Connected TV

Adobe abandons Flash on TVs as well as mobiles

Barry Flynn — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:39:38 +0000

The Gigaom website says that yesterday’s ZDNET exclusive about Adobe abandoning Flash in favour of HTML-5 wasn’t confined to the mobile space. In a statement released to Gigaom, an Adobe spokeperson reportedly confirmed it would no longer focus on porting …

Intel exits connected TV to focus on STBs, smartphones and laptops

Barry Flynn — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:31:25 +0000

According to Bloomberg, Intel is abandoning plans to supply its processors to manufacturers of connected TVs, although it plans to maintain its presence in the TV set-top box market. Bloomberg quoted an Intel spokesperson who described it as “a business …

IBC 2011 – The wall-size interactive display surfaces at NDS

Barry Flynn — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:25:51 +0000

Take a screen as big as a wall linked to a connected TV, open half a dozen of the OTT apps or widgets at once, and enlarge and scatter them around a centrally-displayed video image. In a nutshell, that’s the …

IBC 2011 – Harmonic: first HEVC commercial deployments in 2014?

Barry Flynn — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:49:42 +0000

Encoding specialist Harmonic is expecting the new video compression standard High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) to have become an international standard by mid-2012, with commercial implementations beginning to use it in 2014. Thierry Fautier, senior director of convergence solutions at …

IBC 2011 – DVB hopeful ‘T2-Lite’ will do better than DVB-H

Barry Flynn — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:05:56 +0000

Europe’s digital TV standards body, DVB, has formally unveiled its new ‘T2 Lite’ profile, designed to provide a subset of the full DVB-T2 specification which is optimised for mobiles and handheld devices. DVB is hoping it will succeed where the …