In the past few years, Android TV has been the hot topic in the DTV industry; it has quickly transformed the direction of our industry, everyone wants a piece of the very popular Android TV pie. Businesses are quickly trying to adapt their roadmap and strategy to ensure that they are tapping into this rapidly growing market. Which leads to the question of, what is the future of Android TV? Is this the future of the set-top box?
2018 saw the continuation of our Android TV journey; we successfully integrated DTVKit into Android TV and becoming the Android TV support members for DTVKit, alongside HARMAN. We successfully implemented a reference stack for CI Plus 1.4 ECP, and we collaborated with SERAPHIC to demonstrate an HbbTV 2.0.1 solution for Android-powered TV’s and STB’s. We are looking forward to 2019, and we have a lot of exciting projects we are working on…
Ocean Blue Software has been busy in 2018, we have been focused on expanding and improving our range of services and products. We have recognised Android TV™ as becoming an essential platform in the digital TV industry. Therefore we made it a priority to integrate our product offering with this platform and to be able to provide expert support for it.
It has been a very busy December for Ocean Blue Software. The last few weeks have involved a lot of planning, sorting and packing in preparation for moving to a new office. Last week we moved into our new office and had settled in nicely, and we also had our 2018 Christmas party!
The DTG has published the latest version of the D-Book, the only universally deployed technical standards for TV and digital terrestrial television (DTT) in the UK. The D-Book is updated annually with the collaboration of industry, underpinning Freeview, YouView, Freesat, EE TV, BT TV and TalkTalk TV.
We have a couple of things underway this month that are interesting. One is our first integration of the CI+ ECP reference stack with a customer. We’re excited about this one as it gives us an opportunity to finalise and test on a real hardware platform the ECP reference implementation that we implemented a little while back…
We are very excited to announce that Saorview Connect has won an IBC innovation award for Content Everywhere. Saorview’s collaboration with OBS was a key element of the development of Saorview Connect, so we are very delighted to know that it has won a prestigious award at IBC this September 2018.
This year was the first year that we shared a meeting room with DTVKit in the IABM Member Lounge. This worked well for us, as it enabled us to have somewhere off the show floor to host customer meetings in a calmer environment as well as giving us an opportunity to demonstrate examples of our work.
“OBS’s domain knowledge in DTVKit, HbbTV and UI technologies, complemented our own software team and was key in helping us to bring the Saorview Connect product to market”
