Do any Zenith product designs *yet* provide for WINK or ACTV technologies, as do Sony, Matsushita, NextLevel, et alia??
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Charter Communications, Inc., a Top-10 cable operator with more than one million subscribers, today announced that it has signed a multi-year, multi-system agreement to deploy Enhanced Broadcasting technology from Wink Communications, Inc. Charter's 115,000-subscriber Los Angeles cable system will be the first Charter market to launch Wink's technology.
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Wink ITV is the worldwide standard for Enhanced Broadcasting that allows TV networks, producers and advertisers to enhance broadcast television with interactive overlays and special information channels that are tied to regular broadcasts. Viewers can, among other things, find news, weather and sports information on-demand, order products, and vote in polls. The technology is dramatically different from Internet-over-TV because it enhances and is broadcast with existing shows and commercials, adds very little cost to the television set or set-top box, and requires no subscription fees for consumers.
The world's largest and most influential manufacturers of consumer
electronics and cable equipment already have embraced the Wink ITV open standard. In the US, NextLevel, Scientific-Atlanta, and Pioneer currently are building a range of analog and digital equipment to support Wink Enhanced Broadcasting. In Japan, Sony, Matsushita (Panasonic), Toshiba and JVC already are selling TV sets and related products that receive and record Wink ITV broadcasts.
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Investors include NextLevel Systems Inc., Scientific-Atlanta Inc., Toshiba Corporation, Nippon Telephone and Telegraph, GE Capital Services, WC Investors, LLC, GFI Company, and Benchmark Capital.
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