Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Cabot Communications
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 28 May 2004
Top award for
digital TV development kit
Cabot Communications walked off with first prize in the "Best interactive TV technology or application" at the prestigious Mediacast Product of the Year Awards 2004
Cabot Communications walked off with first prize in the "Best interactive TV technology or application" category for the UK's fastest MHEG-5 engine, Mercator, at the prestigious Cable and Satellite International/Mediacast Product of the Year Awards 2004. To add to the successes of the evening, Cabot's pan-European Digital TV Suite achieved second place in the category "Best terrestrial DTV technology".
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Keith Potter, Managing Director of Cabot Communications comments: "We are delighted that Mercator has been recognised by some of the most respected names in the digital TV industry".
"To win, we needed to convince the judges that Mercator meets a series of rigorous criteria, based on the level of technical innovation, the product's usefulness to the market, the degree to which it is unique and the extent to which it is proven and deployed in the market".
"Winning this award against stiff competition mirrors our success in the real marketplace, where Cabot has grown rapidly to 50% market share in the UK Freeview market in over 30 receiver designs".
"We are particularly pleased that our 1.5 million deployments across Europe for the pan-European Digital TV Software suite has been recognised with runner-up in the 'Best terrestrial DTV technology' category".
The Cable and Satellite International/Mediacast Product of the Year Awards recognise excellence in broadband technology.
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Over 170 entries in 16 categories were judged by some of the brightest and most respected minds in the industry, providing a balance of technical, marketing and analytical backgrounds from different industry sectors and geographic regions.
Mercator is a complete, packaged development kit including object libraries and full documentation, allowing set-top box and integrated TV (iDTV) manufacturers to quickly add MHEG-5 support for the burgeoning UK market.
Mercator is available for most CPU architectures and includes the CHIL (Cabot High Level Interface) API for platform independence.
An independent consultancy has benchmarked Mercator as on average 40% faster on rendering MHEG-5 content than its nearest competitor Unlike alternative MHEG-5 engines, Mercator was developed as an embedded implementation and therefore has low memory requirements and high performance.
In addition, Mercator makes upgrades of the evolving MHEG-5 standard a straightforward process, significantly reducing the cost of maintaining product lines for manufacturers.
The latest version of Mercator conforms to the latest v1.06 MHEG-5 interactive standard for the UK digital TV market.
Mercator is one of a range of pre-integrated modular products in the Cabot Digital TV Suite, which achieved second place in the in the "Best terrestrial DTV technology" at the Cable and Satellite International/Mediacast awards.
The suite comprises Mercator, Eclipse DVB-T and DVB-S middleware and Callisto over-air download module, providing an out-of-the-box digital terrestrial receiver solution to cover all of Europe.
The additional specialised MHEG-5 and DVB-T testing and consultancy services available from Cabot ensure a market-ready, robust and stable solution.
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