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. 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 was once again a sponsor of the HbbTV Symposium, this time in Prague. The 10th HbbTV Symposium was held on 9-10 November 2022 and focused on Targeted Advertising and DVB-I.
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.
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.
Our Offering
HbbTV
Sofia Digital’s award-winning HbbTV technology is powering transmissions in many countries throughout Europe and Asia. TV services made with Sofia Backstage® HbbTV Platform are used by millions of TV viewers.
Smart TV Apps
Sofia Digital offers the easiest way to make sure your brand is present in smart TVs. A tailored application makes your content and services just a button away.
DVB Broadcast
Conversion to digital broadcasting with interactive services is a simple and predictable process – with Sofia Digital’s tried and tested HbbTV technology.
Streaming
Sofia Digital’s video services include a full bouquet of services from ingest to transcoding and delivery to VOD portal deployments.
Targeted advertising
Targeted Advertising (TA), Addressable Advertising or Dynamic Ad Insertion is becoming reality right now. There are multiple ongoing projects all across Europe and Asia. Sofia Digital offers a solution for broadcasters to maintain their market share despite the heavy competition from internet click based marketing.
OTT Platform
Sofia Digital’s OTT platform is based on best practice solutions from multiple deliveries around the world. Our modular approach has numerous available components and backend integrations to all the most common backend systems to select from.
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
How to handle remote control keys in a Smart TV application
By Janne Lahtela Let’s continue our awesome Smart TV –application! You can read the previous blog post from here: How
Lessons learned from HbbTV Symposium in Prague 2022
Sofia Digital was once again a sponsor of the HbbTV Symposium, this time in Prague. The 10th HbbTV Symposium was
IBC2022 – Not as Expected
Sofia Digital exhibited at the IBC2022 event at the RAI Amsterdam. The four-day event had over 37,000 visitors from 170
Case examples
SOFIA DIGITAL HAS WORKED WITH DOLBY TO CREATE TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION OF AC4 DIALOGUE ENHANCEMENT SERVICE, SIGNALLED OVER DVB-I
The client software provided by Sofia Digital fully supports AC4 and dialogue enhancement in compatible devices. The client provides clear and crisp audio for dialogue when watching shows.
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.
Finnish National Opera and Ballet selected Sofia Backstage® Studio video platform
Finnish National Opera and Ballet (FNOB) has deployed Sofia Backstage® Studio for recording, management and playout of its video assets. The solution consists of media player devices, video portal, video library and video recorders which record live video from multiple sources.