Super Bowl

Due to the large volume of news generated by the recent 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and other factors, we are covering stories in this issue in round-up/summary format. We anticipate that it will take us several more days to process all the news from the show: so if your company has sent us a press release or briefed us on an announcement, and you don't yet see your news covered in this issue, please bear with us.

Due to the large volume of news generated by the recent 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), we are covering stories in this issue in round-up/summary format. We anticipate that it will take us several more days to process all the news from the show: so if your company has sent us a press release or briefed us on an announcement, and you don't yet see your news covered in this issue, please bear with us.

Due to the large volume of news being generated by this week's 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), we are covering stories in this issue in round-up/summary format. We anticipate that it will take us several days to process all the news from the show: so if your company has sent us a press release or briefed us on an announcement, and you don't yet see your news covered in this issue, please bear with us.

USA Today has tapped Munich-based augmented reality (AR) specialist, metaio, to enhance its Super Bowl coverage with two interactive AR experiences that allow readers to use their smartphone to experience enhanced 3D visuals and audio.

According to the newspaper, today's (Friday, February 4th) edition will "include" a 360 degree tour of this year's Super Bowl venue, the Dallas Cowboys stadium, together with an introduction by stadium and Cowboys owner, Jerry Jones, and interior and exterior highlights. Then Monday's (February 7th) edition will contain an image that triggers a 3D view of the key play of the game in an animated sequence, as well as an option to receive player stats.

Because the [itvt] editorial team is busy working on The TV of Tomorrow Show (March 3rd-4th in San Francisco) and on our new EBIF Intensive event (March 5th in San Francisco), we will be covering most stories in summary/round-up form over the next few weeks. Here is a round-up of broadband video news for the past few days:

Because the [itvt] editorial team is busy working on The TV of Tomorrow Show (March 3rd-4th in San Francisco) and on our new, post-TVOT EBIF Intensive event (March 5th in San Francisco), we are covering a number of stories in this issue in summary form:

etc.tv--a company which offers a "telescopic advertising" service that allows hyperlinking, via overlaid visual cues, from 30-second linear commercial spots to long-form advertising content hosted on cable operators' VOD platforms (note: the service also allows advertising content to be bookmarked for later viewing, and provides what etc.tv describes as "near real-time tracking"), as well as to tcommerce opportunities, and which is currently available to around 1.9 million consumers in Quebec through a deployment on cable operator Videotron's illico digital cable service--recently announced that interactive ads it powered for Budweiser, during sports network RDS's broadcast of the Super Bowl, set "new interactive TV advertising records."