Digital TV News: Mozilla

Panasonic and Mozilla to collaborate on Firefox OS for Smart TVs
Jan 6, 2014 – Panasonic and Mozilla have announced that the two companies have agreed to form a partnership to develop and promote the new Firefox OS, an open platform based on HTML5 and other Web technologies, for next generation smart TVs.
News categories: Mozilla, Panasonic, Yuki Kusumi, Dr. Li Gong, Digital TV, Middleware, Smart TV

Hillcrest Labs Turns Kylo® Web Browser for TV Over to Open Source Community
May 15, 2012 – Hillcrest Labs has announced that it has released the source code for the Kylo® Web browser to the open source community. Kylo is a free, Mozilla-based TV browser uniquely designed to view online content on TVs connected to the Internet.
News categories: Hillcrest Labs, Middleware, Streaming

Ooyala Joins the WebM Project and Adopts VP8 Support
May 19, 2010 – Ooyala has announced that it is working with Google, Mozilla, Opera, YouTube and other major software and hardware manufacturers to support the WebM project and open sourcing of VP8.
News categories: Ooyala, WebM, Media Player, Streaming

Hillcrest Labs Introduces Kylo™: The Web Browser for Television
Mar 22, 2010 – Hillcrest Labs has launched the Kylo™ browser - a web browser for TV. Developed for households that connect their PCs or Macs to the TV, Kylo lets users visit any site on the web with a browser that was specifically designed to be viewed from a distance.
News categories: Hillcrest Labs, Smart Home, Software, Streaming

Mozilla and Wikimedia Join Forces to Support Open Video
Jan 27, 2009 – Mozilla has awarded a grant of $100,000 to the Wikimedia Foundation to help coordinate improvements to the development of Ogg Theora and related open video technologies. Mozilla and Wikimedia share a strong commitment to open standards.
News categories: Theora, Vorbis, Wikimedia Foundation, Mozilla, Digital TV, Media Player, Streaming

ZeeVee's Free Zviewer™ Internet Video Browser for the Big Screen
Nov 3, 2008 – Internet video enthusiasts now have a powerful springboard to the vast and rapidly expanding universe of online video content thanks to ZeeVee's new Zviewer software -- available as a free download in a limited beta.
News categories: ZeeVee, Digital TV, Media Player, Software, Streaming, USA

Theora video backend for Firefox landed
Aug 4, 2008 – It was announced at the Mozilla Summit that Firefox will include native Theora and Vorbis support for the HTML 5 media elements.
News categories: Firefox, Theora, Vorbis, Digital TV, Streaming