convergence provides software solutions for digital television as a high- performance and reliable platform for interactive applications and services.

Benefits

To be a successful player on the surfacing digital TV market, product innovations have to keep pace with changes in customer demands. convergence believes in speed-to-market coupled with added value in products and services. Customers benefit from convergence's

Product quality - especially the outstanding performance in graphic operations, user friendliness and the consistently scaleable and interoperable approach.

Product services - we understand our customers' business and know how to design our products to satisfy their needs.

Offer

convergence offers the product lines Linux TV and the next generation Linux iTV, providing freedom of choice to our customers.

Linux TV

Our core product consists of a set of fully modular features: FastZapping, Internet access, Personal Video Recording, DVD / CD / MP3 Player. convergence created Linux TV in order to combine high performance and maximal user-friendliness. Our software solution supports all distribution platforms - satellite, cable, terrestrial in compliance with the international standard DVB.

Linux iTV

is convergence's next generation product line and it combines the success of Linux TV with the prospects of the Multimedia Home Platform (MHP) Standard. To embrace television broadcasts and interactive services Linux iTV gives you the full picture to

• [entertain] tv - video - music - Web-surfing - pvr
• [communicate] web-mail - short messaging service
• [shop] retail - banking - gaming
• [guide] electronic program guide

Services

Our professional services complement convergence's product in quickly and flexibly addressing your needs. These include adapting software to your chosen hardware platform (drivers, kernel porting), the customization of applications and user interface to meet your requirements as well as the convenient remote up-date and technical support. We also offer technical consulting services for server and client-side solutions for the iDTV industry.

Corporate

convergence is an independent software solution provider for interactive digital television. Its headquarters are situated in Berlin and it employs around 50 developers with expertise in delivering innovative and durable software solutions for the iDTV market based on the proven Linux operating system.

Vision

convergence is always there for its customers - today and tomorrow. We offer products and services for the installed base of digital set-top boxes. Moreover, we have a stake in the next digital TV generation with our enhanced interactive solutions based on MHP.

convergence enables its customers to target multiple markets with multiple product lines based on a single software concept. In the converging world of television and internet we share in our customers' success.

Business Model

convergence means focusing on modularity, scaleabilty and interoperability and the consequent use of the international standards DVB and MHP. We provide software solutions for economies of scale.

convergence's professional services allow for tailor-made solutions to satisfy customer demands. Our overall expertise of the digital television industry together with our experience in Linux and MHP complements our offer.

Customers

convergence's specialists in software development, internet technologies, electrical engineering and digital television are dedicated to working out enhanced interactive solutions for decisive players in the digital television industry.

Our customers are set-top-box manufacturers, chipset manufacturers, server developers, network providers, application developers and content providers.