Middleware for Digital TV: It's the intermediate software layer that allows the development of interactive applications for Digital TV, regardless of the hardware platform used by set-top box manufacturers.
Ginga: It’s the specification for the intermediary software layer standard (middleware) developed for the Brazilian Digital TV System by Puc-RJ and UFPB.
Interactivity Component: This is the term created by ByYou Digital to classify each and every application sent by the open Digital TV signal that allows the user to interact with the application using the receiver’s remote control.
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Rio de Janeiro, January 03, 2008
TQTVD demos ASTROTV during the first interactive Digital TV transmission.
The company demonstrates the application’s functionality, usability and technology, which is 100% compatible to the Brazilian standard.
TQTVD, result of the joint venture between TOTVS and Quality Software, presented on 10th December 2007 the ASTROTV Middleware. The first compatible with the Brazilian Digital TV Standard (Ginga), in an interactive enabled STB, and is currently in operation in a Brazilian TV networK.
The application was utterly compliant with the Brazilian Digital TV System (SBTVD) and was developed in NCL, XML application easy to fulfill the requirements of interactivity, time-space media objects synchronism, adaptability and fixed and portable multiple device support.