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iWedia's Teatro-3.5 Software Solution for Android TV STB Upgraded for Marshmallow
[September 09, 2016]

iWedia's Teatro-3.5 Software Solution for Android TV STB Upgraded for Marshmallow


LAUSANNE, Switzerland, September 9, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --

iWedia, a leading provider of software solutions for TV devices to service operators and consumer electronics manufacturers, today announced that it has upgraded its Teatro-3.5 software solution for Android TV STB towards Android M (Marshmallow).

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The announcement was made to coincide with the opening of IBC 2016, which is being held in Amsterdam from Friday, September 9th through to Tuesday, September 13th. iWedia exhibits at the show (RAI, hall 5, booth B40) where Teatro-3.5 will be demonstrated running under Android M.

Teatro-3.5 is a complete software solution for STB operated by Android TV. It is based on iWedia's ANDROID4TV framework which extends Android TV with broadcast and multicast Pay TV functionalities implemented as input modules of the Android TV Input Framework (TIF). ANDROID4TV smoothly integrates Pay TV within Android TV. It exposes all the necessary APIs allowing development of a Pay TV application as an Android APK.

The Java APIs of ANDROID4TV for M as well as sample applications making use of the framework have been open sourced (please visit android4tv.iwedia.com to get access to these materials).



Teatro-3.5 is available ported on various chipsets and STB, integrated with various Conditional Access Systems (CAS), and connected to various service delivery platforms and content delivery networks.

The UI/UX of Teatro-3.5 consists in a 2D-animated live TV app called C-More Live. This system app listed by the launcher is fully compliant with Google design principles and gathers all the features of a regular STB app: zapping banner, service list, grid EPG, PVR and Time Shift.


"ANDROID4TV, the key stone of Teatro-3.5, pushes the limits of Android TV beyond OTT allowing it to embrace legacy Pay TV operations that is to say premium TV delivered over broadcast or multicast and secured with a CAS," says Nikola Teslic, CTO at iWedia. "With Teatro-3.5 Pay TV service providers can get the best of Android TV while leveraging it to deliver their own legacy Pay TV services. Moreover, in open sourcing our framework, we ease the creation of genuine TV-centric Android apps".

About iWedia 

iWedia provides software components and solutions for TV devices to service operators and consumer electronics manufacturers. Its mission is to deliver the software products and services needed by its customers to adapt constantly to the ever-changing requirements of the digital TV markets. In addition to stand-alone components (HLS, DASH, VidiPath, DVB>IP, MHEG-5, HbbTV, CI Plus, DTCP-IP, TR-069, etc.), iWedia offers a range of complete solutions for zappers, connected receivers, Smart TVs, as well as for OTT and IPTV boxes. Dubbed Teatro, these solutions are available for RTOS, Linux/HTML, and Android/Java and are pre-integrated with leading service and delivery platforms, CA/DRM systems, and chipsets. Alongside its products, iWedia delivers efficient and scalable software integration services performed by an experienced team used to enable rapid deployments of high volume consumer electronics devices. iWedia is headquartered in Switzerland with development labs in Belgrade and Novi Sad, Serbia, and sales and support offices in Brazil, France, Germany, India, and Thailand.

Please visit http://www.iwedia.com for more information.

Media Contact:
Hervé Creff
VP Marketing, iWedia
+33-2-99-27-92-63
[email protected]


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