Research & Papers

[itvt] Currently Available 6-Paper Series on IPTV

Contact Tracy Swedlow at swedlow@itvt.com or call 415-824-5806 about purchasing one of these papers or about purchasing all papers in the series.

Paper #1: (See below for more detail.) "An In-Depth Introduction to Internet Protocol Television (IPTV)" by Steven Hawley, produced and edited by [itvt]. This is the first in a series of papers which provides an in-depth yet easy-to-grasp overview on the issues, companies, emerging technologies and trends of IPTV. Price is $279 plus sales tax and shipping. Table of Contents

Paper #2: (See below for more detail.) "A Practical Guide to IPTV Middleware Applications Platforms" by Steven Hawley, produced and edited by [itvt]. The 2nd paper in the IPTV series focuses emerging middleware platforms. Price is $1,124 plus sales tax and shipping.

Paper #3: (See below for more detail.) "IPTV Set-Top Boxes and the Subscriber Experience" by Steven Hawley, produced and edited by [itvt]. The 3rd paper in the IPTV series focuses on the large collection of set-top boxes from around the world. Price is $1,124 plus sales tax and shipping.

IPTV Set-Top Box Matrices: (See image below for more detail.) Compiled by Steven Hawley, produced and edited by [itvt]. This set of 6 Excel spreadsheets completely catalogues over 130 set-top boxes from 80 vendors from around the world. These boxes are compared against 115 pieces of criteria, which puts everything into context. Some criteria inlcudes video codecs, applications, storage capacity, controls, and much more. Price is $2,200 plus sales tax and shipping.

Paper #4-#6: The next few papers set to publish over the rest of this year will focus on topics such as headends, access, content offerings and business trends.

Price for the entire 6-paper series is $6,425 plus sales tax and shipping.

Please read more below about Papers #1, #2,#3 and the matrices.

[itvt] PowerPoint Presentations

Written and produced by [itvt] executive staff, these presentations offer executives a clear understanding of the interactive television (ITV) industry. Insight is available in the following areas:

companies and organizations
industry contacts
technologies
content applications
recurring revenue projects
region-specific topics (US, UK, Europe, Asia, etc)
vertical topics (e.g. games, advertising, VOD, EPGs, set-tops, PVRs/DVRs, software, cable, satellite, wireless, media centers, or the history of the industy)

"InteractiveTV Today: The State of the Industry 2003" presentation, which is 95 slides long, features a clear explanation of what ITV is and how it appears in its many configurations, many screenshots of projects around the world, historical information, information on current trends, details on important worldwide regulation, the effect of global media ownership, obstacles to deployment, what ITV enables companies and the individual to do, challenges ahead, players in the industry, available platforms, details on companies and their deployments, and a look at hot technologies that will change the way we watch and use television. This presentation will give you a very strong and clear overview of exactly what ITV is and who, what, where, why and how the industry works, and how to participate.

Note: This presentation can be:

given live over the Web by Tracy Swedlow who will use free, easy-to-use online browserware to show the presentation and speak over the phone to listeners (most convenient method and can be done for one person or to a group of people)
presented in person by Tracy Swedlow (recommended to corporations, groups, or schools that want a lengthy Q&A session to follow presentation)

To get details on prices for all of these things, please contact Tracy Swedlow 415-824-5806 swedlow@itvt.com. Unfortunately, we are not making this presentation available to students for free even though we'd like to.

Free ITV-Related Research

Negar Farhi's Master's Project called Broadband News Aggregator"
Negar Farhi is a recent graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology's Information Design and Technology program in Atlanta, Georgia where students can study interactive and multiplatform television in-depth. She is an avid [itvt] reader and would love people to comment on her design work.

Interactivité et Médias Télévisuels Vers un Nouvel Espace de Médiation
This paper is Alain Vaucelle's doctoral thesis he wrote at the University of Paris (Sorbonne) within the Department of Hypermedia. This the Abstract translated into English by him:

"In speaking of interactive television, new technologies of information and communication must also be considered. One of interactivity s particularities as regards the medium of television is the opportunity for greater viewer feedback , allowing the viewer to become a veritable transmitter and not only passive spectator. New practices of interaction and exchange are gradually being put into place within audio-visual media. Strongly dependent on the digitalization of signs and their automatic processing, the message receptor finds himself between the reception of events and the production of verbal and non-verbal signs; in turn, he becomes the generator of new sensory maps. No longer is it a matter of relations maintained by mechanical systems now extrasensory relationships appear. Television, experienced through the tactile and kinesthetic senses, makes way for the prospect of a media era based on interpersonal relationships reorganizing its system of representation."

"Interaction Design Principles for Interactive Television"
Karyn Lu, a student who recently graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology, recently presented this research "In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Science in Information Design and Technology."

[itvt] Paper: "Enhanced Television: A Historical and Critical Perspective 2000"
A paper written by Tracy Swedlow of [itvt] for The American Film Institute-Intel Enhanced Television Workshop attendees. This paper provides a critical analysis of the state of the ITV industry, the historical context from which it emerged, an overview of important technologies and platforms that are in use today, and insights about what the future will or should bring. This paper was one of the first documents to bring all this information together. It was first released in June 2000 and continues to have the possibility of updates.

Send Us Your Research & Presentations
[itvt] is seeking any and all research papers and presentations you'd like for our readers to have. Please email your documents or requests for our mailing address to swedlow@itvt.com.