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Optiva Media: Adobe Solution Partner

optiva — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:26:14 +0000

Optiva Media has been approved to join the Solution Partners program from Adobe. Optiva Media will be focused on the Flash Media Server Family products from Adobe to provide both system integration services in projects deploying those products, custom applications, and Optiva Broadband TV platform, which is based on Adobe Flash Interactive Media Server.

Related Optiva Products: Optiva Broadband TV

Optiva weekly pick #10

optiva — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:55:29 +0000

DTT take-up in Spain is growing with a coverage of 90 per cent of the territory. 45.2 per cent of homes have access to DTT, representing 7 million homes or 18 million people, double one year ago, according to the latest figures from Impulsa TDT.

Flemish channels choose Zappware for interactive services

optiva — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:22:16 +0000

Belgian interactive TV service provider Zappware has been chosen by four Flemish regional TV stations to deliver interactive TV services on multiple digital platforms.

ATV, TV Oost, TV Limburg and TV Brussel will use Zappware’s off-the-shelf iFormats to deliver digital teletext and ‘direct access’ pop-up menu-based services.

The new Optiva XMAS ON DEMAND remote control

optiva — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:04:57 +0000

Optiva XMAS ON DEMAND

Optiva weekly pick #9

optiva — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:55:15 +0000

According to the recent Global Media & Entertainment Market Forecast from Strategy Analytics, Global revenues from digital media will be larger than filmed entertainment revenue generated by cinemas and home video combined for the first time in 2008, which is estimated to be exceeding $845 billion this year. In comparison, the global filmed entertainment market will generate $83.1 billion in revenues this year.

Optiva weekly pick #8

optiva — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:56:44 +0000

TiVo is offering advertisers a new way to reach TiVo subscribers, who are prone to fast-forwarding through standard 30-second spots as they consume time-shifted programming. “Pause Menu,” allows clickable, promotional graphics to be placed on the TV screen when a TiVo user pauses a live or time-shifted programme.

Parks Associates has reported that almost 66 per cent of US consumers have altered their spending habits in the fourth quarter of 2008 as a result of the country’s deteriorating economic conditions. This trend creates greater dependence on at-home entertainment services, creating new opportunities for broadband, communications, and entertainment providers

Optiva weekly pick #7

optiva — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:17:04 +0000

According to a recent TDG study, game consoles, such as Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Sony’s Playstation 3 (PS3), are evolving into multimedia gateways. The report says that by 2012 more than 110 million households – will use console-based video services at least a couple of times each week.

Sky has launched Sky Player TV to the consumer. For the first time, UK viewers can now access pay TV content online without the need to subscribe to an existing TV platform.

Optiva weekly pick #6

optiva — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 07:19:51 +0000

Canal Plus Spain is opening up its premium content to Internet users through its new portal www.plus.es/plustv. On PLUSTV, users will be able to have access to a wide range of Canal Plus premium content under genre categories: cinema, documentaries, series, football and other sports, music, programmes…

Cable operators are starting to roll out the first 100 Mb’s services. France, Spain, Finland, the Netherlands and Belgium have taken the lead in launching ‘next generation’ technology infrastructure.

Zappware delivers iDTV voting service for ProsiebenSat1./SBS broadcaster VT4

optiva — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:29:22 +0000

Broadcaster VT4’s reality show ‘The Block’ now also interactive

Zappware, the Belgian one-stop solution provider for iDTV on multiple TV platforms, have developed another interactive service for ProsiebenSat1./SBS broadcaster VT4 based on their off-the-shelf voting iFormat.

After Miss Belgium and Can You Duet it is now The Block’s turn to become interactive. The Block is one of the most popular reality shows of broadcaster VT4. In the show couples compete to renovate a building into a set of trendy lofts with a limited budget. It is for the first time in the history of The Block that viewers, together with a professional jury, decide who the winners will be. Viewers can vote by SMS and via the internet. Telenet digital viewers can also express their votes by simply pressing red on the remote control.

The voting service is an end-to-end solution based on Zappware’s proprietor iView Platform. This end-to-end solution allows broadcaster VT4 not only to update the content of the service in-house but also to easily consult the aggregated results of all votes, including those votes that come from different channels (iDTV/SMS/internet).

Marc Vervoort, iDTV Producer and Account Manager VT4: “Involving the viewer in the choice of the winner increases his engagement with the TV show and the associated broadcaster’s brand is perceived to be a dynamic one. Offering on top the possibility to simply press red on the remote control will definitely contribute to the perception of VT4 as a dynamic brand.”

Dirk Reynders, Manager New Media SBS Belgium: “The Block is a tense reality show. As the winner is announced right after the TV show, we need instant access to the aggregated voting results (iDTV/SMS/internet). Thanks to Zappware’s end-to-end solution we have no worries there: clear tables and graphs show at a glance who the winners are.”

Optiva weekly pick #5

optiva — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:06:10 +0000

According to its last quarter report, Spanish telco Telefonica has passed 2 million pay-TV subscribers (In Spain the number of subscribers stands at 589.551). The Company offers Pay-TV services also in the Czech Republic, Peru, Chile, Colombia and Brazil, whereas in October Telefonica launched its pay TV services in Venezuela.

Hulu, the video website owned by News Corp and NBC Universal, hopes to expand internationally and is interested in Britain, France, Germany and Japan, because they consider online video is already popular and growing strongly in those countries.

Spain’s Telefonica is launching Imagenio on High Definition through its FTTH network for subscribers to Trio Futura at 10 or 30 Megabites.