Ocean Blue Software Teams with Rovi for Home Networking TV Software Solution
BRISTOL, United Kingdom, Nov. 9 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Digital TV software
specialist Ocean Blue Software is pleased to announce a collaboration with
Rovi Corporation (Formerly Macrovision) to integrate Rovi's Connected Platform
software for Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) capabilities into its
mature Sunrise digital video broadcast (DVB) stack. Ocean Blue Software's and
Rovi's combined technologies provide a solution designed to make it easier for
consumer electronics manufacturers to develop DVB TVs that can access digital
content from networked and DLNA compatible devices.
Ocean Blue Software's Sunrise DVB software provides all of the components
necessary to enable digital TV and set top box manufacturers to quickly and
easily implement satellite, cable and terrestrial DVB functionality into their
devices. Now, with the integration of Rovi's Connected Platform, a DLNA
technology component, CE manufacturers can offer consumers the ability to
easily manage their digital media content stored on different devices in the
home. Shared content, such as videos, photos and audio files, stored on a
remote server can be retrieved and played from the TV; movie clips can be
viewed, paused, re-wound or fast forwarded; and media files can be divided
into genre and rated according to user preference.
"Ocean Blue Software is pleased to be working with a global digital
entertainment technology leader such as Rovi," commented Ocean Blue Software
CEO, Ken Helps. "This collaboration will provide CE vendors with a complete
software solution for connected TV and set top box products that meet industry
interoperability standards. Importantly, we can also ensure software
compatibility for consumers."
"Today's consumers do not want to have to deal with the complexity of
connecting products to access their content. They want to access it seamlessly
with a single remote control," said Simon Adams, senior vice president of CE
sales, Rovi Corporation. "We are pleased that we can help CE vendors deliver
DLNA-compatible products that enable consumers to access media in exciting new
ways."
The software solution is hardware and operating system agnostic ensuring
manufacturers have a scalable and quickly deployable solution that can be
ported across any TV-centric chipset.
About Ocean Blue Software
Ocean Blue Software is based in Bristol and Hong Kong and specialises in
the development, distribution and support of world-class software solutions,
which are incorporated into Digital TV consumer electronics products, present
in the Digital Home.
Ocean Blue's software products stand out in terms of maturity, usability,
operability and adherence to international digital broadcast standards,
notably DVB and DTG. Ocean Blue is active in both DTG and DVB groups,
assisting in the development of industry software standards. Ocean Blue's new
software developments include support for High Definition TV broadcasts,
Advanced Text-To-Speech Technology, CI Plus and Connected-TV solutions.
