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In collaboration with the Scandinavian company Norigin Media, Fraunhofer FOKUS presents a solution to exchange advertising content in catch-up and streaming formats. The joint over-the-top (OTT) ad tech offering of the two companies will enable pay TV operators to identify and replace advertising on premium streaming services to target specific audiences.

In cooperation with Zattoo, Fraunhofer FOKUS developed a concept and architecture for enabling HbbTV on Zattoo’s Android TV Operator set-top boxes. As a result, an HbbTV library for Android was developed and integrated in the Zattoo Android TV App. This is one of the first such implementations of HbbTV into an Android TV App.

This year's NAB Show will be held completely online from May 13-14. Our expert Daniel Silhavy will present the FAMIUM Deep Encode Tool - live and on demand.

The DASH Industry forum will be giving away a $500 award for contributions to the dash.js project. The winner will be selected by the admin of the project, Fraunhofer FOKUS, in cooperation with the board of the DASH Industry Forum.

Since the Fraunhofer Common Learning Middleware (CLM) project now is completed, the results are presented at the LEARNTEC, January 28-30, in Karlsruhe, Germany. Visit us at booth B 40 in hall 1 and experience the CLM infrastructure in an interactive exhibition.

At FUSECO Forum 2019, Fraunhofer FOKUS business unit FAME presented 5G Media Streaming technologies. With experience in the field of converged media services, FAME contributes to the large scale project “5G Victori”.

Last week , Fraunhofer FOKUS hosted the 5G-VICTORI Kick-Off Meeting in Berlin. The large scale EU funded project aims at validating 5G networks with vertical user cases. The testbed infrastructure for the Berlin trials is provided by Fraunhofer FOKUS.

Digitalization does not stop at crafting. The joint project “DigiHand“ showed how work in craft can look like in the future. Fraunhofer FOKUS provided two out of eight learning stations for a traveling exhibition in which visitors learned more about “Smart Learning” and “Augmented Reality”.

At this year's ACM Multimedia Systems conference, a scientific paper on the Fraunhofer FOKUS SAND streaming solution was awarded the “Excellence in DASH Award”. FAMIUM SAND offers tools that enable content providers to track the streaming performance.

This Sunday, viewers of the German music variety show “ZDF-Fernsehgarten” were able to experience the program as a 360° livestream through the HbbTV on-demand service of public broadcaster ZDF. This complementary experience was provided by using the Fraunhofer FOKUS “Cloud-based 360° Video Playout” technology. The unique and patented solution enables the viewing of high quality 360° videos on nearly any device.