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 TQTVD 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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Partnership with STMicroelectronics
TQTVD has specialized in the latest Digital TV hardware and software solutions provided by STMicroelectronics. These platforms boast advanced functionality that enable the required interactivity for the Brazilian Digital TV System (SBTVD) and is available by TQTVD-Ginga. The Digital TV System adopted in Brazil is an estate of the art high definition video processing and decoding and has interactive functionality unprecedented in the world.
About STMicroelectronics
STMicroelectronics is one of the world’s largest semiconductor companies with net revenues of US$9.85 billion in 2006 and US$4.69 billion for the first half of 2007. The Company’s sales are well balanced between the semiconductor industry’s five major high-growth sectors (percentage of ST’s sales in 2007): Communications (35%), Consumer (17%), Computer (16%), Automotive (16%) and Industrial (16%). According to the latest industry data, ST is the world’s fifth largest semiconductor company with market leadership in many fields. For example, ST is the leading producer of application-specific analog chips and power conversion devices. It is also the #1 supplier of semiconductors for the Industrial market and for set-top box applications, and occupies leading positions in fields as varied as discrete devices, camera modules for mobile phones and automotive integrated circuits. For more information please go www.st.com.
Partnership with TeleMídia / Puc-Rio
TQTDV is a TeleMídia/PUC-Rio partner and is licensed for technical and commercial development of the Ginga-NCL, one of the main components of the Brazilian Digital TV System.
Ginga is the intermediate software layer (middleware) that allows the development of interactive applications for Digital TV, independent of vendor's hardware platform (set-top boxes).
About TeleMídia - Telecommunication Networks Laboratory and Multimedia Systems
Arising as the result of years of joint research led by the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) and the Federal University of Paraiba (UFPB), Ginga gathers a set of standard technologies and Brazilian innovations that make it the most advanced middleware specification and the best fitted for the country´s condition.
The Ginga Middleware can be divided into two main subsystems, which in turn allow the development of applications following two different programming paradigms. Depending on the required functionalities in each application project, one paradigm will be more adequate than the other.
For more information visit: www.telemidia.puc-rio.br.
Contact for Partnerships:
Quality
Anna Crook (Marketing Assistant) – anna.crook@quality.com.br
Phone: (21) 3147-3000