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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...
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...
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)...
HbbTV Symposium 2019: HbbTV on DVB-I Services
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 of the HbbTV Association about...
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...
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...
7th HbbTV Symposium in Berlin
In November, the 7th HbbTV Symposium took place in Berlin and we also participated to discuss the current developments and trends in the context of HbbTV. We demonstrated our Inaris...
HbbTV for OTT services shown at IBC 2018
Together with IRT and the OTT streaming service Zattoo, we demonstrated on this year's IBC how the HbbTV ADB (Application Discovery over Broadband) standard can be used to bring HbbTV...
Application Discovery over Broadband for OTT Services
During the last year’s event of Medientage, we demonstrated a prototype implementation of the HbbTV ADB standard. This demonstration is mainly focused on DVB-C networks where the HbbTV signaling is not...
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,...
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 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...
HbbTV Inter-Device Media Synchronisation,
With HbbTV 2, broadcasters are able to provide their viewers synchronised media content on companion devices. Use cases are for example second camera perspectives of a sports event or sign...
HbbTV Operator Applications
The HbbTV Specification Group is currently in the final phase of working on the Operator Application Standard, which was initially started in early 2016. The concepts and mechanisms are already...
Automatic testing with HbbTV Test Suite V9.0
In December 2016, the HbbTV Testing Group released the new version 9.0 of the official HbbTV Test Suite. Starting with this release, the HbbTV Test Suite includes also tests for HbbTV...
26th HbbTV Interoperability Workshop
TARA Systems participated in the 26th HbbTV Interoperability Workshop at IRT (Insitiut für Rundfunktechnik) in Munich to meet app developers and manufacturers to test the interoperability of HbbTV terminals and...
HbbTV 2.0 Companion Screen feature is now supported by Inaris HbbTV Solution
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 demonstration was shown at IRT's...
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...
HbbTV 2.0 Media Synchronisation and Companion Screen Release
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 HbbTV solution for HbbTV 2.0.During...
Automatic testing of the Inaris HbbTV Solution in Jenkins
We now fully automated our continuous integration environment Jenkins to enable the daily execution of the HbbTV Test Suite. Take a look at the following video to learn more about...
TARA Systems contributes to the HbbTV 2.0 Operator Extension
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 this meeting and also at...
Future-proof with HbbTV 2.0 extensions
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 HbbTV Solution, we already started...
SDK further simplifies the integration work with own middleware
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 implementation of all required interfaces...
Global iTV Research Project successfully completed
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 been successfully completed. The scope...
Automation of our HbbTV Test Environment
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 daily execution of the HbbTV...