Interactive TV Award

Romtelecom’s new IPTV service Dolce Interactiv is offering HBO HD and Pro TV HD free of charge in order to secure a share of Romania’s potential HD viewership. - Interactive TV Award

Worldwide on-demand TV revenues are predicted to climb 34.6% in 2009 to reach US$ 4.9bn, despite the worldwide recession, according to a new report from Informa Telecoms & Media. - Interactive TV Award

Bandwidth caps and metered, usage-based pricing for broadband were among the most unpopular notions on the telecom scene during 2009. Yet, as the year closes, we see service providers only moving closer to implementing such concepts. - Interactive TV Award

GigaOM Pro report: Mobile technology has been domain of 2-D content and viewing, but we see prospects for a sharp increase in 3-D in coming months and years... - Interactive TV Award

2010 International CES — LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Valens Semiconductor announced today that they intend to launch a cross-industry alliance to promote and standardize the HDBaseT™ technology for whole-home distribution of uncompressed HD multimedia content. - Interactive TV Award

LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Valens Semiconductor have formed the HDBaseT Alliance, intended to promote and standardise HDBaseT technology for whole-home distribution of uncompressed HD multimedia content. - Interactive TV Award

According to new pay-TV market data from ABI Research, global pay-TV subscribers will number more than 730 million by the end of 2011. North America has the highest subscriber penetration and should reach 115.4 million by the end of 2011. - Interactive TV Award

The Open IPTV Forum e.V. today announced that it has signed liaison agreements with the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA), the Digital Video Broadcasting Project (DVB) and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to further drive for an interoperable end-to-end IPTV solution for Managed Network and Open Internet deployments in a global market. - Interactive TV Award

The Open IPTV Forum has signed liaison agreements with the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA), the Digital Video Broadcasting Project (DVB) and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to further drive for an interoperable end-to-end IPTV solution for Managed Network and Open Internet deployments in a global market. - Interactive TV Award

University of Erlangen- Nürnberg (DE) on the DICIT project (Distant-talking Interfaces for Control of Interactive TV) addresses the development of advanced technologies for speech/acoustic processing and interpretation based on multi-microphone devices. One of the most challenging objectives is the integration of distant-talking voice interaction as a complementary modality to the use of remote control in interactive TV systems. - Interactive TV Award

Verizon launched an interactive TV version of its In-Home Agent customer self-help tool on its FiOS TV platform. According to the company, the new tool uses "the advanced FiOS network" to diagnose issues, report back to customers, and then quickly and automatically fix most problems. - Interactive TV Award

HDlogix powered the first live 3D broadcast ever to be shown on giant screens at a major sporting event during last Sunday's football game at Cowboys Stadium between the Dallas Cowboys and the San Diego Chargers allowing fans to view both live action and instant replays in 3D. - Interactive TV Award

AT&T announces several additions to the AT&T U-verse TV channel lineup, including five new HD channels and new international programming channels for Filipino and Cantonese viewers. - Interactive TV Award

South Korea plans to launch e-Government services via the country's IPTV platforms in Seoul City next year. According to the reports, Seoul City plans to provide public information such as tender notices through IPTV on a real-time basis from March of next year, and will then move on to offering e-Government services including submission of civil petitions and tax payments at a later stage. - Interactive TV Award

The BMCOforum, the association of mobile TV stakeholders, has warned administrations to carefully evaluate the considerable interference risk to mobile TV prior to allowing any use of TV White Spaces in the UHF broadcast spectrum for licence exempt wireless services and/or devices. - Interactive TV Award