LBRT keeps making deals:
Liberate TV Platform Integrated at Comcast for Interactive Services on Basic Digital Set-Top Boxes
SAN CARLOS, Calif., Jun 27, 2001 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Liberate Technologies (Nasdaq: LBRT chart, msgs) today announced that Comcast Cable Communications Inc. is working with Liberate(R) TV Platform(TM) Compact software to centralize management and delivery of interactive services to subscribers with basic digital set-top boxes.
Liberate provides an open architecture software platform with the flexibility required by Comcast and other network operators to add new enhanced television services and content, and manage and deploy applications and services from multiple vendors.
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Comcast and Liberate are initially partnering with Gemstar-TV Guide Int'l. to integrate TV Guide Interactive with various Video-on-Demand services. Comcast is using the Liberate software platform to simplify and centralize delivery of its interactive offerings, and services. The Liberate software platform also provides a migration path for Comcast to satisfy OpenCable Application Platform (OCAP) digital television standards in the United States that are currently under development.
"Liberate software lets us create a central plug-and-play environment for new services on basic set-tops that help us keep abreast with OCAP, which is a great advantage in this rapidly evolving market," said Mark Hess, vice president of digital television, Comcast Cable. "Our selection and delivery of applications needs to move quickly and smoothly so we can fulfill subscriber demand, and Liberate is helping us achieve that."
"We are pleased to partner with an industry leader like Comcast in helping them deliver better television to their customers," said Mitchell Kertzman, CEO, Liberate Technologies. "Liberate provides the foundation software that is proven to allow cable operators to deliver enhanced services for TV on a large scale, generate new revenues, and keep more subscribers."
Liberate TV Platform Compact software supports the delivery of a full range of applications and services to the most widely deployed class of digital set-top boxes in North America, the Motorola DCT-2000. The Liberate TV Platform Compact software consists of the Liberate TV Navigator(TM) Compact client software and Liberate Connect(TM) server s |
