#Cloudtv box software
#Cloudtv box tv

ActiveVideo revealed that the mosaic application and the platform through which all of the content was made available was the same ActiveVideo technology employed by Time Warner Cable's Oceanic system during the 2008 Summer Olympics, and that several other unidentified cable operators were using the ActiveVideo platform to provide similar 2010 Vancouver Olympics coverage. ActiveVideo powered a similar interactive mosaic channel for Time Warner Cable’s Oceanic system in Hawaii. The channel was available to all Cablevision customers with a digital set-top box. The channel provided a mosaic of small video images that offered one-click, instant access to coverage on NBCU's various networks, along with supplemental Olympics content. In February 2010, CloudTV was used to power a Cablevision digital cable interactive channel dedicated to the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games. We expect there will be a consumer-facing brand that will be interested in managing this in partnership with us moving forward.' Enhanced user navigation for connected TV: Olympics, Cablevision mosaics We can run Flash-based applications, web-centric applications that are able to play multiple video streams or interact with other servers out there for content or various results, such as information pulled from social networks or other databases, all combined into a coherent, interesting experience for the consumer.' Edmonds added that ActiveVideo is 'not in the long-term a consumer-facing brand, as far as content aggregators or service providers,' but is instead 'signing up partners that are interested in running on this platform and being able to deploy their applications to these devices. The requirements are very lightweight on the device itself - it has very low requirements for CPU or memory or any other expensive components that the manufacturers have to stick in there.

#Cloudtv box tv

The user interface then streams video down to the TV or Blu-ray player, where there is a very small client that plays the video and sends the remote-control keystrokes back to the server. In March 2011, Jeremy Edmonds, ActiveVideo's business development technology director, told consumer electronics trade publication TWICE that CloudTV runs DCML-based applications, which he described as 'pretty much like web applications, and are executed on servers up in the Cloud. We make TVs smarter by removing the brain.' As its name implies, ActiveVideo's CloudTV platform uses an internet-based 'cloud' as the delivery system for dynamic web content, keeping the in-device hardware/software to an absolute minimum.' ActiveVideo Senior Vice President of Marketing Edgar Villalpando told the site that CloudTV enables 'the creation and delivery of interactive content to virtually any TV screen or box: Cable, IPTV, Satellite, CE, Mobile.

Technical background and stated vision for CloudTV apps platformī describes the CloudTV apps platform as a 'low-impact model for bringing internet content to displays and other devices. Īt the end of 2009, CloudTV was in approximately five million homes through cable and IPTV providers such as Cablevision Systems Corporation, Oceanic Time Warner Cable and PCCW ActiveVideo expects CloudTV to be in 10 million homes by the end of 2010.

#Cloudtv box software

CloudTV combines the personalized, social Web experience with the immediacy and remote-control navigation of television, and requires a small-footprint software client on the end user device. CloudTV delivers both traditional television and Web-based content to cable digital set-top boxes, Web-connected consumer electronics devices and CI Plus-enabled televisions as a single MPEG stream.

The CloudTV™ applications platform enables content developers to store and process video content in the network “cloud”. 5 Demonstration of iPhone Remote Control Application.3 Enhanced user navigation for connected TV: Olympics, Cablevision mosaics.2 Technical background and stated vision for CloudTV apps platform.