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News Round-Up

Submitted by tracyswedlow on May 31, 2010 - 10:25pm
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--BBC iPlayer, Sky Mobile TV, Livestation Now Available for Apple iPad
--BBC Announces Red-Button Interactive TV Programming Line-Up through June 18th
--CRTC Allows Advertising on VOD programs
--CJ HelloVision Launches Social TV-Enabled Broadband Video Service
--DMGT Fined £225,000 for Closing Teletext
--Fox Mobile Beta-Launches Bitbop Mobile TV Service
--Overlay TV Powers Interactive Video for Tory Burch

Here is a round-up of some other interactive TV-related stories we didn't have room for in this issue:

Softel Deploys Automated Subtitling and Teletext Solution for Hungarian Broadcaster, Origo TV

Submitted by tracyswedlow on May 25, 2010 - 10:25pm
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Softel, a UK-based company that claims to have over 25 years of experience in providing ancillary data solutions--including solutions for interactive TV, opt cuing/ad insertion, subtitling and captioning--to leading broadcasters and service providers across the world (note: the company recently revealed that it is powering Showtime Networks' new HD EBIF application--see the article published on itvt.com, March 24th), said Tuesday that Hungarian broadcaster, Origo TV, has installed an automated subtitling and Teletext solution, based on Softel's Swift and Cyclone technologies, at its headquarters in Budapest.

SysMedia Claims New Entry-Level Version of Plasma Gold "Future-Proofs" Teletext

Submitted by tracyswedlow on March 25, 2010 - 12:53am
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--Platform Can Be Upgraded via Modules to Support Interactive TV Services

SysMedia, a UK-based company that specializes in content transmission and production systems for teletext, subtitling and interactive TV, contacted [itvt] Wednesday to let us know that it has launched a digital-ready teletext version of its Plasma Gold production system.

News Round-Up:

Submitted by tracyswedlow on December 17, 2009 - 2:55am
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--Lori Schwartz Elected Co-Governor of ATAS Interactive Media Peer Group
--Ex-Digeo CEO, Greg Gudorf, Resurfaces at Thomson Technicolor
--Free Press: Comcast's "TV Everywhere" Service Poses a Threat to Online Video Competition
--New Online Reality Show Involves Hulu, MySpace
--Jinni Secures $1.6 Million in Series A Funding Round
--Ooyala Provides Live Streaming Coverage of Vans Triple Crown of Surfing
--Report: SeeSaw Secures Content Deals with Channel 4, Five
--Teletext Closes Down
--Thoughts from thePlatform's Ian Blaine and SysMedia's Andrew Lambourne
--Google's Eun: YouTube Mulling Subscription Option

Here is a round-up of some other interactive TV-related stories we didn't have room for in this issue:

TVOT NYC Intensive

The 2nd Annual TVOT NYC Intensive

The second annual TVOT NYC Intensive took place on Monday, December 5th at 730 Third Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. We would like to thank everybody who participated and attended for making the event a success! 

Read more about the highlights - video and photos to be posted soon.

To find out about future event sponsorship and exhibition opportunities, contact us at swedlow@itvt.com or 415-824-5806