Another year gone by. IBC always sneaks up on us so fast! This year in Hall 4 (Stand A75) we’ll be showing the new version of our Dreamgallery™ Middleware and Portal Generator, which will be available to customers in July 2010.

We are still one of the only independent middleware providers left on the market. Being independent meants that we can allow operators to select the best of breed solutions to compliment their offering, respond to changing market demands and remain flexible to offer the best user experience to subscribers. The Portal Generator brings the Dreamgallery™ “What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get” user interface to a new level. Operators can add new interactive services and see changes take effect in real time, making it easier than ever for them to create a business portal and push revenue generating opportunities to customers. 

Dreamgallery™ is maximizing operator flexibility and performance without compromising on speed, by taking advantage of the powers of open standards, such as HTML and SVG.  Combining the Portal Generator with the SDK that is provided with Dreamgallery™, operators may extend and adapt the services to their specific needs, including easy customization and regionalization of the user interface. We have developed a high definition user interface with great client performance including applications such as poster views and cover flows similar to that of iPhone applications. The introduction of our Next Generation middleware is dynamic enough to dramatically optimize the response times and speed of IPTV services while providing outstanding GUI opportunities and performance for HD graphics.

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We’re getting ready to fly over to London for IPTV World Forum next week. We were asked to write a guest blog for the IPTV World Forum official Show Blog on VideoNet (@videonetnews). It got us thinking about what all the operators out there need to do to differentiate themselves. Below is the blog we wrote with our thoughts about it (also on the VideoNet Official IPTV World Forum blog.

Flexibility is essential for operators and the middleware they use has to coexist with the STB, video server, encoder and other solutions that the operator is using. The need for a flexible interface is a necessity. The ability to support rapid development and add new hot features for the subscriber is the biggest concern for IPTV operators.

Some middleware vendors didn’t come from an IPTV background and they had to adapt for IPTV, sometimes at the expense of operators’ flexibility. We’ve noticed a trend where operators who already have one of these types of middleware solutions needs more flexible front-end solutions to integrate with their middleware providers’ back-end. Operators having a first generation middleware solution or a customized solution are often lacking the flexibility of doing changes in the portal, adding new applications or even to customizing the User Interface. This becomes increasingly important when competition among operators is getting tougher.

IPTV operators are confronted increased competition from cable and satellite. They are discovering that they need to add differentiating factors to attract and keep customers. What is lacking in most solutions is an administration tool that addresses this task and allows the Operator to be in control of both the Look-and-Feel and also the contents of the Portal.

Dreampark sees this opportunity for IPTV middleware solutions to create the most flexible solution available in order to help operators offer the best service to subscribers. We’ve taken the system one step further by allowing the operator to see the changes take effect in real-time on the actual device that is used by the subscribers, which they have noted is very important to them. Once the verification is done the Operator may publish the new additions and/or changes to all subscribers. Dreampark calls this “What-you-see-is-what-you-get.” Operators need to be able to create a business portal and push revenue generating opportunities to customers without a lot of help from the middleware provider. And, it’s easiest for them to do this if they can see what things will look like as they are adding to the portal in real-time.

Author: Per Skyttvall, CEO of Dreampark

Come visit us in Stand #169 at IPTV World Forum in London on March 23-25. We’ll be talking about our Front End solution designed to help operators get the maximum flexibility. Our front-end solution allows operators that already have a middleware solution in place to add new services in real-time and to really see what they are getting and exactly how it will look for the user. Operators running Dreamgallery^TM software may fully control the business portal.

Visitors to IPTV World Forum will be able to demonstrate this solution and see how easily changes can be made to the Middleware instantly.

If you are interested in a meeting, please send an email to exhibition@dreampark.com.

If you are media or an analyst and would like to get a briefing from Dreampark at IPTV World Forum, please contact our PR representatives,
Alex Crabb or Jennifer Hicks at:

+1-617.956.2214 or +33 6 84 47 80 42

Alex@theinkstudio.com or Jennifer@theinkstudio.com

Twitter: alexcrabb and jennalee

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In late October we attending IPTV Forum Eastern Europe. The IPTV World Series event had a special focus on Russia/CIS region and Quality of Experience issues. Dreampark was there to focus on its strength in Easten Europe and to show off our SVG and Portal Generator.

According to a recent Informa Telecoms & Media report on Eastern Europe, IPTV is emerging strongly in Central and Eastern Europe, as telcos in the region start to upgrade their broadband networks and think seriously about providing pay-TV services.  Markets such as Croatia and Hungary already have three or more IPTV services in commercial operation, while Slovenia’s Telekom Slovenije recently passed 100,000 subscribers for its IPTV service ‘SiOL TV’, and continues to upgrade its network to fibre.



Dreampark continues to expand its presence and deployments in Eastern Europe in Latvia with LIVAS, Slovenia with TUS  TELEKOM and Croatia with OiV in cooperation with CS Computer Systems.

Here is what else we were up to at the IPTV Forum Eastern Europe in Prague. You can also see what Ben Schwarz from VideoNet News thought about Dreampark’s demonstrations at the IPTV Forum EE here.