Posted on October 7, 2008 by itvtwp
–Company’s European Arm Begins Major Push for the EMEA Region
EchoStar Technologies, a subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation (note: EchoStar Corp. was spun off earlier this year from satellite-TV company, DISH Network–formerly called EchoStar–and retains the latter’s hardware business and certain of its infrastructure assets), has signed CableLabs’ tru2way Host Device License Agreement. The agreement gives EchoStar [...]
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Posted on October 7, 2008 by itvtwp
Comcast Media Center recently conducted a live demonstration of ETV/EBIF applications running on its HITS AxIS platform at the CableLabs Summer Conference (took place August 10th-13th). The applications, which were hosted at the CMC, were delivered via a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to the headend for Comcast’s Summit County cable system, which then transported them [...]
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Posted on October 7, 2008 by itvtwp
–Signs New HD DVR Deal with DirecTV
–Signs Deal to Bring TiVo Services to BlackBerry
–Launches High-Capacity HD DVR
–Partners with Entertainment Weekly
TiVo and US satellite TV provider, DirecTV, have extended their existing partnership with a new, non-exclusive deal that calls for the companies to develop, market and distribute a new TiVo-powered HD DVR service to DirecTV customers. [...]
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Posted on October 7, 2008 by itvtwp
–Launches Solution Suite for Targeted and Interactive Advertising
–Forms Global Partnership with Audience-Measurement Specialist, TNS
–Teams with Tata Sky on India’s First Hindi-Language EPG
–Teams with Cinea and Harmonic on VOD Solution
Interactive TV and conditional access technology provider, NDS, has generated a fair amount of news over the past few weeks:
The company has launched a suite of [...]
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Posted on October 7, 2008 by itvtwp
–Deploys OpenStream VOD Platform with Get Norway
Tandberg Television–the company which over the past two years or so has purchased VOD infrastructure provider, N2 Broadband, interactive TV technology and services provider, GoldPocket Interactive, IPTV content delivery company, SkyStream Networks, and Internet video company, Zetools; and which was itself subsequently acquired by Ericsson–has launched a network PVR [...]
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Posted on October 7, 2008 by itvtwp
–Secures Multiple EPG Deals for Latin America and Europe
Macrovision, the company that recently acquired the US’s dominant EPG developer, Gemstar-TV Guide, says that it has signed CableLabs’ tru2way (OCAP) Implementers’ Agreement, allowing it to build products based on the tru2way interactive cable architecture. The company also says that it has signed an OpenCable Contribution Agreement [...]
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Posted on October 7, 2008 by itvtwp
–Releases New Versions of its VOD, EPG, PVR, and nPVR Platforms
At the IBC show in Amsterdam earlier this month, Belgian interactive TV technology provider, Zappware, unveiled a new interactive TV server platform. Dubbed the iView Interaction Manager, the new server is billed by the company as a modular and scalable platform that operators and/or broadcasters [...]
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Posted on October 7, 2008 by itvtwp
–Secures First AmiNET530 Deployment, Partners with Ericsson
At the IBC show in Amsterdam earlier this month, Cambridge, UK-based IPTV set-top box manufacturer, Amino Communications, launched a plug-in PVR solution that leverages the USB drive of the company’s existing set-top boxes, and that thus enables telcos to upsell PVR functionality without having to initially deploy expensive hard [...]
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Posted on October 7, 2008 by itvtwp
–Teams with Abertis on Solution for Delivering DTT on the Internet
–Announces New Silverlight Deals in Europe
–Previews Silverlight H.264 and AAC Support
At the IBC show in Amsterdam earlier this month, Microsoft launched its Protected Broadcast Driver Architecture (PBDA), a platform for enabling broadcast TV on the PC. According to the company, the platform’s functionality is made [...]
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Posted on October 7, 2008 by itvtwp
–Integrates Adobe’s Flash Lite Software into its Middleware
–Teams with eventIS on End-to-End Cable VOD System
–Unveils “Next-Generation” Interface, OpenTV Core nX
Interactive TV middleware and advanced advertising technology provider, OpenTV, generated a fair amount of news at the IBC show in Amsterdam earlier this month:
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The company announced a deal with Adobe Systems, under which it [...]
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