HbbTV

HbbTV (Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV) is a European digital TV standard, that brings together elements of many other standards and existing web technologies (Such as OIPF, CEA, WC3 and DVB), to harmonise the delivery of broadcast and broadband content to consumers.

Via connected-TVs and set top boxes consumers will be able to access new broadcaster services including catch-up TV, video on demand (VoD), interactive advertising, personalisation, voting, games and social networking as well as programme-related services such as digital text and EPGs.

Germany launched HbbTV at the end of 2009 and it is leading the way with many of the satellite operators generating “live” applications. Whilst France, with deployments rumoured to be aimed for 2012, is running trials on its terrestrial network.

Ocean Blue's HbbTV Offering

The HbbTV framework requires a DVB software stack and DSM-CC module (amongst others). Ocean Blue Software has incorporated the HbbTV extensions and is able to provide the following components for integration into third party HbbTV browsers.

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The benefits of choosing Ocean Blue's HbbTV Offering

Ocean Blue Software's Sunrise DVB core is mature, robust and has been well-deployed. All of Ocean Blue's products are hardware and operating system agnostic with a well defined and mature API. This allows for easy porting and integration of our software onto clients' hardware or third party software.

Full HbbTV Solution

Ocean Blue Software has partnered with ACCESS to provide a fully compliant "Out-of-the-box" HbbTV solution which enables CE vendors and OEMs to offer a feature-rich, low-risk solution with reduced time to market.