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TARA Follows Closely the Google I/O 2022
Like every year, Google I/O is an exciting event for us. In a highly concentrated form, Google reported on the innovations for 2022 in over 140 lectures and presentations. For...
Quickline TV Further Increases Customer Satisfaction
Customer satisfaction is no longer just nice to have but is becoming increasingly essential for companies to prevent churn. Last month Quickline published its annual report for 2021 (only available...
LiveOn TV for NOKIA Streaming Box 8000
TARA’s TV application LiveOn TV is now available for the Android TV NOKIA Streaming Box 8000. LiveOn TV is a lightweight Android TV application for playback of TV services delivered...
Quickline – The Evolution of a Partnership
We are very pleased to further expand our cooperation with the Quickline group. Building on the fruitful collaboration, Quickline has placed their trust in us to take on even more...
Extended Media Player Monitoring with Splunk
One key feature of our Inaris Media Player is the ability to monitor and analyse the playback in the field. To make use of the most powerful tools for analysis,...
Operators Can Now Support Teletext on All Devices
Many operators offer their OTT services not only on set-top boxes. Following the motto "any content, anytime, anywhere", the TV service is also available on tablets or even smartphones. To...
Joyn Launches HbbTV On Philips TVs
The streaming platform Joyn integrated the Inaris HbbTV Solution into their Android TV App for Sony TV earlier this year. This has been launched by end of July and allows Joyn users...
TARA Joined Android Dev Summit 2021
Google’s Android Dev Summit 2021 took place as a virtual event and offered developers many interesting insights. The Android team focused on "Modern Android Development" to improve development in Kotlin,...
German Streaming Platform Joyn Integrates TARA’s HbbTV Solution
The German streaming platform Joyn offers a wide range of VoD content and a good number of freely accessible linear TV services. The Joyn App is available for many end-user...
Teletext for Smart Devices
Our new Teletext for Smart Devices allows you to provide Teletext as a web application on Android TV and RDK based devices.Although Teletext has been around for over 40 years...
Inaris DVB/IPTV Solution on Android TV 11
Android TV 11 comes with new foundational improvements such as enhanced security, improved memory management, one-time app permissions, and also enhancements tailored specifically for TV, like the new Tuner Framework...
Quickline Partnership on a New Level
In these times, TV consumption at home has significantly grown. This can also be seen in the increased sales of TV devices. The network operators register a stronger demand in...
Blue WebApp integrated on the Quickline TV Set-Top Box
Quickline now offers the blue Sport channels on their UHD Android TV Box. We enabled this by integrating the Blue WebApp with the Quickline application. An Android WebView is used to...
Evaluation of the Google Broadcast Stack
End of last year, Google made their DVB Broadcast Stack available to their partners as an extension to Android TV. We are currently walking through the code and its functionality...
TARA joined the Android TV Partner Summit 2021
Our 2021 started with the Android TV Partner Summit. TARA Systems joined this virtually organised event. We got valuable insight into Google’s Android TV roadmap and the focus on improvements...
DVB-I and HbbTV: A Device Manufacturer Perspective in the EBU Working Group
With the LiveOn TV application, we developed a flexible and powerful tool to prototype and demonstrate DVB-I distributions. To share best-practices around HbbTV and DVB-I, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU)...
Quickline UHD TV Box Success Story Update
To raise customer experience and satisfaction to a new level, Quickline is continuing its long-term partnership with TARA Systems and the other involved parties. As a result of this close...
Replay Guide on the Android TV Launcher
With the Replay Guide, we integrated an advanced feature on the Quickline UHD set-top box. It shows recommendations and most-watched programme events to the user.Android Pie, with its focus on...
Replay Guide Using Microservices
The Quickline UHD STB provides more than 200 TV channels and up to seven days of Replay TV. This is a huge amount of content and users need some guidance to find...
TARA participated in the Android TV Virtual Bootcamp 2020
Like last year the TARA Systems team participated in the Android TV Bootcamp. However, due to Covid-19, this time the bootcamp virtually took place and was based on presentations and...
Microservices for TV Backend
We now dive into microservice architecture for extending existing TV backend systems of our customers. Lightweight microservices written in Go, storing data in a NoSQL database, using Docker allow adding...
Android TV 10 on BCM 7271
With Android TV 9 (Pie) Google introduced a lot of new features following the motto content first. Besides many other improvements, channels were supported on the home screen where each...
Google Certification for Android Pie Passed
We now passed the Google certification for Android TV Pie with the Quickline UHD STB. This allows us to further increase the user experience. So it’s now possible to adapt...
WebVTT Subtitle Decoder Integrated with Inaris HLS Player​
With HLS based OTT streaming DVB or Teletext subtitle formats used by broadcast services are no longer supported. Instead, HLS uses WebVTT for subtitles. We integrated the WebVTT subtitle decoder...
Quality Indicator Supported by our HLS Player
For OTT streaming operators, it is of the highest importance to ensure that their customers always get the premium quality of their content. Our HLS player supports adaptive streaming, where...
Bandwidth Measurement with Inaris HLS Player​
For media streaming the available IP bandwidth is important to ensure a good quality of the video/audio playback, especially when WiFi is used. We extended our Inaris HLS Media Player...
Inaris HLS Player Used for Quickline’s new SRF Series Portal
With their Android TV UHD app Quickline offers over 200 TV channels, including features like restart, replay for one week, recording, and also a VoD portal. This already great offer is now...
Inaris HbbTV for Android with Java based Middleware
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. For Android applications which are...
Inaris Supports Cloud-Based Analytics
Our Inaris DVB/IPTV Solution has now been extended to support cloud-based analytics systems. This is especially of interest for connected devices where it is intended to collect and analyse information...
Quickline STB UX Optimisation
For the Quickline Android TV UHD STB project an intensive phase of optimisation and performance improvements has been completed. Through the improved interaction of the client with the different backend...
Using Android Treble for Inaris DVB/IPTV Middleware
With the introduction of Treble Google improved the way how Android is accessing the device hardware. With Treble there is now a clear separation between Android SDK and vendor's code...
Android 9 Pie on Broadcom SoC
The first Android 9 Pie for Android TV approved builds are now available and we already ported our Inaris DVB/IPTV Middleware Stack to the Broadcom 7271 reference platform. Also, our...
HbbTV Test Suite Executed with LiveOn TV Android Application
The LiveOn TV application is our reference application for the integration of the Inaris DVB/IPTV Middleware on Android TV devices. We integrated also our Inaris HbbTV Solution based on Chromium...
Quickline launches Android TV STB
The Swiss cable operator group recently launched their hybrid UHD Android TV STB which combines classic TV with on-demand content and apps like Netflix, Youtube, Spotify, Sky and others. TARA...
LiveOn TV running on Sagemcom STBs
Our LiveOn TV reference application is now up and running on Sagemcom Android TV STBs which are widely used in the market. LiveOn TV accesses the Inaris DVB/IPTV Middleware using...
Inaris HLS Player Used for Quickline UHD Set-Top Box
The Inaris HLS Player is used for the Quickline UHD set-top box for the playback of live TV, replay content and network PVR via OTT. The high requirements for fast...
Public Broadcaster ORF Internally Uses TARA’s Android TV Solution​​
The Austrian public broadcaster ORF uses our Android TV solution as a player for their internal broadcast distribution. The solution is based on our Inaris DVB/IPTV Middleware which receives the...
Inaris DVB/IPTV Middleware integrated on HiSilicon with Android O​
Our Inaris DVB/IPTV Middleware is now integrated on the HiSilicon platform with Android O. We use the hardware features of the SoC and also directly access the onboard tuner to...
HLS with Alternate Audio Streams​
With HLS one or more audio streams can be combined with the video stream in one multiplex. However, if multiple high-quality audio streams are to be supported using only one...
LiveOn TV App Using OIPF For Android​
We created a reference TV application for Android devices - LiveOn TV. This application uses our new OIPF for Android API for all TV specific features and is a great...
HLS with Verimatrix for Android TV​
We extended our Inaris HLS Solution to support encrypted media streams. In a first step, we integrated HLS with Verimatrix ViewRight OTT client on an Android TV platform. To fulfill the...
HbbTV on Android Oreo
With Android Oreo, the latest Android version is currently rolled out on many devices in the market. This also applies to Android TV where the new version brings many enhancements,...
Verimatrix Ultra Security for Android TV
High-quality content is important to be available on Android TV devices. Securing reception and playback of content on an open platform as Android TV is a challenging task. To fulfill...
HLS for OTT Services​
Live TV services are more and more provided by standard Internet connections as OTT services. HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) originally defined by Apple is a widely used streaming protocol for...
OIPF for Android
OIPF - the standardized TV API used by HbbTV - can now also be used by Android Java applications to access our Inaris DVB/IPTV Middleware.OIPF defines a well-established standard API...
Inaris Middleware on Android Oreo
We ported and verified our Inaris DVB/IPTV Middleware for Android Oreo. The functionality of our TV middleware can be accessed with our new OIPF for Android API directly from any...
Inaris HbbTV on Android TV at Medientage Munich
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. Signalisation of HbbTV applications always...
Showcasing HbbTV on Android TV with Chromium
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 Inaris HbbTV Solution and the...
Android TV on BCM7271
The InarisTvInputService is now also working on BCM7271 based hardware with Android N. The linear TV is received with the on-board DVB tuner or alternatively via OTT (e.g. using HLS)....
Android TV on BCM7252S – extended​
The linear TV experience with Android N on BCM7252S have been extended. Beside the support of standard DVB features like Teletext and Subtitles, also custom specific back-end server accesses have...
Inaris now on Android N
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 new features like Replay TV...
Inaris on Nvidia Shield TV enables Live TV​
The custom designed Live TV application running on Amazon Fire TV is now ported to Nvidia Shield TV. It enables the playback of high quality linear TV by accessing a...
HbbTV on Android TV
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 for HbbTV 2.0. Even further...
TIF Extension for DVB Scanning Feature
In cooperation with the major European network operator, we extended TIF to support DVB scanning. Currently the Android TV Input Framework (TIF) does not support a dedicated API for DVB channel...
Inaris and Android AOSP on Marvell BG4-CT Reference Board
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. However any DVB tuner can...
Teletext on Android TV
In addition to video and subtitles, a number of other services are available for DVB broadcast TV that shouldn't be overlooked here. As an introduction to the connection of additional...
Inaris on Android TV
We successfully added Teletext to our integration of Inaris DVB Middleware on Android TV. Since we have been engaged for years with Inaris in relation to Android, in the context...
Inaris TV Middleware now runs on the Google Nexus Player
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 data source. Thereby Google’s AndroidTV...