Panasonic, IBM, Specific Media, ABOX42 And TechniSat expanding ecosystem of Smart TV Alliance

Union Smart TV Alliance announced the accession of five new leading manufacturers and suppliers of solutions that will stimulate the development of cross-platform applications and services for TV Smart TV. Consumers will be able to enjoy enhanced TV Smart TV with support for 3D-video, high quality video and audio, and a huge variety of programs with applications created with a new set of software development tools (SDK) for the 2013 model TVs from different manufacturers around the world.

Among the new members of the Smart TV Alliance includes manufacturers Panasonic, ABOX42 and TechniSat, and vendors IBM and Specific Media. They recognize the need and importance of development and production applications running on different platforms, and joined the founders of the alliance LG Electronics, TP Vision and Toshiba, and YuMe, Obigo and Qualcomm, creating an open ecosystem for application developers to create attractive, platform-independent services .