Redge Media Origin has been upgraded to support HbbTV devices, enabling video playback on TV sets within HbbTV applications, both for unencrypted and for DRM content.
Commenting on the development, Wojciech Turak, director of Redge Media Video Delivery, said: “HbbTV is about know-how. To make video play on HbbTV TV-sets we had to adjust Redge Media Origin in scope of structure of manifests and video containers, for both DASH and HLS. It was an iterative process of forging the knowledge with continuous checks on numerous devices in our lab and in the lab of our broadcasting partner. For sure in future there will be TV sets demanding further adjustments, but with our technology and development process we are ready for this challenge”.
Redge Media Origin follows the CDN 3.0 paradigm with its distributed and totally scalable architecture. Its playout nodes are located as close to end users as possible. Their edge computing, besides regular packaging, can also personalise manifests for Dynamic Ad Insertion or for OTT content driver.watermarking which is essential in personalised video delivery of high value. With the HbbTV upgrade these features have become available for the HbbTV ecosystem.
Redge Media will join the HbbTV Symposium in Paris on November 24-25 2021. CDN 3.0 will also be featured by Redge Media at IBC2021 from December 3-6, hall 5, booth F21.