Antenna Hungaria Partners with Azdio and rsquo;s mediaClass in Technical Trial of Advanced Digital Terrestrial TV

Antenna Hung ria has commenced technical trials of what is considered to be the world's most advanced digital terrestrial television service. It is working with UK industry pioneer Dr Arjang Zadeh and Azdio's mediaClass product division along with sister company Liberate AI to launch the service across Hungary.

The new service will offer a wide range of capabilities including DTT broadcast and IP Linear TV, catch up TV, re-start TV, VOD, AVOD and SVOD as well as advanced multi-tenant functionality. Tenants will be able to connect multiple billing systems seamlessly to the platform. The mediaClass OTT solution supportsTV Platform as a Service (PaaS) operation, setting a new bar in advanced DTT services.

Machine-learning technology from Liberate AI allows tailored ad insertion for linear TV, VoD and catch-up across all devices including TV, tablet, mobile, and TV web portals. The system also provides search and recommendation services to customers, based on the Liberate AI machine-learning platform.

The new platform supports advanced dynamic user interface generation on all devices, based on mediaClass' advanced Content and Operational Management. mediaClass uniquely provides all elements of a TV platform including an advanced packager, multi-DRM, OTT backend, CDN plus apps for devices and a TV Web portal. Antenna Hung ria plans to launch the full service in December.

Zsolt Sarecz, CEO of Antenna Hungary, comments: The Azdio team is enabling us to bring to life our long-term vision with their end-to-end mediaClass platform. They have helped at every stage from initially defining our TV strategy through to system design and integration. They have also provided all the products required for the OTT and DTT services, including their high-performance Swiftclass DTT STB software. This will allow the Hungarian market to experience one of the most advanced DTT services in the world.

Dr. Arjang Zadeh CEO Azdio adds: We are delighted to support Antenna Hung ria's management and Hungarian viewers to power this pioneering DTT service. It has been a pleasure to work with Antenna Hung ria's forward-thinking management and their excellent business and technical teams. Our focus on system optimisation and low cost execution has meant that Antenna Hung ria has achieved long term planned functionality significantly sooner than anticipated and at lower cost.

About Antenna Hung ria

Antenna Hung ria has been a key player in the Hungarian telecommunications sector for decades. Its main areas of activity are national terrestrial television and radio broadcasting, as well as wireless business telecommunications. As one of the most successful Hungarian-owned information technology companies, AH has been able to show continuous growth in recent years, expanding its programme production and event technology businesses and joining the explosive growth of OTT (Over-the-Top) and IoT (Internet of Things) industries.

About mediaClass

A product division of Azdio Limited UK, mediaClass (www.mediaclass.tv) offers TV service providers and broadcasters the opportunity to implement full IPTV/OTT multi-screen infrastructure designed for any size deployment. mediaClass platforms feature multi-DRM, easy OSS/BSS integration, advanced CMS, content provisioning, VOD management, DVR and full multi-tenant capabilities. Client software includes superfast IP and hybrid STB software based on Linux and Android, as well as mobile clients for iOS and Android devices. mediaClass also offers full IPTV integrated services for new and legacy multicast-based systems. Highly efficient implementation reduces server power. Tested to ensure over 20 million client devices can be supported. mediaClass systems are already deployed operational in five countries and 10 languages.

About Liberate AI

Liberate AI Limited is an AI venture founded by industry pioneers Nicholas Kassem, Dr Arjang Zadeh and Sir Hossein Yassaie. Liberate AI mission is to enable every device and application to benefit from Machine Learning and AI in a simple, secure and highly cost effective manner.

Contact for further information

David Kirk, Stylus Media Communications

Tel: +44 (0)1342 311 983

Email: stylusmedia@gmail.com

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