Amino has
partnered with beeTV to develop and
deliver a recommendation-based personalised TV experience, via Amino’s award-winning
range of STBs. The PCC uses a set of proprietary contextual recommendation algorithms
that identify the viewers’ habits, taste, viewing history, personal viewing context
and up-to-date general trends. The PCC, which resides on the STB, gathers suitable
recommendations from all content sources including broadcast TV, subscription TV,
VoD, PVR/Catch-up and pushes it to each individual viewer as an entertaining, personalised
channel that leverages on the richness and impact of visual television images. The
solution requires no “catalogue” textual description, no channel surfing nor red and
green buttons.

The PCC, a white label interface, enables providers to increase VoD consumption and
improve customer acquisition and retention. The PCC’s powerful management tools allow
providers to initiate and manage content-marketing activities and proactively insert
their business logic.

It also maximises brand extension across multiple platforms and creates potential
revenue streams from targeted advertising by gathering and utilising valuable collected
customer marketing data.

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Amino and beeTV Partner for a Personalised TV Experience

S3 has
been selected as a Microsoft Mediaroom testing partner to provide STB testing services.
This means that S3 will undertake testing work for Original Equipment Manufacturers
to test new and derivative STB models for deployment by Mediaroom customers. S3 is
in a position to increase testing capacity for Mediaroom, enabling faster time-to-market
for OEMs and more choice of STBs for Mediaroom operators.

Mediaroom has a global customer base of customers delivering IPTV services to more
than 3.5 million subscriber households worldwide. Mediaroom offers a more personal
and connected alternative to digital cable or satellite TV services with exciting
features such as instant channel zapping, HD VoD, whole home DVR, remote recording
and rich interactive TV applications.

Through this relationship with Microsoft, S3 will provide independent professional
services tailored to the requirements of the OEMs with the key emphasis on time-to-market.
S3 will integrate the Hardware Adaptation Layer from the OEM with the Microsoft Mediaroom
client on the STB bringing the integrated system through all phases of testing required
for deployment. This is done by executing a series of structured test cycles, focussed
on comprehensive functionality, stability and reliability testing at each phase.

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S3 Selected as Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV Set-Top Box Testing Partner

Tilgin announces
interoperability with Amino Communications’ IPTV
STBs. Tilgin’s remote management solution enables operators to manage the STB remotely,
allowing them to expand their IPTV offering whilst effectively managing operating
costs.

Tilgin’s VCM 5.6 Device Management software is based on Broadband Forum’s TR-069 and
TR-135 standards, which makes this system a fully open and standards compliant solution
for service providers. This means that the service providers can manage their full
triple play home solutions using VCM as the common CPE management platform. Developed
with a clear focus on operational efficiency, Tilgin’s remote management solution
allows broadband service providers to launch and deliver new services to the mass
market without increasing operational expenses. Thanks to the flexibility in today’s
Broadband Forum TR-069 standards, the CPE challenges of yesterday can now be solved.
“In addition to delivering entertainment, the Amino STB has much more capability to
offer operators. By interoperating with the Tilgin VCM 5.6 and through our development
work to support IPTV industry standards based features such as TR-069, our STBs can
enable operators with remote management and service-quality based features – leading
ultimately to increased customer satisfaction”, says David Groves, Head of Product
Strategy at Amino. ”VCM customers claim VCM to be the most flexible and easy to use
ACS systems on the market in terms of interoperability. Today, we are pleased to expand
the flexibility with the announcement of a successful integration with Amino’s STBs.
This additional VCM functionality makes it even easier for our customers to continue
to grow their service offerings,” says Eric Hjelmestam, VP of Product Management at
Tilgin.

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Tilgin announces
a new release of its Service and Device Management software, VCM. Tilgin’s remote
management solution enables the operators to expand their service offering of triple
play services while keeping operating cost under control. The new VCM 5.6 introduces
Remote Management of IPTV Set Top Boxes while also further improving its performance
and High Availability characteristics.

VCM 5.6 further enhances the redundancy capabilities, guaranteeing operational continuity
of all service deliveries. With its carrier-grade failover mechanism VCM 5.6 offers
an unsurpassed robustness for the benefit of the operator. Furthermore, VCM allows
the operators to manage their entire IPTV offering, following the Broadband Forum
standards TR-069 and TR-135 for IPTV Set Top Boxes.

Tilgin’s remote management solutions are developed with operational efficiency in
focus. This allows broadband operators to launch and deliver new services to the mass
market without accelerating their operational expenses. The VCM Service and Device
Management software is based on the standards defined by the Broadband Forum, which
makes the solution a fully open one. ”VCM customers claim VCM to be the most easy
to use and integrate of all ACS systems on the market. In collaboration with our customers
and with active involvement in Broadband Forum we continue to add VCM features for
the most advanced market requirements”, says Eric Hjelmestam, VP of Product Management
at Tilgin.

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Tilgin Enables Remote Management of IPTV STBs Through its New VCM 5.6 Software

Sigma
Designs announces a partnership with 4Home to
expand the range of additional services in the home through Sigma’s STB reference
designs. As a result of this partnership, Sigma will be able to offer set-top box
suppliers an integrated home control solution, based on 4Home’s innovative software
platform and the complete Z-Wave ecosystem of RF-based home control devices. The reference
design is being unveiled at CableLabs Summer Conference, August 10 – 11, in Keystone,
Colorado.

Targeted for STB’s in the Cable, Telco and CE markets, the solution is designed to
provide a strong foundation of control-related applications able to run in the home,
including energy monitoring and conservation, safety, and security.

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Sigma Designs and 4Home Team Up to Deliver STB Reference Design