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Inview Technology

Inview Technology is a UK-based digital TV software company. It specialises in advanced EPGs, interactive broadcasts, and IP services for Pay-TV and analogue switch off markets. Their OTT TV platform allows television broadcast and internet content to be simultaneously accessible to the viewer. The company is based in Northwich, Cheshire, UK and is privately owned.

History
The company was started in 1996. Inview provided a chip based EPG, broadcast data service and a digital TV software platform for the free to air terrestrial market. It was one of the first companies to launch a broadcast TV listings service, known as 4TVInteractive. However, in 2010 Inview ceased support for this service and this affected a number of Digifusion, Inverto, Thomson and Sony Set-top boxes and caused them to show only now and next information, rather than a full EPG. ==Services==
Services
Servies provided by Inview include whole country switch-over, OTT services, broadcast services, advertising, EPG, video on demand (VOD), Push-VOD#Push video on demand, Catch-Up TV, PVR, and legacy upgrades for older boxes. Liberator . In October 2012, Inview developed "Liberator 3", an OTT cloud-based platform for Pay TV operators and telcos wishing to equip their customers with tailor made connected set-top boxes for broadcast and broadband internet content. Broadcast services In territories where the broadband infrastructure is underdeveloped, Inview offers a broadcast service with advertising, Push-VOD, catch up TV and PVR. Legacy upgrades Inview's solution for existing (older) deployed set-top boxes is to offer applications including an EPG and TV apps that can run in devices with limited memory and processing power. By June 2015 Inview had upgraded over 10 million legacy set-top boxes worldwide. Lolipop Inview has developed the platform for a HDMI dongle streaming device called "Lolipop" which is controlled through a smartphone using gesture control. This allows content such as VOD, live-streamed channels and social networking apps to be viewed on a mobile device or on another TV without the need of a set-top box. ==Board members==
Board members
In February 2014, Martin Edwards (Honorary Life President of Manchester United) and Koen Van Driel (ex-CEO of Thomson and Grundig Set-Top Box Divisions) were appointed Board Directors of Inview Technology. ==Partnerships==
Partnerships
In 2014 their partners included: Kaon, Humax, Skyworth, Broadcom, Alitech, Mstar, Novatek, Farncombe, Goosat, Hopeful, ATech, Giec, MTC and MICO. In previous years, Inview has been in partnership with companies such as Top Up TV, the On Demand Group (ODG) and Teletext. ==See also==
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