MHP and OCAP in the news

These are some of the current news stories relating to MHP that are available on the Web. More German-language news stories can be found on the DigiTV.de site. The official DVB web site also has a list of events where the DVB Project will be participating, or where MHP-related products or events may be seen.

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MHP and OCAP news

August 2005

• TWT joins Mediasphere (August 15th)
• Handheld, HDTV, Interactive & IPTV - DVB Shows The Way at IBC 2005 (August 10th)
• Via Licensing announces patent licensing terms for worldwide interactive television standards (August 2nd)

July 2005

• iTV standards gain licensing terms (July 15th)
• Via Licensing Announces Patent Licensing Terms for MHP and OCAP (July 14th)
• TVW buys Meta TV (July 14th)
• Comcast and Cox TV Works acquires MetaTV (July 13th)
• DVB-MHP and OCAP licence terms announced (July 13th)
• The Weather Channel offers interactive TV forecast ( July 8th)
• IMAKE and Alticast partner on VOD, iTV (July 8th)
• DVB Launches New Declaration Process To Foster Patent Pooling (July 7th)

June 2005

• ADB supplies Telefonica with hybrid boxes for Imagenio (June 26th)
• IMAKE, Alticast to offer open VOD and iTV solutions (June 20th)
• Pace partners Alticast for planned OCAP deployment (June 17th)
• Pace and Alticast deliver OCAP STB for US (June 17th)
• IMAKE, Alticast partner (June 15th)
• OpenTV adopts Alticast for MHP compatibility (June 9th)
• OpenTV and Alticast eye Europe and Asia opportunities (June 9th)
• OpenTV adopts Alticast for MHP compatibility (June 7th)

May 2005

• Philips STBs for Telenet (May 18th)
• TTV chooses IBM for MHP launch (May 13th)
• Cabot targets European digital TV market (May 13th)
• New MHP Draft Specifications Published (May 11th)
• IDway licenses MHP software to Humax (May 10th)
• RTV38 makes MHP interactive choice (May 6th)

April 2005

• Authoring systems open up interactive TV advertising (April 26th)
• SeaChange powers on-demand deployment based on OCAP (April 26th)
• Rivals roll up sleeves to unify next-gen DVD (April 26th)
• Sysmedia demonstrates end-to-end iTV system (April 21st)
• TTV chooses SysMedia Plasma Magenta for interactive DVB-MHP (April 15th)
• SysMedia demos ITV solutions (April 15th)
• Taiwan Television selects SysMedia for MHP (April 12th)
• Osmosys provides Telenet with route to retail MHP (April 8th)
• Interactive Television Leadership Awards announced (April 6th)
• Technology Deals Signal MHP Launch on PayTV in Belgium (April 6th)
• NDS announces OCAP version of MediaHighway tool (April 5th)
• MIPS inks alliances with four DTV companies (April 4th)
• Iacta offers Games4TV on OCAP powered by Espial (April 2nd)
• Is 2005 the year of interactive TV? (April 1st)

March 2005

• S&T, SysMedia to demonstrate interactive content system (March 31st)
• Vidiom signs OCAP distribution deal (March 28th)
• ADB reveals versatile high-definition set-top box (March 21st)
• Panasonic licenses OCAP for retail products (March 21st)
• Softel-USA and Ensequence partner to deliver route to iTV roll-out (March 21st)
• Panasonic Signs OCAP Agreement With CableLabs (March 21st)
• OpenTV revenues up and losses reduced (March 16th)
• DigiSoft provide platform for Italian interactive services (March 15th)
• Handan first IP-PVR receiver with MHP (March 11th)
• MTV shows interactive TV portal (March 9th)
• Strategy & Technology to exhibit interactive solutions with SysMedia (March 9th)
• Telecontrol MHP (March 4th)

February 2005

• France prepares free launch for digital terrestrial TV (February 22nd)
• Softel offers partner programme to ease integration (February 18th)
• OCAP interactive TV standard features at National Show (February 16th)
• Workshop Reaffirms DVB's Commitment to IPTV and Home Networks (February 3rd)
• RTD new DTT channels with DigiSoft (February 1st)

January 2005

• RTD launches MHP services launch in Italy (January 27th)
• OpenTV stock falls on Liberate acquisition (January 22nd)
• ADB primes Italian DTT PPV (January 12th)
• Liberate sells business to Comcast and Cox (January 10th)
• Samsung seeks to accelerate two-way cable adoption (January 6th)
• LG Electronics to license CableLabs middleware for two-way cable (January 6th)

December 2004

• AFI Enhanced Television Workshop review (December 9th)
• Flanders Interactive votes MHP with Pop Idol (December 6th)
• Modelstream acquires OCAP support through Osmosys (December 6th)
• Digital STBs to double by 2009 (December 3rd)

November 2004

• Kinomai video technology acquired by NPTV (November 30th)
• New interactive standard seminar (November 23rd)
• Ocean Blue launches new middleware suite (November 16th)
• Beko chooses Toshiba iDTV (November 15th)
• Starz hosts first OCAP satellite transmission (November 3rd)

October 2004

• Samsung, CableLabs team on two-way digital cable products (October 21st)
• STMicroelectronics and HDIC form JV for DTV technologies (October 14th)
• Alticast announces shipment of 1 million DVB-MHP set-top boxes (October 14th)
• SysMedia licenses JAME Author to expand iTV reach (October 14th)
• Ortikon unveils Browser Emulator for DTV content creation (October 14th)
• STMicro teams with Chinese company on digital TV software (October 12th)
• ATSC seminar on ACAP to be held December 7th
• Falling Box Prices Lead To Reduced Subsidy (October 8th)
• RTV38 to launch interactive TV services (October 7th)
• ADB introduces IDTV (October 1st)

September 2004

• ADB Introduces a 17 inch MHP LCD TV With PC Connectivity (September 29th)
• ADB Marks Half-Million Set-Top Box Deliveries Supporting Italian Digital Terrestrial TV (September 24th)
• Panasonic and Comcast Agree to License OCAP Middleware for U.S. Cable Market (September 23rd)
• MHP and GEM at IBC (September 14th)
• Cabot: pre-integrated middleware stack for DTTV and Sat (September 13th)
• DVB Services and WISeKey Launch Global e-Security Infrastructure for Digital TV (September 10th)
• Acterna to present DTS-330 and DSAM at IBCM (September 8th)
• Mindhouse to unveil Minset (September 8th)
• Experience the NDS difference at IBC 2004 and chart your digital roadmap for the future (September 8th)
• TVC Multimedia presents the findings of the first DTT pilot test in Spain (September 8th)
• ADB open Italian office (September 6th)
• Australian Broadcasters Reaffirm Support for MHP (September 2nd)
• Twenty-Four Firms Participate In OCAP Interoperability Event (September 1st)

August 2004

• Finnish Cable TV starts commercial iTV services (August 27th)
• EC wants voluntary open standards on iTV (August 5th)
• European Commission Reiterates its Support for Open and Interoperable iTV Standards (August 2nd)
• MIPS spikes Java set-tops with dash of Esmertec (August 2nd)

July 2004

• SysMedia and Fraunhofer partner on MHP (July 6th)
• Taiwan moves towards digital TV regime (July 5th)

June 2004

• ADB has released a new DVB-MHP DTT STB (June 28th)
• DVB Pavilion at BroadcastAsia 2004 (June 15th)
• Via Licensing Calls for Essential Patents for MHP, GEM and OCAP (June 10th)
• China is Ready for DVB-MHP Services with Alticast Solutions (June 1st)

May 2004

• New OCAP Specification Published (May 27th)
• MHP up and running in the Finnish city of Tampere (May 14th)
• EURO 1 Chooses MediaHighway (May 13th)
• German cablers voice disquiet over DTT (May 12th)
• Liberate, ICTV partner on STB (May 7th)
• Digeo Licenses Osmosys OCAP Technology to Support the Delivery of Cable's Most Powerful Open Platform (May 3rd)

April 2004

• Media processing meets portable content (April 26th)
• DVB Pavilion at NAB 2004 Hosts End-To-End OCAP Demo & New DVB-H Technology (April 19th)
• Standards battle underway

March 2004

• DVB-S2 Technology to Stimulate Demand for Broadband Interactive Services via Satellite (March 30th)
• ECCA Releases Technical Specification for a Basic Digital Set Top Box (March 23rd)
• ASEAN Broadcasters, Manufacturers and Regulators move towards common STB specification (March 16th)

February 2004

• Germany: open cable dispute (February 24th)
• Korea wants Linux digital home platform (February 16th)

January 2004

• Interoperability stymies media portability, challenges chip makers (January 23rd)
• Global standard for iTV almost a reality (January 14th)

December 2003

• Danes chose Thales for iTV (December 9th)
• SkyLife reaches 1m subs milestone (December 1st)

October 2003

• ATSC publishes new interactive "ACAP" candidate standard (October 2nd)

September 2003

• Pace selects Osmosys MHP iSTB (September 16th)
• Interoperability: the industry demonstrates at IBC (September 15th)
• ADB: STB with IP and DVB terrestrial (September 12th)
• SysMedia system to assist Belgian broadcaster in digital teletext test (September 11th)
• Pick and pay (September 10th)
• Rohde & Schwarz ObjectStreamer enables MHP applications for DVB (September 4th)

August 2003

• ST, Sanyo develop SoCs for display TVs (August 28th)
• Multi-service TV to be examined at all-day conference at IBC (August 28th)
• Sun: Murdoch should go MHP (August 5th)

June 2003

• "F.U.N. was never away!" - German (June 26th - Translation of this article from Google)
• Korean broadcaster launches interactive TV service (June 23rd)
• Spain aims to ape Freeview (June 12th)
• CableLabs supports integrated DTVs (June 11th)
• German MHP slow progress (June 2nd)
• ARD and ZDF go MHP (June 2nd)

May 2003

• Motorola keen on Multimedia Home Platform (May 29th)
• Last chance for MHP - German (May 28th - Translation of this article from Google)
• Pro filters MHP portal wins award - German (May 27th - Translation of this article from Google)
• Anga Cable: Galaxy shows MHP decoder platform - German (May 26th - Translation of this article from Google)
• Motorola buys Cadence for DVB (May 21st)
• Motorola buys into MHP (May 20th)
• Motorola buys Cadence for DVB (May 19th)
• Latest issue of DVB Scene available (May 19th)
• Mass redundancies at Beta Research - German (May 16th - Translation of this article from Google)
• TV images via MMS (May 15th)
• Ericsson Mobility World signs agreement to promote Digisoft MMS iTV applications globally (May 14th)
• Sofia Digital upgrades its MMS-on-TV platform (May 13th)
• Spain: one platform, two satellites and STBs (May 7th)
• MHP services further with pool of broadcasting corporations and Second Channel of German Television - German (May 3rd - Translation of this article from Google)
• DVB group seeks patent plan for interactive spec (May 2nd)
• DVB extends patent pool to GEM - Momentum grows for world GEM for iTV (May 2nd)

April 2003

• Joint efforts for Belgian digital TV (April 29th)
• International iTV standard aims to globalise interactive content (April 22nd)
• Was Ireland's first major conference on 'New TV' a success? To be sure, to be sure...(April 11th)
• D-box2 gets multimedia home platform upgrade (April 10th)
• ST device ups set-top-box performance (April 10th)
• Two million households soon MHP equipped? - German (April 9th - Translation of this article from Google)
• Breakthrough for MHP standard paves way to global market for interactive TV developers (April 7th)
• Canal+ Technologies launches Mediahighway Advanced (April 4th)
• Alticast presents MHP at NAB - German (April 3rd - Translation of this article from Google)

March 2003

• DVB to show MHP boxes and apps using DVB-T (March 20th)
• The program highlights of ZDF - German (March 8th - Translation of this article from Google)
• Interactive HOERZU on MHP at CeBIT - German (March 8th - Translation of this article from Google)

February 2003

• Canal+ Technologies cooperates with Cardinal - German (February 20th - Translation of this article from Google)
• Canal Plus Tech/Cardinal team up (February 20th)
• Canal+ Technologies and Cardinal launch new iTV project (February 19th)
• New MHP Browser - German (February 19th - Translation of this article from Google)
• Departure in cable: New federation - German (February 17th - Translation of this article from Google)
• Finnish terrestrial broadcasters set up a Launcher project (February 17th)
• In the year 2008 every second household will be digital - German (February 17th - Translation of this article from Google)
• Digital TV: Pool of broadcasting corporations switches interactive services off - German (February 2nd - Translation of this article from Google)
• Activating Interactive TV (February 1st)

January 2003

• Astra presents itself on Cebit - German (January 31st - Translation of this article from Google)
• MHP still too slow and too expensive - German (January 28th - Translation of this article from Google)
• ADB Passes DVB-MHP Test Suite Becomes First Company to Have Fully Compliant MHP Software & Hardware Deployed in the Market (January 23rd - it's a press release, but I haven't seen this in any news articles, and it's worth including here)
• Deal ends cable-ready DTV stalemate but problems remain (January 10th)
• New features for STBs and receivers (January 1st)

December 2002

• Ingesting Digital TV's Alphabet Soup
• ATSC and CableLabs agree on interactive DTV specs (December 31st)
• Metabox successor brings iTV box on the market - German (December 21st - Translation of this article from Google)
• Cable, consumer electronics firms tout 'plug-and-play' spec (December 20th)
• Interview with Gerhard Zeiler (Managing Director, RTL) - German (December 16th - Translation of this article from Google)
• ATSC & CableLabs to "harmonize" DTV specs (December 13th)
• Finland launches MHP pilot (December 12th)
• ZDF launch interactive text service on iTV (December 12th)
• Second Channel of German Television demonstrates MHP services - German (December 12th - Translation of this article from Google)
• TTV Cable to launch MHP trial in new year (December 12th)
• New development environment for MHP launches - German (December 9th - Translation of this article from Google)
• MHP trial in Finnish cable systems - German (December 9th - Translation of this article from Google)
• Canal+ reveal DVB-MHP iTV solution (December 5th)
• NDS opens set-top box testing lab in Seoul, Korea (December 3rd)
• Antenna Hungaria launches MHP trial with Sofia Digital (December 2nd)
• Antenna Hungaria starts MHP trial - German (December 2nd - Translation of this article from Google)
• Panasonic passes MHP conformance tests (Q4 2002)
• MHP On the PC - German (Translation of this article from Google)
• How expensive is MHP? - German (Translation of this article from Google)
• MHP boxes at the end of 2002 - German (Translation of this article from Google)

November 2002

• Philips and Telefonica enter into broadband alliance (November 27th)
• Ortikon activate MHP interactive services on Finnish DTV (November 21st)
• Panasonic sells MHP set-top box - German (November 18th - Translation of this article from Google)
• Little 'i', BIG 'TV' (November 1st)
• Questions and answers on MHP - German (Translation of this article from Google)
• Multimedia on the D-Box - German (Translation of this article from Google)

October 2002

• TV Linux Alliance outlines specs for Linux-based set-top boxes (October 28th)
• 'Mini concessions' to boost Finnish DTT? (October 24th)
• BCE 2002 - end of the line (October 16th)
• Interactive HOERZU for the first time "live on air" - German (October 15th - Translation of this article from Google)
• Poland runs first MHP tests in conjunction with ADB (October 9th)
• Norwegian DTT box shortlist (October 2nd)

September 2002

• MHP conformance testing takes off (September 23rd)
• The new DVB MHP Spec and its implications for networked multimedia into the home (September 18th)
• The Multimedia Home Platform: Creating a Multimedia World in the STB (September 18th)
• Mobiles used to demo the payback channel for digital TV (September 18th)
• GIST and Canal+ Technologies present Germany's most popular TV magazine on new MediaHighway MHP middleware - announcement from IBC (September 17th)
• SA Europe's debut - interview from IBC by advanced-television.com (September 17th)
• Philips unveils MHP-based set-tops for digital TV (September 16th)
• ADB's broadcast system and STB - announcement from IBC (September 12th)
• Swiss Teleclub and ADB in deal on MHP set-top boxes (September 9th)
• ADB launch first MHP- ready set-top box at IBC (September 9th)
• First German MHP iTV services made available to the public (September 9th)

Older news stories have been moved to the news archive.

Press releases

• Ortikon Interactive speeds up creation of digital TV content (January 31st, 2004)
• Telenet elects "pontegra" for its MHP platform (January 16th, 2004)
• ICT Embedded announces the MHP plugin principle (December 3rd, 2003)
• Osmosys launches MHP4Win (November 28th, 2003)
• ATSC publishes new interactive "ACAP" candidate standard (October 2nd, 2003)
• Seodu Inchip Set-Top Boxes to run IDway-MHP on IBM PowerPC paired with Skelmirs CEE-J VM (September 12th, 2003)
• Create contents for digital TV as easily as for Internet (September 12th, 2003)
• Pace Selects OSMOSYS MHP For Innovative Set-Top Box Solutions (September 12th, 2003)
• Espial Escape XLET For ADB i-CAN(tm) Set-Top Box. (September 12th, 2003)
• ATI Technologies, Skelmir and Zentek Technology to showcase DVB MHP reference solution at IBC New Linux-based product for set-top box manufacturers and broadcasters enables interoperable MHP applications for digital television (September 12, 2003)
• Finnish Cable-TV starts offering interactive television services (September 11th)
• A fresh interactive service for digital TV: Subscribe to pay-TV in your own living room (September 9th)
• Advanced Digital Broadcast Announces World's First MHP Internet Set-Top-Box With Terrestrial Reception. (September 9th, 2003)
• NIONEX presents MHP-browser "pontegra" at the IBC (September 4th, 2003)
• NEC Electronics, Tao Group and Zentek Technology to showcase DVB MHP reference solution at IBC New product for set-top box manufacturers and broadcasters to make MHP broadcasts interoperable (September 1st, 2003)
• New Multimedia Mail solution for digital TV (September 5th)
• Zentek Technology Group Announces MediaStack-MHP for Windows XP passed the Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) Multimedia Home Platform (MHP) Test Suite for MHP 1.0.2. (August 25th, 2003)
• ADB and Microsoft To Demonstrate MHP/OCAP Solution On Motorola's Robust DCT2500 Platform At 2003 NCTA Show (June 9th, 2003)
• Revenue-Generating Application Showcased On End-To-End MHP/OCAP System (June 9th, 2003)
• Digital TV: RTL NEWMEDIA goes for "pontegra" (June 6th, 2003)
• Advanced Digital Broadcast's MHP Software Solution Takes Top Prize At Mediacast Awards (May 27th, 2003)
• Pixelpark, CoreMedia and Sofia Digital, are developing the first MHP all-in-one solution for everyday use / world first on show at CeBIT (March 11, 2003)
• Cardinal and Institut für Rundfunktechnik (IRT) to Provide Joint MHP Application Development and Testing Solution (March 3rd, 2003)
• DVB World (February 26th, 2003)
• Open Source MHP Application Published For The First Time In The World (February 25th, 2003)
• Ortikon Interactive coordinates digital TV receivers' standardization (February 20th, 2003)
• ADB Passes DVB-MHP Test Suite Becomes First Company to Have Fully Compliant MHP Software & Hardware Deployed in the Market (January 23rd, 2003)
• ADB's i-CAN MHP receiver - product information (October 18th, 2002)
• Advanced Digital Broadcast Provides Digital-TV Technology For First MHP Broadcast Trial In Poland (October 8th, 2002)
• Advanced Digital Broadcast equips IBC 2002 with i-CAN MHP Set-top boxes (September 22nd, 2002)
• Espial to Provide Digital TV Solutions for MHP and iTV Developers on STMicroelectronics' Advanced Silicon Devices (September 5th, 2002)
• Espial and Institut für Rundfunktechnik (IRT) collaborate to advance HTML rendering for Multimedia Home Platform (MHP) solutions (September 3rd, 2002)
• MHP test suite approved - (PDF format)