Digital Interoperability News
Advanced Digital Broadcast joins Digital Interoperability
Forum
Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB), a leading provider
of set-top boxes and software solutions, has become
the latest company to join the Digital Interoperability
Forum's campaign to promote industry-led solutions that
make digital and interactive television services available
on the widest choice of platforms.
ADB has contributed remarkably to the successful launch
of digital TV services in more than 15 countries across
the world with a variety of middleware and conditional
access configurations. In Europe, ADB supplies set-top-boxes
for PayTV and FreeTV broadcasting, including the delivery
of its i-CAN MHP set-top-box to support the recent launch
of digital terrestrial television in Italy.
ADB is the nineteenth company from Europe's world leading
digital television industry to join DIF since its creation
in October 2003. Members include some of the foremost
players in the delivery of digital and interactive television
through European satellite, cable and digital terrestrial
platforms: BSkyB, CANAL+, Espial, Flextech, Liberate,
Microsoft TV, Nagravision, NDS, ntl, Numéricable,
OpenTV, Pace Micro Technology, Sky Italia, Telewest,
TF1, TPS, UPC/Chello Media and ZetaCast.
Sheila Cassells, Chair of the Digital Interoperability
Forum and Head of Economic Policy at BSkyB, said:
"I am very pleased to welcome ADB to the Digital
Interoperability Forum. DIF's growing membership is
evidence of the industry's commitment to supporting
the European Union's eEurope 2005 Action Plan by making
interactive services accessible on different platforms.
All DIF members are united in the strong belief that
progress towards interoperability is best achieved through
market-led solutions rather than the mandation of any
single technical standard."
"ADB's primary interest is to deliver the best
technical solution to fulfil the varying requirements
of each digital TV deployment," says Luis Ballestero,
Marketing Director at Advanced Digital Broadcast. "ADB
has a successful track record of delivering superior
digital set-top-boxes incorporating proprietary and
open middleware sytems such as OpenTV, NDS Core or MHP.
We are proud to join forces with other relevant companies
in the industry and together contribute to the ongoing
success of digital TV in all its forms."
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About Advanced Digital Broadcast
Advanced Digital
Broadcast (www.adbglobal.com) is a major supplier
of digital set-top-boxes and software solutions for
digital interactive television. Since releasing its
first unit in the summer of 1997, ADB has shipped over
2.5 million set-top-boxes to customers in 15 countries.
Advanced Digital Broadcast employs some 250 staff in
offices in Switzerland, Australia, Poland, Spain, in
the Philippines, the United States and in Taiwan. Of
this total staff, more than 170 work as development
engineers, principally in the company's Software Engineering
facilities in Western Poland.
Further information:
DIF
Teresa Calvano
GPC International
Tel: + 32 2 2865124
E-mail: teresa.calvanot@fleishmaneurope.com
Thomas Gauthier-Lafaye
GPC International
Tel: +32 2 282 09 84
E-mail: gauthiet@fleishmaneurope.com
ADB
Luis Ballestero
Marketing Director
Tel: + 41 22 799 07 99
E-mail: l.ballestero@adbglobal.com
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