Of Interest To SatBroadcasting™ Professionals…

S&T has recently announced its RedKey™3 receiver engine with support for the HbbTV specification. RedKey™3 integrates the NetFront™ Browser from ACCESS and associated HbbTV (Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV) extensions, as well as S&T’s DSM-CC client. RedKey™2 is already a popular choice of manufacturers implementing MHEG functionality in digital TV receivers with more than 14 million units already installed. RedKey™3 offers an integrated HbbTV solution, complete with a DSM-CC client and HbbTV signaling, using a similar API to RedKey™2 to simplify integration and reduce time to market. S&T is also helping to deliver OTT video services to Freeview HD and Freesat set-top boxes and iDTVs (Integrated Digital TVs} as part of the new MHEG Interaction Channel (MHEG-IC). The MHEG-IC version of S&T Player runs on receivers conforming to the DTG D-Book 6.2.1 specification, which includes HD graphics and AES encryption of streamed media. A version of the S& T Player is also available for the UK Freesat platform as well as for markets using the CI Plus (CI+) standard. S&T will also be displaying the latest version of its popular TSBroadcaster2 DSM-CC Object/Data Carousel including HbbTV signalling support. TSBroadcaster is already a well-established and highly respected product, used both in North America and Europe, with versions already covering DVB (MHEG-5, HbbTV and MHP), OCAP and ETV platforms. The new TSProcessor and TSMonitor products will also be on show, providing application monitoring and filtering of ETV applications for US cable operators.
Vimond Media Solutions will show the advanced Vimond platform at the 2011 NAB Show for the first time, at  the Vizrt booth (SL5408). Vimond provides a comprehensive environment for managing and delivering multi-format over the top (OTT) services, with full facilities for all creative, logistical and business aspects of the operation. With its modular architecture, Vimond offers sophisticated tools and controls for every aspect of an OTT service, from ingest and encoding, through conditional access to business intelligence reporting. The Vimond platform includes these modules:

• VimondLIVE, providing automated control over live encoders from major vendors, with multiple output to Smooth Streaming, Flash®, WMV or Apple® HLS formats from a single source. VimondLIVE supports ingest from from SDI, HD-SDI, unicast and multicast sources
• VimondOD, which provides streaming of on-demand assets in multiple formats and transcoding between popular formats
• VimondSCHEDULE, providing scheduled management of asset and metadata capture from live sources, with interfaces to major scheduling systems
• VimondGEO, with geographical filtering tools for controlling asset categories and individual assets by continent, region, country or IP address. Combined with VimondMONETIZE, VimonGEO provides control over individual pricing by location
• VimondDRM, bringing into play major studio approved DRM encryption of assets with automated encryption by category or individual asset
• As well as the production environment, Vimond MAM, content syndication with VimondSYNDICATE, and user management with VimondPROFILE, among others…

Based in Bergen, Norway, Vimond is one of a number of successful technology companies spun off from national broadcaster TV 2, together with Vizrt, StormGeo and Mosart Medialab. After more than ten years of technology development and use in production at Scandinavia’s biggest commercial online video enterprise TV 2 Sumo, Vimond was established in 2011 to make advanced solutions available to other broadcasters launching multi-screen over the top services.