![]() Regards the latter, Booxmedia has TV apps for iOS, Android and Windows mobile devices, as well as a browser-based version targeting smart TVs, games consoles, and set-top boxes. This includes media capture, encoding, transcoding, storage and delivery. Its core product enables operators and service providers - think quad-play companies, for example - to launch “TV everywhere” services via Booxmedia’s ‘off-the-shelf’ cloud platform, negating the need for them to build their own bespoke technology and infrastructure. The acquisition price initially comprises €7.2m in cash and €0.7m in Amino shares, but will be topped up by €2.6m, shared equally between cash and stock, dependent on Booxmedia meeting revenue targets over the next three years.įounded in 2009 but based on an idea and (and some technology) developed at Nokia from 2007, Booxmedia offers a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) cloud TV platform to let various kinds of TV providers offer their customers an OTT service. The Helsinki-headquartered company has been acquired by Cambridge, U.K.-based and AIM-listed IPTV provider Amino for €7.9 million. ActiveVideo also has announced that Comcast is using CloudTV in an enhanced video-on-demand (VOD) user experience trial.Booxmedia, the Finnish cloud-TV platform founded by ex-Nokians, has seen an exit today. The latest version, CloudTV H5, leverages HTML5 browsers in remote servers to render the most advanced user experiences in the cloud and stream them uniformly to connected TVs, Blu-ray players, tablets and smartphones, as well as set-top boxes ranging from the oldest QAM- to the newest IP-based devices.Ī two-stage program, the CloudTV Access program begins with consultation sessions between the developer and the ActiveVideo development team and access to development tools and services, APIs and JavaScript libraries, as well as assistance in creating an initial application as specified by the developer.ĬloudTV is available on more than 10 million devices in the United States and abroad with Cablevision Systems, Ziggo, Oceanic Time Warner Cable and other operators, as well as on Philips-brand NetTVs, and is powering advanced user experiences for Net2TV, a virtual service provider. Developing on the CloudTV platform is easy, but the program is designed to help developers who are experienced with HTML5 development on the Web make the transition to television while providing them with the CloudTV tools and resources needed to quickly create cross-platform HTML5 user experiences that can be scalably streamed to any device.ĬloudTV is a platform for the multiscreen delivery of advanced user interfaces. The CloudTV Access program leverages the “write-once, deploy-everywhere” content creation environment of ActiveVideo’s CloudTV™ platform to cut app time-to-market by as much as 80% for connected device manufacturers and virtual service providers, as well as cable and IPTV operators. Can the new upstarts chip away at the stumbling Skype’s of the world and take on this new market? Since the acquisition by Microsoft Skype’s momentum has been sliding. Brands like Skype are not taking advantage of their massive position. Certainly Netflix and Hulu are the top brands that have achieved success. They have announced the launch of its “CloudTV Access™’ developer program, an initiative designed to accelerate the design and deployment of advanced HTML5 user experiences for millions of users on CloudTV™-enabled Smart TVs, set-top boxes and other CE devices.Įvery year at CES the TV market is anticipated to change. A startup is talking next generation TV in the cloud. With all the buzz about social TV and cloud based Software-led Infrastrcture (SLI), it’s a no brainer that TV is going to the cloud.
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