Posted on May 8, 2008 by itvtwp
San Francisco-based video search company, blinkx, has launched a
broadband TV service, dubbed blinkx BBTV, which it says leverages
the company’s patented speech and visual recognition technology to
link programming to relevant information on the Web. The service,
which launched April 2nd and which is available free of charge (it
requires end-users to download a 1.8MB file), currently offers a [...]
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Posted on May 8, 2008 by itvtwp
–NBC Universal’s PictureBox Service to Launch on BT Vision
BT Media & Broadcast, which is part of the UK incumbent telco’s
Global Services division, says that it has developed a digital content
store, based on its BT Mosaic service, for the UK’s largest commercial
broadcaster, the Independent Television Network (generally referred to
in the UK by the acronym, “ITV”). The [...]
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Posted on May 8, 2008 by itvtwp
–Launches ITV Services in More Markets
–Launches Free Olympics VOD Service
–Signs VOD Deal with Rotten Tomatoes
US incumbent telco, AT&T, has generated a fair amount of interactive
TV- and VOD-related news over the past few weeks:
The company has teamed with Yahoo!-owned photo-sharing site,
Flickr, to launch an interactive TV application on its U-verse IPTV
[...]
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Posted on May 3, 2008 by itvtwp
VOD technology provider, SeaChange International, and digital video
specialist, Thomson, said last week that they have deployed an
advanced content delivery system for HBO Latin America Group. The
system, which uses digital watermarking for enhanced security, is being
used by HBO LAG to make movies available on the VOD platforms of
a number of cable operators throughout Latin [...]
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Posted on May 3, 2008 by itvtwp
–Company Signs Broadband Video Deal with YouTube
–Omnicom, CBS to Use Company’s StopWatch Research Service
–Company’s Service, Now Offered by Comcast, is in Tech Trials with Cox
–Company Secures Two More Favorable Rulings in “Time Warp” Case
DVR vendor/service provider, TiVo, has generated a fair amount of
news over the past few weeks:
Last week, it was revealed that [...]
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Posted on May 3, 2008 by itvtwp
–Launches ITV Services in More Markets
–Launches Free Olympics VOD Service
–Signs VOD Deal with Rotten Tomatoes
US incumbent telco, AT&T, has generated a fair amount of interactive
TV- and VOD-related news over the past few weeks:
The company has teamed with Yahoo!-owned photo-sharing site,
Flickr, to launch an interactive TV application on its U-verse IPTV
[...]
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Posted on May 3, 2008 by itvtwp
–Launches ITV Trivia Games for Australian Football and Rugby
Australian pay-TV provider, Foxtel, recently contacted [itvt] to let us
know about the various interactive TV services it is offering in
conjunction with its programming this month (note: Foxtel’s ITV
services, dubbed Foxtel Active, are powered by OpenTV middleware):
The fourth series of the reality show, “Australia’s Next Top Model”
[...]
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Posted on May 3, 2008 by itvtwp
UK-based interactive TV design company, Pushbutton, has redesigned
and reengineered the ITV service that its long-standing client, National
Geographic Channel, offers on the Sky satellite platform. According to
the company, the revamp of the service is intended to switch its
emphasis to bonus video and promotional reels for new shows. “With
top-quality short-form videos always available from National
Geographic channel, [...]
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Posted on May 3, 2008 by itvtwp
–Forms Audience-Measurement Partnership with TNS
US satellite TV provider, DirecTV, continues to roll out interactive TV
services as an integral part of its sports coverage and of its service
offering in general (note: the company is also expected to launch a
VOD service this quarter; a report in the Wall Street Journal stated that
the service will employ a combination [...]
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Posted on May 3, 2008 by itvtwp
DISH Launches Second Phase of its Election-Year ITV Application
Earlier this year, US satellite TV provider, DISH (formerly EchoStar),
launched the second phase of its election-year interactive TV
application, DISH Decision 2008. The first phase, dubbed “You Decide
2008″ and based on technology from BIAP, presented DISH
subscribers with a series of questions designed to help match their
opinions with various [...]
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