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Bluestreak Technology… Flashing Is Good For Bbox (SatBroadcasting™)


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[SatNews] Bluestreak Technology Inc. hs announced that French network operator, Bouygues Telecom, selected the company’s MachBlue(tm) platform to power the nexgen interface for Bouygues Telecom’s popular Bbox IPTV. The new IPTV interface, which launched in June, gives consumers a visually rich and intuitive portal and entertainment programming guide created using Flash(r) technology — future releases of the Bbox interface will include a Media Center as well as a Widget Framework for accessing news, sports, weather, traffic, entertainment gossip, stocks, and horoscopes using the TV.

Bouygues Telecom will deploy the complete Bbox TV interface in three stages:
  1. Home Portal and EPG – Currently available, the new Bbox TV home portal offers a more intuitive and fluid portal than previous Bbox versions with greater customization options available for the consumer. It is accompanied by an interactive entertainment programming guide (EPG) which allows consumers to search for programs by scrolling through a mosaic of tiles that display each channel’s programming.
  2. Widget Framework – Deploying at the end of summer, the upcoming widget framework will offer consumers the ability to access seven widgets that deliver popular Internet content to the consumer directly on their television. This content will include information such as news headlines, sports scores, weather forecasts, traffic reports, entertainment gossip, stocks, and horoscopes. More widgets will be added in the future.
  3. Media Center – Deploying in the fall, the new Media Center function will allow consumers to view their favorite photos, videos and music using their Bbox TV. Consumers will be able to insert a USB or external hard drive to upload their multimedia content.
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The entire solution is based on Bluestreak Technology’s Flash®-powered MachBlue Platform. By leveraging MachBlue, Bouygues Telecom was able to deploy a visually rich and intuitive IPTV interface across all environments, deployed for all customers through software upgrades. MachBlue also enables Bouygues Telecom to tap into the more than two million Adobe® Flash developers in the market today to make new widgets rapidly available to consumers in the future.