Posted on November 21, 2008 by itvtwp
In this recorded episode of [itvt]’s talk radio show, “The TV of Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow,” Maha Ibrahim, general partner at venture capital firm, Canaan Partners, discusses her company’s investment strategy. Among other things, she explains why Canaan is interested in early-stage HD broadband video providers; outlines the criteria that guide the company’s [...]
Filed under: Financials, Industry, Interviews | Tagged: broadband, broadband tv, canaan, canaan partners, digital tv, financing, funding, funds, interactive television, interactive tv, internet, invest, investments, itv, vc, venture, venture capital, watercooler, web 2.0 | No Comments »
Posted on November 19, 2008 by itvtwp
This issue contains back-to-back recorded episodes of [itvt]’s talk radio show, “The TV of Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow,” devoted to the latest crop of interactive media prototypes from the American Film Institute Digital Content Lab, and to the AFI DigiFest 2008 event that the Digital Content Lab organized earlier this month in Los Angeles. [...]
Filed under: Content, Interviews | Tagged: abc.com, afi, american film institute, cousteau, digital content lab, digital tv, mgm, viewing party | No Comments »
Posted on November 17, 2008 by itvtwp
Sefy Ariely, VP of sales and marketing at IPTV middleware and applications provider, Orca Interactive, discusses some of the company’s newest offerings. They include an end-to-end hybrid solution for delivering TV over the open Internet, social TV applications, and a personalization capability that makes use of fingerprint-recognition technology. Ariely also discusses Orca’s new deployment [...]
Filed under: Interviews, Technology | Tagged: digital tv, iptv, israel, telcos, ims | No Comments »
Posted on November 6, 2008 by itvtwp
In this recorded episode of [itvt]’s talk radio show, “The TV of Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow,” Comcast Media Center (CMC) COO, Gary Traver, and Homer Gonzalez III, product manager for CMC’s HITS AxIS offering (note: the latter, whose name stands for “Headend in the Sky Advanced Interactive Services,” is a centralized platform that operates [...]
Filed under: Interviews, Technology | Tagged: cable, ebif, tru2way, digital tv, interactive tv, comcast media center, canoe, cmc | No Comments »
Posted on October 30, 2008 by itvtwp
In this recorded episode of [itvt]’s talk radio show, “The TV of Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow,” Dean Denhart, president and CEO of BlackArrow, a company that specializes in targeted advertising management technologies for on-demand platforms (note: among other things, the company recently announced that it had raised $20 million in new funding and that [...]
Filed under: Advertising, Industry, Interviews, Technology | Tagged: blackarrow, digital tv, vod, Advertising, dvr, broadband tv, canoe, cablevision, targeted advertising | No Comments »
Posted on October 9, 2008 by itvtwp
Industry
Copyright-Infringement Lawsuit against Veoh Dismissed
MTV Networks Acquires Social Networking Firm, Social Project
Starz Closes Vongo, Will Focus on Wholesale Offering, Starz Play
CableLabs CEO, Richard Green, to Step Down
Next New Networks Names Lance Podell CEO
BitTorrent Raises $17 Million
Technology
Panasonic Demo’s Comcast-Connected tru2way TV Set at CEDIA
ZeeVee Begins Shipping ZvBox Internet-to-TV Device
eventIS, sofatronic Partner on Blu-ray VOD Solution
–Virgin Media [...]
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Posted on October 8, 2008 by itvtwp
–Radio Interview: ActiveVideo’s Jeff Miller Discusses the Deployment
ActiveVideo Networks (formerly ICTV) will announce today that it has deployed its platform with Oceanic Time Warner Cable in Hawaii. The platform, which features “intelligent video streaming” technology that allows interactive Web content to be delivered on TV via any digital set-top box, is powering a range of [...]
Filed under: Content, Interviews, Technology | Tagged: itv, cable, digital tv, interactive tv, time warner, ictv, time warner cable, hsn, web 2.0, activevideo, hawaii, oceanic, tag networks | No Comments »
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
–Appoints New General Manager for its Japanese Subsidiary
Broadband video publishing solutions provider, Brightcove, has announced a number of new deals over the past few weeks, including three in the UK (a market which it has been targeting over the past few months and where its existing customers include BSkyB, Channel 4, Emap, Guardian News & [...]
Filed under: Content, Technology | Tagged: bksyb, brightcove, broadband tv, digital tv, no 10, sony, uk, uktv | No Comments »
Posted on October 4, 2008 by itvtwp
–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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