ITV Interview: Ed Forman and Jeff Miller Discuss ICTV's Merger with Switched Media
March 13, 2006 — itvt.com
Los Gatos, Calif.-based ICTV announced last month that it was merging with Switched Media, a San Francisco-based company co-founded by ICTV's former SVP of marketing, Ed Forman. The merged entity will retain the ICTV name, and the merger will see all of Switched Media's co-founders joining the new ICTV: Forman will serve as EVP and COO; Michael Taylor (who was previously VP of business development at both BigBand Networks and nCUBE) will serve as SVP of business development and distribution; and Jeremy Edmonds will serve as system architect...
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ICTV Crafts a Mosaic of TV, Web
March 6, 2006 — Multichannel News
Just days after Time Warner Cable’s Oceanic Cable system in Honolulu offered subscribers four feeds of NBC’s Winter Olympics coverage on a single screen, software vendor ICTV Inc. demonstrated how it could allow cable operators to put six tiles of programming on one screen, at the winter CableLabs conference here...
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Vendors lining up CableLabs demos
February 21, 2006
ICTV Inc., fresh off its acquisition of Switched Media, will show off a "personalized" video mosaic, a navigation application that "thumbnails" multiple video channels on one screen. While most of today's video mosaic apps…
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ICTV Switches Gears with Acquisition
February 14, 2006 — CED Magazine
The combined company, which will retain the ICTV name, will collaborate on personalized, "Web-driven" iTV fare via the combination of Switched Media's InStream platform and ICTV's HeadendWare system. But what does that mean exactly? ICTV President & CEO Jeff Miller said Switched Media, a San-Francisco-based company founded in 2004, will give ICTV the ability to do something it couldn't before: manipulate live video and inject interactivity into the video stream itself...
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ICTV Acquires Switched Media
February 7, 2006 — CED Magazine
Interactive television specialist ICTV Inc. has struck a merger with Switched Media, a provider of "mass customization" of live video streams...
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ICTV, Switched Media Merge Video Tech Companies
February 7, 2006 — CED Magazine
ICTV said on Tuesday it is merging with Switched Media in a deal that combines
two Bay Area video technology companies. No financial terms were disclosed.
Los Gatos-based ICTV sells technology that helps deliver and distribute interactive
television contecnt. San Francisco-based Switched Media develops products for
mass customization of live video streams...
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Web Meets Video: ICTV Brings Web to Set-Top
January 30, 2006 — Broadband Gear Report
ICTV's HeadendWare is a centralized platform for delivering interactive programming and services to digital cable subscribers. Rather than requiring local execution of applications on set-tops, HeadendWare delivers interactive content as standard HFC output streams by encoding video and audio generated by network applications into MPEG-2 and digital audio such as Dolby Digital AC3 in real time...
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