Product category: Embedded Software and Operating Systems
News Release from: Ocean Blue | Subject: Freeview Playback PVR
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 18 July 2007
Personal video recorder
adds to Donau appeal
Freeview Playback PVR for Toshiba's Donau SoC processors provides an out-of-the-box platform for advanced PVR products for the UK market
Now Ocean Blue Software is porting its advanced Freeview Playback PVR to Toshiba's Donau SoC processors. The announcement comes just a week after the company clinched a deal to port its Surfsoft suite to the Toshiba platform, and will give developers an out-of-the-box platform to create advanced PVR products for the UK market.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 18 July 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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'Ocean Blue is pleased to work with Toshiba and to provide our Surfsoft Freeview Playback PVR software for Toshiba's Donau hardware platform, this will result in a quality price/performance PVR solution for consumer electronic products', commented Ken Helps, Managing Director of Ocean Blue Software.
The UK digital terrestrial Group (DTG) produced the Freeview Playback PVR software standard, which is the world's first PVR standard for hard disk based set-top boxes.
Ocean Blue is part of the DTG design group responsible for the development of the Freeview Playback specification.
Consumer electronics manufacturers are encouraged to adopt the DTG Freeview Playback software standard.
In order to comply with UK digital TV standards and to gain product accreditation and the Freeview Playback logo denoting to consumer an approved product and consumer confidence.
Ocean Blue says the market needs a single standard for PVRs.
Freeview Playback has been a step in the right direction and will help consumers looking to replace their VCRs before the digital switch-off, says the company.
The wider DVB industry should consider adopting the same standard across satellite and cable to simplify the market for consumers and to increase take-up of the new technology.
Toshiba's Donau platforms combine the company's Media embedded Processor (MeP) architecture with a 64bit embedded RISC host processor to create multimedia SoCs with compute performances of up to 650MIPS (at 180MHz).
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