At the IBC show in Amsterdam earlier this month, UK-based digital TV client software provider, ANT, released version 3.0 of its ANT Galio software suite, targeted at network operators, content developers and set-top box manufacturers. According to the company, the new version of the software suite is more robust and will allow content providers to [...]
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IPTV middleware and applications provider, Minerva Networks, says that it has deployed its flagship iTVManager solution to power the Clarksville (TN) Department of Electricity’s IPTV service, CDE Lightband. iTVManager replaced middleware from Kasenna which–CDE Lightband president, Ken Spradlin, was quoted in the local newspaper, The Leaf Chronicle, as saying–had not worked as advertised (note: Kasenna [...]
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–New Hybrid Solution for Offering Interactive Services over the Internet
–New Social TV, User Interface, Targeted Advertising Solutions
–New Fingerprint-Recognition Solution for Personalized TV
At the IBC show in Amsterdam earlier this month, Israeli IPTV middleware and applications provider, Orca Interactive, and its new corporate parent, France Telecom-subsidiary, Viaccess, launched a pre-integrated, end-to-end hybrid solution that delivers content [...]
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–Integrates New Platform with Three Mobile Ad Networks
–Builds Mobile Alerts Service for NBC’s Olympics Coverage
SinglePoint–a Bellevue, Washington-based company which specializes in mobile-based interactive and participation TV, and which was recently chosen by NBC Universal to provide mobile interactive TV services across a broad range of its programming and channels (according to research conducted by Nielsen, [...]
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–Secures Deal to Enable Mobile Interactivity on Five’s Flagship Shows
–Forms Experience Design Agency, “New Toy”
–Launches Refund Manager for Participation TV
–Extends Mobile Interactive Services Contract with FremantleMedia
Mobile Interactive Group (MIG), a UK company which, as its name suggests, offers a range of mobile-based interactive services, has generated a fair amount of news over the past few [...]
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Shenick Network Systems, a provider of per-flow IP communications test and monitoring systems, says that its diversifEye per-flow architecture has been selected by SeaChange International as the only test product to provide “a uniquely flexible platform to emulate and measure each individual video-on-demand client behind residential gateways.” The company says that diversifEye will allow SeaChange’s [...]
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Top-10 cable operator, Suddenlink, has launched VOD service. The service has been rolled out in the operator’s Abilene, Amarillo, Lubbock, Midland, San Angelo, Snyder and Sweetwater, Texas systems, and is scheduled to be rolled out in its Andrews, Big Spring and Plainview, Texas systems and its Clovis, New Mexico system later this year. The service [...]
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Edgeware, a Stockholm-based provider of VOD server systems, and Oregan Networks, a UK company that specializes in embedded media browsers, say that Edgeware’s new solid-state Reflex 2x Web TV Server is interoperable with Oregan’s media browser client. According to the companies, the combined system helps solve the technical and economic challenges of “over-the-top” (i.e. over [...]
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TV place-shifting company, Sling Media (note: the company is a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar Corp.; for more news on the latter, see article in this issue), last week launched a new version of its flagship Slingbox product that is capable of “slinging” both standard- and high-definition streams. Dubbed Slingbox PRO-HD and priced at $299.99, [...]
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–Launches OCAP Development Toolkit
–Launches New Set-Top Platform Offering Media Mobility
–Secures Deals with T-Home, Ziggo
At the IBC show in Amsterdam earlier this month, Motorola unveiled various enhancements to its VOD product portfolio that make use of adaptive media management (AMM). AMM is a technology framework that is billed as creating a flexible and cost-effective platform for [...]
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