Scoop: Interactive TV Software Company, Alticast, to Open Engineering Center in Wroclaw, Poland

Korean MHP, tru2way and Blu-ray specialist, Alticast, will later this week announce that it has opened an engineering center in Wroclaw, Poland. The company says that the expansion is in response to "the steady growth of the European MHP/GEM interactive middleware and the imminent publishing of GEM 1.2 Hybrid Broadcast Broadband interactive middleware."

According to Alticast, Wroclaw--a city with a population of 635,280, which until the end of World War II was part of Germany and formerly called Breslau--is developing a reputation as an area that is "producing some of the best, most technically advanced developers" of embedded digital TV software. "Alticast continues to push ahead with its Hybrid Broadcast Broadband solutions, new backoffice products, and technology innovations for advanced digital service across terrestrial, satellite, cable and IPTV," Anthony Smith-Chaigneau, Alticast's managing director and SVP of business development, said in an email sent to [itvt]. "For our new engineering center in Wroclaw we have completed the hiring of seven key engineering personnel ranging from implementation to project management and technical direction."