IPTV World Forum Announces Key Speakers as Exhibitor Numbers Look Set to Double

Orange, the BBC, BT, Telefonica and BSkyB to speak at leading IPTV event

London – Junction Ltd today announced speakers from across the telecoms and broadcast industry for its March 2007 event. The announcement comes as over 110 exhibitors have already confirmed their attendance at the show – a new record – being staged at the Olympia in London between 5th-7th March 2007.

 IPTV World Forum 07 Programme

'Think you know Sky? Think Again' - is the tag to this conventional TV ad campaign running across ITV for Sky+, Sky's PVR. Its a more lifestyle associated campaign for 2004 and whats interesting is that it puts the convenience of Sky's PVR into a family context, showing how it allows a family to manager their use of TV and at the same time, steers clear of promoting technology and gimmicks which can sometimes alienate potential Sky subscribers.

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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL ARE LOOKING FOR A
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National Geographic Channel is contemporary factual entertainment at its best and is currently looking for a very rare species, a Senior Interactive Designer. Someone who can thrive in this fast-paced, deadline-driven, dynamic environment.

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Entertainment on the Home PC

The home networking and digital home products industries are between early successes and future growth opportunities. With more than 25 million U.S. households with broadband connections, more than 40 million subscribing to digital cable or directbroadcast satellite (DBS) television services, and 14 million households with data networking solutions, the number of companies with a stake in home networking’s future has grown exponentially.

Promoted on air and available via the Sky Active menu, the Sky News Chat application requires the Sky STB to dial up and connect to the chat server. The call is charged at 5p per minute. All messages sent are moderated and the chat session is hosted to encourage participation.

The application allows the viewer to chat using their remote (entering text as with a mobile phone) or using the Sky infra-red keyboard. The application also has an in built library of phrases to make typing easier.

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This application launches automatically when the viewer switches the the Mad TV music video channel- the 'OK' call-to-action appears on the screen letting the viewer know they can interact. By pressing the 'OK' button a banner appears on the screen giving the viewer 3 options:

Ringtones: A list of top 10 ringtones appears (code - title - artist). The viewer can order their favourite ringtone via a premium rate phone line with the order being confirmed via an SMS to the subscribers' mobile phone.

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It would be wrong to say this service is a copy of Sky News Active as the BBC have been providing a text based interactive news service on digital TV for a number of years now. However the addition of multiple video streams accessible throughout the day makes good use of the BBC's extensive resources. This application features a loop of News Headlines, Sports News, Weather and more in depth coverage of a live or breaking news story.

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EMC's interactive news service on channel 601 provides news, weather and lottery information and leverages the resources of the popular 24hr cable news channel that forms part of their group. Once again the service has been created in OpenTV SDK by EMC's engineers and is designed to be updated every hour.

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TV3, Catalonia’s Television – Formula 1

This application is launched with the Formula 1 World Championship, for which Television de Catalonia has the broadcasting rights. The launch of this application takes place on the Friday afternoon prior to the first F1 World Championship race. The application has two phases.

High Investments in IPTV, Digital TV, Video Content and VoIP Services Set for 2007

November 15, 2006 - Amdocs has released results of a survey looking at the communications industry trends in the U.S. and U.K. in 2007. Based on the responses of 200 industry decision makers in the telecom, cable and satellite industries, Amdocs forecasts service providers will significantly increase investment in customer service, network infrastructure and IP-based services, as well as build their digital content offerings.

This year sees the first truly interactive Olympics with viewers able to access and have the choice between a number of simultaneous video feeds coming out of Greek Olympic sites.

This promo encourages viewers to press the red button, or explore the BBC's online services.

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Both Verizon, which announced first-quarter results on Monday, and Apple declined to comment about the iPhone talks. However, people familiar with the situation said Verizon had held talks with Apple about the possibility of selling an iPhone based on 3G wireless technology called CDMA 2000. Verizon owns 55 per cent of Verizon Wireless, the leading US mobile operator. Vodafone, the UK-based mobile operator, owns the remaining 45 per cent.

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A simple and easy to use interface makes this application a pleasure to use.

Accessible from the interactive portal, the on-screen "mobile phone style" interface is clear and inviting. The user first enters the message using the number keys on their remote, then they enter the telephone number. The STB then sends the info across via its modem, the call costing Euro cents 27.

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This voting application follows the same template structure as the applications used for MTV Hits, the Mobo awards voting and pretty much all the enhancements on MTV's channels in the UK. Obviously it is relatively easy for MTV to re-skin their core application - although as can be seen from the 4th still below, and from our video, they do seem to be having problems with text extending beyond its boundary.

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The Discovery Channel's revival of this classic British quiz show has been enhanced by the development of a full synchronised interactive quiz which the viewer can play along with. Timing in this application is critical and the opportunity to answer is taken away immediately once the contestant gives his own answer in the video.

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Sky New Zealand's 'Weather Channel', was developed using 'GadgetMill', an XML based application creation environment created by local OpenTV developer Oktobor.

The service, created in partnership with local data provider MetService is one of the most comprehensive weather applications I have seen and allows Sky New Zealand's digital viewers to access up to the minute weather information including national and regional forecasts, radar and satellite maps, moon movements, tides and other marine information.

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TV3, Catalonia's Television – European Football

This application can be seen when the football games are being broadcasted by Televisió de Catalunya, every Saturday during the football season (September – June).

One of a series of humorous promos that are currently running on Sky to promote the Sky Plus PVR.

Sky are keen to grow their base of Sky Plus subscribers and these campaigns clearly demonstrate the benefit of the new box in recording one channel whist watching another or recording your favourite shows whilst you are away from home.

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