Posted on May 3, 2008 by itvtwp
–OpenTV to Retain 19% Stake in the Company
–Static 2358 Unveils Plans for PlayJam-Branded Freeview Set-Top Boxes
Founder, Jasper Smith, has reacquired Static 2358, the company which
operates the PlayJam interactive TV games service and which was
acquired by OpenTV in 2001. Static 2358 is now 81% owned by
Smith’s newly established holding company, General Entertainment &
Technology Corporation (GET Corp.), [...]
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Posted on May 3, 2008 by itvtwp
–Says its VOD Service has Generated over 7 Billion Views since 2003
–Company’s Fancast Service now Features Video from over 100 Providers
–Company to Spend up to $70 Million on “Project Canoe” this Year
Comcast, the US’s largest cable MSO, last week launched a service
called AnyRoom On Demand to its digital cable customers in New
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Jersey who are [...]
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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 [...]
Filed under: Content | Tagged: digital converter box, digital tv, dish, election, itv, satellite | 1 Comment »
Posted on April 30, 2008 by itvtwp
–Says its VOD Service has Generated over 7 Billion Views since 2003
–Company’s Fancast Service now Features Video from over 100 Providers
–Company to Spend up to $70 Million on “Project Canoe” this Year
Comcast, the US’s largest cable MSO, last week launched a service
called AnyRoom On Demand to its digital cable customers in New
‘
Jersey who are [...]
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Posted on April 30, 2008 by itvtwp
Time Warner Cable of New York and New Jersey has announced plans
to expand its HDTV programming line-up, which it says will see it
carrying 100 HD channels and “more than 250 HD On Demand
choices” by the end of the year. The company is launching what it is
calling “Enhanced HDTV,” a free offering that includes Start Over [...]
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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 [...]
Filed under: Events, Industry, Interviews, Technology | Tagged: cable, cablelabs, cisco, digital converter box, digital tv, dtv, interactive television, interactive tv, itv, ncta, ocap, panasonic, sigma systems, softel, sun, time warner, time warner cable, tru2way, vidiom, vod, weather channel | 1 Comment »
Posted on April 18, 2008 by itvtwp
In this recorded episode of [itvt]’s talk radio show, “The TV of Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow,” Cathy Hetzel, president of the Advanced Media Information division at business-intelligence company, Rentrak, and her colleague, Dustin Encelewski, the company’s director of technological business development, discuss recent developments with its OnDemand Essentials offering–a Web-based ASP service which [...]
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Posted on April 17, 2008 by itvtwp
In this recorded episode of [itvt]’s talk radio show, “The TV of Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow,” Gary Sohmers, president and chairman of Interactive Meet and Greet Entertainment (IMAGE), discusses his company’s flagship Video Queue technology, which allows TV viewers to have face-to-face encounters with celebrities. (Note: Sohmers will probably be familiar to [itvt] [...]
Filed under: Interviews | Tagged: appraiser, autographs, cable, celebrities, celebrity, digital converter box, digital television, digital tv, interactive, interactive television, iptv, itv, pbs, satellite | 1 Comment »
