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

Netris Announces Integration of its IPSoft iVision IPTV Middleware with ADB's HD Set-Top Boxes
Feb 16, 2007 – Netris has announced that it has successfully integrated its IPSoft iVision IPTV Middleware with Advanced Digital Broadcast's hybrid, IPTV set-top box the ADB-3800W.
News categories: Netris, Advanced Digital Broadcast, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, Russia, Set Top Box

The Kudelski Group achieves strongest-ever financial results in 2006
Feb 16, 2007 – The Kudelski Group (SWX KUD.VX) has announced strongest-ever 2006 results. For the first time, Digital TV broke the CHF 500 million revenue mark, with a particularly robust development in Europe, growing by 17% compared to the previous year.
News categories: Kudelski, Belgium, Cable TV, CAM, Conditional Access, Czech Republic, Digital TV, France, Hungary, IPTV, Italy, Latin America, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Middleware, Mobile, Poland, Results, Romania, Satellite, Semiconductor, Slovakia, Spain, Streaming, USA

Kudelski Group will provide full end-to-end solutions to YPSO/Numéricâble
Feb 16, 2007 – The Kudelski Group (SWX Swiss Exchange: KUD) has announced that YPSO/Numéricâble has selected Kudelski Group technology for the national rollout of its Video-On-Demand (VOD) and interactive cable TV services.
News categories: Kudelski, Numéricâble, Belgium, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Digital TV, France, Luxembourg, Middleware

Ocean Blue Releases Freeview DVB-IP for IPTV Market
Feb 16, 2007 – Ocean Blue Software has released Sunrise DVB-IP, a DVB & MHEG-5 software suite for IPTV set-top boxes, incorporating the latest Freeview standard.
News categories: Ocean Blue, Digital TV, IPTV, MHEG-5, Middleware, Set Top Box, Terrestrial, UK

NDS MediaHighway Middleware Deployed Across DIRECTV Latin America
Feb 14, 2007 – NDS (NASDAQ: NNDS) has announced that its MediaHighway middleware, currently deployed on 41.6 million set-top boxes worldwide, is being downloaded to all DIRECTV Latin America L10 and L11 set-top boxes as well as the LR15 Digital Video Recorder (DVR).
News categories: NDS Group, DIRECTV Latin America, Argentina, Brazil, Caribbean, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Digital TV, DVR, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Latin America, Middleware, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Satellite, Set Top Box, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela

Via Licensing Announces Joint Patent License for Interactive Television Services Using the DVB-MHP Standard
Feb 13, 2007 – Via Licensing Corporation is pleased to announce the availability of a worldwide joint license agreement for patents deemed essential to implement the Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB®) Multimedia Home Platform 1.0 standard (MHP® 1.0).
News categories: Via Licensing, DVB-MHP, Digital TV, DVB-MHP, Licensing, Middleware, Patent

ArcSoft TotalMedia™ Mobile for Portable Navigation Devices
Feb 12, 2007 – ArcSoft have announced ArcSoft TotalMedia™ Mobile for Portable Navigation Devices at the 3GSM World Congress 2007.
News categories: ArcSoft, Digital TV, Middleware, Mobile, MWC24

S3 and Irdeto bring DVB-H connectivity to the PC market
Feb 12, 2007 – Silicon & Software Systems Ltd. (S3 and Irdeto, a subsidiary of multinational media group Naspers (NASDAQ: NPSN and JSE: NPN), have announced a technology breakthrough that allows operators to deliver Mobile TV, via a DVB-H network, to both desktop and laptop PCs using commonly available components.
News categories: Irdeto, S3, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Middleware, Mobile, MWC24

Nexstreaming integrates Irdeto's ISMACryp descrambler to play secure mobile TV services on DVB-H handsets, PC and laptops
Feb 12, 2007 – Nexstreaming and Irdeto, a subsidiary of multinational media group Naspers (NASDAQ: NPSN and JSE: NPN), have announced the successful integration of Irdeto's ISMACryp descrambler into Nexstreaming's media player.
News categories: Irdeto, Nexstreaming, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Middleware, Mobile, MWC24