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Digisoft.tv HbbTV support for Iris
Digisoft.tv, a global provider of settop box software for the cable, satellite, terrestrial and telecommunications industry, has confirmed the integration of HbbTV, the global standard for hybrid entertainment, to its Iris platform for set-top boxes. The company will offer HbbTV as an open standard component of its DVB/Hybrid offering. Digisoft.tv recently announced record sales of its Iris platform. Digisoft.tv Head of Product Development Eoin Shanaghy, said that with Iris, Digisoft’s HTML5 platform for next-generation set-top boxes,
Alki David ramps up Aero name battle
lki David, founder of Internetbased content streaming provider FilmOn, is suing rival service Aereo’s founder Barry Diller in the next stage of the battle between the pair. FilmOn offers all the major US network television networks in seven major cities, as well as having added five hundred premium channels to its line-up, which it claims makes it the world’s largest free premium live TV platform. FilmOn’s ‘False Designation’ complaint, filed in the United States District Court, notes that in January 2012, FilmOn released the FilmOn AIR and FilmOn Aero
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customers could already build, grow and adapt applications and services using cutting-edge technology. “HbbTV membership allows us to ensure compliance with the growing number of HbbTV deployments. This provides us and our customers with a clear model for hybrid broadcast/ broadband application delivery,” he added. Dr. Klaus Illgner-Fehns, Chairman of the HbbTV consortium, suggested that with its extensive expertise in interactive TV and set-top box OSs, Digisoft.tv would increase the development and awareness of HbbTV. HbbTV (Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV) is a new industry standard providing an open and business neutral technology platform that seamlessly combines TV services delivered via broadcast with services delivered via broadband and also enables access to Internet only services for consumers using connected TVs and set-top boxes. The founding members of the HbbTV consortium together with a large group of supporters jointly developed the HbbTV specification to create a global standard for hybrid entertainment services.
portable TV tuner prototypes to the market almost two months before ‘Bamboom’ announced its name change to ‘Aereo’. FilmOn says it even acquired an exclusive licence to the renowned Win-TV Aero, a TV tuner device for capturing overthe-air ATSC Television signals, pointing out that the Aero technology and trademark had existed for some years prior to 2012. “It’s a shame I have to spend millions suing these people. It is the people’s right to a service like FilmOn,” said David (left). “I would much rather continue running my TV stations and building the FilmOn Platform which has in fact today got more current and professionally-made content than Aereo, Hulu, YouTube, U-Stream or any other Live TV or VoD site,” he declared.
Vision247 opens MEA offices
With the aim of targeting emerging markets with IPTV and OTT delivery for premium TV services, London based broadcast specialist Vision247, has expanded its global operations with new offices in Dubai along with the appointment of Tanya Vidmar to the role of Managing Director, UAE. Vision247 already works with major regional broadcasters including: Al Arabia; MBC; GEM TV and Iqraa, and will now expand its activities with support for local telecoms operators, offering combined best strategy for consumers of premium TV services is to merge the adaptability of OTT delivery with the security of managed IPTV. The new MEA offices will support fresh partnerships with the region’s telecoms providers as Vision247 develops its award winning XtremeIPTV and Perception platforms, introducing innovative solutions for telco IPTV networks, including: high performance VoD; network PVR and Time Shift systems; HLS streaming; and new set-top box and mobile client applications. According to Vidmar, the Middle East and Africa regions represent some of the most exciting new opportunities for Vision247. “As a vendor of IPTV and OTT content delivery and management platforms, the company is in a prime position to support the development of free-to-view and pay-TV services, delivered over the Internet, to the new generation of ‘digital’ homes in the region,” she suggested.
subscription and pay-per-view services, IPTV and OTT, with provision of both channels and apps. The region’s leading telecom operators have already concluded that the
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