Canal Plus Is Armed For ITV Battleground.(Canal Plus US, interactive television)(Brief Article)

Multichannel News, October, 2000 by STUMP, MATT

Think Canal Plus U.S. Technologies is just a middleware company? Think again. The U.S.-based technology offshoot of Canal Plus S.A. plans to deliver big-name content, and perhaps back-office integration, as part of its interactive-TV suite of services for cable operators here.

It's part of the beneficial fallout from Vivendi S.A.'s pending purchase of Universal Studios owner Seagram Co. Ltd., combined with Vivendi's move to increase its ownership stake in parent company Canal Plus.

The only U.S. beachhead for Canal Plus U.S. Technologies is Jacksonville, Fla., where MediaOne Group Inc. (now part of AT&T Broadband) had deployed its "MediaHighway" middleware on Philips Consumer Electronics Co. DVB-compliant digital set-tops. It was the U.S. cable...

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