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[Web TV Wire] ZillionTV Launches | Yet Another Set-Top Box Promising The Earth ...: It has some good backers, a man in charge who knows the business, and a couple of innovations which could drive the sector forward. But until it actually launches in the fourth quarter of 2009 we won’t know if it stands out from the crowd or not.

[World Internet TV PC Blog] Is it a Wii or Zillion TV? | World Internet TV PC Blog: And with a remote like Nintendo's Wii, presents another reason to start watching. The companies include Disney, 20th Century Fox Television, NBC Universal, Sony Pictures, and Warner Bros.

[InteractiveTV Today] Issue 7.77 Part 2a | April 28, 2008 Subscribe: go to www.itvt.com ...: The solution is based on the latest version of Ocean Blue's Voyager MHEG-5 software, which it says will be available in early summer and will comply with new HD specifications that were finalized last month by the Digital Television Group, the industry association for DTV in the UK (note: Ocean Blue claims to have been involved in numerous DTG working groups tasked with defining standards): the HD MHEG-5 profile introduces the use of JPEG bitmaps, AAC audio (streams and clips), and improved color map definitions in order to enhance the visual and audio experience. Ocean Blue says that additional changes to graphics have been made, in order to ensure that any upscaling of standard-definition MHEG applications to HD generates a high-quality image on HD graphics plains.

[Haber 7 x 24 News Son Dakika Haber Turu] » Zillion TV offers premium VoD content for free » Haber 7 x 24 ...: Essentially Zillion TV is a VoD demand service that requires the use of a set-top box, where you can watch ad-assisted shows for free or rent and buy movies and TV shows for a subscribed fee. It is being billed as “personalised TV to the consumer over a broadband connection to the TV.”

[DBSTalk.Com] ZillionTV promises "free" movies,TV shows - DBSTalk.Com: Scheduled to arrive this fall,the set-top box will be "free" with a one-time $50 activation fee. They already have agreements in place with the following studios: Disney FOX NBC/Universal Sony Warner Bros.

[Cable360.net Job Feed] 360AM: Sling Sings EchoStar's Praises; PTC Steps Up A La Carte ...: filing Monday updating the cable industry's progress since the set-top integration ban went into effect on July 1, the top 10 cable operators have deployed more than 650,000 CableCARD-ready set-tops. The top 5 MSOs accounted for more than 246,000 of boxes with CableCARD slots.

[TVover.net] Avail Media Reports IPTV Market Growth - TVover.net: Avail Media delivers an extensive content library, with transport rights from the top national programmers, including ABC-Disney, Turner, NBC Universal, MTV Networks, and Fox Cable Networks. Its linear programming is complemented by its VOD rights from the major Hollywood movie studios, such as Buena Vista/Disney, DreamWorks, Lionsgate Films, MGM, NBC Universal, New Line Cinema, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, and Warner Bros.

[InteractiveTV Today] [itvt] Presents...The TV of Tomorrow Show 2009: Ericsson bills the end-to-end solution as combining various of its own products--including the new IMS-enabled IPTV middleware, IPTV network infrastructure technologies, video processing solutions and VOD technologies--with third-party products from such companies as Accedo Broadband, Agama Technologies, Amino, HP, SecureMedia, Sun Microsystems, Tilgin, Verimatrix and ZyXEL (note: earlier this month, Viaccess announced that it had signed a security software and services agreement with Ericsson that will see it supporting the latter's IMS-integrated IPTV solution). The company claims that the new middleware gives operators the flexibility and scalability they need to create, trial and deploy a "personalized and interactive TV experience" to their subscribers, and to offer a "complete TV package that includes the combination of communication and entertainment as well as interactive, mobile and on-demand functionality." "We have combined our leading network solutions, service layer applications and systems integration capabilities to launch an industry-shaping TV platform that delivers on our vision of the Individual TV Experience," Eric Cooney, Ericsson's head of TV solutions, said in a prepared statement.

[itvt] [itvt] Interview: Bill Sheppard, Chief Digital Media Officer ...: That gives Disney or whomever the opportunity to put that content in the living room instead of wherever the PC happens to be–put it on what’s probably a bigger screen in a rich-media environment and then make that part of the larger Disney community. So combining all those different Disney properties and loyalty points and…all of these things work together all on the Blu-ray player and make for what could be a very sticky platform and ultimately very profitable for Disney.

[Gartner Media Blog] Gartner Research Blog for the Media Industry: Various network programmers and movie studios, including Time Warner, 20th Century Fox, Universal Studios, Paramount Pictures, Walt Disney, as well as broadcast networks ABC, CBS and NBC, sued Cablevision in May 2006, when the MSO announced its intention to roll out the technology to consumers. The content owners argued that, because the RS-DVR service involved recording and storing of programs at Cablevision's facilities, Cablevision, and not its subscribers, would be making the copies when a consumer recorded a program with RS-DVR, and a consumer's replaying of programs recorded with RS-DVR would be a "public performance." Both of which would require a separate license from the content owners.

[InteractiveTV Today] [itvt] Presents...The TV of Tomorrow Show 2009: According to the company, the trials, which were held in Seattle (which Sezmi describes as a "geographically demanding broadcast environment"), demonstrated the interoperability and scalability of its FlexCast video distribution technology, which it bills as "combin[ing] the efficiency and scale of terrestrial digital broadcast delivery with the interactivity and access of existing broadband infrastructure." Sezmi's local broadcast partners for the trial included Fisher (a Seattle-based company that owns or operates 21 TV stations and eight radio stations, including local ABC affiliate, KOMO-TV and Univision affiliate, KUNS-TV), Tribune (owns and operates 23 major-market TV stations--including WGN and Seattle Fox affiliate, KCPQ-TV--which collectively reach 80% of US TV households) and Daystar (operates around 50 TV stations in major markets around the US, including Seattle's KWDK-TV), over whose spectrum it operates its service. The company bills its platform as providing additional revenue streams to broadcasters: it licenses broadcasters' spectrum in order to distribute, or datacast, TV and Internet video to end-users.

[[itvt] Bloggit] Announcing the Speakers, Presenters, and Judges for the 3rd Annual ...: working in tandem with a Complete Media Systems CMS500 IPTV set-top box, running the ANT Fresco browser-will be designed to showcase the system serving as an end-to-end solution for content creation, management, editing, updating and publishing to IPTV set-tops. Zetools .

[InteractiveTV Today] [itvt] Presents...The TV of Tomorrow Show 2009: InteractiveTV Today [itvt] and its agents used their best efforts in collecting and preparing the information published herein. However, InteractiveTV Today [itvt] does not assume, and hereby disclaims, any and all liability for any loss or damage caused by errors or omissions, whether such errors or omissions resulted from negligence, accident, or other causes.

[itvt] [itvt] Conference Guide for The TV of Tomorrow Show 2008 « itvt: Web- and mobile-based participation TV and broadcast-synchronized two-screen ITV-which for a long time were viewed by many as interim solutions that would be superseded once single-screen interactivity became more practical-appear to be alive and well in the US, as an increasing number of broadcasters, frustrated by the slow pace of single-screen ITV deployment on cable set-top boxes, have opted to roll out two-screen/two-device alternatives (broadcasters that have launched two-screen/two-device ITV services over the past year or so include NBC, Turner, Discovery and ESPN-to name but a few). As a result, even as single-screen ITV has begun making tentative inroads into the US market, a number of both new and established companies are targeting that market with increasingly rich and sophisticated two-screen ITV and participation TV solutions.

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