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Inview Technology

Logo: http://inview.tv/, Non-free logo, via Wikipedia³

British digital television software company based in Northwich, founded in 2006¹

Inview Technology (Inview Technology Ltd or simply Inview) is a UK-based digital TV software company. It specialises in advanced EPGs, interactive broadcasts, and IP services for Pay-TV and analogue switch off markets. Their OTT TV platform allows television broadcast and internet content to be simultaneously accessible to the viewer.² It was founded by Ken Austin.¹ Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

2006Founded¹

HeadquartersNorthwich¹
Websiteinview.tv
Legal formlimited company¹

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Inview Technology (Inview Technology Ltd or simply Inview) is a UK-based digital TV software company. It specialises in advanced EPGs, interactive broadcasts, and IP services for Pay-TV and analogue switch off markets. Their OTT TV platform allows television broadcast and internet content to be simultaneously accessible to the viewer. The company is based in Northwich, Cheshire, UK and is privately owned.²

The story

Founded by Ken Austin in 2006.¹

The company was started in 1996. Inview provided a chip based EPG, broadcast data service and a digital TV software platform for the free to air terrestrial market.

It was one of the first companies to launch a broadcast TV listings service, known as 4TVInteractive. However, in 2010 Inview ceased support for this service and this affected a number of Digifusion, Inverto, Thomson and Sony Set-top boxes and caused them to show only now and next information, rather than a full EPG.

From Wikipedia’s article on Inview Technology, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.⁴

Leadership

Who has led Inview Technology, and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.

FounderKen Austin¹

Products and brands

Servies provided by Inview include whole country switch-over, OTT services, broadcast services, advertising, EPG, video on demand (VOD), Push-VOD#Push video on demand, Catch-Up TV, PVR, and legacy upgrades for older boxes.

Liberator

In October 2012, Inview developed "Liberator 3", an OTT cloud-based platform for Pay TV operators and telcos wishing to equip their customers with tailor made connected set-top boxes for broadcast and broadband internet content.

Broadcast services

In territories where the broadband infrastructure is underdeveloped, Inview offers a broadcast service with advertising, Push-VOD, catch up TV and PVR.

Legacy upgrades

Inview's solution for existing (older) deployed set-top boxes is to offer applications including an EPG and TV apps that can run in devices with limited memory and processing power. By June 2015 Inview had upgraded over 10 million legacy set-top boxes worldwide.

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Lolipop

Inview has developed the platform for a HDMI dongle streaming device called "Lolipop" which is controlled through a smartphone using gesture control. This allows content such as VOD, live-streamed channels and social networking apps to be viewed on a mobile device or on another TV without the need of a set-top box.