Amino TV platform rolling out in Ohio

One of the US's largest independent telcos was providing Amino Technologies with plenty of business this week, with the start of a rollout of its Enable TV platform to Cincinnati Bell's FiOptics subscription television service in the United States.

The UK-based AIM-traded firm said the upgrade would give FiOptics customers a much richer media interface, with advanced applications.

Cincinnati Bell remained the dominant telephone and internet provider in Cincinnati, Ohio, and nearby suburbs in the states of Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky.

The upgrade was being applied to the company's legacy IPTV devices, negating the need for any hardware replacement in customer homes.

Amino Communications said the platform offered a rich native C and HTML5 development environment, allowing for extremely flexible development for operators.

"We're delighted to present our subscriber base with a fresh user interface and new media choices without the time-consuming logistics associated with a complete hardware replacement," said Cincinnati Bell's chief technology officer Tom Simpson.

Amino CEO Donald McGarva said the Enable platform was originally designed for the company's own needs to deliver rich TV user experiences on Amino TV devices.

"Along with our customers such as Cincinnati Bell Inc., we are starting to see the real value of Enable software - giving operators the freedom to update their TV user interface, applications and DRM on legacy devices without a costly roll-out of new hardware to consumer's homes," he said.