Motorola and Sentivision to Provide Set-Tops for Major Japanese IPTV Rollout

Motorola and Sentivision to Provide Set-Tops for Major Japanese IPTV Rollout

Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today announced that Sentivision, an innovative provider of cutting edge media technologies and products for digital entertainment, has selected the Motorola VIP series IPTV set-top platform for providing video service to Japanese subscribers. Sentivision becomes the first service provider outside of North America to deploy the Motorola VIP set-top, further establishing Motorola as a leading global provider of Telco TV solutions.

As a standards-based, open-architecture platform, the Motorola VIP series set-tops can be integrated with middleware from any provider. This means that service providers like Sentivision can offer a suite of advanced applications to their users that best serve the needs of the local market. For this service deployment, Sentivision will port its advanced middleware suite to the Motorola set-top platform.

Motorola provides a robust IPTV platform that brings high-definition TV (HDTV), video-on-demand (VOD), digital video recording (DVR), multi-room streaming, and other connected home applications into subscribers’ homes. “Our middleware integration was made simple by using Motorola’s leading digital IP video platform,” said Yochi Akase, CEO, Sentivision. “The open nature of the platform and the expertise brought together by combining Sentivision and Motorola is sure to result in a robust video offering to customers.”

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