World Premiere: Ziggo's fully cloud-based interactive DVB-C TV service
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World Premiere: Ziggo's fully cloud-based interactive DVB-C TV service
Even non-interactive devices become interactive
Utrecht, 5 March 2013
Ziggo today launched the first fully cloud-based interactive DVB-C TV service in
the world. By combining IP protocol use with the DVB-C television standard, even
devices without inbuilt hardware functionality for interactivity can now make
use of interactive services via cable. Until now, clients who wanted to make use
of interactive services such as Video on Demand or TV Gemist had to have a
special and relatively expensive digital receiver at their disposal. Now, a
reasonably simple and cheap digital receiver will suffice for the newly-
introduced service. The first to make use of the new interactive service will be
thousands of users of Humax (5100, 5200 en 5300) and Samsung (7140A, 7140B)
digital receivers. Ziggo will extend the number of devices in due course because
it wants as many of its clients as possible to be able to make use of its
interactive services. With the introduction of this fully cloud-based solution,
Ziggo will increase the number of its potential interactive customers by more
than hundred thousand.
Apply via the Internet and watch via DVB-C HD
The new Ziggo service combines the strengths of the DVB-C High Definition cable
TV network and the capabilities of the Internet. The interactivity is provided
by the Internet, while the actual watching takes place in the usual way, via the
HD DVB-C signal. This way, Ziggo does not depend on the IP network at the
customer's home for its video quality, like its competitors do.
This new development sees Ziggo migrating the complexity (the logic) and the
graphic user interface (GUI) of interactive receivers to its own network, the
"Cloud". The company has, as it were, managed to integrate a large-scale
"virtual set-top box" in its network, making interactive functionality available
to all sorts of relatively simple peripherals. The virtual set-top box assesses
every action taken by the user - i.e. pressing the buttons on their remote
controls - and subsequently addresses the relevant network equipment to execute
the command, such as starting a film going to a TV catch up item.
Ziggo has also migrated the GUI that is required for this interactive service to
its network. The GUI, which is based on HTML5, is streamed to the user over the
DVB-C network via a "temporary personal TV channel."
The cloud-based nature of the service makes it possible to render several
different devices interactive, while at the same time adapting the GUI with
extremely short lead times in a very flexible way, without needing software
updates to the peripherals - as is the case with our current Cisco interactive
receivers.
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Press Release World Premiere:
http://hugin.info/153077/R/1683071/550716.pdf
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Datum: 05.03.2013 - 13:09 Uhr
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