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News Release from: Cabot Communications | Subject: Eclipse DVB-T middleware software development kit
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 27 May 2003
Speedy solution to set-top-box
middleware
The latest version of the Eclipse DVB-T middleware software development kit has several additional features to help manufacturers to bring high-quality products to market more quickly.
Cabot Communications has released the latest version of its Eclipse DVB-T middleware software development kit with several additional features to help manufacturers of set top boxes and integrated digital TVs to bring high-quality products to market more quickly, with a higher degree of differentiation, at lower cost Targeted at the fast growing European digital terrestrial market, Eclipse is designed to aid manufacturers to incorporate a digital TV stack into set-top boxes and integrated digital TVs with an emphasis on speed of implementation
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 26 May 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Eclipse includes a PC based GUI emulation tool, so manufacturers for the first-time can quickly build their own branded user interfaces with a customised 'look and feel'.
A wide range of rich UI templates is available, including electronic programme guides, parental control, timers, channel deletion and insertion, schedule reminders and favourites lists.
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Philips and Cabot Communications have developed a complete integrated reference design for iDTVs and digital STBs, enabling analogue TV manufacturers to quickly enter the emerging DTV market.
In addition, Eclipse offers the fastest user-interaction speeds currently available, with a crisp user-interface supporting fast channel switch, channel scan and UI interaction.
It will also support the fast processing of data streams required for supporting interactive engines such as MHEG-5.
Keith Potter, managing director of Cabot Communications explains: "In today's highly competitive receiver market, product differentiation and branding are key to creating a market advantage.
We have developed Eclipse in close partnership with major receiver manufacturers and for this reason, we know we have put together an offering that more than meets current market requirements.
By helping manufacturers cut development costs, we believe Eclipse will give a major boost to the rapidly growing market for terrestrial digital TV.
We will continue to build on this momentum by introducing further market-leading features such as DVD and PVR support".
Cabot has already contracted with six major companies in the DVB-T arena, including Philips, for receivers to be shipped into both the UK and additional European digital terrestrial markets.
Eclipse is delivered as a comprehensive SDK complete with libraries, API documentation and porting guides.
As Eclipse is fully integrated with the Cabot Mercator MHEG-5 engine and the Callistor over-air-download products, it is particularly attractive for manufacturers who require a complete out-of-the-box European-wide DVB-T solution.
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