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To address also very price-sensitive STB markets, we have ported our Inaris DVB Middleware to the Montage chipset. On this chipset we are running our…

The 8th HbbTV Symposium took place in November 2019 in Athens. We as TARA Systems were very happy to talk at this important annual meeting…

In the course of a master thesis, we investigated, how well the genre of TV shows can be automatically determined with the help of AI,…

 At IBC 2019, our partner SES demonstrated an analytics system that allows usage monitoring of their non-connected push VoD STBs. The data was provided by…

The Inaris HbbTV Solution for Android TV has already been ported to the TV Input Framework to run on top of any TV Input Service.…

Our Inaris DVB/IPTV Middleware has now been extended to support cloud-based analytics systems. This is especially of interest for connected devices where it is intended…

For the Quickline (QL) Android TV UHD STB project an intensive phase of optimization and performance improvements has been completed. Through the improved interaction of…

With the introduction of Treble Google improved the way of how Android is accessing the device hardware. With Treble there is now a clear separation…

Android 9 Pie for Android TV is coming and the first approved builds are now available. We already ported our Inaris DVB/IPTV Middleware stack and…

The LiveOn TV application is our reference application for integration of the Inaris DVB/IPTV Middleware on Android TV devices. We integrated also our Inaris HbbTV…

Quickline launches its hybrid UHD Android TV STB which combines classic TV with on-demand content. TARA contributes its TV middleware and the player for DVB…

The SES VoD Everywhere platform has evolved to a highly attractive product which will arrive in the market soon. For deployment in Africa, Middle and…

Our LiveOn TV reference application is now up and running on Sagemcom Android TV UHD STBs. Besides of live TV functionality using the internal tuner,…

The 7th HbbTV Symposium was held in November. One major topic was Operator Applications which has high synergies with our OIPF for Android API approach.…

The VoD Everywhere end to end solution operated by SES is now successfully ported and validated on Newland STBs using HiSilicon SoC. VoD Everywhere including…

Together with IRT and Zattoo, we set up a showcase how the HbbTV Application Discovery over Broadband (ADB) standard can bring HbbTV applications to OTT…

The VoD-Everywhere Multiscreen extension now allows to access Push VoD content from second screen devices in emerging markets.

We have now ported our Inaris HbbTV Solution using Chromium and the ExoPlayer to Android O.

We integrated the Verimatrix ViewRight Ultra client with our Inaris DVB/IPTV Middleware for an Android TV device.

OIPF – the standardized TV API used by HbbTV – can now also be used by Android Java applications to access our Inaris DVB/IPTV Middleware.

Our Inaris DVB/IPTV Middleware is now ported and tested on Android O.

At Medientage 2017 in Munich, we demonstrated our Inaris HbbTV Solution running on AndroidTV including support for the HbbTV Application Discovery over Broadband (ADB) standard.

For the next generation UHD TV-Sets, METZ decided again to use TARA technology and Inaris components. TARA provided the Inaris components and Embedded Wizard platform…

SES has selected TARA Systems as strategic partner for end-to-end solutions for video broadcasting in emerging markets.

At IBC, we will showcase at Google’s Android TV Summit how operators and manufacturers can enhance their Android TV applications with HbbTV functionality using the…

We have now integrated the possibility to download live event streams in our client solution. On top of this, the StartOver feature has been realized…

We have now done the Nagra pre-integration with Inaris DVB/IPTV Middleware and TVolution on a Boadcom reference board.

The HD+ Connect app has now been released for Android devices. It contains the Timeshift feature, which allows the user to pause the TV programme…

To meet common requirements for VoD offering, a new GUI design for STB was created.

The InarisTvInputService is now also working on BCM7271 based hardware with Android N.

In case it is not possible to transfer the Teletext data with the audio/video stream encapsulated, a Teletext WebServer can help to solve this issue.

We have now successfully ported our Hardware Abstraction Layer to run on latest MStar platforms using the MStar MI interface.

With Alexa, Amazon has provided a powerful environment to develop speech controlled services. We have taken a closer look at this and developed a TV…

The HbbTV Specification group is currently working on finalizing the Operator Application Standard that allows operators to bring their portals to STB and TV devices…

We now support Android N for watching live TV with our Inaris DVB/IPTV Middleware. We are working on combining OTT with classic live TV for…

TARA Systems participated in the 26th HbbTV Interoperability Workshop at IRT (Insitiut für Rundfunktechnik) in Munich.

The brand-new feature – HD+ ExtraScreen – extends HD+ to multiscreen distribution in households using Inaris SAT>IP Solution. For the very first time, the SAT>IP…

In collaboration with the IRT, we have set-up a demonstration on how the HbbTV 2.0 Companion Screen feature can be used by companion applications. This…

We will shortly introduce our HbbTV Solution also for Android TV. This includes the current HbbTV 1.5 Solution as well as the new components developed…

The development activities for the HbbTV 2.0 features Media Synchronisation and Companion Screen will be completed in Q4/2016. You can now upgrade or extend your…

Continuing the close cooperation with SES PS, TARA Systems extend their multiscreen solution by supporting encrypted channels.

We now fully automated our continuous integration environment Jenkins to enable the daily execution of the HbbTV Test Suite.

The HbbTV 2.0 Operator Applications working group started their activities with a face-to-face meeting in May 2016 in London. We from TARA Systems participated at…

The annual SES Industry Days conference took place May 26-27 in Luxembourg. The two-day event provided the latest update on important satellite industry trends. Our…

In cooperation with the major European network operator, we extended TIF to support DVB scanning.

With the HbbTV 2.0 standard, a rich set of features will be added to HbbTV capable devices. For current and future customers of our Inaris…

Today, we are proud to announce the availability of our new Inaris HbbTV SDK coming with our Inaris HbbTV Solution. The SDK provides a sample…

Last week, TARA Systems attended the final review of the GLOBAL iTV Project through the European Commission at the IRT Munich. The project has now…

With the release of the current HbbTV test suite v8.1.0 the number of tests has increased from around 400 to over 950. To enable the…

TARA Systems participates in ANOPAS – a research project for application oriented optimisation of media streaming with MPEG-DASH and extends its MPEG-DASH client InarisDASH with…

SES PS cooperates with TARA Systems to enable Multiscreen scenarios for pay-TV content via SAT>IP. SES PS will include our extended SAT>IP stack – consisting…

Teletext launched 35 years ago and we were there almost right from the start! German weekly “Die Zeit” is marking the 35th anniversary of the…

The Inaris DVB Service now runs on the Marvell ARMADA 1500 Ultra /88DE3218 (BG4-CT) reference board as a SAT>IP client on top of Android AOSP.…

We successfully added Teletext to our integration of Inaris DVB Middleware on Android TV.

We created an app with underlying Inaris DVB / IPTV Middleware realizing the TvInputService of the Android 5.0 TV input framework and using SAT>IP as…