Concurrent and Pinnacle use C-Cube chips..................
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Pinnacle, Media DVX team
Media DVX, a New York-based company focused on digital ad delivery, and Pinnacle Systems have agreed to develop a version of the Media DVX store-and-forward service that uses Pinnacle's Media-Stream video servers. Media DVX, which has already been working with Grass Valley Group to support its Profile server, made the Pinnacle deal based on requests from several large station groups, says President Ron England. Media DVX customers can now use the MediaStream products to receive commercials and other programming as digital files that are transmitted via satellite using IP multicasting technology.
Time Warner offers Concurrent VOD
Video-on-demand (VOD) supplier Concurrent Computer Corp. has announced that Oceanic Cable, Time Warner Cable's operation in Mililani, Hawaii, has commercially deployed Concurrent's MediaHawk VOD system. The new service, which is now available to roughly 254,000 households, allows access to movies on demand as well as interactive applications, such as ordering a pizza through the TV remote.
"I can pause a movie, switch to the pizza-on-demand channel, order a pizza to be delivered to my home, and then resume watching the movie," says Allan Akamine, Oceanic Cable director of sales and marketing. "I do all of this without having to move from my chair. The subscriber response has been extremely positive." |
