activevideo networks

Cloud-based interactive TV specialist, ActiveVideo Networks, and entertainment marketing agency, Trailer Park, announced last week that Trailer Park's recently formed Trailer Park Advanced Content (TPAC) group has become the first major content developer to officially embrace ActiveVideo's flagship CloudTV platform, which the company says is currently available in nearly 5 million homes (note: ActiveVideo's customers include Cablevision and Time Warner Cable), and which it says it expects to be in 10 million homes by the end of the year.

Cloud-based interactive TV specialist, ActiveVideo Networks, announced last week that it has expanded its relationship with its long-term partner, TAG Networks, in order to extend enhanced gaming experiences to broadband-connected consumer electronics devices.

Cloud-based interactive TV specialist, ActiveVideo Networks, announced an agreement with Blockbuster, Wednesday, that it says is designed to enhance the consumer VOD and electronic sell-through (EST) experience of the latter's Blockbuster On Demand service across multiple connected platforms. According to ActiveVideo, the deal will see Blockbuster using the company's technology to power a Web-based user interface for its service in the network cloud, that will allow viewers to search, discover and view titles of interest and that will incorporate previews and trailers and recommendation capabilities.

Cloud-based interactive TV specialist, ActiveVideo Networks, announced Wednesday that it has appointed consumer electronics industry veteran, Henry Choy, as VP of business development, tasking him with leading a new strategic initiative to bring its CloudTV platform to consumer electronics devices (note: ActiveVideo's efforts to penetrate the cable industry appear to be enjoying some success--for more on the company's work with Time Warner Cable and Cablevision, see the interview wit

[itvt] has just published the latest edition of Rick Howe's regular column, The iTV Doctor Is In! This week, in the second part of a three-part series, Arthur Orduna, CTO of Canoe Ventures; Bill Seely, principal of Practical Marketing Analytics; and Ellen Dudar, chief product officer of FourthWall Media, project themselves into the future and attempt to answer the question: What was the single most significant factor

[itvt] has just published the latest edition of Rick Howe's regular column, The iTV Doctor Is In! This week, the iTV Doctor, along with Will Kreth, senior director of advanced video strategy at Time Warner Cable and founder of OEDN (the OCAP/EBIF Developer Network), and Mike Bloxham, director of insight and research at Ball State University's Center for Media and Design, project themselves into the future and attempt to answer the question: What was the single most significant factor that led to interactive TV's success in 2012?

[itvt] has just published in-depth audio interviews with Ian Blaine, founder and CEO of Comcast-owned white-label video management and publishing company, thePlatform; and with Sam Pemberton, CEO of Softel, a company best known to [itvt] readers for its MediaSphere interactive TV playout solutions (it also offers solutions for subtitling and captioning, audio description,

At the ANGA Cable show in Cologne, Tuesday, ActiveVideo Networks (formerly ICTV)--a San Jose, Calif.-based interactive television company which offers a platform that it bills as intelligently streaming both traditional and Web-based content to digital set-top boxes and Web-connected CE devices and as combining the personalized, dynamic, socially connected experience of the Web with the quality, immediacy and remote-control navigation that end-users expect from television--announced that it has reached an agreement to buy Avinity Systems

Time Warner Cable's Hawaii system, Oceanic Time Warner Cable--which has a long history of pioneering innovative interactive TV technologies--has deployed an ITV offering based on technologies and services from ActiveVideo Networks (formerly ICTV).

--Unveils Expanded Portfolio of Programming and Applications

--Says New Study Shows its Interactive Programming Engages Viewers

--Integrates Technologies with Camiant

ICTV, a Silicon Valley-based company that offers solutions for
bringing Web media to television, has renamed itself ActiveVideo
Networks, in order to reflect the branding of its flagship product,
ActiveVideo, which has been the company's primary focus over the
past two years. (Note: the company's ActiveVideo technology mixes
linear and on-demand programming with broadband content from the
Internet, and delivers it to the television set as personalized MPEG