[itvt]’s Tracy Swedlow conducted several short interviews at the recent NCTA National Show in Atlanta. To view the videos, click on the screenshots below.
At the NCTA National Show earlier this month, [itvt] organized a pavilion devoted to companies that provide technologies, services, and content targeted at the interactive television industry. Participants included Bluestreak Network, DRM Labs, Interactive Meet And Greet Entertainment (IMAGE), Kontiki, NDS, Strategy & Technology (S&T), SysMedia, and Zetools. http://www.itvt.com/MediaGallery-NCTA2006.html
Jim Chiddix, chairman and CEO of OpenTV, sits down with [itvt] to provide an overview of where his company finds itself today. Among other things, he discusses OpenTV’s development work for Motorola set-top boxes, its switched digital broadcast offering, its advertising products, its enhanced video products, its OCAP offerings, its relationship with ICTV, its efforts to penetrate the Indian market, and more. http://www.itvt.com/MediaGallery-NCTA2006-OpenTV.html
Two senior Tandberg Television executives–SVP of business development, Joe Franzetta, and SVP of marketing and business development, Braxton Jarratt–discuss, among other things, the company’s new interactive advertising solution. http://www.itvt.com/MediaGallery-NCTA2006-Tandberg.html
David Cutts, founding director of Strategy & Technology, and Colin Prior, the company’s recently appointed director of international sales, describe its new OCAP authoring and playout platform, TSDeveloper, which they unveiled in the [itvt] Pavilion. Cutts also talks about S&T’s new OCAP deal with Vidiom Systems. http://www.itvt.com/MediaGallery-NCTA2006-S-T.html
Sangita Verma, founder and CEO of interactive TV games company, TVHead, talks about her company’s new games-on-demand channel. http://www.itvt.com/MediaGallery-NCTA2006-TVHead.html
Jeff Mankoff, CEO of DRM Labs, gives an overview of his company’s offerings, which include Voupon, an interactive TV couponing service, and CyberDrawer, a Web-based application that allows consumers to organize and manage interactive commercials, email offers, mobile phone offers, and more. http://www.itvt.com/MediaGallery-NCTA2006-DRMLabs.html
Vanessa Spock, international business development manager at SysMedia, describes the new IPTV capabilities of that company’s Plasma Gold interactive content management and production system. http://www.itvt.com/MediaGallery-NCTA2006-SysMedia.html
Gary Sohmers, CEO of Interactive Meet And Greet Entertainment (IMAGE), describes his new service, which allows users to interact with and purchase autographs and other products from celebrities through an interactive TV interface. (Note: Sohmers is also an appraiser of toys, memorabilia and pop culture collectibles on the popular PBS show, "Antiques Roadshow.") http://www.itvt.com/MediaGallery-NCTA2006-Image.html
Jim Carruthers, president of Norpak, a company that specializes in TV data transmission systems, discusses what he saw on the show floor this year and how he views the current state of the interactive TV industry. http://www.itvt.com/MediaGallery-NCTA2006-Norpak.html
David Jensen, VP of business development at Zetools, explains that his company’s tools can now publish to Microsoft’s Media Center platform. http://www.itvt.com/MediaGallery-NCTA2006-Zetools.html
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