The eighth annual HbbTV Symposium opened in Athens. The number of attendees showed the increasing level of international interest in the hybrid broadcast broadband standard. Epeegee and the Greek broadcaster Open Beyond TV using innovative technologies of hybrid television were described, by HbbTV Union President Vincent Grivet, as a Success Story. Epegee’s hybrid television services…
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OPEN BEYOND is the first private television station in Greece to offer HbbTV services and take advantage of newer technologies, designed for the Internet age, and ultimately to bring viewers an improved and richer interactive experience. By pressing the red button viewers, with “smart” HbbTv-ready TVs and internet access, can tap the OPEN HbbTV application…
Epeegee has delivered Icareus Playout EPG solution to ERT, the public radio and television broadcaster for Greece. Icareus Playout EPG solution is used to manage the PSI/SI and EPG signalling of all of the over twenty ERT distributed TV and Radio channels to several uplinks. ERT’s Mr. Yiannis Vougiouklakis, Head Of Digital Strategy, comments the selection of…
On Monday, December 4 2017, ERT launches its HbbTV Platform. The hybrid platform will be available to anyone with a smart HbbTV-Ready TV at the touch of a button. The hybrid ERT platform will launch with the following services: Catch-up TV, that contains most of the ERT’s TV broadcasted programs of the last eight days…
TV is becoming NONLINEAR! With the rise of interactive services like YouTube and Netflix among others it is time for the broadcast world to adapt to the new millennium audience habits. Millennials are used to one to one advertising while they internet surf. For TV broadcasters is the time to move one step further and…
The second wave of WannaCry attacks appears to have just started within the past few hours. It is expected that we will see a lot of NEW virus variants. How to protect yourself If you use Windows, install the Microsoft patch. You can find instructions on Microsoft Knowledge Base. You can also directly download the patches for…
HbbTV 2.0 goes a step forward by formally been adopted by ETSI as an international standard for hybrid broadcast broadband TV. The latest HbbTV 2.0 release adds support for new capabilities including companion device support, HTML5 user experience and support for advanced video delivery features such as Ultra HD and High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)…
Hybrid TV – and especially HbbTV- Services are on air in various countries around Europe. A rising proportion of large-screen TV sets are actually connected to the internet. As it was mentioned in EBU’s Broadthinking 2015 event in Geneva on March 18 the critical mass of connected TV sets exists. HbbTV has become the hybrid…
As we move forward to 2015 it is time to make some predictions -or bets- for the social media trends of the coming year. Facebook is the King… long lives the King… Facebook is surely the King of social media. It will continue to dominate the social-internet world in 2015. As more businesses are…
Ryanair will not be publishing a calendar of cabin crew in bikinis for 2015. Michael O’Leary told that he plans to stop publishing the annual calendars, that raise money for charity. The first calendar was published back in in 2008 and they were an idea initially thought up by Ryanair’s staff. As Ryanair is seeking…
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