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29.04.2021

CI Plus 2.0 Adoption Gains Support with Multiple Collaborative Projects

There is growing interest in the CI+ 2.0 standard from Operators and OEMs alike. The availability of the conformance test suite is an important milestone in driving the adoption of the standard. OBS was pleased to work with Eurofins, Twise, and SmiT on this project, contributing our CI Plus 2.0 Host stack and expertise. If […]

28.04.2021

OBS Increasing Employment Support for Young People

Building on Ocean Blue Software’s (OBS) long established history of providing career accelerating opportunities to young people; we are pleased to announce that OBS has been accepted into the government Kickstart Scheme. This scheme, which is targeted at people 18 – 24 years old and claiming Universal Credit, provides the employer with support in hiring […]

08.02.2021

Closed Caption Support for DTVkit

This month we’d like to give you some insight into some work that we have been doing for DTVKit with Closed Captions. As part of its DTV software offering to its members DTVKit provides a DVB stack, DVBCore. DVBCore has many compelling features that have led to it being used by manufacturers in millions of […]

15.12.2020

It’s Been an Eventful Year ! – 2020 Retrospective

It’s been somewhat of an up and down year for all of us, but we have still managed to achieve many things which we are proud of. Back in January we were excited and looking for to the year ahead, with our focus being on all things RDK. We were busy working with DTVkit to […]

09.11.2020

RDK Lightning User Interface

Lightning is a Javascript application framework for developing TV Apps, that was pioneered by Metrological and is part of the RDK ecosystem.

07.10.2020

Multicast IPTV Support for DVBCore

Multicast is not widely used as a TV delivery mechanism as Operators need to invest in a managed network but some Operators have chosen to go down this path for their IPTV services. The benefit of a ‘managed’ IPTV network is that it enables the Operator to control how traffic is routed and prioritised…

17.08.2020

Platform independent DVB stack for Android

OBS and DTVKit have continued to provide Android DVB solutions for over 3 years now. We started by integrating the DTVKit DVB stack with Android ‘N’, using the TV Input Framework (TIF) to ensure compatibility with the Android architecture. From there we migrated to ‘O’…