IPTV

Nortel is showcasing IPTV and Video solutions that are blurring the boundaries across TV, Internet, consumer devices and mobile phones by integrating services like text messaging, VoIP, media sharing, and interactive applications into the entertainment experience.

FiOS TV's innovative Interactive Media Guide (IMG), which already provides an unprecedented, next-generation video service, now also gives customers unique new features, including a fantasy sports application, free casual games, purchasing power via remote control, more widgets that provide on-demand access to information and entertainment, and other exciting options.

Microsoft Corp. unveiled technology that makes it easy for service providers and content owners to develop a new generation of groundbreaking interactive TV services. Microsoft is showcasing interactive applications that point the way to how people could experience TV in the future.

Packet Vision’s addressable television advertising solution, the PV 1000, is a fully integrated appliance with ad server, splicer and router, which enables advertisers to target different ads at different audiences simultaneously.

The interactive program guide has become the ultimate point-of-purchase advertising venue for television and video-on-demand programming because it’s where most television viewers decide what to watch.

Yahoo! and Intel said Wednesday they hope to solve the problem of how to bring the Internet to your television by serving up bite-sized snippets--dubbed widgets--rather than the whole Internet.

With AT&T's launch Monday of U-verse, the county becomes the third area in the Southeast, behind Atlanta and Miami-Dade and Broward counties, to receive a new television technology that arrives through a high-speed Internet connection.

While Many Have Rung Its Death Knell, the Pendulum Is Swinging Back to TV.

It's still unclear if the digital home will be a consumer-controlled environment or a carrier-controlled one.