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Worldwide in cooperation with the National Park Service, will again produce a
free live simulcast via satellite and the web of the Washington, D.C., National Capital
4th of July Fireworks Celebration for the benefit of American military personnel and
their families stationed overseas. This year the webcast will salute veterans of the
U.S. Merchant Marine, with support from “Tell
America,” an Internet TV Campaign highlighting the importance of the U.S. flag
merchant fleet in peace and war.
The free satellite and web broadcast coverage begins at 8:45 PM (ET) on Friday, July
4, and is being produced in cooperation with the National Park Service thanks to sponsorship
from Base Technologies, Inc., “Tell America,” T3 Motion and the International Webcasting
Association.
People around the world can tune to USVets.TV, TV
Worldwide, and Maritime TV,
to view our nation’s brilliant fireworks display firsthand and view a pre-event program.
The national fireworks are scheduled to begin […]

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OVGuide.com identified
the top online video destinations for June. With over 80 million pages viewed, OVGuide.com’s
user base experienced significant growth in the past month:

June:
21 million visits (17% increase compared to May)
11.5 million unique visitors (10.5% increase)
10 million searches conducted (11% increase)

The statistics for June include:

Top five searches:
1. Hancock
2. Kung Fu Panda
3. The Happening
4. Indiana Jones
5. Zohan

Most popular categories:
1. Movies / TV
2. Anime
3. Video games
4. General / Viral
5. Sports

Most popular General / Viral video sites:
1. Veoh
2. Kaotic
3. Nothing Toxic
4. YouTube
5. Internet Movie Archive

Most popular new additions:
1. TVLand
2. Vegas Entertainment Network
3. Mega Movie Zone
4. Le Gourmet TV
5. Farr on Film
6. AdGrabber
7. Latin Dance Television
8. My Fit Tribe
9. Wimbledon
10. The New Yorker

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Schematic’s video
player is anchoring NBC’s online coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on NBCOlympics.com on
MSN. The announcement was made by Perkins Miller, Senior Vice President, Digital Media,
NBC Sports and Olympics, and Trevor Kaufman, CEO of Schematic. The player debuts this
week with live, streaming coverage of the U.S. Olympic trials.
Created using Microsoft Silverlight 2, the video player will deliver 2,200 hours of
live, streaming coverage from NBC to millions of Americans with an unprecedented level
of picture quality, interactive features and user control. As the largest Web event
ever, the player will also allow visitors to NBCOlympics.com on
MSN to access over 3,000 hours of on-demand video, including full-event replays, highlights
and interviews.
Tapped by NBC Universal and Microsoft for its expertise in implementing the latest
technologies and success in creating award-winning user interfaces for the world’s
largest brands, Schematic’s player for NBCOlympics.com on MSN represents the highest-profile
deployment […]

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Espial enteres
into a definitive agreement pursuant to which Espial will acquire all of the outstanding
shares of Kasenna in exchange
for an aggregate of 4,722,224 Espial common shares, which before giving effect to
the transaction represents 51.2% of the issued and outstanding shares of Espial and
will represent approximately 33.6% of the issued and outstanding shares of Espial
on an after-issue basis.
“Video services are critical for service providers’ success worldwide. The combination
of Espial and Kasenna strengthens the leadership position of Espial in the IPTV, hybrid
IP-DVB and hospitality segments”, noted Jaison Dolvane, CEO of Espial. “The IPTV market
remains early and fragmented, and service providers are looking for clear leaders
that they can bet on. Acquiring Kasenna provides us with increased scale, expertise,
product breadth and channel access to position ourselves as the leading choice for
service providers worldwide”.
Mr. Dolvane noted, “The Kasenna team has a tremendous amount of depth and expertise
in video. They’ve done an excellent job […]

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Home Gateway Initiative's new CTO up for the challenge
July 2, 2008 - The Home Gateway Initiative (HGI) has appointed a…

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RealPage’s
IPTV service, StarFire, is having an IPTV equipment garage sale to offload some headend,
encoding, satellite, and set-top box gear. Below is the entire list of model numbers
and quantity.
If you’re interested in any of the equipment, please call Patti Pinkerton at 1-972-820-3900
to negotiate prices. Serious inquires only.
Headend Gear

Quantity
Manufacturer
Product
Description

1

Motorola (Tut Systems)

SP-A4

Quad Stream Processor Card (One or more QualView® Licenses required per SP-A4)

1

Motorola

SP-ASI-T

ASI Transition Card (Requires a corresponding SP-A4

1

Motorola

PMC-GIGE-C

Gigabit Ethernet PMC, RJ-45 Coppre (only 1 GigE PMC can exist on a CUP-600 Board OR
on a NIC Carrier Card).

1

Motorola

NIC-600

Peripheral Network Interface Carrier Card (Note: Not a replacement for the CPU Card;
Not for QVC-FEC applications).

1

Motorola

CH-204-AC

2-RU, 4-Slot, AC Powered Chassis. Requires a system controller and at least one power
supply.

1

Motorola

CPU-600

CPU Card for Astria® Content Processor 400, 200 and 100 platforms

1

Motorola

PS-250-AC

AC Power Supply for Astria® Content Processor 400, 200 and 100 platforms.

1

Tut Systems

Astria Chassis 1216

Astria Chassis 1216, Dual Slot HD Card (card 1) and Dual Slot […]

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BNN has
selected Vusion’s WARP video delivery
technology to power the high quality video on its recently launched online portal, 101.TV.
BNN is a Dutch public broadcasting network aimed at teenagers and young adults. Known
for its irreverent style and somewhat controversial programming, BNN has built a huge
audience throughout the Netherlands by developing and delivering content that is tailored
for the unique taste of its demographic. As these younger viewers rapidly shift their
attention away from TV sets and onto the Internet, BNN is now poised to support this
shift on a massive scale with the addition of Vusion’s WARP technology to its 101.TV
web video portal.
“Vusion will enable 101.TV to deliver the best possible online viewing experience
with instant-on, full screen, DVD quality video that is capable of supporting millions
of simultaneous BNN viewers without buffering,” said Paul van Keulen, head of 101.TV.
“Our extensive line-up of online programming and established […]

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Efforts to accelerate the deployment of
IPTV by combining the expertise of key telecom operators, consumer electronics manufacturers
and network infrastructure providers in the Open
IPTV Forum are gathering further momentum, and the first release of the specifications
that will allow IPTV to develop into a mass market service is close to completion.
At its meeting at the headquarters of Telefónica in Madrid from 10-13 June, the Open
IPTV Forum, the pan-industry initiative that was established to produce the end-to-end
solution specification which will open up access to the interactive and personalised
services offered by IPTV, significantly expanded its membership. These companies join
the founding members - Ericsson, FT Group, Nokia Siemens Networks, Panasonic, Philips,
Samsung, Sony and Telecom Italia - and many other major IPTV industry players from
the communications and entertainment industries, bringing to 37 the number of companies
which are working together in the Forum.
Since April this year, 11 new members have been accepted:

Access Company

BeeTV

FastWeb

Digital Fountain

Intel

InterTrust […]

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Verizon FiOS
TV has
launched 22 new channels, including 15 additional HD channels. FiOS
TV customers
in Fort Wayne now have more than 440 HD choices available at any time, with a total
of 41 HD channels and more than 400 HD VOD titles offered each month.
The first in a series of channel additions coming this year, new content includes
sports favorites like the Big Ten Network and new HD channels like CNBC, Bravo and
USA. The next series of content additions will include more HD channels, including
CNN, TBS, Lifetime, three new Starz channels and two new Showtime channels, as well
as 16 new multicultural channels.
Verizon will continue expanding its FiOS TV channel lineup this year, with a major
focus on HD content. By year-end, Verizon will offer all available major HD programming.
Fort Wayne customers are the first […]

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David
Ingram and Intervision TV have
produced what is set to become the definitive guide to all aspects of setting up and
running an Internet TV station. Dave Ingram, Director of Intervision TV, said ‘the
issue with Internet TV is, that to run a successful independent, and profitable, TV
station you need a mix of skills and knowledge from a wide range of areas, from video
production, through to business planning, to internet marketing, and to the technology
of video streaming and player design. Most people have knowledge of one or two of
these areas, but not of all of them, or indeed how to knit them all together to create
an effective viewer proposition.’
‘I get 5 or 6 calls and emails a week from people and companies who want to launch
an Internet TV station and are desperate for someone with real experience to tell
them how to do it, and this book is for them.’
The book can […]

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