Media and entertainment companies are busy gearing up for IBC 2011, to be held Sept. 8-13, in Amsterday. Amino Communications, for one, is taking its range of enhanced, OTT-enabled IPTV set-top boxes to the event.
All Amino devices now allow operators to offer what the company calls a compelling mix of broadcast, on-demand, and content from the Internet, including social media, gaming and applications.
The IPTV devices will use both HLS (live streaming) and HTML5 to deliver a new layer of OTT content. HLS is designed to deliver content over open and unmanaged networks by selecting optimum network speeds to guarantee a continuous quality user experience. It can also deliver video-on-demand and live TV from aggregated and cloud-based services without requiring extra network-infrastructure investment. HTML5 provides a standardized framework for video and audio playback inside the browser, allowing operators to create a rich walled garden of OTT content..
“While our Freedom products can target new or existing cable, satellite or terrestrial deployments, our new Aminet range can now deliver an exciting OTT content layer to the IPTV market – a feature our customers now see as critical for the next phase of service deployment," said Amino CEO Andrew Burke. “The key technology features to enable OTT – including HLS and HTML5 – are specifically designed to improve the user experience with a raft of new services which in turn will help our customers to reduce customer churn and drive new revenue streams."
Amino says the new enhanced range also includes HTTP-upgrade capability, which allows set-top boxes to be remotely upgraded automatically with the latest firmware.
