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

VisualOn collaborates with AMD to bring exceptional video and audio to AMD enabled DVB-H Mobile TV handsets
Jan 29, 2007 – Mobile TV is the application both consumers and carriers are waiting for. VisualOn is able to fulfill the requirements of next generation technologies like Mobile TV, with a solution that now works seamlessly with AMD (NYSE: AMD) ImageonTV DVB-H/T demodulators.
News categories: VisualOn, AMD, Digital TV, Media Player, Mobile, Semiconductor

NDS Adds Peer-To-Peer Content Sharing and Distributed-DVR
Jan 29, 2007 – NDS (NASDAQ: NNDS) has announced two new product enhancements to its IPTV middleware solution. Distributed-DVR and ShareTV are two patent pending product features which will deliver even more benefit to IPTV service providers.
News categories: NDS Group, Jungo, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Middleware, Streaming

NDS and Dogan TV Partner to Revolutionize Television in Turkey
Jan 29, 2007 – NDS (NASDAQ: NNDS) and Dogan TV, owned by Turkey's leading media group Dogan Yayin Holding, have announced an agreement to deploy a broad range of NDS technologies and applications.
News categories: NDS Group, DoÄŸan Yayin Holding, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Middleware, Turkey

AT&T's Delivery of TV Hits a Glitch
Jan 26, 2007 – AT&T Inc.'s rollout of its new television service is being delayed by glitches in the Microsoft Corp. technology that helps power the Internet-based system.
News categories: AT&T, Microsoft, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, USA

CableLabs® Adopts IPDR Streaming Protocol into OCAP™ Version 1.1 Set-Top Box
Jan 23, 2007 – The Internet Protocol Detail Record Organization (IPDR.org) has announced that CableLabs® has adopted IPDR.org's technologies into its OpenCable™ Application Platform (OCAP™) Version 1.1 initiative.
News categories: IPDR.org, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Middleware, Set Top Box

Irdeto to partner with Alticast, LG-Nortel and Kaon Media to deliver end-to-end IPTV solution
Jan 23, 2007 – Irdeto has announced that it is partnering with Alticast as well as LG-Nortel and Kaon Media to deliver an advanced, end-to-end IPTV solution worldwide.
News categories: Irdeto, Alticast, LG-Nortel, Kaon Media, Conditional Access, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, Set Top Box

Al-Falak announces the launch of the world's first fully integrated IPTV Triple Play project for Qatar Telecom (Qtel)
Jan 21, 2007 – Al-Falak has successfully completed the system integration of the world's first fully integrated and redundant IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) Triple Play project for Qatar Telecom (Qtel).
News categories: Qtel, Al-Falak, Content Protection, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, Qatar, Set Top Box

SAMSUNG, Time Warner Cable And Advance/Newhouse Join Together To Launch OCAP On Interactive HDTV Sets And HD Set-Top Boxes
Jan 19, 2007 – Samsung, Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWX) and Advance/Newhouse Communications have announced that interactive digital cable services are now live on the Samsung HL-S5686C Open Cable Application Platform (OCAP™) compliant DLP HDTV and SMT-H3050 High Definition Set-top Boxes (HDSTB).
News categories: Samsung, Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks, Cable TV, Digital TV, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart TV, USA

Opera supports single chip set-top box solutions from STMicroelectronics
Jan 17, 2007 – Opera Software has announced that the Opera SDK for Devices now supports STMicroelectronics' STi710X family of high-definition TV single-chip set-top box decoders.
News categories: Opera Software, STMicroelectronics, Digital TV, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box