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.

Dreampark's SVG Portal

IPTV users and those in the industry are gradually being introduced to new technology in television middleware. Images and texts have become equally important in delivering information over the internet and television. A new and improved experience in television viewing is available, promising users high standards of quality and even further opportunities for television portals.
Television subscribers aspire to use the best possible solutions available and operators can now offer the best performance and solution for their subscribers with SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics). SVG is a language for two-dimensional vector graphics which functions as codes of XML. Images are created and scaled to the size of the screen, which appear clearer and transmit faster without sacrificing the resolution of the image.
With such advanced developments, IPTV services are optimized in terms of speed and performance as files are smaller and the images can be adapted to fit relative to the size of the viewing screen. Such graphics allow for access to a broader group of users, such as those with strained vision, users of digital or mobile technologies, intricate internet business solutions and those in magazine or catalogue printing.
The Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) technology has been implemented in Dreampark’s Dreamgallery™ middleware, for bringing the IPTV user a new level of experience. Dreampark announced full commitment to the SVG standard last year based on its ability to optimize the speed and performance of IPTV services. Dreampark’s SVG Client brings the following improvements to the Dreamgallery middleware software suite:

• Crystal clear graphics and high quality user interface in HD resolution
• Two to ten times faster and more responsive performance than the HTML client running on the same hardware
• Graphics animations (HD resolution VoD cover flows, etc.)
• Drastically improved flexibility in administration and customization of the TV portal using the Dreamgallery Portal Generator
• Further improved extendibility on the client thanks to a new flexible application framework

Post By:  Bjorn Lang, chief technology officer, Dreampark