Many broadcasters are already digital with the basic technology deployment: a DVB mux with video services packed together and a name sticked on it, thanks to a single Avalpa Broadcast Server rack solution is now possible to improve your digital mux services with:

• Electronic program guide, to present a detailed schedule of next events in your tv network, so people could know in advance what to expect on tv (user manual). You can test it online!
• Mhp - Mheg5 - HbbTv - Ginga  server, enabling your tv network to interactivity. You can easily distribute interactive advertisement, OTT VOD launcher, games, music, services of the Public Administration and voting games. These could be very compelling for your audience.
• Teletext, the plain good old system for news datacasting!
  
• Logical channel numbering, to get a number on the customer remote control, and avoid be buried in the "800 something.."
• DVB-SSU OTA carousel, to allow set-top-box and tv manufacturers to upgrade their equipment
• DataCarousel, and you'll squeeze all the value of your spare bandwidth from new customers like banks, retail chains and so on, for their corporate services.
• Integration of locally playout of pre-encoded MPEG2/h264 video and audio for non-live services
• new re-multiplexing functions can now avoid additional hardware costs for your head end , ask us for more details

As we have been asked by many to provide some sample stream featuring all the bell and whistles of an OpenCaster based environment, here we are distributing such a test set.

OpenCasterDemo is a transport stream for digital television generated by Avalpa's OpenCaster, it features, apart the usuale SI info, a MPTS with audio/video services and some value added metadata, the file is almost 1GB

• one service with an example MHP application,
• one service with HD H264 24p  and DD 5.1 audio
• one service with HbbTv remote application signal
• one service with  MHEG application
• one service with 4 teletext demo pages
• one service with sd h264
• EPG P/F for all the services
• Logical Channel Numbering
• Time information

As we told you some time ago, Avalpa people gave a talk at last DvbWorld 2010. It was quite a rewarding moment after all the efforts of the last 6 years. Thank to the committe people for the invitation.

Here there's the presentation. I hope you'll enjoy it: beware, you'll find some spicy words.. i did want people in the audience to stay awake, and after the lunch it's always a difficult task! ;-)

Television is going digital. We have the mission to improve it, with advanced, better, simpler, more dynamic technologies in a free software sauce. Avalpa is the next step..