Award-winning breakthrough content and advanced interactive networks, coupled with ultra-fast broadband, large-scale interactive media and IP video on any screen makes cable a harbinger of charge for a new era of advanced communications.

The NCTA’s annual exhibition Cable Show 2011 is the event that covers all that. The Cable Show will take place in Chicago, IL next week. This is the place to hear leading executives discuss their vision of next-generation networks and TV platforms. It is also the place to share our view of the future of personal TV and how to leverage the potential of existing home and mobile infrastructure.

Come along to our booth and join Bianor’s team for the unveiling of a great new edition of iMediaShare. Discover the amazing integration of Apple and Google media worlds!

Find us at booth 2039, McCormick Palace, Chicago, IL – Jun 14th – 16th!

About iMediaShare

iMediaShare provides easy access to video and audio content from various sources, allowing people to enjoy their favorite content on-demand on any connected TV. With iMediaShare the mobile handset can easily enable and seamlessly control the streaming of digital media to any TV screen.

About The Cable Show

The Cable Show is hosted by the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA), the principal trade association of the cable television industry in the United States. It is a three-day immersion into everything cable can do. People, platforms and potential for new business abound. Idea-inspiring panel sessions on the latest thinking in content delivery, consumer behavior and technology breakthroughs are presented, along with first-hand demonstrations of new concepts for programming, technology and business support.

Some of the speakers at this year’s events include executives from Comcast, Goldman Sachs, NBC Universal, Samsung, Citigroup, Time Warner, Cablevision, Best Buy, ESPN, Comcast, Cox, Viacom, News Corp, Turner, Motorola and many others.

International news, background information and cultural highlights from Germany’s international broadcaster now available on any connected TV via iMediaShare.

Bianor and Deutsche Welle join forces to bring the German broadcaster’s on-demand videos to the connected TV screens around the globe. Deutsche Welle produces news, background information and cultural highlights worldwide, creating a platform for intercultural dialogue. Its on-demand video library is now part of iMediaShare’s video channel lineup – available both in English and German.

Bianor’s iMediaShare is a mobile solution that enables users to personalize their TV experience. It provides easy access to video and audio content from various sources to let people enjoy their favorite content on any connected TV. iMediaShare transforms the mobile handset into a personal all-in-one media manager that combines content portability with seamless media streaming and TV remote control functionality.

“The content quality is key to the great TV experience. We are very excited to partner with Deutsche Welle and to deliver content from the leading broadcaster to the international audience”, says Metodi Filipov, Bianor’s Managing Director. “On-demand video consumption gains popularity as more people want to be in full control of what and when they watch. Unlike traditional TV broadcasting solutions iMediaShare is specially designed to address these needs”, adds Metodi Filipov.

“Working with such an innovative company like Bianor provides us with a great opportunity to expand into new areas of business”, says Petra Schneider, Deutsche Welle Director of Distribution. ”We really do have something for every iMediaShare user with a selection of on-demand content that ranges from business and politics to sports, music, lifestyle and the arts – all produced in the heart of Europe”.

iMediaShare serves over a million media items monthly, and over 2,500 new users join its community every day to enjoy the convenience of on-demand media. iMediaShare is available for free for iPhone and Android platforms.

About Bianor
Bianor is a technology company dedicated to help businesses take full advantage of mobile technologies. The company provides consulting services to clients such as IBM, Samsung, Ogilvy, and P&G, delivering software solutions used by millions of people around the globe.

About Deutsche Welle
Deutsche Welle is Germany’s international broadcaster. With DW-TV, DW-RADIO and DW-WORLD.DE, the company produces news, background information and cultural highlights worldwide, while creating a platform for intercultural dialogue. Deutsche Welle is a respected and credible source of information that reaches more than 86 million listeners and viewers worldwide every week and distributes programming and services via a global satellite network, partner stations (rebroadcasting) and on the Internet, as well as utilizing modern forms of media like podcasting, live-streaming, newsletters, mobile offers and RSS services

Listening to the feedback and recommendations provided by iMediaShare users is crucial for us to move the application forward. One of the most desired features in iOS version was access to iPod library and streaming music to any connected entertainment devices around the house. With the latest 3.2 release of iMediaShare for iOS we enabled that capability and Music icon is now part of the content sources’ lineup. It is still in beta as there were some technical challenges which we need to overcome.

iMediaShare 3.2 also extends the playback support of camera recorded videos when streamed to network-enabled media devices. What iMediaShare brings now is a on-the-fly conversion of video files from Apple’s proprietary video format into a more widely accepted MP4 format. Thus devices like Sony PlayStation 3 can play flawlessly videos recorded with iPhone camera. Unfortunately there are still a certain devices that are not capable to recognize MP4 videos.

Finally iMediaShare has also improved application start time by optimizing long lasting local videos and photos loading operation. With this improvement now you can reach your favorite online content much faster and start playing videos from YouTube or whatever online service directly on the TV screen.

In short iMediaShare 3.2 is a big step ahead release. Probably we should version it as 4.0 but to keep it consistent with the Android 3.x release cycles we just sticked to that;-) Anyway go to iTunes App Store and get iMediaShare Free or Premium and I hope you’ll enjoy. Do not forget to let us know what do you think about that. We appreciate your feedback a lot!

Tapping on My Network icon an automatic scan for available media servers is started and all discovered are listed. Tapping on a selected media server gives access to all-stored videos, photos and music organized in the way they are stored on the server. The rest of the flow is just the same as within the other content channels thus the consistency in user behaviour is preserved.

My Network is another feature requested strongly by iMediaShare community. Being available now I’ll be happy to hear from you what your experience is.

Three months later if you open iMediaShare a scrollable screen with channels’ icons is loaded. Today their number is exactly 30 including those for phone-stored content. If you exclude the duplicate SD & HD versions for some of the channels the exact number of various content sources is exactly 25. While that number is not big enough it has been achieved in less than 3 months and that number is growing pretty fast. Probably you have noticed from time to time new icons appear magically on the channels’  dashboard screen. But there is not magic behind. We have designed the system to be fully configurable from our end and push new channel whenever it is ready for streaming instead of waiting for a couple of weeks when the next release cycle has ended.

While iOS version is not quite there (recently Apple approved for sale Premium Edition), it is on its way. iMediaShare Free edition has been submitted and we are waiting for Apple’s approval soon. What it means is that the exact same number of online channels will pop up on Channels screen on any iOS device. More than that Android and iOS users will be introduced with new channels whenever they become available and can enjoy one and the same content sources.

Update (04/12/11): Today Apple approved Free edition. Now it is available for download/update from iTunes AppStore

Under review is the Free edition of iMediaShare for iOS which will bring the same set of functionality and … channels, of course. As usual the it will be Ads-supported. We are expecting to get its approval from Apple pretty soon.

Bianor’s iMediaShare transforms the smartphone into a remote control, allowing seamless playback of online content on connected TV’s. Users can play online videos on any connected TV at any time, whether at home, or visiting friends. iMediaShare turns the smartphone into a personal media device combining TV guide, TV remote control and set-top box functionality in one unit.

Metodi Filipov, Bianor’s Managing Director, shares his view of the future: “The new generation of users do not rely only on broadcast TV anymore. There is a natural shift to on demand news consumption. Users want to be in full control of what, when and where to watch. iMediaShare unlike traditional broadcasting solutions is specially designed to address these on demand needs.”

Arnaud Verlhac – France 24’s Head of Distribution Americas ads: “We are very happy to announce the addition of France 24 breaking news, events and highlights. In addition to our satellite broadcast iMediaShare on demand distribution will allows us to reach more TV customers in North America. France 24 provides in depth coverage of the recent events in the Middle East.”

New users join the iMediaShare community at a rate of 2000 a day, accessing the convenience of on demand media and confirming that we live in a time when mobility is paramount. iMediaShare is available for iPhone and Android.