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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.

Because the [itvt] editorial team has been working on TVOT NYC Intensive 2011, we are covering stories in this issue in round-up/summary format.

[itvt] is pleased to present videos of the two "Creative Visions" sessions from The TV of Tomorrow Show 2011 (took place May 17th-18th in San Francisco). The sessions--which were hosted by Nick DeMartino of Nick DeMartino Consulting and founder of the American Film Institute Enhanced Television Workshop (subsequently renamed the AFI Digital Content Lab)--featured lectures and presentations that showcased new creative visions in interactive television and video.

The presenters for Day One's "Creative Visions" session were:

[itvt] is pleased to present a video of "Content-Aware Televisions and the Emergence of Hybrid ITV," a panel session at The TV of Tomorrow Show 2011 (took place May 17th-18th in San Francisco). The panelists for the session were:

[itvt] is pleased to present a video of "Designing for Television's Multiplatform Future," a panel session at The TV of Tomorrow Show 2011 (took place May 17th-18th in San Francisco). The panelists for the session were:

Because the [itvt] editorial team is on the road this week, we are covering stories in this edition of the newsletter in round-up format:

The cable industry is getting more support for its Advanced Advertising Media Project (AAMP), which is focused on driving media buyers to video-on-demand advertising. AAMP said ABC, NBCUniversal, Intel, and cable marketing association CTAM joined its research initiative. 

It announced several other members in March, including the A&E Television Networks, VOD technology firm BlackArrow, CBS, Comcast Corp., Digitas, Discovery Communications, Horizon Media, NDS and Rainbow Media. 

[itvt] is pleased to present the latest edition of StoryCentric, our new video column from Brian Seth Hurst, CEO of The Opportunity Management Company and former second vice chair of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. StoryCentric focuses on the business, technology and art of interactive storytelling, and highlights new technologies and other industry developments that have the potential to fundamentally change the way we create and interact with stories and narratives--in television and beyond.

Erik Huggers, the Dutch-born former Microsoft and Endemol executive who has served as director of the BBC's Future Media & Technology division since August, 2008 (prior to that, he served as its group controller--for more background on Huggers, see the article published on itvt.com, August 8th, 2008), is leaving the corporation to become corporate VP and general manager of Intel's Silicon Valley-based Digital Home Group. Huggers, who replaces interim general manager, Brad Daniels, will also sit on Intel's Management Committee.

Softkinetic, a provider of 3D gesture-recognition software, said Tuesday that it will use the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week to unveil an interactive "gesture-based TV experience" that employs the Intel Atom Processor CE4100. The company says that it has adapted its iisu (stands for "the interface is you") middleware to the CE4100 to enable a "natural gesture experience" for a range of consumer applications, including interactive TV and movie channel navigation, as well as Web browsing, video conferencing and video games. "We're very proud to be working with the Intel Digital Home Group to offer personalized, interactive consumer electronics devices based on the Intel processor," Softkinetic CEO, Michel Tombroff, said in a prepared statement.

[itvt] has just published the latest edition of our regular column, "Jet Set," which is authored by Brian David Johnson, consumer experience architect at Intel Corp. "Jet Set" explores the future of TV through the prism of the places, people and conversations that Johnson experiences as he goes on a global tour for his new book, Screen Future.

[itvt] has just published the LATEST EDITION of our regular column, "Jet Set," which is authored by Brian David Johnson, consumer experience architect at Intel Corp. "Jet Set" explores the future of TV through the prism of the places, people and conversations that Johnson experiences as he goes on a global tour for his new book, Screen Future.

[itvt] has just published the latest edition of our regular column, "Jet Set," which is authored by Intel futurist, Brian Brian David Johnson. "Jet Set" explores the future of TV through the prism of the places, people and conversations that Johnson experiences as he goes on a global tour for his new book, Screen Future.

Due to the large volume of interactive TV-related news generated over the past few days, we are covering stories in this issue in round-up format. Our regular news coverage will return shortly.