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Embedded Software and Operating Systems
News Release from: Cabot Communications
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 12 September 2005
Loewe licenses DVB-T middleware stack
German high-end TV maker Loewe has licensed Cabot's pan-European Aurora DVB-T middleware stack for its latest generation IDTV product family for the UK market.
German high-end TV maker Loewe has licensed Cabot's pan-European Aurora DVB-T middleware stack for its latest generation IDTV product family for the UK market Aurora's application framework provided Loewe with an extremely rapid timeframe for the integration of digital services with the brand's own analogue control interface, on a single hardware platform
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 26 May 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The development work took place at Cabot's high-tech service centre in Urla, Turkey, where the company's experienced in-house IDTV development team provided support for the development of ICE, customisation of the user interface and integration with Loewe's custom analogue control interface.
All DVB-T components were acquired from Cabot Aurora has also helped reduce software development costs and speed up time to market for Loewe which has announced plans to rollout the new LCD-TV product range with Cabot software in the UK.
Bernd Weickert, R and D Director at Loewe commented: "We selected Cabot as our preferred technology partner because they could deliver us a number of competitive advantages: firstly Aurora offered us a turnkey solution allowing us to develop a product for rapid deployment in UK; secondly Aurora's development environment coupled with Cabot's in-house expertise has allowed us to develop a custom control interface for integration of analogue and digital services within an exceptionally fast time-frame; finally we wanted a proven solution that is also customisable and Cabot was the only company who could deliver that".
Darren Standing, Business Development Manager at Cabot, added: "This partnership provides a clear endorsement of the quality of our Aurora solution by one of Europe's premium TV brands".
"Loewe intends to deliver highly customisable products, in terms of technology as well as styling and they needed a development environment that would allow them to achieve this".
"Aurora's open standards and highly customisable application framework was able to meet their exacting requirements, once again demonstrating Cabot's market leadership".
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