OCAP

Voting from Home

akelly — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:55:01 -0600

Vote using your remote control (this is a test idea submission)

What is OCAP

akelly — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:35:11 -0600

The OpenCable Application Platform (or OCAP, pronounced oh-cap) is a way for cable networks, cable company applications developers and other content providers to create and deploy a wave of interactive services that will open up new revenue streams and other business opportunities.

Who created OCAP?

akelly — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:14:14 -0500

OCAP is comprised of a voluminous set of technical specifications created by CableLabs, a cable technology consortium, and endorsed by the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers and other industry groups.

TV of Tomorrow Show - San Francisco

akelly — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:05:19 -0600

Start: 03/11/2008 - 08:00

End: 03/12/2008 - 17:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

(from http://www.itvt.com/)

InteractiveTV Today [itvt], the first, best and most widely read news source on interactive and multiplatform television, is pleased to present the second annual TV of Tomorrow Show, March 11th-12th (Tuesday-Wednesday), 2008 in San Francisco, California at the famous Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Go to http://www.itvt.com/tvoftomorrow/ for details.

ITA Technology Walk-through 07

akelly — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:37:40 -0600

Start: 12/13/2007 - 17:00

End: 12/15/2007 - 12:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

“Twelve rooms. Twelve technologies. One hundred executives”. 2-day, invitation-only, personalized showcase targeting executive producers / showrunners from prominent TV series. And media-directors / brand-managers from major advertising brands.

Link to conference: http://www.itvalliance.org/techwalk7.htm

OCAP Developer's Program & Workshops

wkreth — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:12:44 -0600

istart tru2way Axiom™ program

akelly — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 13:33:50 -0600

Visiware joins itaas’ OCAP Program

Smita — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:17:27 -0600

- Program will support application developers working with the OCAP platform

ATLANTA, GA, November 13, 2007 — itaas Inc., the only provider of end-to-end interactive television (iTV) solutions in the digital video industry, and a provider of an innovative suite of video-on-demand products, has added Visiware as the newest member of its istart OCAP Axiom™ Developer Program (OCAP Program). The OCAP Program is targeted towards application providers developing Java-based client applications running on the Axiom stack.

Zodiac Unveils Interim Step to OCAP Interactive TV

akelly — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:15:58 -0600

Zodiac Interactive will demo software at The Cable Show ’07 that enables rich, ad-supported interactive TV applications that can run on legacy set-top boxes while still supporting the OpenCable Application Platform (OCAP) standard due next year.

OCAP-based iTV middleware will require considerably more processing power and memory than offered by some 70 million digital set-top boxes (STBs) currently deployed by U.S. cable operators.

Cable’s Interactive TV Future to Be Highlighted at the Tru2way™ Developers Conference Leading Off The Cable Show ’08

GeoffKatz — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:56:55 -0500

http://2008.thecableshow.com/Attending/Tru2Way.aspx

Cable’s Interactive TV Future to Be Highlighted at the Tru2way™ Developers Conference Leading Off The Cable Show ’08