Digital video suite for IPTV set-top boxes

Ocean Blue Software, a specialist digital TV software developer, has brought out Sunrise DVB-IP, a DVB and MHEG-5 software suite for IPTV set-top boxes, with the latest Freeview standard.

Ocean Blue Software, a specialist digital TV software developer, has released Sunrise DVB-IP, a DVB and MHEG-5 software suite for IPTV set-top boxes, including the latest Freeview standard.

The Sunrise DVB-IP can be used alongside most IP middleware products to capture free-to-air digital TV channels in a hybrid IPTV set-top box.

DVB-IP is based around Ocean Blue's Sunrise product and includes Sunrise (DVB-T and S), Surfsoft PVR (Freeview Playback compatible) and Voyager MHEG-5 and DSMCC middleware software.

These software layers compliment and enhance normal IP software components such as Java virtual machines and browsers.

When used in conjunction with IP middleware, it provides comprehensive support for music, video, TV, High Definition TV, images, text and the data necessary for a hybrid IPTV set top box.

It also provides support for conditional access and pay-per-view security systems.

The release comes as a recent study from In Stat shows the demand for IPTV set top boxes is set to increase dramatically.

The study predicts that the number of digital IPTV STBs worldwide will reach 19 million by 2010, up from 4.3 million in 2006.

"IPTV is still in its infancy, but growing up fast", comments Ken Helps, Managing Director of Ocean Blue Software.

"Set-top box designers need ready-to-use software components that incorporate the latest standards, such as Freeview, in order to bring hardware to market quickly".

"Ocean Blue is committed to bringing quality software and innovation for the Digital Home market".

Ocean Blue's Voyager software system MHEG-5 and DSM-CC is the result of a more than 10 man-year development project and is fully tested and in production..

The MHEG-5 and DSM-CC software was developed in the standard C programming language and is thus portable to many different operating systems and hardware computing platforms.

Ocean Blue's Sunrise is a suite of integrated software products, which provides all the functionality for receiving digital video and audio on digital set top boxes and televisions.

Ocean Blue's Surfsoft system software is used to on-screen manage and control TV content that has been saved on a hard disk-based digital TV device.

Surfsoft's many features and functions include time shift, trick modes, search, and retrieve, save, record, timed recording and pause.

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