With 20+ Years of Experience
Powering Smart Screens
Sofia Digital brings new value-adding services and applications to different terminals. Our unique competence is in hybrid TV and open standard interactive platforms: HbbTV, DVB broadcasting and Smart TV apps, as well as content automation tools. The company’s focus areas are OTT platforms, targeted advertising solutions and testing services. We enable you to distribute your content where it is wanted, in broadcast or broadband, seamlessly.
Sofia Digital’s OTT platform is based on best practice solutions from multiple deliveries around the world. Our modular approach offers a variety of components and easy backend integrations to all the most common systems.
Targeted Advertising (TA), also known as Addressable Advertising or Dynamic Ad Insertion, is reality right now. Our solution enables broadcasters maintain their market share despite heavy competition from internet click-based marketing.
Sofia Digital offers the easiest way to make sure your brand is present on smart TVs. We specialize in crafting tailored applications that bring your content and services easily accessible with just a push of a button.
With Sofia Digital you get access to 20+ years of testing experience and a TV Lab featuring over 200 real Smart TV devices for manual, automated and remote testing. Regardless of the size of your testing project, we can help you.
With Sofia, conversion from traditional broadcast to hybrid with interactive services to any device is a well-defined process. Our robust back-end and client solutions make the transition to DVB-I straightforward and reliable.
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Sofia Digital is attending IBC2024 – Stand 1.D98 – at the RAI Amsterdam, 13-16 September 2024.
Dive into our white paper on SmartTV & HbbTV testing: Who benefits, key tests, UI/UX checks, platform conformity, app & device performance, test labs & services, automation, inside Sofia Digital’s lab.
DVB is the international standard for digital broadcasting – now future-proof with DVB-I. In our free whitepaper you will learn the benefits in switching from a hardware-based head-end to a software solution.
Tier 1 broadcasters and operators often have an existing backend environment complete with encoding, transcoding, DRM, CDN and content management systems. These companies design and develop the OTT experience in-house with dedicated teams. This generates a demand for an approach where the client-side application, multichannel UI and UX are created and integrated into the existing and widely deployed customer environment.
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We are currently looking for experienced developers to work on new projects, develop our products, participate in platform development and architecture design.
DVB is the international open standard for digital broadcasting with over 1 billion compatible receivers deployed. In our free whitepaper you will learn the benefits in switching from a hardware-based head-end to a software solution.
TV APPLICATION TESTING - CERTIFICATION TESTING
Having your applications or products tested by Sofia Digital opens doors to all TV markets. We help you ensure your product complies with all the necessary standards.
Our comprehensive receiver zoo, in-house testing tools and signal generators, as well as our over 10 years of experience in DVB and hybrid testing gives us a unique position to deliver perfect R&D and QA support for your DVB and TV products.
MORE THAN DESIGNING THE USER INTERFACE
When compared to computers and even mobile phones, designing the user experience and user interfaces for TV is still a relatively new area. It is also a fundamentally different platform, and the way we consume our content is different. User interaction is mostly done with the remote control, a relatively clumsy way of navigating compared to mouse and keyboard or touch interfaces.
The Architects of Change
Sofia Digital has been a reliable partner for the creation of new TV services since the digitalization of television started. We help networks to bring their content to new platforms that enrich the viewer experience, generating new business.
Latest articles
The Smart TV App Launch Process: Best Practices for a Seamless Go-to-Market
Learn best practices for launching a Smart TV app, from preparation to testing and QA, ensuring a smooth go-to-market process without delays. Article by Tommi Järvinen.
Stage24 Smart TV app wins “best tv app” at the CSI awards 2024
We’re excited to share that Sofia Digital’s Stage24 Smart TV application has won the “Best TV App” category at the
Indonesia’s digital TV transition: challenges, opportunities and the future of free-to-air broadcasting
Indonesia’s transition from analogue to digital terrestrial TV (DTT), has marked a significant shift in the nation’s broadcasting landscape. Despite
Case examples
STAGE24 SMART TV APPLICATION
Stage24 is a digital platform by the Finnish National Opera and Ballet (FNOB). It offers live streams, recorded performances, trailers, articles and audio content related to the repertoire.
DVB-I DEMONSTRATOR APPLICATION ON ANDROID TELEVISION AND PHONES FOR MEDIA BROADCAST IN GERMANY
Media Broadcast and Sofia Digital have created a DVB-I demonstrator application. The application is designed to showcase a modern DVB-I client running in Android mobile and Android TV devices.
OTT SOLUTION - CASE RTMKLIK
Since 2019 in addition to HbbTV services Sofia Digital has also worked together with the Malaysian company Quickmedia to develop and deliver the RTM “rtmklik”, formerly myklik, OTT website and mobile applications. The RTM rtmklik service has free access with an optional user login.