdeto, Amino and Anevia to Provide Innovative DVB over IP Solution to Pay TV Operators Worldwide
Sep 7, 2007 – Irdeto together with Amino and Anevia have announced a joint IPTV solution that enables Telcos to provide existing DVB services to their customers via their IP networks.
News categories: Irdeto, Amino, Anevia, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, IBCShow, IPTV, Middleware, Russia, Satellite, Set Top Box

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

Alcatel-Lucent and Samsung demonstrate live interactive broadcast mobile TV in S-Band based on DVB-SH
Sep 7, 2007 – On the occasion of IBC, Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) and Samsung Electronics (Seoul KSE: 005930 and London GDR: SMSN) have announced that they are demonstrating live broadcast mobile TV in S-Band using a Samsung handset.
News categories: Digital TV, IBCShow, Middleware, Mobile

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

Newport Media Demonstrates MediaFLO Tuner, Demodulator, Protocol Stack and Video Decoder at IBC
Sep 7, 2007 – IBC2007 - Newport Media has announced that it is demonstrating live streaming TV using MediaFLO™ mobile TV technology on a FLO™ receiver platform developed by Newport Media.
News categories: Newport Media, PacketVideo, MediaFLO, IBCShow, Media Player, Middleware, Mobile, Semiconductor, Smart TV