RedKey™2

MHEG-5 is the leading international public standard for interactive TV services. With over 40m receivers sold in the UK for its Freeview service (figures from Ofcom’s Q4 Digital TV Report) and successful deployments in New Zealand and Hong Kong and planned launches in India, Malaysia, Australia and South Africa it is a rapidly growing technology. It is cost-effective, has a clear technological roadmap and, to put it simply, significantly enhances broadcasters’ services.

S&T is at the forefront of this market development: it was the first MHEG-5 supplier to develop a UK Profile 1.06-compliant solution, the first to implement a Chinese character set in an application, and developed the world’s first MHEG-5-based EPG service.

RedKey™2 is our software receiver engine, adding MHEG-5 functionality to digital television receivers. It is cost-effective and can be used in just about any digital television receiver, be that set-top boxes or integrated digital televisions. The basic version needs only a small memory footprint (typically 700Kbytes of Flash and 4Mbytes of DRAM for UK SD Freeview profile MHEG-5).

The engine is written in ANSI C and is portable across a number of different processor types and host operating systems. It is the result of over 10 years of continual development and stabilisation. The engine’s design emphasises efficiency of resource usage and minimum platform interaction to simplify integration with various middleware designs.

The product is delivered as object code, compiled to the customer’s specification, with a fully documented API for the customer to implement in order to integrate the engine with their DVB middleware stack. A set of API test applications is also available to ease the integration process, and our engineers are always available to help you understand the requirements of the platform!

Combining the benefits of portability, performance and quality with a reduced time to market, RedKey™2 has been installed in more than 10 million units so far, with that number growing rapidly.

Do not hesitate to contact us to find out more, or view the datasheet below for a more detailed explanation.