Posted on December 1, 2008 by itvtwp
[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 [...]
Filed under: Industry, Interviews, Technology | Tagged: blu-ray, blu-ray disc, dvr, ebif, etv, interactive tv, itv, java, java.net, javafx, ocap, sun, sun microsystems, tru2way | 1 Comment »
Posted on October 30, 2008 by itvtwp
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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Posted on October 7, 2008 by itvtwp
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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Posted on September 29, 2008 by itvtwp
–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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Posted on June 17, 2008 by itvtwp
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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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 5, 2008 by itvtwp
In this recorded episode of [itvt]’s talk radio show, “The TV of
Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow,” Steven Roberts, SVP of new
media and business development at DirecTV, and Tyler Slocum, the
company’s senior director of ITV and DVR services, provide an update
on DirecTV’s interactive TV offerings. Topics discussed include usage
statistics for DirecTV’s various ITV services, the [...]
Filed under: Content, Industry, Interviews | Tagged: digital tv, satellite, Advertising, hdtv, directv, sports, etv, dbs, high definition television, olympics | 3 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 [...]
Filed under: Interviews, Technology | Tagged: cable, cablelabs, digital tv, digital tv converter, ebif, etv, interactive tv, iptv, itaas, itv, itvt, rustagi, thomson, tru2way, tvworks | No Comments »
Posted on May 23, 2008 by itvtwp
In this recorded episode of [itvt]’s talk radio show, “The TV of
Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow,” a panel of interactive TV
experts–Steve Borelli, VP of marketing and business development at
Integra5; industry analyst, Leslie Ellis (author of the popular
Multichannel News column, “Translation Please“); Will Kreth, director
of product management for interactive TV at Time Warner Cable; Alex
Libkind, [...]
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