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News Release from: Cabot Communications | Subject: Set-top-box middleware
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 28 May 2007
Middleware enables Freeview compliance
The TVonics DVR-FP250 Freeview Playback digital TV recorder uses middleware from Cabot Communications.
UK-based digital TV specialist TVonics reckons it has achieved new levels of reliability and usability across its range of DVR-FP250 Freeview Playback digital TV recorders by using middleware from Cabot Communications TVonics has integrated Cabot's software with its own easy to use on screen TV guide and software device drivers
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 27 May 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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TVonics is one of the first manufacturers to meet the requirements of Freeview Playback - the new standard for digital video recording in the UK.
In order to comply, its digital TV recorders needed to pass strict functional specifications developed by the Digital TV Group (DTG), the industry association for digital television in the UK.
Paul Fellows, Managing Director of TVonics, says: "Cabot has been crucial to enabling the TVonics DVR-FP 250 to be the first dual tuner digital TV recorder to pass the Freeview Playback standard and gives it an early mover advantage in a highly competitive marketplace".
TVonics will launch the DVR-FP 250 to the market on 4th June 2007 via major retail outlets including Tesco and Aldi and online via the its own website.
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