Bristol - February 26, 2007

Ocean Blue Software, the specialist digital TV software developer, has released a single software suite to handle both digital and analogue TV. The new multi-mode software provides a single solution for consumer electronics manufacturers, reducing development time and software costs.

The new Sunrise software suite supports DVB-S, DVB-T and DVB-C digital TV in addition to analogue TV. Pay per view conditional access (CA) systems and a common interface (CI) for plug-in media cards is also supported.

Consumer electronics vendors have previously required two software products on board - one for digital and one for analogue. This slowed development time and could provide a clumsy user interface. With Ocean Blue's software, channel tuning for analogue and digital is accomplished through the same user interface, giving consumers a common look and feel across multiple broadcast mediums. It will also assist the consumer with an easy dual set up process for iDTVs via one single user interface.

The multi-mode software is based on Ocean Blue's Sunrise product and includes Sunrise (DVB-T and S), additional software plug-ins are Surfsoft PVR (Freeview Plus compatible) and Voyager MHEG-5 and DSM-CC middleware software. This provides comprehensive support for music, video, TV, High Definition TV, images,

text and the data necessary for a hybrid IPTV set top box. It also provides support for conditional access and pay-per-view security systems.