In this recorded episode of [itvt]’s talk radio show, “The TV of Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow,” David Housman, general manager of OCAP/tru2way specialist, Vidiom Systems, discusses the company’s new focus, following its amicable split with its founder and former CEO, Tim Wahlers (who has established a new company, enableTV, from parts of Vidiom’s [...]
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[itvt]’s Tracy Swedlow recently interviewed Bill Sheppard, chief digital media officer of the Client Software Group at Sun Microsystems. Audio of the interview is below, followed by a transcript that has been slightly edited for length.
Sheppard explains why Sun is bullish on tru2way; provides an overview of the new JavaFX language and its significance [...]
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In this recorded episode of [itvt]’s talk radio show, “The TV of Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow,” Tom Pratt, VP of programming and product development at The Weather Channel, discusses the channel’s interactive TV offerings and strategy. Topics covered include why The Weather Channel views implementing interactive TV as a high priority; the channel’s [...]
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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 [...]
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Earlier this week, Plano, Texas-based interactive TV technology provider, BIAP, announced that it has signed a five-year license agreement with Time Warner Cable that will see the latter using BIAP’s ETV User Agent in its advanced advertising platform. According to the companies, the BIAP software will enable Time Warner Cable digital set-top boxes to [...]
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InteractiveTV Today [itvt], the first, best and most widely read news source on interactive and multiplatform television, is pleased to present the third annual TV of Tomorrow Show, March 10th-11th (Tuesday-Wednesday), 2009 in San Francisco, California at the famous Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
The first two TV of Tomorrow Shows were praised by [...]
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SysMedia, a UK-based company that specializes in content-management and production systems for teletext, subtitling and interactive TV, contacted [itvt] last week to let us know that it has expanded its Plasma Gold interactive content production and management system with a new output module that enables delivery to mobiles (note: according to SysMedia, Plasma Gold separates [...]
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–Will Form Basis of New OCAP Company, enableTV
–Wahlers Explains Goals of New Company to [itvt]
[itvt] has learned that Geneva-based ADB Group, which acquired US
tru2way/OCAP specialist, Vidiom Systems, back in February, 2006,
has sold parts of that company’s professional services business back to
Vidiom Systems founder, Tim Wahlers. The business will form the
basis of a new company, called [...]
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In this recorded episode of [itvt]’s talk radio show, “The TV of
Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow,” Dalen Harrison, CEO of
Ensequence; Peter Low, president and COO of Ensequence; Bill
Niemeyer, chief of analysis and research at BlackArrow; Gowri
Shankar, SVP of sales and business development at
SinglePoint; and Rachelle Zoffer, director of interactive TV at
Verizon FiOS, discuss [...]
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Interactive TV and addressable advertising technology provider, Navic
Networks, says that its HyperCast Network, a backoffice solution for
delivering and managing interactive TV advertising content across
platforms and operators, is now compatible with the US cable
industry’s ETV/EBIF standard (which is designed to enable interactive
TV applications–primarily bound apps–run on low-resource legacy
set-top boxes, and thereby to have a national footprint). [...]
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