Platform architecture
System & settings (RedSquid), Operator UI, Curated apps and Ecosystem — each layer is cleanly separated with a well-defined surface area, and the operator owns three of the four.
Technology stack
RedSquid leverages proven open-source technologies to deliver a reliable, scalable TV platform.
Reference Design Kit — the base platform layer.
Microservices framework for inter-app communication via JSON-RPC.
Web Platform for Embedded — the rendering engine for the operator app and HbbTV.
Shared-source DVB middleware (DVB-T/T2, S/S2, C, DVB-I) plus ATSC 3.0, with HbbTV and OpApp extensions.
OTT application lifecycle and manifest model, for YouTube, Netflix, Prime Video etc.
Downloadable Containers — app isolation and managed install.
Standards support
Production-hardened across DVB and ATSC broadcast, IP-delivered DVB-I, secure content paths, and HbbTV conformance — one platform, every region.
DVB-T/T2, DVB-S/S2, DVB-C, DVB-I and ATSC 3.0 (NextGen TV) — terrestrial, satellite, cable and IP-delivered linear, anywhere in the world. SI/PSI parsing, advanced channel scanning, Teletext, DVB Subtitles, ATSC Captions, Closed Captions.
HbbTV 2.0.4, OpApp for Freely. Registered HbbTV test centre, automated conformance via the Axia harness.
CI+ 1.4 with Enhanced Content Protection (ECP) for UHD/4K and CI+ 2.0 for USB-based CAMs. Certified deployments at scale.
Widevine, PlayReady, HDCP 2.2/2.3. Device certificates, secure key management, protected video paths, TEE integration.
Documentation
Comprehensive onboarding material for engineering teams — whether you're an OEM integrating hardware or an operator shipping your branded TV experience.
Hardware-integration walkthrough: SoC port, Tuner HAL, platform bring-up timelines. (Migrating from the POC site, styling will align in a later phase.)
Open Technical guideApp integration, branding & theming, content delivery, DRM setup, deployment strategies. (Migrating from the POC site, styling will align in a later phase.)
Open PDF · 1.1 MB · Mar 2026A board-level case for telcos to pivot from subsidising set-top boxes to financing operator-branded, edge-AI TVs — and from channel ARPU to household lifetime value. Argues for a pan-European consortium of PSBs, telcos, OEMs and adtech players around an open Agentic TV standard, and maps how fibre, in-device AI and operator-owned UIs become a multi-billion-euro growth engine.
Open PDF · 1.9 MB · Feb 2026Television enters its iPhone moment. Over the coming decade — what RedSquid calls the age of cognitive TV — fast fibre and on-device AI will turn the screen into an adaptive, conversational hub that personalises storylines, fuses content, commerce and the connected home, and unlocks new ad formats at the edge. The white paper sets out how operators can ride two converging waves to reclaim the living room and lead TV's next century.
Open PDF · 0.5 MB · Jan 2026A UK-focused call to action: the country that gave the world television in 1926 cannot watch from the sidelines as global platforms define its second century. Grounded in Ofcom's PSB findings and the UK industrial strategy, the manifesto argues for a UK-centred cognitive TV platform that unites telcos, PSBs, OEMs and silicon to lead globally again.
Open SVGThe four-layer nested architecture diagram (System & Settings → Operator UI → Curated Apps → Ecosystem) as a standalone SVG. Cite it freely.
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