August 18th, 2010
Advanced Digital Broadcast (www.adbglobal.com), a leading supplier of technology to the global digital television industry, has announced that Indonesia-based First Media Tbk, will use ADB’s products and solutions to deploy the country’s first high-definition pay-TV service.
The deal marks ADB’s entry into the vast Indonesian market, where pay-TV is gaining popularity. ADB’s devices will enable subscribers to enjoy not only high-definition TV, but also video-on-demand, interactivity, and a wide range of value-added features.
The set-top boxes are also packaged with the multimedia home platform (MHP) middleware, a DVB open-standard software, which helps operators achieve minimal total cost of ownership and expedited service deployment. MHP conforms to a set of open standards and thus keeps operators from being “locked in” to a particular vendor if they want to add new applications to their software stack. At the same time, MHP is a Java- and HTML-based language, accessible to millions of developers who are well equipped to build applications for the set-top box. This offers an environment for rapid and cost-effective application development.
Source and full story: PR Newswire
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July 6th, 2010
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June 30th, 2010
Another DVB-GEM based standard, BD Live, is also doing very well. The Blu-ray Disc Live functionality allows users to view online content from Blu-ray discs and is clearly a very popular application.
Source: MESA (Media & Entertainment Serivces Alliance)
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June 29th, 2010
Cablelabs’ Tru2way specification is bound for a strong deployment in 2011 as US cable operators are ordering Tru2way hardware. Tru2way is based on the DVB-GEM standard and DVB members NDS and Aliticast are expected to profit from this increased DVB-GEM activity in the US market.
Source:Broadcasting & Cable
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May 3rd, 2010
Italian broadcast group Mediaset, which offers free and paid services over digital terrestrial, views Connected TV as an important opportunity to expand the reach of its content, expand its catch-up TV service from the PC to televisions and potentially boost its advertising business when enough connected devices have penetrated the market. The company is hopeful that the uptake of HD DTT set-top boxes, enabled for hybrid broadcast/broadband services, will kick start the connected market in Italy.
According to Angelo Pettazzi, Head of DTT Content Factory at Mediaset, the choice of DVB-MHP as the middleware for DTT means there is no requirement for new standardisation efforts in the country to enable hybrid services. He is convinced MHP is the right solution to exploit the Connected TV opportunity across multiple devices, including television sets, and expects to see MHP-based connected iDTVs (integrated dhttp://v-net.tv/files/mediaset-main.jpgigital TV sets) start making a big impact in 2011.
“We do not need standards like HbbTV or Canvas,” he told Videonet recently. “These are similar to what we have right now with MHP. They could happen but it will take time to deliver stable devices.”
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Source: Videonet
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March 25th, 2010
The page with a global deployment overview of MHP and GEM receivers has been completely updated and is now presented in an easy-to-read column view. The total number of MHP and GEM enabled devices (Blu-ray, MHP, GEM IPTV, OCAP) now stands at over 77 million receivers and devices and includes a very international mix of countries from around the world.
MHP/GEM Deployments
Posted in ASEAN, Austria, BD-J, Belgium, Finland, GEM, GEM-IPTV, Germany, Italy, MHP, News, OCAP, Poland, South Korea, Spain, USA | No Comments »
March 17th, 2010
The code4TV MHP 1.1.2 tutorial has recently been updated. Just follow the link below:
A Spanish commercial MHP company, code4TV, is making a full tutorial on MHP 1.1.2 available free-of-charge on its website. Unfortunately it is only available in Spanish, but it appears to be quite comprehensive with 32 chapters moving from basic introductory material on to developing applications, managing Xlets, using Service Information, using the Return Channel, security, and lots more.
So, grab your Spanish dictionary and get to work!
Link: http://www.code4tv.com/c/tutorialmhp112
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February 14th, 2010
DVB is pleased to announce that the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has formally adopted as standards the new release versions of the MHP 1.2.2 (Multimedia Home Platform) and GEM 1.2.2 (Globally Executable MHP) specifications. This marks the culmination of the refactoring work that makes GEM a self-contained specification. GEM now takes over the role of DVB’s primary middleware specification, and MHP becomes a derived specification based on GEM.
The acknowledged importance of GEM due to its adoption in Blu-Ray, tru2way and other Java based TV standards lead to DVB’s decision to make GEM the primary middleware specification.
GEM enables the creation of interoperable TV applications, which can run on various digital TV devices like terrestrial, satellite and cable set-top boxes, IPTV terminals and gateways, and Blu-Ray players. The fact that GEM is essentially network independent makes it particularly useful in IPTV and hybrid broadcast/broadband environments.
The original GEM specification was initially derived from the MHP specification and thus contained references, selections, clarifications and bug fixes to MHP. The refactoring of GEM to make it the primary middleware specification simplified the formerly complex specification structure.
The MHP 1.2.2 (TS 102 727 v.1.1.1) and GEM 1.2.2 (TS 102 728 v.1.1.1) standards can be downloaded from ETSI or via the Specifications page.
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January 20th, 2010
The Spanish City of Alcazar de San Juan organized its annual conference on Digital Television in October 2009. The city has been testing a number of Digital TV and interactive projects over the last 3 to 4 years. In Spain such projects are called “digital islands” projects and are an important step towards a fully digital broadcasting system.
At the 2009 conference Anthony Smith-Chaigneau presented an overview of Hybrid Broadcast Broadband solutions from the MHP perspective.
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