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Inview Technology (Inview Technology Ltd or simply Inview) is a UK based digital TV software company. It specialises in advanced EPGs, interactive broadcast, and IP services and solutions for Pay-TV and analogue switch off markets.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.broadcast-asia.com/ptm/ShowCat/exhdetail.asp?exhid=BCA869655 )〕 Their OTT TV platform allows television broadcast and internet content to be simultaneously accessible to the viewer. They claim this cloud based platform has an extremely lightweight footprint.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.joomag.com/magazine/latam-market-briefing-2013/0440442001379253311 )〕 They have been involved in digital TV in the UK since the late 1990s, providing software for set-top boxes manufactured by Digifusion, Thomson and Sony, alongside the Teletext Extra EPG (later renamed Radio Times Extra). Nick Markham, Inview's Chairman, developed the concept of Freeview alongside the BBC and previously worked for Top-up TV.〔(The Guardian; 28 October 2003; accessed 14 February 2014. )〕 In March 2015 Inview Technology was appointed by Nigeria's government run National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to enable digital switchover from analogue throughout the country and provide a Conditional Access System, set-top box software and services including full EPG, Push Video-On-Demand, a range of broadcasting applications such as news, public service information and audience measurement services over the digital terrestrial and satellite networks in Nigeria. In 2014-5 their partners include Humax and Skyworth, China’s largest set-top box company,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://advanced-television.com/2014/06/13/skyworth-to-integrate-inview-services/ )〕 and silicon partners include Mstar and Broadcom. They have recently signed a deal with Pico Digital, Inc. to develop the next generation set-top box for the Latin American market. In 2014 CTH Public Company Limited, a major pay TV operator in Thailand chose Inview and Irdeto to introduce OTT and hybrid versions of its cable services. Martin Edwards (Honorary Life President of Manchester United) and Koen Van Driel (ex-CEO of Thomson and Grundig Set Top Box Divisions) joined the Board of Directors in February 2014. ==History== Inview's roots go back to 1996 when Ken and Julie Austin built a team of engineers specialising in digital TV software. Inview provided a chip based EPG, broadcast data service and a digital TV software platform for the free to air terrestrial market. It provided the first Freeview EPG service and the first Freeview PVR for the UK. These new products provided an EPG that could be deployed on low‐cost set-top boxes without incurring additional costs. 10 million products have been deployed in the past 15 years and MORAR (Independent brand measurement company) established that the end-user satisfaction levels were as high as 96%. It was one of the first companies to launch a broadcast TV listings service, known as 4TVInteractive. However, in 2010 Inview ceased support for this service without notice to end users. This affected a number of Digifusion, Inverto, Thomson and Sony Set-top boxes and caused them to show only now and next information, rather than a full EPG. In recent years Inview platforms have appeared in retail outlets in a number of countries, including: Spain, Italy, Germany, France, Poland, Australia, Africa and the Middle East and in partnership with Farncombe in Latin America.〔(Broadbandtvnews.com; Inview enters African market on Altech; 13 March 2013 )〕〔(Telecompaper; Farncombe, Inview partner on OTT services in LatAm; saw it on the web 10 June 2013 )〕 The platform recognizes which country it's in and shows content relevant to that country as well as international content. At present, Inview's smart TV solution is the only smart TV solution available in the Tier 2 (low cost) TV sector. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Inview Technology」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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