The Advantages of Working with Ocean Blue Software
Ocean Blue's objective is to become a market leader in providing world-class quality software solutions, software engineering services and business and technology solutions for the Digital Home, Digital TV, mobile TV and Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) markets, including DVB-T, DVB-S and DVB-H.
Ocean Blue's DVB, PVR content management and MHEG software technology are at the core of a new generation of broadcast platforms, these include mobile phones, portable media players (PMP), Internet based Digital televisions (IPTV) as well as existing media platforms such as Digital terrestrial, cable and satellite. We can also supply software for the Freeview Playback brand, which is new to the UK market.
Ocean Blue delivers groundbreaking world class software products and innovative solutions to solve some of the toughest business challenges facing global consumer electronic corporations, broadcasters, content developers, manufacturers and semi-conductors companies.
The engineering team at Ocean Blue has wide ranging software engineering capabilities, covering a variety of different of fields, with highly developed skills in the set top box and digital television markets. We know our clients expect quality products and services for integration into their consumer products and Ocean Blue delivers on clients needs.
Management Team
Ocean Blue Software has been founded by a number of experienced business and technology experts including Kenneth Helps, who is the CEO of Ocean Blue.
Kenneth Helps has extensive knowledge and expertise in the Digital TV market. He has also written a number of White papers and articles on Digital TV technology, business models and the need for industry standards.
Clients & Strategic Partners
A sample current client list includes Toshiba, Philips, Ali Corporation (Taiwan) and Mediatek (Taiwan). We are also working on a number of development projects with global semiconductor and consumer electronics corporations.
Ocean Blue's products include:
- Voyager MHEG-5 & DSM-CC API/Middleware
- Surfsoft for Personal Video Recorders a content management software system for hard disk based digital TV receiver devices. Freeview Playback compatible.
- Sunrise which provides foundation functionality for Digital TV & Audio on Digital TV receiver devices.
- All software products have been developed either to the UK Digital Terrestrial Group (DTG) or the European standards group ETSI standards. (www.dtg.org.uk) (www.ETSI.org)
Ocean Blue also provides the following client friendly services:
- Software engineering services
- Bespoke software programming
- Advice & consultancy services on Digital TV issues & projects
- Strategic partnerships for joint developments
- Open and transparent working relationships with clients
- Offshore software engineering services
- Evaluation and analysis reporting services of new technologies into markets or clients strategic plans
- Dedicated Help line & software support services
- Software support annual service level agreements
- Embedded software development
- Software integration to new hardware & operating platforms
- QA, testing and quality control with industry standard DTG test suites
Our approach is to constantly strive to create and maintain longevity of business relationships with clients and to provide quality products and services to the market.





