Tilgin radically reduces the cost for Personal Video Recorder enabled IPTV services.
Tilgin, a leading provider of customer premises equipment solutions for multi-play and next-generation broadband services, today announces a new cost-optimized Mood 400 IP Set-top that greatly reduces operator costs for deploying a Personal Video Recorder (PVR) enabled IPTV service.
The new Mood 400-022 IP Set-top Media Center offers a broad range of managed High Definition IPTV service capabilities, of which advanced PVR is the foremost. Reducing costs for deploying this feature is critical as more and more consumers rank PVR functionality like pause live TV, time-shift and schedule recordings as the most important features they would like to have in their TV service. Recent consumer research presented by Deutsche Telekom* shows that the top two TV features appreciated by consumers are Pause live TV with Time-shift (58%) and Scheduled Recording (52%). 81% of TiVo PVR users would rather give up their iPod than be without their PVR service.**
“To be successful, IPTV providers can’t offer just a ‘me too’ TV service,” says Jeff Heynen, Directing Analyst, Broadband and IPTV at Infonetics Research. “IPTV will need to offer a more personalized and on-demand viewing experience that more actively utilizes PVR and even convergence with home networking. Consumers are going to expect to be able to pause live TV, time-shift and schedule recordings according to their interests. They are also going to expect that their content can be shared across multiple televisions in their home.”
The Mood 400-022 includes an integrated 160GB hard disk drive with advanced multi-stream and multi-room PVR functionality. Consumers are able to simultaneously handle multiple HD streams in their set-top, recording two streams while viewing another. Stored content can also be shared with all other Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) compliant set-tops and consumer devices in the home.
“We have succeeded in designing this new PVR Mood 400 to meet the price-points required for mass market roll-outs. And we have done this without having to compromise on either industry design or functionality. This product hosts very advanced functionality inside a very small and elegant casing. And as a bonus, operators will be glad to hear that it is amongst the most energy efficient set-tops on the market,” says Ola Berglund, CEO at Tilgin.
At the heart of the Mood 400-022 is a common software platform shared with all other Mood 400 set-tops. Continuously evolving, it offers robust best-in-class performance and advanced functionality required to deliver high quality, interactive and personalized IPTV services. Support exists for DLNA/UPnP, SIP and IMS allowing providers to deliver expanded service functionality like Remote Access, Instant Messaging, Caller ID, VoIP and many more communication and media sharing applications. Integration with third party application developers is done with a powerful and easy-to-use software development kit.
Tilgin exhibits and showcases its Mood 400-022 solution at IBC in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on September 12-16 in hall 12 (IPTV Zone) stand IP255. www.ibc.org
* Presented by Deutsche Telekom at the IPTV World Forum Europe Conference, 14 March 2008
** According to TiVo consumer research published on www.tivo.com
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