Interactive TV 2001 Report


Interactive TV Report 2001

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 Strategic Summaries and Forecasts: US and Europe

2 Interactive Middleware

2.1 OpenTV
Open TV Broadcast, Broadband
OpenTVi
Integrated PTVR
2001 Financials
OpenAdvantage Developers Forum
Content Partners
Major Deployments
2.2 MediaHighway/Canal Plus Technologies
Interactive Applications
The Viewing Lounge
Sun
Network Operators List
2.3 Liberate Technologies
Sun
2001 Financials
Customers
PopTV Program
Liberate TV Navigator
2.4 Microsoft TV
Advanced
Basic Digital
Access Channel Server
Content Developer Program
Interactive Advertising
Partners and Customers
Ultimate TV

3 USA

3.1 Market Background
Digital Terrestrial TV
Digital Cable
AT&T Digital Cable Results
3.2 WebTV
WebTV Plus Interactive Service
Interactive Programmes
3.3 Replay
Features
MyReplayTV
3.4 TiVo
3.5 Echostar/Dish
3.6 DirecTV
DirecTV Interactive
Interactive Services
On Screen Guide
Bloomberg
3.7 Interactive Programs
CBS
Game Show Network
PBS Digital Terrestrial Trials
Sony Interactive
NBC
Comedy Central
Two-Screen TV
Wink
Pearson TV
Turner
ESPN
Fox
Discovery
E! Networks
Showtime
MTV
Playboy.com
MSNBC
3.8 Worldgate
Deployment
Channel Hyperlinking
TV Gateway
CableWare 2000
3.9 Wink
3.10 PowerTV
Middleware
SofaSOFT Applications
3.11 Ultimate
Interactive Shows
MSNBC
E! Entertainment Network
The Weather Channel
3.12 AOL TV
Channel Hyperlinking
TVGateway

4. UK

4.1 BSkyB
Interactive Results, Usage
Interactive Betting
Sky News Active
Sky Sports Interactive
Personal Video Recorder
Sky Guide/EPG
4.2 Open
Shopping, Entertainment, Money, Games
Email, Travel, Local
4.3 ONdigital
Interactive Usage
ONview, ONmail, ONsport, ONgames
Technology and Middleware
4.4 NTL Cable
Interactive Services and Usage
4.5 Cable & Wireless
Interactive Services and Usage
4.6 Telewest
Interactive Services and Usage
4.7 BBC Digital
BBC Interactive Services
BBC Text
Wimbledon 2001
4.8 QVC
QVC Directory
Interactive Shopping Service
4.9 Blue Square Betting
4.10 Static 2358 Games
PlayJam
Static Technology
4.11 HSBC
4.12 Energis / Bright Blue Portal
4.13 Two Way TV
Games Usage: Free and Pay

5 France

5.1 TPS
Interactive Services and Usage
5.2 Canal Satellite
Interactive Services and Usage
Betting

6 Spain / Portugal

6.1 Canal Satelite Digital
Interactive Services
6.2 Sogecable
6.3 Via Digital
Interactive Services
SMS, Games, Home Banking
Advertising
6.4 QuieroTV
Interactive Services and Usage
6.5 Ono
6.6 TV Cabo
Microsoft TV Platform

7 Italy

7.1 Tele+
Merger plans
7.2 Stream
Interactive Services

8 Nordic

8.1 Canal Digital
Interactive TV
8.2 Viasat
Interactive TV
8.3 Com Hem
Stora Com Hem
The Navigator
8.4 Tele Danmark
8.5 eTV

9 Germany

9.1 Market Background
Free, Pay and Cable Digital TV
Consolidation of the Cable Industry
Middleware and MHP
9.2 Interative Programming
ARD Digital Interactive
ARD Online Channel
ZDF Digital
RTL
N24, TM3
9.3 Kirch Group
9.4 Deutsche Telekom
Media Vision
Berlin cable project
9.5 RTL Group
9.6 Bertelsmann
9.7 Premiere World Pay TV
9.8 BetaResearch and d-box
9.9 Primacom
9.10 Callahan Associates
Kabel NRW
Baden-Württemberg
International Projects
9.11 Liberty Media
Acquisition of 6 cable regions

10 Netherlands

10.1 UPC
10.2 Casema

11 Interactive Services

11.1 NDS
iADS
Value@TV
11.2 FutureTV
11.3 Alticast
11.4 Lysis
11.5 Mindport
11.6 Agency.com
11.7 Fantastic
11.8 ACTV
11.9 ImagicTV
11.10 Cell Interactive

12 Interactive TV Standards

12.1 MHP
12.2 OpenCable
Participating Companies
Specifications
12.3 ATVEF
Content Specifications
Transport Type A: Return-path Data
Transport Type B: Broadcast Data


List of Charts and Figures

· ARD Onlinekanal
· Blue Square Technology
· BSkyB Subscribers 2001
· Business Segments of KirchMedia
· Callahan Assocs Euro Systems
· Canal Satelite Digital Subscribers 1997-2001
· Canal+ Network Operators
· DirecTV Interactive Channels
· German Cable Regions by Operator
· German Cable Subs by Operator
· German Cable Subscribers
· Liberate Connect Server
· Liberate TV Navigator Compact
· Liberate TV Navigator Standard Table
· Liberate TV Producer Diagram
· Liberty Media German Franchises
· MHP Time Line
· NTL Digital Cable Subscribers
· NTL Usage Statistics
· ONdigital Subscribers
· Open Cable Host-POD Interface
· Open Cable Set-top Terminal
· Open Results
· OpenTV Installations
· PowerTV
· Premiere World Digital Subscribers
· Primacom Cable Subscribers
· Primacom Internet Subscribers
· Quiero Network
· Sogecable Subscribers
· Stream Subscribers
· Tele+ Package
· Telewest Subscribers
· BSkyB, Echostar, Liberate, OpenTV, Tivo, Wink, Worldgate Share Prices
· TPS Subscribers
· TV Cabo Digital Subscribers
· US Digital TV Market Analysis 2001
· US Interactive TV Market Analysis 2001
· US: AT&T Digital Cable Viewing
· US: Basic and Digital Cable Subs by Operator
· US: Digital Cable Forecasts to 2005
· US: Top 10 Multiplatform operators
· Via Digital Subscribers
· VisionConsult Euro Digital TV analysis by operator
· VisionConsult Euro DTV connections 2005
· VisionConsult Euro Interactive TV Revenues 2001-2005
· VisionConsult Global Forecasts for Digital TV Connections 2005
· VisionConsult Global Forecasts for Interactive TV Connections 2005
· VisionConsult Interactive TV Households 2004
· VisionConsult U.S. Interactive TV-Commerce Forecasts 2004
· VisionConsult USA Digital TV forecasts (DTT, Cable, DTH) 2001-2005
· VisionConsult USA Interactive TV Revenues 2001-2005