Sky New Zealand has rolled out its new 4K set-top device, the Sky Box, which features a personalised user experience, streaming app integration (with services such as Netflix, Disney+, Prime, TVNZ+), multi-recording, voice remote, and more.
Leading the development of the Sky Box was video solutions and professional services company, Wyplay. Acting as System Integrator, Wyplay coordinated input from Sky NZ, Irdeto, Kaon, Broadcom, and Netflix.
In 2021, Sky NZ made the challenging and strategic choice for its STBs, changing from Linux to AndroidTV. For the project, three independent Wyplay teams were involved: Wyplay System Integration; Wyplay Middleware; and Wyplay Professional Services.
Wyplay Middleware provided its DVB expertise by providing and integrating the DVB and PVR software stack into the Sky AndroidTV box while Wyplay Professional Services worked with the Sky NZ Digital UI team to co-develop the Sky box AndroidTV Custom Launcher.
“This project is the perfect showroom of what Wyplay can bring to operators and partners when talking about AndroidTV projects: System Integration, DVB expertise, Custom Launcher, apps integration, etc.,” said Jacques Bourgninaud, CEO of Wyplay. “Wyplay is pleased to have collaborated on such challenging and key project.”
Sophie Moloney, CEO of Sky, added: “This was a great help to have professionals like Wyplay onboard. We are so proud of the work executed by the Sky teams together with Wyplay, in order to deploy the Sky Box to our subscribers.”
Wyplay will continue to support Sky for the evolutions of the Sky products, including the maintenance of AndroidTV.
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