Voyager MHEG & DSM-CC 

Voyager is Ocean Blue's DVB-based MHEG-5 middleware system, which enables interactive services (Press Red functionality) on digital TV devices for every transmission network (DVB-T, DVB-S and DVB-C).

MHEG-5 facilitates the delivery of interactive features such as news and weather services, home shopping, electronic programming guides (EPGs) and interactive advertising and games.

The MHEG specification is constantly evolving and new countries are adopting the technology. Ocean Blue Software continually updates Voyager to ensure our customers have the latest software and functionality.

MHEG High Definition (HD)

The DTG has finalised specifications for MHEG support of HD TV broadcast streams on the UK DTT platform (Freeview). The support for HD seeks to ensure that the best possible experience is offered to viewers. There are two parts to the MHEG-5 HD extension; one extension supports hardware that is HD display capable (graphics) and the other supports hardware that is both graphics and stream (H.264) capable.

Ocean Blue is a part of the design groups helping to drive the digital TV industry forward, and is fully supporting the DTG MHEG standards.

MHEG Interaction Channel

The Interaction Channel (Return path) extensions to the MHEG standard will enable broadcast interactive services to be delivered via an IP connection. This will allow delivery of additional content and two-way interactivity, providing consumers with greater forms of viewing, entertainment and richer interactive applications such as T-commerce, voting and shopping.

Ocean Blue is a part of the HD and IC design groups helping to drive the digital TV industry forward, and is fully supporting the DTG MHEG standards.

Diagram: Voyager system overview

Country Profiles

MHEG has been selected and deployed in many countries. Each country/operator usually defines their own profile to ensure that devices deployed into their market support the features used by their MHEG applications. The MHEG country profiles currently supported by Ocean Blue are:

Freeview – UK
Freeview – Australia

TVB - Hong Kong
Freeview – New Zealand

Ocean Blue is closely monitoring other countries that are considering or trialling MHEG such as South Africa, Ireland, Turkey and Malaysia.

DSM-CC Data Carousel

Ocean Blue's Voyager MHEG-5 product supports and is supplied with the DSM-CC data carousel.

Other MHEG Products 

Ocean Blue also offers Triton, an MHEG Authoring Tool >>