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
–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 June 17, 2008 by itvtwp
–Sling Media to Offer Client for Apple’s New iPhone 3G
At the NCTA Cable Show last month, EchoStar Technologies, a
subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation, announced that it is targeting the
cable industry with a CableLabs-certified DOCSIS 2.0 product dubbed
the SlingModem. EchoStar Corp. was spun off earlier this year from
satellite-TV company, DISH Network (formerly called EchoStar), and
retains the latter’s [...]
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Posted on June 16, 2008 by itvtwp
US cable-industry research, development and standards organization,
CableLabs, recently issued a press release trumpeting the “broad
exposure” enjoyed by tru2way- and ETV/EBIF-based interactive TV
applications at this year’s NCTA Cable Show. Among the Cable Show
tru2way and ETV demos highlighted by CableLabs in the release:
Softel-USA demo’d its multiplatform, multi-middleware MediaSphere
TX carousel playing out both tru2way [...]
Filed under: Content, Technology | Tagged: biap, cable, cablelabs, cisco, cnn, comcast, cox, digital tv, ebif, ensequence, etv, harmonic, navic, ncta, softel, strategy & technology, tru2way, weather, zodiac | No Comments »
Posted on June 3, 2008 by itvtwp
At the NCTA Cable Show in New Orleans last month, itaas–a company which, among other things, operates developer programs,under the brand “istart,” for Time Warner Cable’s Mystro Digital Navigator (MDN) and OCAP Digital Navigator (ODN) platforms and for Cisco’s SARA/PowerTV and OCAP Axiom platforms–announcedthat it has been tapped by TVWorks–a joint venture between Comcastand Cox [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2008 by itvtwp
The second annual tru2way Developers Conference will be held in
New Orleans on Saturday, May 17th and Sunday, May 18th, just prior
to the NCTA Cable Show. The conference is produced by the NCTA,
in partnership with CableLabs (the originator of the tru2way/OCAP
standard) and premier sponsor, Vidiom Systems, a company that
specializes in tru2way/OCAP technology and that has a [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2008 by itvtwp
The NCTA and CableLabs have announced the line-up of companies
that will be participating in CableNET, their annual showcase of new
cable technologies and products at the NCTA’s Cable Show (takes
place May 18th-20th in New Orleans). A number of participating
companies, including UniSoft/Strategy & Technology, Sigma Designs
and Zodiac Interactive, will be demo’ing tru2way-based technologies,
and several other companies, including [...]
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Posted on April 3, 2008 by itvtwp
–The Interactive TV Month in Review
In this recorded episode of [itvt]’s new talk radio show, “The TV of Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow,” Ashwin Navin, co-founder and president of peer-to-peer technology provider, BitTorrent, discusses that company’s recently announced agreement with Comcast, which calls for them to work together to address infrastructural issues raised by [...]
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