The Ghana HD+ Decoder gives the Ghanaian people access to high-definition TV content on a rich featured set-top box. TARA Systems delivers the software for the HD+ Decoder, and we...
New Multi-Feed Feature for the Ghana HD+ Decoder
LiveOn TV App with DVB-I Regionalisation Shown at IBC 2022
Our LiveOn TV Application supports playback of various TV signal sources on Android platforms using our Inaris TV Solution. One of the sources is delivery according to the DVB-I standard. In...
Bayerischer Rundfunk Uses LiveOn TV App for In-House Content Reception
The Bavarian public broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) uses our Android TV application LiveOn TV as a player for their internal broadcast distribution in their new premises in Munich-Freimann. The app...
Ghana HD+: Improved Favourite Lists and Updated Success Story
Recently, the fourth software update with new features was rolled out for the Ghana HD+ Decoder. This update improves the functionality and usability of the favourite channel list. The new...
Back On Site – ANGA COM 2022
BACK ON SITE! After a break of two years, finally, live again - the trade fair ANGA COM in Cologne! Alex and Manfred enjoyed the valuable time on site, with...
Found by Chance – Historical Teletext Pages
At the end of a year, people often tend to look back on good old times. This is what ARD has now done in a very special way and recovered...
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,...
PVR is Now Available for the Ghana HD+ Decoder
The Ghana HD+ Decoder received its third major feature upgrade within one year: After TARA finished the development, SES started to ship a new software version that supports PVR and...
Launching and Enhancing the Ghana HD+ Decoder
Only half a year ago, SES launched their HD+ service in Ghana to deliver premium TV picture quality to Ghanaian households. We are contributing to this project by providing the major part...
Pre-integration of Synamedia (formerly Cisco) VQE Client
We have now pre-integrated the VQE Client from Synamedia (formerly Cisco) into our Inaris Media Player. The VQE Client is a widely used solution to support IPTV services. Besides receiving the RTP...
Feature Extensions on the Montage SoC
The Montage SoC is a very attractive SoC for STBs in cost-sensitive markets. While the hardware costs are low, customers are still demanding a high level of functionality in their...
HD Television for Ghana​
Improved picture quality and easier distribution of new TV content for a West African country – this intention brought the already long-time collaborating partners of SES and TARA Systems together...
Integration of NAGRA CA with Inaris certified on Montage SoC
On the Montage SoC, we have now successfully completed and certified the integration of our Inaris DVB/IPTV Solution and the NAGRA CA system. The integration was done for an RTOS-based...
Inaris based STB Solutions on Montage SoC
As porting of the Inaris DVB/IPTV Solution has been done last year on top of a real-time operating system, we have now also added support for Linux based deployments. With...
Inaris DVB/IPTV Solution ported to Montage SoC
To address also very price-sensitive STB markets, we have ported our Inaris DVB/IPTV Solution to the Montage chipset. On this chipset we are running our software on top of a real-time operating...
Using AI for Categorisation of TV Shows on Embedded Platforms
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, based on their description texts. We...
SES shows Analytics for VoD Everywhere
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 analytics function of the...
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...
Premium Content with VoD Everywhere
In 2018, the SES VoD Everywhere platform has evolved from a demonstration vehicle to a ready to deploy full featured product. With Newland as an STB partner, the first customers...
VoD Everywhere on HiSilicon shown at IBC2018
At IBC 2018, our partner SES presented the VoD Everywhere solution on a HiSilicon based low cost STB platform. Besides of on-demand VoD content and Live Events, also the instant...
HLS for VoD Everywhere (HiSilicon)​
VOD Everywhere is an end-to-end solution from SES to bring high-quality content to set-top boxes for emerging markets, where no or only low bandwidth Internet connections are available. The content...
VoD Everywhere Multiscreen
The SES VoD Everywhere platform offers network operators the distribution of premium content without or limited Internet via satellite transmission to their customers. On the set-top box the content library...
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...
PushVoD feature integrated in Inaris
As part of the cooperation between SES and TARA Systems, the PushVoD feature has been integrated in Inaris Middleware. An STB prototype has been shown at IBC 2017. We have...
METZ: Inaris Components for next generation TV
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 package for the new TV...
SES teams up with TARA Systems
SES has selected TARA Systems as strategic partner for end-to-end solutions for video broadcasting in emerging markets. SES offers a turnkey-solution for operators which includes also the client device for...
VoD Everywhere: Live Demo at IBC
The IBC live showcase will demonstrate how satellite distribution can provide an instantaneous and enriched video experience on demand – even in areas with no or limited broadband internet connectivity....
VoD Everywhere: LiveEvents and StartOver
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 where already running live events...
Nagra Pre-Integration on Broadcom
The Inaris DVB/IPTV Middleware has for many years been prepared for CA system integration. In former projects the integration and certification was done by our customers or partners. Now we have done the...
HD+ Connect App is now available for Android
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 and continue the playback later.
VoD Everywhere: PushVoD GUI Realisation
To meet common requirements for VoD offering, a new GUI design for STB was created in cooperation with our partner design agency coeno. The sophisticated user interface has been realised...
Nagra Pre-Integration on Broadcom​
The Inaris DVB/IPTV Middleware has for many years been prepared for CA system integration. In former projects the integration and certification was done by our customers or partners. Now we...
PushVoD Content Reception
For PushVoD content reception, the push technology from Quadrille has been integrated. The video content incl. the corresponding meta-data are received via satellite and stored locally. It is now possible...
Inaris DVB Middleware on MStar Chipsets
We have now successfully ported our Hardware Abstraction Layer to run on latest MStar platforms using the MStar MI interface.Our Inaris DVB Middleware is fully platform independent and runs already...
TV programme guide skill for Alexa
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 programme guide skill for the...
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...
HD+ Connect App for Playback of Encrypted Content on Mobile Devices
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 technology was used to stream...
Timeshift of encrypted content (in cooperation with SES PS)
Continuing the close cooperation with SES PS, TARA Systems extend their multiscreen solution by supporting encrypted channels. Read more here.
Presentation and Demonstrations at SES Industry Days
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 Managing Director Alexander Wass gave...
Cooperation with SES PS: Pay-TV Content via SAT>IP
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 of a SAT>IP server and...
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...
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...