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10/11/2009

EchoStar Europe Integrates Latens For Deployable IPTV Solution

EchoStar Europe, a leading supplier of added-value, connected device solutions to the digital television industry, has announced that it has integrated its state-of-the-art HDX-600, high-definition (HD), hybrid digital video recorder (DVR) with Latens' card-less conditional access (CA) system and ECO middleware solution to provide operators with an advanced platform for delivering secure, interactive IP-based television services and applications including video-on-demand (VOD).
Rick Smith, VP Sales and Marketing for EchoStar Europe, said: "In order to support our strategy in Europe, it is imperative that we partner with a number of the industry's leading conditional access and middleware solutions. This is one of our first planned integrations in the IP space and provides a middleware and CA platform for adaptation and deployment by IPTV and hybrid IPTV operators."
Jeremy Thorp, CEO of Latens, said: "This integration provides IPTV and broadband TV operators with a proven and tested integration between the core elements of the pay TV network, assuring operators that they service they deploy will be a success, while reducing the additional cost and pain of integrations. Integrating Latens CAS and ECO middleware with EchoStar Europe HDX-600 gives operators a strong choice for the deployment of their IPTV services."
EchoStar Europe has announced its first IPTV product, the HDX-600, at IPTV World Forum in March 2009. The HDX-600 series DVR combines state-of-the-art cosmetics with HD reception, advanced video coding (AVC) and hybrid functionality, providing IPTV operators with an added-value product solution. EchoStar Europe ensures that its solutions are interoperable with the industry's leading suppliers to the IPTV market and has successfully integrated on this occasion with Anevia's Toucan VOD server (also available as ViaMotion for the broadcast and telecom markets).
Available with either an integrated hard disk drive, or as a stand along set-top box (HDX-400) with an upgrade path to DVR via plug in hard disk drive, the unit offers a great deal of flexibility to IPTV operators wishing to offer personalised digital television services. The platform has been designed to complement IP entertainment delivery with the addition of cable, satellite or terrestrial tuners to support traditional broadcast services in a single 'convergent' or hybrid product format. A build option of integrated SlingLoaded is also included allowing digital TV and IPTV operators to fully embrace consumers' needs for ubiquitous media. SlingLoaded enables users to take their TV content and place-shift it securely, using a one-to-one client, to other devices inside or outsdie the home, including mobile phones, portable media players (PMP) and laptop computers.
The HDX-600 supports AVC to reduce bandwidth requirements for video-based services, and is compatible with the industry's leading digital rights management (DRM), conditional access and middleware solutions. The addition of a touch-sensitive front panel and stylish cosmetics provides IPTV operators with a unique consumer proposition.
Latens ECO is an advanced middleware platform, with pre-integrated conditional access software, that brings true multi-media networking to the home. Offering IPTV and broadband TV operators the major features that help them increase subscribers and reduce chum, ECO broadens the scope for operators enabling a truly interactive and feature rich IPTV service, supporting a variety of features including DVR, Remote DVR and over-the-top TV.
Having debuted at IBC 2009, the combined HDX-600 featuring Latens' CA systesm and ECO middleware will be showcasing at EchoStar's Stand 925 at TelcoTV09 Orlando, Florida, USA. EchoStar Technologies, the US parent of EchoStar Europe, will be demonstrating an IPTV set-top box platform for use in the US, that is also compatible with the industry's leading conditional access and middleware solutions.
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