Video content discovery solutions provider Jinni, has announced the signing of seven new licensing agreements for the implementation of their unique semantic discovery for video guides. The deals represent aggressive worldwide growth and the beginning of market transformation from the old grid-style video guides to a new era of intuitive, personalized user experience. Jinni customers […]

At CES, Video content discovery solutions provider Jinni has unveiled a new NLU (natural language understanding) discovery engine to power voice-activated video guides that understand natural human language. The Jinni NLU engine leverages the company’s Entertainment Genome to interpret natural human speech and derive the underlying meaning to enable intuitive interaction between users and their […]

Red Bee Media, a media management companies providing multi-platform technology and solutions, has announced a multi-year deal with Samsung Electronics to provide rich metadata services for Samsung’s new range of Smart TVs across 13 European countries. The deal, which was secured following a competitive pitch process, will see Red Bee Media provide rich EPG content, […]

Movea, provider of data-fusion and motion-processing technologies for consumer electronics, has announced a collaboration with French telco Orange on a large scale commercial deployment of a gesture-control set-top boxes. The new Orange Livebox Play TV set-top box will run Movea’s SmartMotion Server, the motion processing engine for digital home entertainment, and will ship with a […]

ThinkAnalytics, an expert in multiplatform TV search and recommendations, has been selected by interactive TV software outfit Alticast as a recommendations engine partner. Alticast will integrate ThinkAnalytics’ recommendation engine into its Windmill ecosystem to bring personalised, multiplatform recommendations and Intelligent Navigation to Alticast’s customers in Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia. Designed with a […]

Cox Communications has announced enhancements to its premium TV product, Cox Advanced TV Plus, with an upgrade to the Trio Programme Guide.  The enhanced Trio Guide will allow users to receive personal recommendations for up to eight users in a household, based on the movies and shows they already enjoy watching “We are making significant […]

Gracenote has announced that its eyeQ Interactive Program Guide (IPG) will be available in smart TVs from Vestel, providing the consumer electronics leader a global solution for TV programme listings.  In addition, Vestel is developing iPad and Android Apps that will allow TV viewers to interact with and control their Vestel-developed smart TVs with a […]

Technicolor has deployed its home automation tablet MediaTouch HomePilot as part of Swisscom’s “Quing Home” smart secure living offering. This first-of-a-kind solution in Switzerland combines security, automation, and energy management in one package to create a true smart home ecosystem, all controlled from the Quing Home’s managed tablet or from the smartphone application. Connected to […]

Oregan Networks plans to add “on the go” recording and viewing capability to its hybrid DTV platform, catering for both current and future MSO deployments. With new multiscreen EPG and PVR applications, running on Android and Apple iOS companion devices, consumers will be able to: Synchronise their tablets, laptops and smart phones with the living […]

Digisoft.tv, a global provider of set-top box middleware for the cable, satellite, terrestrial and telecommunications industry, has announced the integration of RedKey – the market leading MHEG 5 engine, into its set-top box middleware stack; Iris.  The company will offer MHEG as a standard part of its DVB based offering.  This will include the interaction […]