ADB DELIVERS THREE-WAY HYBRID PLATFORM TO CANAL DIGITAL
September 12th 2011 – Geneva, Switzerland and IBC, Amsterdam Advanced Digital Broadcast, (www.adbglobal.com) a leading supplier of advanced solutions for the connected home announced today that it is delivering its latest ADB-5720SX hybrid Digital Video Recorder, pre-integrated with its award-winning Carbo™ user interface to Canal Digital.
Using the ADB-5720SX platform, Canal Digital is launching an enhanced consumer TV experience for its subscribers. Thanks to this solution, users will be able to quickly and easily access Canal Digital’s broad range of high definition channels and interactive applications, including Video on Demand services.
“Canal Digital is a leading operator in the Nordic countries, renowned for high quality services,” says Krzysztof Bilinski, Executive Vice President for Advanced Digital Broadcast S.A. “It has high standards for the viewer experience that it delivers. I am confident that subscribers will enjoy an enhanced user experience as they access consumer TV, and over the top (OTT) services that are seamlessly integrated on the three-way hybrid ADB-5720SX platform.”
“We look forward to providing our customers with a broader choice of services and enhanced user experience using the ADB-5720SX DVRs”, says Terje Storhaug, CTO of Canal Digital AS.
The product being delivered to Canal Digital incorporates the following industry awarded solutions: ADB Carbo™ high definition user interface and the ADB-5720SX three-way hybrid platform, which received 2 awards at the CSI 2010 Product of the Year Awards for the Best Interactive Technology or Application and Best Consumer Premise Technology, respectively. This solution offers super-fast channel change, clear and simple multi-layer menu for users to quickly reach their desired application using an intuitive carrousel of icons. From the outset, the ADB-5720SX three-way hybrid digital TV platform has been designed to make it easy and cost effective to add new interactive services or internet applications, and meet subscribers’ growing appetite for new content. This solution continues to empower Canal Digital to seamlessly combine content from three delivery networks on a single platform and share it with other connected home devices.
About Canal Digital AS
Digital-TV-company owned by Telenor Broadcast Holding; Canal Digital has over 3 million households as customers in the Nordic countries (Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland).
ADB (www.adbglobal.com) designs, manufactures and deploys solutions to distribute pay-TV and multimedia services to the connected home, for all types of networks, providing an amazing user experience.
We believe in a future where multi-media content will come from multiple sources and at the user’s preference seamlessly move between multiple screens and devices. We strive to be the preferred partner of pay-TV and broadband service providers, working together to make the future a profitable reality.
Our solution portfolio includes:
- ready to deploy pay-TV solutions, including set-top devices with their award-winning user interface, middleware, software for advanced interactive TV applications, services and scalable head-ends,
- broadband access gateways and home networking devices,
- remote management software.
ADB is a leader in advanced solutions for the connected home, with over 30 million consumer premise devices sold to a global customer base, and a deep software expertise. Our innovations have been recognized by numerous industry awards.
The company is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland with Research and Development facilities in Poland, Italy and Ukraine, and Operations division in Taipei, Taiwan. We have local representation in several countries in Europe, the United States, Latin Americas, Asia, India.
ADB is a member of ADB Group; ADB Group (www.adbholdings.com) is publicly listed on the Swiss Stock Exchange (SIX: ADBN).
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