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 April 29, 2008 by itvtwp
At the MIPTV conference in Cannes earlier this month, the
International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the
winners of its International Interactive Emmy Awards (note: the
awards, which were organized in partnership with Reed MIDEM, were
hosted by UK comedian, Brian Conley). The winners (together with
descriptions of their winning projects, provided by the International
Academy) were:
Best Interactive [...]
Filed under: Content, Industry | Tagged: arg, artificial reality game, emmys, entropia, finland, games, itvt, miptv, wedigtv | No Comments »
Posted on April 29, 2008 by itvtwp
–Company Launches New Version of Playin’TV on New Zealand’s Sky TV
–Forms ITV Poker Partnership with Bluff Magazine
Paris-based interactive TV games company, Visiware, has launched an
interactive TV games offering that leverages VOD platforms to offer
video and other rich-media content. Dubbed Playin’VOD, the new
offering will initially be targeted at cable and IPTV operators, but will
later be available [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2008 by itvtwp
PlayCafe, a company that bills itself as “the first Internet TV network
for game shows” (note: its Web site streams live, free-to-play game
shows, on weekdays from 6:00PM-8:00PM Pacific, that allow viewers
to play along, chat with hosts and other players, form teams, contribute
questions, and win prizes), contacted [itvt] last week to let us know that
Ken Jennings, [...]
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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 [...]
Filed under: Interviews | Tagged: Advertising, broadband, cable, data, digital converter box, digital television, digital tv, games, interactive, interactive television, itv, on-demand, rentrak, television, tracking, video-on-demand, vod | No Comments »
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,” AirPlay chairman and CEO, Morgan Guenther, talks about his company’s new deal with Sony Pictures Television to provide multiplayer play-along mobile gaming for the popular game show, “Jeopardy!”; about some of the other new projects the company [...]
Filed under: Content, Interviews, Technology, Uncategorized | Tagged: digital television, games, interactive, interactive television, itv, mobile, television | No Comments »
