Opera TV

Opera TV becomes Vewd

Opera TV has adopted a new brand identity, including a logo and website, which it says is designed to better illustrate the company’s mission to enable entertainment everywhere through OTT products and services. The new brand, Vewd will be used across the company’s product lines. The Opera TV SDK, the company’s HTML5 SDK, becomes Vewd […]

TV Connect 2017: BBC and Opera showcase HbbTV 2 content syncing

The BBC is partnering with Opera TV to showcase a number of HbbTV 2  implementations at TV Connect this week relating to syncing content. The engineering prototypes include a synchronisation between a companion app and an adaptive bitrate MPEG DASH stream playing on the TV – showing that the same syncing technology works for streamed […]

Opera TV to exhibit latest OTT offerings at IBC

Opera TV will exhibit its latest over-the-top (OTT) experiences and showcase the latest from the Opera TV ecosystem suite at IBC. The company will demo a new range of products including the new Opera TV Certification Program and the latest version of Opera TV SDK – a Chromium-based HTML5 rendering engine for connected TV devices. […]

Opera TV launches certification programme for OTT apps

Opera TV has launched the Opera TV Certification Program, designed to bring over-the-top (OTT) services to multiple platforms and devices. The programme is aligned with Opera TV’s latest HTML5 SDK, and consists of two parts – application certification and device certification. “With OTT quickly becoming an important viewing choice for consumers, there’s no reason for […]

Opera TV launches new version of Snap

Opera TV has launched a new update to its TV app technology platform, Opera TV Snap 3.0. According to the technology company, the latest version offers a complete OTT app generator for broadcasters, content providers and VoD service providers  that enables content and service providers to mix live broadcasted streams, video clips from recent episodes, […]

Opera 2.0 platform debuts at CES

Opera has launched version 2.0 of its Opera TV platform, promising to bring “video content to the forefront” and offer more content personalisation. The HTML5-based application platform debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and will launch on Hisense Smart TVs in the first quarter of 2016. The Opera TV 2.0 update will […]

Opera TV launches on LG smart TVs

Opera TV has launched its smart TV toolkit on LG smart TVs. Opera TV Snap is designed to enable the fast addition of smart TV channels to platforms. LG Smart TV will launch selected channels from Opera TV’s portfolio in eight markets: the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, USA, Mexico and Brazil. The first phase […]

Opera unveils new version of Opera TV Snap

Opera TV has unveiled a new version of Opera TV Snap, designed to provide broadcasters with expanded OTT capabilities on Smart TVs, including a ready-to-deploy Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) solution to drive seamless interactivity on linear TV. The latest version of the software also includes multi-tier navigation for episodic video content and monetization options […]