Tilgin First to Show Picture in Picture (PiP) on a ST-Based IPTV STB at IBC

STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Tilgin (STO:TILG), a leading provider of customer premises equipment solutions for multi-play and next-generation broadband services, today announces Picture in Picture as part of the Mood 400 Product Family offering.

The new Mood 400 IP Set-top Media Center offers a broad range of managed High Definition IPTV service capabilities. Picture in picture capability develops the value of IPTV in a significant way. Picture in Picture offers the viewer the opportunity to continuously preview other channels in PiP windows or any other type of content when simultaneously watching the main window.

The solution developed by Tilgin generates the opportunity to have up to eight PiP windows simultaneously.

“Picture in picture has been a requested feature for some time both from our customer and our partners”, says Göran Reuterdahl, Senior Vice President Sales & Marketing at Tilgin. “It really enhances the value of IPTV in a major way and creates opportunities for a large number of new services. Showing this to our customers and partners has generated a great response”.

At the heart of the Mood 400 Product Family is a common software platform shared with all other Mood 400 IP Set-Tops. Continuously evolving, it offers robust best-in-class performance and advanced functionality required to deliver high quality, interactive and personalized IPTV services. Support exists for DLNA/UPnP, SIP and IMS allowing providers to deliver expanded service functionality like Remote Access, Instant Messaging, Caller ID, VoIP and many more communication and media sharing applications. Integration with third party application developers is done with a powerful and easy-to-use software development kit.

The Mood 400 Product Family is based on STMicroelectronics’ SoC chipset. STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) is one of the leading chipset manufacturers worldwide.

Tilgin exhibits and showcases its Mood 400 solution at IBC in Amsterdam on September 12-16 in Hall 12 (IPTV Zone) stand IP255.