March 1, 2011 – San Jose, CA – At the Over The Top conference, 9×9 Corporation (www.9×9.tv) showed their new reduced control interface for viewing OTT content. The interface is targeted towards, mobile and game console viewing of web content where full keyboards and mouse access to do the selection of channels is not very…
March 1, 2011 – San Jose, CA – BTI Systems presented a solution for the bandwidth difficulties with increasing on-demand OTT content that is on the standard cable distribution lines. Their solution is to use a content aware, local network cache for the on-demand data. They have a created a caching appliance that uses a…
March 1, 2011, OTTCon, San Jose, CA– the second panel of the day saw moderator Jeremy Toeman from Stage Two spar with panelists about the OTT box of the future. The panel included Blinkx CEO Suranga Chandratillake, Microsoft director of media and entertainment Gary Tondini, Intel general manager of the Digital home group Wilfred Martis,…
March 1, 2011, OTTCon, San Jose, CA– a panel moderated by Colin Dixon from the Diffusion Group considered some of the issues and challenges facing the television industry. The panel was comprised of Ian Valentine from Woomi, Kevin Simon from Logitech, SV Vasudevan from Cisco Systems, Russ Schafer from Yahoo, and Mark Benscheidt from Sezmi….
March 1, 2011, OTTCon, San Jose, CA– we talked with Zeitera about their audio and video fingerprinting technology. Over the Top (OTT) TV devices are delivering content to viewers directly over the Internet. In many cases these devices must deliver content from various sources that have inconsistent or incomplete metadata causing problems with the viewer…
September 2, 2010, San Jose CA – At the 2010 Set Top Box (STB) Conference the discussion was focused on the connected home and the associated connected TV. Digital service to the home is the baseline for the STB market. Initially, the STB handled just video service of cable/satellite channels and broadcast channels. Today’s box…
M&E Tech had an opportunity to discuss the Google TV announcement with Buno Pati, CEO of Sezmi. Sezmi is a provider of an Internet-based set-top box that provides broadcast, cable, and Internet content to a TV display with a unified interface. Our discussion with Mr. Pati started with the general question of what he thought…