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News Release from: Cabot Communications
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 16 October 2003
Pioneer signs up for pan-European
software suite
Pioneer has selected Cabot's pan-European digital TV software suite to adapt its first DBR-TF100GB freeview digital receiver for launch into further free-to-air European digital terrestrial markets.
Pioneer, one of the world's leading digital entertainment manufacturers, has selected Cabot's pan-European digital TV software suite to adapt its first DBR-TF100GB freeview digital receiver for launch into further free-to-air European digital terrestrial markets Pioneer has already deployed Cabot's Eclipse middleware solution and Mercator MHEG-5 engine to build the DBR-TF100 GB UK receiver
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 26 May 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Eclipse features a PC based GUI emulation tool, which allowed Pioneer to create a totally new branded user interface for the receiver, with exceptionally fast interaction speeds, without the "command lag" that can occur with existing receivers in the market.
This highly intuitive interface will also be adopted across European future DVB products from Pioneer.
Ken Nagasawa, General Manager of Pioneer Technology UK says the decision to adopt the Cabot digital TV suite, which includes Callisto, an over-air-download module to support field upgrades anywhere in Europe, brings a significant advantage in time-to-market for its digital receiver products: "Cabot's development environment has delivered us two significant advantages: firstly, Eclipse has allowed us to quickly develop an exceptional user interface for Pioneer's AV products, with the fastest user interaction speeds currently available; secondly, it allows us to fully support digital terrestrial transmission variations across mainland Europe, saving us significant development time to provide an early market advantage as we roll-out the DBT-TF100 in additional European countries".
Keith Potter, Managing Director of Cabot Communications added: "We believe that Cabot's digital TV suite offers a unique pan-European capability to CE manufacturers and we are obviously delighted that Pioneer has selected our technology to support its DTV products.
We look forward to working closely with Pioneer's development team to introduce this product across Europe as analogue switch-off approaches".
The Cabot digital TV software suite has been adopted by 16 hardware manufacturers and has a market deployment approaching 500,000 digital TV receivers.
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