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[Thomashawk.com] Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection: While TiVo's stand alone business has prevented them from taking more radical measures when it comes to advertising, OpenTV's relationship with the cable and satellite industry has allowed them to pursue a more controversial strategy because of their focus on the content providers. As CEO James Chiddex (formally of Mystro TV) put it in their most recent conference call, "our real customers, in most cases are network operators, in the context of deals between network operators and programmers or advertisers we can certainly provide services, but we're clear who the primary customer is." Whether this focus on operators and advertisers vs.

[Dailywireless.org] Daily Wireless: Location Based Services might develop around Blogmapper (links blog entries to clickable locations on a map), GeoURL ICBM Address Server (add Lat/Long to webpages), GeoNotes, as used in Annotate Space (a free JAVA application that automatically detects your current position for location-tagged messages), Trepia (a location-based list of other nearby Instant Messaging users), LocalFeeds (finds nearby RSS News feeds) and WWMX Travelogue (GPS tagged maps, photographs and text). Google Location Search can find local resources.

 [Slashdot.org] Slashdot | OpenTV Like TiVo on Steroids: OpenTV middleware is indeed used in both the SKY (UK) and Foxtel (Australia) PVRs. TFA states "While OpenTV provides different levels of functionally[sic] to each operator, I was most impressed by OpenTV's 2.0 PVR that is currently available to Foxtel subscribers in Australia." OpenTV PVR 2.0 is available to Foxtel subscribers, should Foxtel decide to go out and buy it from OpenTV, integrate it into their IQ PVRs and throw out NDS's XTV - not likely at this point, but the way it's put in this article makes OpenTV sound as though it is in full control.

[Blog.itvt.com] [itvt] Bloggit: August 16, 2005: the latter is also serving as the platform's system integrator.) According to StarHub, the new box, which will incorporate dual tuners and a high- capacity hard disk, will use OpenTV's Core 2.0 middleware and its PVR 2.0 software to support a range of PVR capabilities (including one-button recording, pausing of live television, multi-episode recording, rewind, fast-forward and slow motion), as well as VOD and push VOD, and two-way interactivity (including chat, SMS, email, and an application that allows viewers to purchase pay-per-view movies). The box will also be fully integrated with StarHub's EPG, so that it will be able to record desired programs, even if a channel's broadcast schedule changes.

Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, PVR, PVRLib