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World's Largest News Source Enters interactive tv Market With Media Center

Reuters, the world's largest multimedia news company, is known for its speed, accuracy, and freedom from bias. In 2004, Reuters filed over 2.5 million news items, published in 18 languages, from 209 countries. Although historically a wholesaler of news content, Reuters wanted to explore new ways of distributing news directly...

Tags: Interactive TV, Media Center PC, Microsoft Windows XP Media Center, Microsoft Corp., TV, Reuters Ltd., News, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

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DigiGuide TV Guide (exe)

DigiGuide TV Guide is an interactive desktop TV guide now available for the U.S and Canada (U.S. channels). DigiGuide features add-ins that enable integration with popular PC-TV tuners. DigiGuide users can print their own highly customized TV guide, personalize their TV listings so they only see the TV shows, movies,...

Tags: TV Guide, DigiGuide, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Monitors & Displays, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2005-03-15

I-TV++ Platinum (exe)

I-TV++ platinum allows you to watch almost 1000 live TV channels from 100 countries. There is no need for any TV Tuner card because all the channels are streamed through the Internet connection. Most of TV requires modem speed of 56Kb/s, for the high quality broadband TV stations you need...

Tags: Modems, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Hardware, Components, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2006-10-26

UK's Sit-Up Ltd Processes 10,000 Sales Orders Per Day Using BMC Remedy

sit-up Ltd, the UK's premiere interactive content provider, is a pioneering company, set up to create and distribute interactive video content for the next generation of broadcasting. Established by leading executives from the broadcasting industry, sit-up is the parent company of bid-up.tv, the live auction channel, and price-drop.tv, the dynamic...

Tags: BMC Software Inc., Broadcasting, Sales, Remedy Corp., It Management, It service Management

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Easy TV (6FreeVersion)

Easy TV is free Internet TV a software which brings live and recorded television at your desktop. Easy TV comes with 1000s of pre-configured TV stations for everybody to enjoy. You can easily manage these stations and add TV station of your choice. Viewing online TV was never so easy....

Tags: Station, Easy TV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2005-11-10

TV Player Classic (exe)

TV Player Classic is a program for viewing online Internet TV channels on the TV or computer display. This software allows you to watch 1200+ live television channels from 100+ countries. There is no need for a TV Tuner card because all the channels are streamed through your Internet connection....

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, TV, TV tuner, modem, broadband, Internet, software, computer

Software downloads 2007-05-21

Cable Network Builds Interactive Television Application on Cutting-Edge Technology

To offer new customers a different way to enjoy its premium content offerings and to provide existing subscribers a richer preview of its varied programming, Showtime Networks built an interactive TV service for premium editions of the Windows Vista operating system that include Windows Media Center. Showtime and its design...

Tags: Windows Media, Media Center PC, Showtime Networks, Network, Microsoft Windows Media Center, Cable Network, Cable, Media Center PCs, Microsoft Windows, Digital Media, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Digital Music, Operating Systems, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Software, Consumer Electronics

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Fox TV Puts Viewers in the Director's Chair With SMS-to-TV Interaction

Todd TV, a reality TV show produced by Endemol USA for Fox TV's FX Network took reality-TV to the next level by allowing users to influence the action using SMS / text-messaging. Todd TV allowed viewers to control the life of Todd Santos, a self-described "beach bum" from Southern California,...

Tags: Fox TV, TVs, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Tv & Home Theater, Telephony, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Online Communications, Networking

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Survey Says: On-Demand Polling Application Delivers Results for IBS and Its TV Station Partners

Founded in 1995 as a pioneer in TV/Web convergence, Internet Broadcasting Systems enables TV news stations to combine the power of the Internet and TV to deliver immediate, reliable, and up-to-date information to millions. The company's unique business model requires that content is customized to appeal to the end users...

Tags: Partnership, On-demand, Survey, Akamai Technologies Inc., IBS, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

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Apex Apple TV Video Converter (exe)

Apex Apple TV Video Converter is a powerful Apple TV converter which provides easy and completed ways to convert Apple TV Video from all popular video files, e.g. WMV to Apple TV, MPEG to Apple TV, AVI to Apple TV, RM TO Apple TV, MOV to Apple TV video. As...

Tags: Apple Inc., Video, Apple TV, Corporate Communications, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2008-01-04

Linux Multimedia Hacks: Watch TV on Your Computer

The TV tuner is installed, all the cables are connected, and the card is recognized by Linux, but how does one actually watch TV with it? This paper covers some of the Linux tools one can use to configure the TV tuner and watch TV with it from Linux desktop....

Tags: TV Tuner, Computer, Linux, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Book chapters 2005-11-04

AmigoTV: A Social TV Experience Through Triple-Play Convergence

With AmigoTV, operators can provide their IPTV subscribers with a compelling community TV application. While watching TV, the consumer can share opinions and feelings with friends via an interactive broadband link. The three main features of AmigoTV are presence, voice communications, and rich multimedia messaging on TV. This makes AmigoTV...

Tags: Network, Content Delivery, Convergence, AmigoTV, Content Delivery Platform, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

White papers 2005-01-01

AVS TV Box (exe)

AVS TV Box is a universal software TV viewer with Personal Video Recorder functionality (PVR) allowing you to schedule TV recordings. It works with any windows video capture device like satellite, TV and DVB cards, miniDV cameras, video capture cards, web cams. AVS TV Box is a part of AVS4YOU.com...

Tags: DVR, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Online Media Technologies, video capture, personal video recorder, digital video broadcasting, TV, card, video recorder, recorder, video, satellite, window, camera, Web, software

Software downloads 2007-01-23

Speakables for TV (app)

Do with your Mac what you can t do with TIVO change TV channels, view TV listings, pause, and record with your VOICE. Speakables for TV lets you control your PVR (personal video recorder) with your voice. Developed to complement the actions you can already do with Speakable Items, Speakables...

Tags: Personal Video Recorder, TVs, DVR, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2005-11-22

CKDS Web TV (exe)

CKDS Web TV offers more than 1,000 channels like 10tv Newsbreak, BBC Liquid News, BBC News 24, Solent TV, Solent TV Extra Extra, TTV, ABC Alaska, CCTV (Chinese News), BidUP-TV 80k, Gems TV Gold, Gems TV Silver, Ideal Vitality, Ideal World, Nation 217, Price Drop TV, QVC, Thane Live 24/7,...

Tags: Web TV, British Broadcasting Corp., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2006-03-20

FreeNetTV (exe)

EasyTVonPC is your source for the Internet's newest free TV on PC Software. Our newly enhanced TV on PC software is Microsoft VISTA ready. Watch free Internet TV programs, broadcast news, hit movies, and cable TV stations on your computer with our TV on PC software. FREENetTV TV on PC...

Tags: TV, PC-software, EasyTVonPC

Software downloads 2007-07-18

Aimersoft Apple TV Converter Suite (exe)

Aimersoft Apple TV Converter Suite is an all-in-one Apple TV conversion tool bundled by two outstanding Apple TV converters: DVD to Apple TV Converter and Apple TV Movie Converter, helps you easily convert DVD and Video to mp4 for Apple TV. This excellent Apple TV converter also provides you with...

Tags: Apple Inc., Apple TV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing

Software downloads 2007-12-17

ClickerAct (exe)

Make your photos and movies interactive and clickable. With this simple utility you can make your own interactive presentations, virtual tours, interactive movies, interactive slideshows, or even games at your home using your PC, with any photos and movie clips of your own, and no programming skill is required.

Tags: Photograph, Movies, Programming, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2006-01-18

TV Show - A Successful Implementation of Media-Rich Website

One of the largest media groups in Europe required an interactive website to give an overview of its broadcasts to the audience and to allow program fans to communicate with each other. TV Show website enables users to view not only video and photo materials, but also advertisements of upcoming...

Tags: Web Site, Photograph, TV Show Website, Web Site Development, Web Technology, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Internet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

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CD Rom to DVD

I have an educatuional cd rom which i can watch on my laptop/computer.The files are in a mpg format.Is there a software that will let me put this eductional cd rom onto a DVD so that i can watch it on my TV.As a DVD player doesn't have the hardware...

Tags: CD-ROM, DVD, john.cb1@..., software

Q&A 2004-12-22