Connected TV

Adobe abandons Flash on TVs as well as mobiles

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

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

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?

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

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 …