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

Sumitomo Electric Networks Licenses Additional Espial® Evo® IPTV Application for Next Generation Set-Top Box
Aug 7, 2007 – Espial® Group (TSX: ESP) has announced that Sumitomo Electric, a leading supplier of broadband access equipment in Japan, has licensed an additional application of Espial's Evo IPTV Service Platform for use with Sumitomo's IPTV set-top boxes (STBs).
News categories: Digital TV, IPTV, Japan, Middleware, Set Top Box

NDS Group plc Reports Fiscal Year 2007 Results
Aug 7, 2007 – NDS (NASDAQ: NNDS) has announced its results for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2007. There was an increase in conditional access revenues of 13% during the fiscal year ended June 30, 2007. This increase was partially offset by a decrease in the number of middleware clients deployed in the same period.
News categories: NDS Group, Content Protection, Digital TV, Middleware, Results

OpenTV Reports Second Quarter Results
Aug 2, 2007 – OpenTV (NASDAQ GM: OPTV), a leading provider of solutions for the delivery of advanced digital television and cross platform interactive services, has announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2007.
News categories: OpenTV, Earnings Release, Digital TV, Middleware, Results

Zinwell Licenses Highgate MHEG-5 Solution
Jul 31, 2007 – Highgate has announced that Zinwell has licensed its MHEG-5 (v1.06) solution for deployment across its range of MPEG-2 SD STB and iDTV module solutions
News categories: Highgate, Zinwell, Digital TV, MHEG-5, Middleware, New Zealand, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

S3 Supports OMA BCast Mobile TV Security with Discretix
Jul 30, 2007 – Discretix and Silicon & Software Systems (S3) have announced that Discretix' multi-scheme mobile TV security client is being integrated into S3's onHandTV™ mobile interactive Digital TV (DTV) client.
News categories: CAM, Digital TV, DRM, Middleware, Mobile

BBC online video service launches
Jul 27, 2007 – The BBC's flagship online TV service is being launched, offering viewers the chance to download their favourite programmes from the last seven days.
News categories: Digital TV, Media Player, Streaming, UK

OpenTV expands its solutions offering with Casema
Jul 26, 2007 – OpenTV (NASDAQ GM: OPTV) has announced that Casema, one of the Netherlands' leading cable providers, has selected OpenTV to provide solutions enabling its new high definition, interactive digital television services.
News categories: Broadband, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Digital TV, DVR, Middleware, Netherlands, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

MRG Releases IPTV Middleware Report Identifying Leaders in Global Race
Jul 16, 2007 – Based on deployed subscribers, Thomson, Cascade, Alcatel-Lucent (MiViewTV), UTStarcom and Nokia Siemens Networks (Myrio) ranked in the top five globally. Microsoft Mediaroom (ex-IPTV Edition) ranked last out of fourteen IPTV companies.
News categories: MRG, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Middleware

Intel OpenCable System-on-a-Chip products expected H2 2008
Jul 13, 2007 – Intel's planned support of CableLabs' Opencable Platform in its future system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions is not expected to result in actual products before the second half of 2008, according to the company.
News categories: Intel, CableLabs, Digital TV, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart TV