Software, Content Deals Abound at Western Show.(Western Telecommunications Showcase)(Statistical Data Included)
Multichannel News, December, 2000 by STUMP, MATT
Interactive-television software and content providers spent a lot more time announcing deals with each other than with cable operators at the Western Show. The only announced middleware deal came from Open TV Corp., which disclosed its first U.S. MSO distribution deal with USA Media Group's northern California system, using Motorola Broadband Communication Sector's "DCT-2000" set-top box.
On the financial front, Canal Plus U.S. Technologies announced it had received separate 3 percent investments from Sony Europe and Thomson Multimedia, for a combined $50 million. And Liberate Technologies will create a $50 million investment fund to develop ITV, kicking the fund off with a $7 million investment in Two Way TV a gaming company. But other deployment,...
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