Posted on August 27, 2008 by itvtwp
At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco last week, Yahoo! and
Intel announced plans to launch the Widget Channel, an application
framework which they say will allow operators, content providers,
advertisers and others to develop Internet-based mini-applications,
dubbed “TV Widgets,” for broadband-connected TV’s and other
consumer electronics devices, using Web standards and tools such as
JavaScript, XML, HTML and Adobe [...]
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Posted on August 14, 2008 by itvtwp
In this recorded episode of [itvt]’s talk radio show, “The TV of
Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow,” Dalen Harrison, CEO of
Ensequence; Peter Low, president and COO of Ensequence; Bill
Niemeyer, chief of analysis and research at BlackArrow; Gowri
Shankar, SVP of sales and business development at
SinglePoint; and Rachelle Zoffer, director of interactive TV at
Verizon FiOS, discuss [...]
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Posted on August 14, 2008 by itvtwp
Late last week, Integra5–a Burlington, Massachusetts-based company
which specializes in technologies for converged services and which has
secured around 30 operator customers to date–announced its first win
with a tier-one operator: Canada’s third-largest cable company,
Videotron, has deployed the company’s i5 Converged Services
Platform (i5 CSP) and is using the platform’s i5 TV Caller ID
application to offer a service–branded illico [...]
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Posted on August 12, 2008 by itvtwp
In this recorded episode of [itvt]’s talk radio show, “The TV of
Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow,” Fred Singer, CEO of
Anystream, and Russell Zack, the company’s VP of product
management, discuss its new partnership with NBC that sees it
powering the delivery of the broadcaster’s on-demand coverage of the
Beijing Olympics to VOD, Web, electronic sell-through and mobile
platforms. [...]
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Posted on August 12, 2008 by itvtwp
Dublin, Ireland-based interactive TV advertising and authoring
solutions provider, emuse, has teamed with Carat to create a
video-enabled ITV advertising campaign, dubbed “Join the Quest,” for
Disney’s new “Chronicles of Narnia” movie, “Prince Caspian.”
According to emuse, the new campaign–a bespoke version of which
was also created for the Sky satellite platform–is the first interactive
advertising campaign to launch on [...]
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Posted on August 12, 2008 by itvtwp
New York-area MSO, Cablevision, has signed deals with MTV Networks and BET Networks,
under which several hundred programs from MTVN’s MTV, MTV2, VH1, VH1 Classic, CMT, Comedy Central,
Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., Noggin, The N, and Logo channels, and from BETN’s BET channel have been added to its iO digital cable platform’s VOD
service. The programs, which are [...]
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Posted on August 12, 2008 by itvtwp
CNN’s user-generated news service, iReport, has launched a
user-generated short film competition. Entitled the iReport Film
Festival, the competition invites voters to document this year’s US
presidential campaign from their personal vantage point, whether they
are volunteering for one of the campaigns or simply have compelling
stories about the election that they want to document creatively. “CNN
was the first network [...]
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Posted on August 12, 2008 by itvtwp
US broadcast network, ABC, announced earlier this month that the
Move Networks-powered ABC.com Full Episode Player achieved its
best viewership figures to date in May, thanks in large part to the
availability of the season finales of the primetime shows, “Lost,”
“Grey’s Anatomy,” “Desperate Housewives” and “Ugly Betty.”
According to the company, citing data supplied by Move Networks,
ABC.com users [...]
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Posted on August 12, 2008 by itvtwp
The BBC has launched a new version of its broadband video
player/catch-up service, the BBC iPlayer. Among other things, the new
version integrates TV and radio in a single interface, which the BBC
bills as allowing smoother and easier navigation between TV and radio
programs. In addition, end-users can now choose between listening to
BBC Radio shows from the past [...]
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Posted on August 12, 2008 by itvtwp
–Signs Programming Deals with Sony, Crackle, CBS, Showtime
Adobe Systems has released its first update to Adobe Media Player, the
customizable, cross-platform media player software (enables playback
of streamed, downloaded or locally stored video in the FLV or H.264
formats) that it launched in April (see [itvt] Issue 7.77 Part 2a).
According to the company, the new version of [...]
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