Wipro Teams With Seattle Startup on Hybrid ATSC 3.0 Receivers for North America

Wipro partnered with startup Airwavz.tv to design and sell ATSC 3.0 TV receivers and antennas for North American MVPDs, OEMs, smart TV makers and chip companies, it said Friday. It incorporates 1.0 and 3.0 delivery systems with easy porting, and supports HTML5, Android, iOS and native apps, with Wipro’s MPEG Dash and HbbTV components for multiscreen delivery, it said. It uses the Airwavz RedZone receiver dongle, a hybrid 1.0 and 3.0 DTV front-end tuner-demodulator that plugs into a PC or other over-the-top device via USB. Enabler features are said to include broadband services, security, watermarking, file download, 4K, immersive audio, 3D TV, media players and TTML closed captions; primary features include live TV, electronic guides and parental controls.