ICTV, the industry leader in headend-based interactivity, has reached agreements with three Canadian companies - Sarbakan, The EatSleepMusic Network and Infolinx -- for new gaming, entertainment and information content and applications for the HeadendWare platform. Products from all three companies will be on display at the ICTV booth, #707, April 3-5 at the National Show at the Moscone Convention Center.
“Sarbakan, The Eatsleepmusic Network and Infolinx all bring to the HeadendWare platform the concepts and execution that will help our customers generate iTV revenues.”
"The development and refreshment of content packages that will attract and retain subscribers is an ongoing process," said Peter Schultz, director of solutions marketing for ICTV. "Sarbakan, The Eatsleepmusic Network and Infolinx all bring to the HeadendWare platform the concepts and execution that will help our customers generate iTV revenues."
"Canada is truly leading in the design and delivery of interactive digital content," said Lynda Brown, executive director, New Media BC and National New Media Coalition representative. "We have some of the largest new media hubs in North America, over 85% national broadband penetration, extremely sophisticated content developers and progressive distributors pushing the edges of new technologies. With close to 200 digital delivery companies in Canada, it is no surprise that we're seeding the interactive TV market."
Sarbakan, a Quebec company, will demonstrate "Nightmares," a game that enables network operators to capitalize on a new concept in interactive entertainment: episodic, cinematic games that can be played on a pay-per-level basis, using compelling storylines and high quality animation to entice return visits by subscribers. Subscribers to HeadendWare-powered services navigate the game on television, using any digital set-top box and standard remote controls to help the central figure, a child, outwit such nightmare characters as a devil, a clown and a gorilla.
The Ottawa-based Eatsleepmusic Network's Karaoke TV application brings high quality karaoke to HeadendWare-powered televisions and home theater systems. The feature-rich service includes a library of thousands of songs, full-screen lyric display, playlist creation and the capability to add or remove lead vocals.
Based in Vancouver, InfoLinx Communications has created an interactive channel that combines the Yellow Pages, community information and the power of interactive TV to deliver television centric content to iTV users, on demand. Community oriented and locally focused, the channel provides relevant local content and supports a bundled service offering. The InfoLinx Channel allows broadband network operators the opportunity to use targeted, local content as a natural advantage for the bundling of telephone and TV service, as well as the distribution of interactive content.
About HeadendWare(R)
ICTV's HeadendWare platform enables network operators to deliver compelling interactive content and applications, including animation, high-fidelity audio and full-motion video, to any digital set-top box. Using headend-based processing power and the existing digital plant, HeadendWare removes set-top box and middleware constraints on the delivery of compelling interactive multimedia content and allows TV-friendly activity that cannot be matched by satellite competitors.
With HeadendWare application servers located anywhere on the operator's network or outsourced, an operator's entire digital subscriber base can interact with robust multimedia applications developed with standard PC, Web and Java tools using existing set-top boxes and remote controls. HeadendWare supports the latest versions of HTML, JavaScript, Java, Windows Media Player(R), Flash(R), RealPlayer(R) and QuickTime(R), enabling network operators to provide subscribers with a limitless array of content and applications.
About ICTV Inc(TM)
ICTV(TM) provides enabling infrastructure for the delivery of new television services to broadband subscribers. The company offers a solutions-oriented approach to new television services that combines the standards-based technology of ICTV's HeadendWare(R) platform with a portfolio of branded iTV applications that can be deployed today. The solution-based approach offers operators one of the highest returns on bandwidth and incremental capital of the iTV services available today. Strategic investors include Adelphia, Liberty Media, Motorola, OpenTV, Cox Communications and Lauder Partners.
Based in the heart of California's Silicon Valley, with offices in Baltimore and the United Kingdom, the company has been issued 23 patents and has numerous patents pending, ensuring protection of its unique and innovative television services solution. ICTV is a member of the Motorola Horizon and Scientific-Atlanta CreativEdge Developer's Programs. For more information, visit www.ictv.com.
About Sarbakan
Founded in 1998, Sarbakan is both an idea shop and a digital creation studio that specializes in the development and exploitation of world-class animated content such as GOOD NIGHT MR. SNOOZLEBERG, ARCANE and STEPPENWOLF. Over the last five years, Sarbakan's original online productions have been distributed in 15 countries and generate, on an average month, more than 100,000 hours of Web gameplay. Warner Bros, WB Kids, Viacom, Sony, CBC/La Societe Radio-Canada, Groupe TF1 and The National Film Board of Canada are but some of its famous clients. For more information, please contact www.sarbakan.com
About The Eatsleepmusic Network
The Eatsleepmusic Network is a network of music companies and websites committed to delivering high-quality and innovative music services to an international customer base. For more information, contact www.eatsleepmusic.com.
HeadendWare is a registered trademark and ICTV is a trademark of ICTV, Inc.
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