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- Columbia TriStar Television and Microsoft team up to provide development support to the winner of Microsoft TV Interactive Pitch (25JAN00) (PRN)
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Political Pulse Channel and WebTV Networks to provide interactive political coverage including first live interactive State of the Union Address (25JAN00) (PRN)
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Rogers Cable to use Liberate interactive TV client and server software (25JAN00) (PRN)
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Eagle Wireless claims success in showing off convergent set-top-box product line at CES 2000 (24JAN00) (EGLW)
- Former Scientific-Atlanta VP Steve Necessary becomes PowerTV CEO (24JAN00) (PRN)
- Scientific-Atlanta and NTL make deal to provide at least 250,000 interactive digital Explorer 3000 set-tops for UK market (24JAN00) (PRN)
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Scientific-Atlanta increasing manufacturing capacity to make 800,000 set-tops per quarter (25JAN00) (PRN)
- NBTel intros Aliant's new VibeVision interactive television service for Canada (24JAN00) (NBTel) (alternate link)
The VibeVision interactive television service is provided over regular telephone copper wire. The service rollout begins in Moncton, New Brunswick, and will eventually expand throughout the Atlantic Canada area.- NBTel video news conference intro of VibeVision (24JAN00) (NBTel)
News conference link requires RealPlayer. The news conference includes an onscreen demo of the VibeVision service.- iMagicTV plays key role in NBTel's deployment of VibeVision interactive television service (24JAN00) (CNW)
- Ruel's Spotlight Website: NBTel VibeVision Service (24JAN00)
- NBTel to announce launch of Aliant interactive television service for Moncton, New Brunswick (21JAN00)
NBTel, a wholly owned subsidiary of Aliant Inc., is expected to launch Aliant's interactive television service on Monday with a press conference in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. The Aliant interactive television service will be using software developed by iMagicTV and will be provided over traditional copper wire.- WorldGate Internet on Every TV service deployed by Telefonica Multimedia S.A.C. "Cable Magico" in Lima, Peru (24JAN00) (IWIRED)
- Intertainer and Microsoft form strategic alliance to accelerate deployment of on-demand entertainment service for delivery "A-List" content and services to consumer PCs and Televisions (24JAN00) (PRN)
- Microsoft and Intertainer team up for on-demand broadband entertainment (24JAN00) (InternetNews)
- World CallNet reports strong, world-wide interest in World CallNet's Interactive M@ilTV (24JAN00) (PRN)
- Interactive cartoons on the web (24JAN00) (Nando)
- Liberate announces IPO (21JAN00) (PRN)
- Amex plan trading options on Liberate starting January 25 (20JAN00) (PRN)
- Ruel's Spotlight Website: FOL iTV and iDVD set-top boxes (24JAN00)
Favorite Online (FOL) is yet another MLM selling set-top boxes, internet access, and long distance service. Their FOL-branded FOL iTV and iDVD set-top boxes are interesting to check out. These boxes use the PlanetWeb browser.- Bridging AOL Time Warner gap: Traditional television and video entertainment to take back seat to on-demand online entertainment (24JAN00) (USATODAY)
- AOLTV to be marketed to the masses (21JAN00) (MSNBC)
MSNBC reports, "AOL this summer plans to launch its most ambitious effort yet to take the online service beyond the personal computer, melding it with television sets in a new service called AOLTV. MSNBC cites AOL interactive services group president Barry Schuler as indicating, "For now ... AOLTV will support a set of enhanced TV standards backed by Microsoft and others, which makes it more likely that viewers with other set-top boxes can tune into the same shows."- More AOL Time Warner: Eh, Doc, you've got convergence (21JAN00) (CLICKZ)
- Advertising firms seek to link web and TV (21JAN00) (USATODAY)
- Gemstar unit StarSight Telecast sues TiVo for infringing on programming guide patent (20JAN00) (WIRED-Reuters)
- Entertainment giants target tiny iCraveTV in lawsuit (21JAN00) (Montreal Gazette)
- iCraveTV sued by NFL, NBA, and motion picture studios for streaming U.S. television broadcasts (20JAN00) (MSNBC)
- Movie studios and broadcast networks sue iCraveTV (20JAN00) (ZDNN-Reuters) (alternate link)
- Broadcasters launch legal war against iCraveTV (20JAN00) (CNET)
- Liberate getting cable experience for board of directors from Cox Communications (21JAN00) (PRN)
- Blockbuster to stream MGM movies on website (20JAN00) (Digital Coast Weekly)
Digital Coast Weekly reports Blockbuster and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer entered into a multi-year deal where MGM movies can be downloaded from the Blockbuster website. Digital Coast Weekly also notes that Paramount Studio movies are "notably absent" from Blockbuster's streaming initiative. Blockbuster and Paramount are both owned by Viacom.- MGM and Blockbuster make net distribution deal (20JAN00) (Industry Standard)
The Industry Standard quotes MGM spokeswoman Lea Porteneuve as stating, "The technicalities of the deal have not been worked out yet. We want to be at the forefront of technology, and to propel it."- Broadcom India demos digital television BCM 7020 video graphics subsystem chip (20JAN00) (EE Times) (alternate link)
- StarMedia's Spanish- and Portuguese-language content, games, search, advertising, and other features to be on WorldGate's Every TV service in Latin America and Spain (19JAN00) (InternetNews)
- $899 Olympus Eye-Trek FMD-150W television that you wear (19JAN00) (PCMAG)
- TV "Friends" star Jennifer Aniston to produce and star in original serices on VOXXY interactive media network (19JAN00) (PRN)
- Scientific-Atlanta CEO James MacDonald talks to The Wall Street Transcript (19JAN00) (PRN)
Scientific-Atlanta CEO James MacDonald says, "Scientific-Atlanta is changing the way consumers interact with their televisions.... Today's digital set-tops open the door to a host of new, interactive revenue-generating services, such as video-on-demand, email, ecommerce, Web browsing, interactive games and even software applications."- Complete Transcript: Scientific-Atlanta CEO James F. MacDonald interview (17JAN00) (TWST)
- Korea Thrunet launches Thrunet TV Internet Service using cable TV set-top PCs developed by TriGem Computers (19JAN00) (PRN)
- Pseudo gets TV broadcast executive as CEO (19JAN00) (IndustryStandard)
- Eagle Wireless, USA Video Interactive, and Urbana.ca to produce linux enhanced set-top box for video-on-demand (18JAN00) (EGLW)
- Variety's Interactive Summit unites entertainment industry's leading revolutionaries (18JAN00) (IWIRED)
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- NBTel intros Aliant's new VibeVision interactive television service for Canada (24JAN00) (NBTel) (alternate link)
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