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ActiveVideo Networks is an advanced TV platform based in San Jose, California, that enables “cloud-based” interactive television programming [1]. Its CloudTV platform enables content developers to store and process video content in the network “cloud” [2]. 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 [3][4]. 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 [5].
ActiveVideo Networks is the product of a 2006 merger between ICTV, a pioneer in interactive television content and platforms, and Switched Media, a developer of solutions for the customization of video streams within the compressed domain [6]. The company was rechristened as ActiveVideo Networks in 2008 [7]. In 2009, the company established a presence in Europe with the acquisition of Avinity Systems, B.V.[8].
At the end of 2009, the CloudTV system was in approximately five million homes through cable and IPTV providers such as Cablevision Systems Corporation, Oceanic Time Warner Cable and PCCW [9]; the company expects CloudTV to be in 10 million homes by the end of 2010 [10].
In December 2009, ActiveVideo announced that it was extending availability of the CloudTV platform to consumer electronics devices [11]. In January 2010, Blockbuster announced that it will use CloudTV to provide a Web-based interface for its Blockbuster On Demand movie service across multiple connected platforms [12]. That same month, ActiveVideo expanded its relationship with games-on-demand provider TAG Networks to bring TAG content to broadband-connected consumer electronics devices [13], and signed a deal with entertainment marketing agency Trailer Park, under which Trailer Park's Advanced Content group became the first major content developer to officially embrace CloudTV [14].
ActiveVideo’s CEO and president is Jeff Miller, and its CTO is John Callahan [15].
References
- ^ ActiveVideo Networks homepage
- ^ "CES: Hook Up Internet TV Without Getting a New Box". Los Angeles Times. January 8, 2010. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2010/01/ces-hook-up-internet-tv-without-getting-a-new-box.html.
- ^ "CES 2010: Hands on with ActiveVideo’s CloudTV". High-Def Digest. January 8, 2010. http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/ActiveVideo/CES_2010/CloudTV/Streaming_Content/CES_2010:_Hands_on_with_ActiveVideo%E2%80%99s_CloudTV/4037.
- ^ "Radio: ActiveVideo’s Jeff Miller on the Company’s Work with Cablevision, Time Warner Cable, and More". InteractiveTV Today—itvt. October 29, 2009. http://itvt.com/interview/5951/radio-activevideos-jeff-miller-companys-work-cablevision-time-warner-cable-and-more.
- ^ "Radio: ActiveVideo’s Jeff Miller on the Company’s Work with Cablevision, Time Warner Cable, and More". InteractiveTV Today—itvt. October 29, 2009. http://itvt.com/interview/5951/radio-activevideos-jeff-miller-companys-work-cablevision-time-warner-cable-and-more.
- ^ "ICTV acquires Switched Media". CED. February 7, 2006. http://www.cedmagazine.com/article.aspx?id=52440.
- ^ "ICTV Is Now ActiveVideo Networks". NewTeeVee. May 17, 2008. http://newteevee.com/2008/05/17/ictv-is-now-activevideo-networks/.
- ^ "ActiveVideo Snaps Up Dutch iTV Firm". Multichannel News. June 1, 2009. http://www.multichannel.com/article/277515-ActiveVideo_Snaps_Up_Dutch_ITV_Firm.php?q=Avinity.
- ^ "ActiveVideo's Year of Reckoning". Cable Digital News. October 30, 2009. http://www.lightreading.com/blog.asp?blog_sectionid=419&doc_id=183923&site=cdn.
- ^ "ActiveVideo Signs Up Trailer Park as First Major Content Developer for its CloudTV Platform". InteractiveTV Today—itvt. January 25, 2010. http://itvt.com/story/6412/activevideo-signs-trailer-park-first-major-content-developer-its-cloudtv-platform.
- ^ "ActiveVideo Advances CloudTV Strategy". TWICE. December 18, 2009. http://www.twice.com/article/441083-ActiveVideo_Advances_CloudTV_CE_Strategy.php?rssid=20328&q=activevideo.
- ^ "Blockbuster Inks Deal with ActiveVideo". Broadcast Newsroom. January 6, 2010. http://www.broadcastnewsroom.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=948306.
- ^ "ActiveVideo Expands Relationship with TAG Networks". Broadband Gear Report. January 21, 2010. http://www.broadbandgear.net/archives/bgr/2010/012110/products.cfm#6.
- ^ "ActiveVideo Signs Up Trailer Park as First Major Content Developer for its CloudTV Platform". InteractiveTV Today—itvt. January 25, 2010. http://itvt.com/story/6412/activevideo-signs-trailer-park-first-major-content-developer-its-cloudtv-platform.
- ^ ActiveVideo Networks–Management Team
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