Media Info
METROLOGICAL, 2L ALLIANCE, PRODRIVE, SOFTKINETIC, OPTRIMA TO DEMO GESTURE-DRIVEN HYBRID TV AT IBC
ITTV, August 24th 2010
Metrological Media Innovations said Tuesday that it is collaborating with its partners 2L Alliance, Prodrive, Softkinetic and Optrima to launch "a new and unique Internet-enabled television experience" at the IBC in Amsterdam next month (The Connected World, Hall 9, Booth IP361-364 and IP461, 462-464)...
“How Smart Is Your TV?” Metrological and Partners to Unveil Internet Television Experience at IBC 2010
Metrological, August 23th 2010
Metrological Media Innovations, a member of the Intel® Consumer Electronics Network, is collaborating with its partners 2L Alliance, Prodrive, Softkinetic and Optrima to introduce a new and unique Internet-enabled television experience at IBC 2010 (The Connected World, Hall 9, Booth IP361-364 and IP461, 462-464) September 10–14 at the RAI Convention Centre in Amsterdam, Netherlands...
“How Smart Is Your TV?” Metrological and Dutch Partners to Unveil Internet Television Experience at IBC 2010
App Market, August 24th 2010
Metrological Media Innovations, a member of the Intel® Consumer Electronics Network, is collaborating with its partners 2L Alliance, Prodrive, Softkinetic and Optrima to introduce a new and unique Internet-enabled television experience at IBC 2010 (The Connected World, Hall 9, Booth IP361-364 and IP461, 462-464) September 10–14 at the RAI Convention Centre in Amsterdam, Netherlands...
“How Smart Is Your TV?” Metrological and Partners to Unveil Internet Television Experience at IBC 2010
Vertical Wire, August 23th 2010
Metrological Media Innovations, a member of the Intel® Consumer Electronics Network, is collaborating with its partners 2L Alliance, Prodrive, Softkinetic and Optrima to introduce a new and unique Internet-enabled television experience at IBC 2010 (The Connected World, Hall 9, Booth IP361-364 and IP461, 462-464) September 10–14 at the RAI Convention Centre in Amsterdam, Netherlands...
Web-to-TV Hybrid Set Top Boxes in Six Regions
In-Stat, August 10th 2010
Online video is available everywhere, and Hybrid Set Top Boxes will bring new services to TV sets. Work is being done to create Hybrid services that bring "apps" and "widgets" to TV programming, along with advanced advertising. Project Canvas, Hybrid Broadcast Broadband services, Sezmi TV, and Metrological will be available soon....
Accenture Innovation Awards Concept van de week: YuiXX: een multimedia all-in-one-huiskamerproduct
Tijdschrift voor Marketing, August 3rd 2010
We hebben dit jaar een nieuwe categorie bij de Accenture Innovation Awards: Digital Home. Het hangt al tien jaar in de lucht om met je mobiele telefoon de tv, de koelkast, de verwarming, de verlichting en andere snufjes in en om het huis te bedienen. Die belofte lijkt nu eindelijk ingelost te gaan worden: een nieuwe generatie apparaten klopt aan om je huis digitaal in te richten. Vandaag zet ik een van de inschrijvingen in de nieuwe categorie in de schijnwerpers: YuiXX – een mediaplayer die video, tv, internet, foto’s en muziek in één kastje stopt.....
Metrological, Softkinetic and Optrima in Partnership for 3D Gesture-Based Interactive TV Applications
ITTV, June 24th 2010
Metrological Media Innovations, Softkinetic and Optrima have announced a partnership to offer set-top box and TV manufacturers an "integrated 3D gesture-based solution" that they promise will "transform home entertainment. In addition," the companies say, "Softkinetic and Optrima technologies will be offered to media service operators as part of Metrological's Mediaconnect TV system, enabling Metrological to provide their global customer base with 3D gesture-based interfaces, video games and other interactive gesture-based applications."...
Connected TV future needs gesture-based control
Videonet, June 24th 2010
Television platform developers are starting to take advantage of the higher processing power in the latest STB and connected device chipsets to expand the range of TV-based applications. One of them is the introduction of gesture-based control of the television environment, something that could make content navigation easier but also opens the door to potential revenue generating applications like games and participative interactive TV game play...
'Metrological, Optrima offer TV 3D gesture-based apps'
TMCNet, June 22th 2010
Natural interfaces provider Softkinetic, 3D imaging technology provider Optrima and Netherlands-based middleware provider Metrological Media Innovations are partnering to offer an integrated 3D gesture-based service to set-top-box and television manufacturers. Softkinetic and Optrima technologies will be offered to media service operators as part of Metrological's Mediaconnect TV system...
Neue Konkurrenz für Kinect?
Mediabiz, June 22th 2010 (German)
Gestensteuerung für TV-Geräte und Set-Top-Boxen wollen die Partner Softkinetic, Optrima und Metrological Media Innovations ermöglichen. Die drei Unternehmen vereinbarten eine Partnerschaft, die Microsofts Kinect Konkurrenz machen könnte. Die Bewegungen werden von der OptriCam von Hersteller Optrima aufgenommen und von Softkinetics Softwareplattform "iisu" in Steuerbefehle umgesetzt...
Metrological, Softkinetic and Optrima Partner to Bring 3D Gesture-Based Applications to Television
Softkinetic, Brussels, Belgium; Rotterdam, Netherlands, June 21th 2010
Softkinetic, Optrima and Metrological Media Innovations today announced a partnership to offer set-top-box and television manufacturers an integrated 3D gesture-based solution that will transform home entertainment. In addition, Softkinetic and Optrima technologies will be offered to media service operators as part of Metrological’s Mediaconnect TV system, enabling Metrological to provide their global customer base with 3D gesture-based interfaces, video games and other interactive gesture-based applications...
E3 2010: Motion Sensor Games Heading to European Set Top Boxes this Month
GamerLive.tv, June 21th 2010
With Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo showing off the latest motion-sensor games at E3 2010 in Los Angeles last week, Softkinetic, Optrima and Metrological Media Innovations have partnered to offer set-top-box and television manufacturers an integrated 3D gesture-based solution that will transform home entertainment...
MediaConnect Brings Minority Report To Your Living Room
Gearlog, June 21th 2010
We seem to be edging ever closer to the world we saw in the movie Minority Report: three companies have announced a new partnership aimed at getting gesture-based navigation into our home entertainment systems. Softkinetic's iisu gesture recognition software and Optrima's OprtiCam work in combination with Meterological's MediasConnect TV system...
Xbox 360's Kinect Challenged by Metrological, Softkinetic and Optrima
Industry Gamers, June 21th 2010
Today, Metrological Innovations, Softkinetic and Optrima announced a partnership to “offer set-top-box and television manufacturers an integrated 3D gesture-based solution that will transform home entertainment.” Softkinetic and Optrima’s technology will become a part of Metrological’s Mediaconnect TV system, allowing the company to provide their worldwide user base with 3D gestured-based interfaces, games, and applications...
Gesture to genuinely interactive television
Informitv, June 21th 2010
Microsoft Kinect, formerly known as Project Natal, attracted a lot of attention at the E3 games convention in Los Angeles, allowing users of Xbox 360 games consoles to interact with their televisions through natural gestures without the need for a remote control. Similar capabilities could be coming to other television devices and displays through a partnership between Softkinetic, Optrima and Metrological. So soon we could be able to interact with television using 3D gesture-based interfaces like in the movie Minority Report...
Metrological en Softkinetic lanceren UI gebaseerd op gebaren
Telecompaper, Netherlands, June 21th 2010 (Dutch)
Metrological Media Innovations gaat een samenwerking aan met Softkinetic en Optrima. Gezamenlijk bieden zij makers van set-top boxen en televisies een nieuwe user interface gebaseerd op gebaren in 3-D. Ook zal de technologie aangeboden worden aan de afnemers van Mediaconnect TV, de oplossing voor over-the-top diensten...
Nederlands Natal-alternatief zonder Xbox
Webwereld, Netherlands, June 21th 2010 (Dutch)
Een Nederlands bedrijf geeft settopboxen bediening via lichaamsbeweging, net zoals Microsoft Kinect-systeem (Natal) voor de Xbox. Het Rotterdamse Metrological onthult vandaag een samenwerking met de Belgische bedrijven Softkinetic en Optrima. Laatstgenoemde maakt de 3D- en RGB-camera in Microsofts nieuwe gamebedieningssysteem dat werkt met alleen lichaambewegingen...
Un geste et la télé fait le reste
Le Soir, June 21th 2010 (France)
Si Apple a révolutionné le monde de la téléphonie mobile avec son iPhone, c’est surtout grâce à deux spécificités géniales: l’écran tactile multipoints et un programme de développement d’applications dédiées , qui a permis d’en mettre des dizaines de milliers à la disposition des utilisateurs...
BNN lanceert BNN Visual Radio
Marketingfacts, Netherlands, June 16th 2010 (Dutch)
Bezoekers aan het Mediapark Jaarcongres in Hilversum waren op 9 juni getuige van de geboorte van BNN 3FM Visual Radio. Berend Jan Verheijen, hoofd Nieuwe Media van BNN, presenteerde tijdens dit jaarlijkse media evenement, ten overstaan van een aardig gevulde congreszaal, de laatste ontwikkelingen bij de Nederlandse jongeren omroep...
Video Mediapark Jaarcongres 2010
BNN, June 9th 2010 (Dutch)
Berend Jan Verheijen, Hoofd Nieuwe Media BNN vertelde op het Mediapark Jaarcongres over twee innovatieve projecten: een interactieve tv widget en tweettekst, Twitter op teletekst...
'Metrological, 2L Alliance to present YuiXX MediaPlayer'
Cable Spotlight, June 9th 2010
Middleware provider Metrological Media Innovations and international supplier of media and connectivity products 2L Alliance are officially presenting the YuiXX MediaPlayer on 9 June at the Mediapark Jaarcongres. The YuiXX is a hybrid two-way Home Media Device that enables TV viewers to access a range of enhanced, web-based multimedia applications and personal media stored elsewhere in the consumer's home network, whilst watching conventional linear television...
METROLOGICAL AND CONCEPTRONIC TO LAUNCH YUIXX AT DUTCH ANNUAL MEDIA CONGRESS
Hilversum, Netherlands, June 9th 2010
Metrological Media Innovations, a member of the Intel® Consumer Electronics Network, and 2L Alliance, an international supplier of media and connectivity products, are officially presenting the new YuiXX MediaPlayer on June 9th at the Mediapark Jaarcongres...
Metrological voegt gaming platform toe aan Connected TV
Telecompaper, June 2nd 2010 (Dutch)
TransGaming and Metrological hebben een overeenkomst gesloten. Het GameTreeTV platform van TransGaming wordt aangeboden als onderdeel van Metrological's Mediaconnect TV platform. Kabelbedrijven en andere tv-service providers kunnen hiermee gaming aanbieden. Connected TV is een aantal interactieve diensten op de tv...
TRANSGAMING TO INTEGRATE ITS GAMES PLATFORM WITH METROLOGICAL'S HYBRID INTERACTIVE TV PLATFORM
InteractiveTV Today, June 1th 2010
Toronto-based multiplatform games company, TransGaming, and Rotterdam-based hybrid TV specialist, Metrological, said Wednesday that they have formed a partnership that will see them deploying TransGaming's GameTreeTV games platform to cable operators and managed service operators via Metrological's Mediaconnect TV platform...
YuiXX presented by Metrological at WCIT 2010
June 2th 2010
YuiXX presented by Metrological at WCIT 2010 (video)...
TransGaming and Metrological Partner To Deploy GameTreeTV Gaming Platform for Digital Home Entertainment Globally
Toronto, Canada; Rotterdam, Netherlands, June 1th 2010
TransGaming Inc. (TSX‐V:TNG) and Metrological announce a partnership to globally deploy TransGaming’s GameTreeTV Games Platform to cable operators and managed service operators, as part of Metrological’s Mediaconnect TV. Through this partnership, Metrological's customers around the world will have the ability to offer video games to their subscribers as part of a fully integrated digital entertainment solution...
Metrological To Exhibit At World Congress On Information Technology WCIT2010
Amsterdam, May 26th 2010
Metrological Media Innovations, a member of the Intel Consumer Electronics Network, is exhibiting the new Yuixx MediaPlayer in the Creative Industries Pavilion at the World Congress on Information Technology WCIT2010, from May 25-27 in the RAI Conference Centre in Amsterdam, the Netherlands...
Google TV Announced with Intel, Sony, Logitech, Adobe, Best Buy and DISH Network
In-Stat, May 21th 2010
During the Google I/O Conference in San Francisco, Google announced a direct-to-TV video service called Google TV. Partners for Google TV are global industry heavyweights Intel, Sony, Logitech, Adobe, Best Buy, and DISH Network...
Fluendo and Metrological Team Up to Deliver Over-the-Top Video Content in Superior Quality
TVover.net, April 28th 2010
Metrological and Fluendo announce that Metrological will integrate Fluendo’s technology into its Metroconnect Operating System to ensure that TV viewers are able to enjoy superior quality, over-the-top video content on the new Metrological Mediaconnect TV platform...
Fluendo and Metrological team up to deliver over-the-top video content in superior quality
Fluendo, April 28th 2010
Metrological and Fluendo today announce that Metrological will integrate Fluendo’s technology into its Metroconnect Operating System to ensure that TV viewers are able to enjoy superior quality, over-the-top video content on the new Metrological Mediaconnect TV platform...
Widevine DRM and video optimization tech incorporated into Metrological's Mediaconnect TV
ITVT, Tracy Swedlow, March 23rd 2010
DRM and video optimization solutions provider, Widevine, said Monday that its adaptive streaming, virtual DVD/Blu-ray features and DRM technologies are being integrated with Metrological Media's Metroconnect operating system for use on Metrological's new hybrid/OTT device, Mediaconnect TV, in order to ensure that "subscribers enjoy highest-quality, over-the-top video content" on the device...
Widevine solutions to integrate with Metrological's Mediaconnect TV
California Chronicle, March 23rd 2010
Widevine, a provider of digital entertainment solutions, has announced that its adaptive streaming, virtual DVD/Blu-ray features and digital rights management or DRM technologies will integrate with Metrological Media Innovations's Metroconnect Operating System to provide subscribers with good quality, over-the-top video content on the new Metrological Mediaconnect TV...
Metrological develops strong position on OTT market
Telecompaper, March 23rd 2010
Metrological Media Innovations is integrating technology from Widevine in its software. Metrological makes hybrid systems for offering integrated broadcast and web content. Widgets on the TV screen provide access to online "over-the-top" content, using the remote control to navigate. Broadcast content is delivered through traditional channels: cable, satellite, DTT or IPTV. The technology, Mediaconnect TV, can be integrated into set-top boxes...
Widevine solutions to integrate with Metrological's Mediaconnect TV
TCM Net, March 22nd 2010
Widevine, a provider of digital entertainment solutions, has announced that its adaptive streaming, virtual DVD/Blu-ray features and digital rights management or DRM technologies will integrate with Metrological Media Innovations's Metroconnect Operating System to provide subscribers with good quality, over-the-top video content on the new Metrological Mediaconnect TV...
Widevine Wins Set Top Box Firm
Northwest Innovation, March 22nd 2010
Seattle-based Widevine, a developer of digital rights management (DRM) technology, reported today that its products have been selected by Metrological Media Innovations, for a set-top box...
Metrological’s Mediaconnect TV Incorporates Widevine DRM And Video
Uvox.us, March 22nd 2010
Metrological Media Innovations’ software for set-top box devices enables operators to extend over-the-top home media entertainment services to their subscribers...
Metrological Uses Widevine
Light Reading Cable, March 22nd 2010
Widevine, a provider of digital entertainment solutions, today announced that Widevine's adaptive streaming, virtual DVD/Blu-ray features and digital rights management (DRM) technologies will integrate with Metrological Media Innovations' Metroconnect Operating System (OS) to ensure subscribers enjoy highest quality, over-the-top video content on the new Metrological Mediaconnect TV...
Metrological positioneert zich sterk op de OTT-markt
Telecompaper, March 22nd 2010 (Dutch)
Metrological Media Innovations integreert technologie van Widevine in zijn software (zie ons bericht ‘Metrological neemt Widevine-technologie op voor DRM’). Metrological maakt hybride systemen waarmee broadcast en broadband content geintegeerd worden. Toegang tot web-content (OTT: over-the-top) wordt verkregen via widgets op het TV-scherm, waarop met een afstandsbediening geclickt kan worden...
Metrological’s Mediaconnect TV incorporates Widevine DRM and video optimization platform
Broadcast Newsroom, March 22nd 2010
Widevine, a provider of digital entertainment solutions, today announced that Widevine’s adaptive streaming, virtual DVD/Blu-ray features and digital rights management (DRM) technologies will integrate with Metrological Media Innovations’ Metroconnect Operating System (OS) to ensure subscribers enjoy highest quality, over-the-top video content on the new Metrological Mediaconnect TV...
Metrological neemt Widevine-technologie op voor DRM
Telecompaper, March 22nd 2010 (Dutch)
Metrological Media Innovations integreert technologie van Widevine in zijn software en hardware. Dat maken beide partners bekend. Metrological maakt hybride systemen waarmee broadcast en broadband content geintegeerd worden. Toegang tot webcontent wordt verkregen via widgets in het beeldscherm, waarop met een afstandsbediening geclickt kan worden...
Metrological’s Mediaconnect TV incorporates Widevine DRM and video optimization platform
Widevine, March 22nd 2010
Widevine, a provider of digital entertainment solutions, today announced that Widevine’s adaptive streaming, virtual DVD/Blu-ray features and digital rights management (DRM) technologies will integrate with Metrological Media Innovations’ Metroconnect Operating System (OS) to ensure subscribers enjoy highest quality, over-the-top video content on the new Metrological Mediaconnect TV...
Efforts grow to integrate Internet into TV
msnbc, Suzanne Choney, March 4th 2010
We want Internet access pretty much everywhere we are, even if where we are is on the couch, remote control in hand, in front of the TV. TV manufacturers, cable and satellite providers are working to grant our wishes — and to make sure they stay in business, as viewership continues to flag and more of us turn our eyeballs to our computers to watch shows on Web...
Managing Trigger-Happy Digital Content
TV Technology, Robin Berger, February 26th 2010
Managing digital content has its obvious rewards: streamlining production, managing archives, repurposing assets, just to name a few. But in the future there may also be an added revenue bonus if multiplatform assets can be connected to automatically trigger audience response...
OTT: distribution as a scenario for operators
Telecompaper, February 17th 2010
TV operators have several options for differentiation. In this brief, Telecompaper focuses on differentiation based on the content portfolio. Over-the-top (OTT) is explored as a content source. True integration of broadcast and broadband content could be a logical next step for OTT to evolve towards, which would be of interest to the incumbents on the broadcast market...
Conceptronic YuiXX productie gestart
Hardware.info, David van Dantzig, January 25th 2010 (Dutch)
Hardware.Info bericht er al weer een tijd over, maar nu is het bijna zover: de Conceptronic YuiXX mediaspeler annex settop box moet eind februari 2010 in de winkels liggen. Zoals inmiddels bekend mag worden verondersteld, is dit de eerste mediaspeler die gebaseerd is op de nieuwe mediaprocessor van Intel, de CE3100...
In-Stat voorziet meer dan 500 miljoen “connected devices” per 2013
Marketingfacts, January 23rd 2010 (Dutch)
In een eerder deze week gepubliceerd rapport van In-Stat (onderdeel van Reed Elsevier) stelt het gerenommeerde Amerikaanse marktonderzoeksbureau, dat er binnen 3 jaar wereldwijd meer dan 500 miljoen consumenten electronica producten met een netwerk of internet – aansluiting, in de markt zullen staan...
Intel at CES: Our Research Shows Viewers Want Internet TVs
Tubefilter, January 19th 2010
Intel isn’t just inside our computers these days. They’re in our TVs too. These smart chips power widgets available on Internet-connect HDTVs, and are also in a number of set-top boxes and Blu-ray players that stream Internet content to our TV screens...
Nieuwe manier van televisiekijken
De Telegraaf, January 16th 2010 (Dutch)
De in Nederland ontwikkelde internetmediaspeler Yuixx behoort tot de grote blikvangers tijdens de Consumer Electronics Show in de Amerikaanse gokstad Las Vegas. Dit apparaat voor media entertainment conbineert persoonlijke content zoals eigen video's met programma's en diensten van derden. Een nieuwe manier van tv-kijken staat voor de deur...
Over-The-Top TV diensten brengen leven in mediabrouwerij
Marketingfacts, January 18th 2010 (Dutch)
In toenemende mate wordt de laatste jaren geschreven en gesproken over het leveren van nieuwe TV diensten en de daarmee samenhangende toekomst van televisie en eerlijk gezegd wordt het eens tijd dat er daadwerkelijk iets tastbaars gebeurt...
"Perú, nuevo objetivo de Conceptronic"
Cine&Tele Online, January 12th 2010 (Spanish)
Conceptronic amplía su presencia en Latinoamérica llegando al mercado peruano a través de Top Store. Además, la compañía presente sus novedades y metas para 2010 en torno a su gama de reproductores multimedia...
Conceptronic crea un reproductor de contenido "web"portátil
Channelpartner.es, January 11th 2010 (Spanish)
El dispositivo cuenta con un conjunto de 'widget' que permiten reproducir, compartir y organizar diversos contenidos como fotos y vídeos...
Conceptronic YuiXX, boîtier multimédia TNT HD d'exception ?
Les Numeriques, Régis Jehl, January 11th 2010 (French)
Le CES qui s'est déroulé la semaine dernière aura été l'occasion pour Conceptronic de dévoiler officiellement le YuiXX, un boîtier multimédia TNT HD très intéressant. Avec son processeur Intel et son interface prometteuse, il pourrait bien s'agir d'un des hits de 2010...
CES: YuiXX mediaspeler van Conceptronic
ComputerIdee, January 11th 2010 (Dutch)
Op de CES heeft Conceptronic de YuiXX mediaspeler laten zien, door henzelf betiteld als de nieuwe generatie internet mediaspeler. Doordat de YuiXX persoonlijke media combineert met materiaal van internet, zou een unieke digitale tv-ervaring voor thuis moeten ontstaan...
Esordio al CES per YuiXX di Conceptronic
BIT City, January 10th 2010 (Italian)
Conceptronic ha annunciato che il YuiXX sarà lanciato a livello mondiale ed esposto presso lo stand di Intel (hall central, stand 7153) nella Fiera Internazionale CES 2010. I primi apparecchi saranno disponibili sul mercato nei negozi dei Paesi Bassi per fine gennaio 2010....
Intel CES 2010 Booth Demonstrations
Intel, January 7th 2010
The Intel Digital Home Group demonstrates a variety of approaches and solutions that require processor performance and A/V and graphics capabilities to support next-generation TV...
Intel's CE 3100 finally gets a shipping partner in Yuixx media player
Engadget, Darren Murph, January 5th 2010
Intel's CE 3100 multimedia processor has been hanging out at trade floor shows for months upon months now, but at long last the slab has a partner product that'll be shipping to general consumers....
Conceptronic promete ‘revolucionar’ 2010
PVD, The IT Channel resource, January 1st 2010 (Spanish)
Su adaptación positiva a los cambios le permite afrontar 2010 con un importante número de lanzamientos....
Wereldveroveraars van 2010
De Pers, Jan Hein Strop,December 31st 2009 (Dutch)
Internet op televisie, maar dan einde- lijk goed. Dat is de missie van Albert Dahan, die met zijn onderneming Metrological een kastje (settopbox) ontwikkelde, dat volgende maand op de markt komt....
Conceptronic, Metrological kondigen internet mediaplayer aan
Telecompaper, December 30th 2009 (Dutch)
Conceptronic, onderdeel van 2L Alliance, Prodrive en Metrological Media Innovations kondigen de komst van een nieuwe internet media player aan, genaamd Yuixx...
Conceptronic announces the launch of YuiXX at CES...
Conceptronic, December 29th 2009 (multi language)
Conceptronic announces the launch of YuiXX at CES, the first ready-to-market Full HD media player/IPTV solution based on the Intel® Media Processor CE 3100.
OTT-content wil naar de tv, wie gaat dit faciliteren?
Telecompaper, Tim Poulus, November 23rd 2009 (Dutch)
Gebruikers van de Intel-technologie, zoals Amino en Metrological, hebben Intel en een uitstekende kwaliteit mee, maar dat is vooral een voordeel in termen van time-to-market - de concurrentie zit natuurlijk niet stil. Wellicht is de winnaar degene die niet zozeer mikt op een box, maar op de software versie van de technologie. Metrological is klaar voor deze stap.
Connected TV allows operators to benefit from OTT content
Telecompaper, November 2nd 2009
The Connected TV is best described as a broadband-enabled TV, via either a set-top- box or built-in technology. For telecom operators, the added broadband consumption is something to reckon with, but it also creates an opportunity for them to differentiate their current me-too triple play offerings...
Conceptronic Yuixx : nouveaux screenshots
HD Land, October 17th 2009 (French)
Voici quelques nouveaux screenshots de la magnifique interface graphique de la Conceptronic Yuix que nous vous avons présenté en démonstration en exclusivité Française au salon Hifi et Home Cinéma…
NOS brengt internetvideo naar televisie
Emerce, Erwin Boogert, October 12th 2009 (Dutch)
De Yuixx werkt met widgets, een soort digitale stickers in de marge van het beeldscherm. Yuixx systeem is gebaseerd op technologie van het Rotterdamse Metrological dat - op zijn beurt - technologie van Intel gebruikt…
Internet dringt televisie binnen
De Stentor, October 2nd 2009 (Dutch)
Met nieuwe systemen kan zappen op TV straks niet meer alleen tussen zenders, maar ook van YouTube – flmpjes naar internetoto’s van vrienden. Eén zo’n Nederlands apparaat toont online-widgets naast beeld van bijvoorbeeld Digitenne...
Will widgets work?
Ernst & Young, October 1st 2009
“Will widgets work? Web-enabled TV in search of a killer app”– a report on widget TV and its impact on consumers, broadcasters, content providers, advertisers and government regulators.
Internetten op tv-scherm met Nederlands kastje
BN De Stem, Marc Laan, September 24th 2009 (Dutch)
Jeroen Ghijsen en Albert Dahan van Metrological ontwierpen een decoder waarmee de signalen van digitale kabel-tv, Digitenne, satelliet-tv, internet en web-tv allemaal via één bedieningsmenu zijn op te roepen op het tv-scherm…
Twee Nederlanders kloppen chipfabrikant
Het Parool, Marc Laan, September 23rd 2009 (Dutch)
Twee Nederlandse whizz-kids kregen in drie maanden voor elkaar, wat chipfabrikant Intel in vijf jaar niet was gelukt…
NL decoder verbaast Intel
Spitsnieuws.nl, R. den Outer, September 23rd 2009 (Dutch)
Jeroen Ghijsen en Albert Dahan sleutelden in drie maanden een decoder in elkaar waarmee de signalen van…
[IDF2009] Conceptronic YuiXX update
Hardware.info, Koen Crijns, September 25th 2009 (Dutch)
Eén van de aanwezige bedrijven op het Intel Developer Forum 2009 was Metrological, de ontwerper van de befaamde Conceptronic YuiXX mediaspeler…
[IDF2009] Intel CE3100 gedemonstreerd
Hardware.info, Koen Crijns, September 9th 2009 (Dutch)
In een apart paviljoen op het Intel Developer Forum demonstreren diverse bedrijven settop-boxen en mediaspelers op basis van de nieuwe Intel CE31000 processor…
TROS RadioOnline “De tv gaat online”
TROS RadioOnline, Peter de Bie & Francisco van Jole, September 12th 2009 (Dutch)
Jeroen Ghijsen van Metrological over hoe internet en tv samengaan…
Met dank aan de TROS.
Philips launches uWand 'remote touch' technology at IBC for intuitive multimedia management
Philips Intellectual Property & Standards, Marc Nieuwhof, September 10th 2009
uWand will be demonstrated using Intel Corporation's “Widget Channel Framework” that is implemented with a software application from Metrological, a platform that brings Internet services and applications to the TV screen…
Miniweb integrate it's OTT-hybrid TV platform with access's netfront browser and DLNA software
ITVT, Tracy Swedlow, September 9th 2009
Miniweb's new deal with Access is the third integration deal the company has announced over the past two months: last month, it said it had integrated its Miniweb services platform with the Metrological Metroconnect OS from Metrological Media Innovations, a provider of middleware and reference designs based on the Intel® Media Processor CE 3100…
First Intel-Powered Convergence Device Being Unveiled in Europe
Video Nuze, Will Richmond, September 2nd 2009
At the heart of Intel's early initiatives is the company's much-heralded Media Processor CE3100, the first in a family of “system on a chip” convergence-oriented processors. Next week the first CE3100-powered device, the “Mediaconnect TV” will be shown at the IBC show in Amsterdam. The box is a collaboration between a Dutch company, Metrological Media Innovations…
IBC 2009: 11-15 september in de RAI Amsterdam
Marketingfacts.nl, John Goedegebuure, September 2nd 2009 (Dutch)
Met de intrede van digitale televisie komt ook “TV over IP” steeds meer in de belangstelling te staan. De IPTV Zone (Hal 12) is dan ook een absolute aanrader. Daarbij wil ik nog extra benadrukken een bezoekje te brengen aan de stand van Intel, IP732, waar een vertegenwoordiging van Intel’s Digital Home divisie, als wereldprimeur Mediaconnect TV van het Nederlandse bedrijf Metrological zal presenteren…
Dutch TV-technology positions Intel to enable broadcasters to deliver next-generation TV services
Broadcast Newsroom, John Goedegebuure, August 17th 2009
Last week, British interactive service provider, Miniweb, announced a collaboration with Dutch based Metrological Media Innovations and Intel. Miniweb, founded in 2007 following an MBO from media giant BskyB, provides converged broadcast and broadband entertainment services which enable interactivity and targeted, web-style advertising on the TV…
Nederlandse tv-technologie boekt succes in Verenigd Koninkrijk
Marketingfacts.nl, John Goedegebuure, August 9th 2009 (Dutch)
De Britse interactieve service provider, Miniweb, wist begin vorige week te melden dat zij een samenwerkingsverband is aangegaan met het Rotterdamse Metrological Media Innovations…
Miniweb, Metrological in technology integration partnership
ITVT, Tracy Swedlow, August 3rd 2009
According to Miniweb and Metrological, the combination of the Miniweb platform, Metrological's middleware and hardware platform and the Intel® CE 3100 will provide an end-to-end platform for the delivery of a fully converged, high-quality broadband and broadcast experience…
Miniweb enables next-generation television services
Informitv, William Cooper, August 3rd 2009
“Miniweb showed a reference set-top box implementation designed by Metrological, incorporating a twin-tuner digital video recorder in a compact case, providing a high-definition output and a slick user interface that is streets ahead of traditional interactive television services”…
Miniweb takes on Connected TV
Broadband TV News, Julian Clover, August 3rd 2009
Miniweb has announced a collaboration with Metrological Media Innovations, the Dutch provider of middleware and reference designs, that will offer converged internet and broadband TV services onto Intel CE 3100 powered devices…
Miniweb collaborates with Metrological on converged TV platform
IPTV-news, August 3rd 2009
UK firm Miniweb has teamed up with Metrological Media Innovations, a Dutch provider of middleware and reference designs, to deliver a reference design for a set-top box which offers converged broadcast…
Intel, Miniweb, Metrological Team Up
Lightreading, August 3rd 2009
Miniweb, the Interactive Service Provider that is enabling internet video, interactivity and targeted, web-style advertising on TV, and Metrological Media Innovations, a leading provider of middleware and reference designs based on the Intel® Media Processor CE 3100 and part of the Intel Consumer Electronics Network…
Miniweb, Metrological and Intel Collaborate to Provide a Next Generation Converged TV & Internet Video Experience.
United Kingdom, London / The Netherlands, Rotterdam, August 3rd 2009
Integration enables OTT and Broadcast video on Intel® Media Processor CE 3100 Powered Consumer Devices to provide a high-quality TV consumer experience…
Conceptronic launches Yuixx website
Conceptronic, July 21st 2009
YuiXX created a complete new generation media players for home use by combining personal media content with Internet, all experienced on your TV. The YuiXX is innovative and focused on a complete new way of watching TV and enjoying what is on Internet, at the same time…
[Computex09] Conceptronic Yuixx preview - exclusive screens
Hardware.info, Koen Crijns, June 4th 2009
At Computex in Taiwan, media streaming and networking specialist Conceptronic gave the first public demonstrations of the upcoming Yuixx (pronounced in a similar fashion to 'jukebox') media player…
Conceptronic bouwt mediaspeler met Intel CE 3100-SoC
Tweakers.net, Dimitri Reijerman, May 27th 2009 (Dutch)
Conceptronic presenteert binnenkort een mediaspeler op basis van de Intel CE 3100-soc. De Yuixx-speler kan niet alleen hd-beelden afspelen, maar ook webcontent toegankelijk maken en dienst doen als personal video recorder…
Metrological Mediaconnect TV – A New Way of Watching Television
Softpedia, Catalin Ivan, May 26th 2009
There's something about a box with a button in the middle that gets people really excited. Add some nice finishing to that box and cool coloring and you'll have a lot of people drooling over what that thing is. The same goes for Metrological's Mediaconnect TV...
Metrological's Mediaconnect TV: the first Intel CE 3100 retail device?
Engadget, Thomas Ricker, May 26th 2009
This one's been on the books since September of 2007. Now it looks like the first retail product based on Intel's Canmore System on Chip (SoC), aka the CE 3100, will take its first step into the spotlight at Computex with this “ready-to-market” Mediaconnect TV…
Conceptronic mediaspeler met Intel CE 3100
Hardware.info, Frank Knopers, May 26th 2009 (Dutch)
Conceptronic heeft een primeur met de eerste mediaspeler op basis van de Intel CE 3100 media processor. Het apparaat is daarmee is staat om de hoogste kwaliteit beeld- en geluidssignalen probleemloos te verwerken…
Metrological Media Innovations & 2L International introduce the first ready-to-market streaming HD media player/IPTV solution based on Intel® Media Processor CE 3100 during Computex show in Taipei.
The Netherlands, Rotterdam/Amersfoort, May 25th 2009
Metrological Media Innovations and 2L International will market, together with Intel, new CE media devices. Thanks to strong synergies between Metrological and 2L International, they will present multiple solutions based on one platform for the retail market as well as one for cable- and telecom providers, content distributors and producers…
Metrological becomes Intel® CEN partner
Intel® - Digital Home Group, February 9th 2009
The Intel® Consumer Electronics Network (CEN) is a community of hardware, software and services providers that accelerates the development and time-to-market of Internet-connected CE devices…
