NDS Announces OCAP Version Of MediaHighway Development Kit Advanced.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- --First and only tool in the market to simulate complete interactive TV chain --First and only to simulate behavior of an OCAP OCAP Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (Canada) OCAP Open Cable Application Platform (middleware software specification) OCAP Out of Control Action Plan set-top box The cable TV box that sits on "top" of the TV "set," although it is often located several feet away in an equipment rack. The set-top box descrambles the premium channels and provides a tuner for the higher cable numbers that very old TVs did not support. --All applications can be developed and viewed on single PC NDS See eDirectory. NDS - Netware Directory Services (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :NNDS NNDS Norsk Nettverk for Down Syndrom (Norway) ) (EURONEXT:NNDS), a News Corporation company and leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, today announced the immediate availability of a new OpenCable Applications Platform (OCAP) version of its widely popular MediaHighway Development Kit (MHDK) Advanced. MHDK Advanced is the first and only development tool in the market to simulate the complete interactive TV chain, enabling developers to create, edit, test and debug To correct a problem in hardware or software. Debugging software means locating the errors in the source code (the program logic). Debugging hardware means finding errors in the circuit design (logical circuits) or in the physical interconnections of the circuits. interactive TV Java(TM) applications for MediaHighway Advanced set-top boxes and digital TVs on a single PC. With this new version, MHDK Advanced can simulate for developers the behavior of a MediaHighway Advanced OCAP set-top box. The MediaHighway Advanced authoring tool allows for development and customization of applications to be deployed on Java-based digital TV interactive platforms. Using this new version, developers can now address an even wider variety of iTV environments, enabling the development of any kind of OCAP application, whether its resident, downloadable or a monitor application. "We have already begun testing the new MHDK authoring tool and it is even more powerful and flexible than we hoped it would be," said Dominic Laval, Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. , emuse technologies. "At emuse, it is important that we have the right environment to develop compelling OCAP-compliant iTV applications for the U.S. market. The MHDK Advanced tool kit provides us with that creative environment." An extremely high-performance tool, MHDK Advanced sharply reduces equipment costs and accelerates development time, leading to faster time-to-market implementations of innovative iTV applications. Features of the tool include: --Attractive GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. design tool with a built-in Java(TM) source code generator --Code editor for extending and customizing the source code --End to end simulator for running and testing the application --NTSC operation with configurable screen resolution --IN Band and Out Of Band network simulation --Comprehensive debugger for tracing and analyzing the code --Operations for uploading applications to a STB See set-top box. STB - set-top box with monitoring MHDK Advanced is delivered, and includes plug-ins for many of the most popular Integrated Development Environments (IDE) such as SUN One Studio/NetBeans and Borland JBuilder. "MHDK Advanced is already backed by a wide community of users," said Frederic Laporte, Director Marketing & Business Development MediaHighway, NDS. "Building on the confidence that the developer community already has in the maturity and stability of the MediaHighway development toolkit, this new version further expands the possibilities for developers, making it even easier for them to efficiently develop OCAP-compliant applications for the US digital television environment." Interested developers can join the MediaHighway Community at http://www.nds.com/middleware/mediahighway_community.html. About NDS NDS Group plc (NASDAQ/Euronext Brussels: NNDS) is a leading supplier of open end-to-end digital pay TV solutions for the secure delivery of entertainment and information to television set-top boxes and IP devices. See www.nds.com for more information about NDS. |
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