11 Leading TV Manufacturers and NTT Adopt Wink Communication's Interactive TV ICAP Standard.ALAMEDA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 28, 1995--Wink Communications announced today that its ICAP (1) (Internet Content Adaptation Protocol) A high-level protocol for requesting services from an Internet-based server. iCAP provides a common format for requesting services using standard HTTP messaging. protocol, a worldwide standard for delivering interactive TV applications, has been adopted by a consortium of leading Japanese television makers for inclusion in TV sets to go on sale in 1996. To coincide with the tenth anniversary of the Japanese teletext teletext: see videotex. A broadcasting service that transmits text to a TV set that has a teletext decoder. It uses the vertical blanking interval of the TV signal (black line between frames when vertical hold is not adjusted) to transmit about a hundred system, the consortium -- Toshiba Corporation (company) Toshiba Corporation - A Japanese technology manufacturer with 364 subsidiaries worldwide. Toshiba makes and sells electronics for home, office, industry and health care including information and communication systems, electronic components, heavy electrical apparatus, , Sony Corporation, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (日本電信電話株式会社 Corporation (NTT NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation NTT New Technology Telescope NTT National Technology Transfer, Inc NTT Name That Tune (TV game show) NTT National Tree Trust NTT Number Theoretic Transform ), Wink Communications, NHK NHK Nippon Hoso Kyokai (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) NHK Nihon Hoso Kyokai (Japanese Broadcasting Association) NHK Nihon Hikikomori Kyokai (anime) Enterprises 21, Inc., Samsung Electronics Samsung Electronics (SEC, Hangul:삼성전자; KSE: 005930, KSE: 005935, LSE: SMSN, LSE: SMSD) is a South Korean multinational corporation and the world's largest and leading electronics and information technology company. Japan Co., Ltd., Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sharp Corporation, Dentsu Inc., NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. Corporation, NEC Home Electronics Ltd., Victor Company of Japan, Ltd., Pioneer Electronic Corporation, Hitachi, Ltd., Mitsubishi Electric Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (三菱電機株式会社 Corporation -- announced how they will use Wink software in conjunction with Japanese TV electronics to leverage Japanese teletext into a fully-functional interactive system by summer. -0- In Tokyo, the consortium is: --Announcing promotion, and programming plans for televisions with built-in Wink Engine software. These televisions will include a low-cost, built-in modem for returning viewer responses. --Announcing an NTT service to use regular phone lines to return viewer responses to program producers and commercial sponsors. --Inviting networks, TV stations and television manufacturers worldwide to join them in support of ICAP. -0- "Around the world, the Wink Engine and the ICAP standard are breaking the chicken-and-egg problem that has prevented widescale deployment of Interactive TV," said Brian Dougherty Brian Dougherty (b. December 10, 1973) of Philadelphia, PA is a lacrosse goaltender. He attended The Episcopal Academy before attending University of Maryland. Dougherty is one of the most decorated and accomplished goaltenders in the history of lacrosse. , president of Wink Communications. "Today, with the long list of Intertext TV's added to the aggregated base of ICAP-enabled devices, content producers can once again dramatically reduce per-viewer cost of ICAP-application development." The Wink interactive television architecture allows TV broadcasters and advertisers to add small interactive programs to traditional TV content. For example, these allow viewers to receive interactive weather reports, sports scores, and community information, or -- as is being announced in Japan today -- vote for gameshow contestants by remote control. Till now, this popular Japanese "Telegong" service used telephones. Wink Engines allow standard ICAP interactive television applications to be delivered on a widescale basis to homes without expensive infrastructure upgrades. Wink interactive programs are small enough to be broadcast through the air as part of the regular video signal--just as teletext is sent today in Japan, and closed captioning is sent in the U.S. Small-footprint, high-performance Wink Engines are being included in broadcast, cable and satellite TV equipment worldwide. The world's largest manufacturers of cable TV converters, General Instrument and Scientific-Atlanta, offer Wink Engines in their current generation of mass-produced products. Wink Communications offers a complete software system for transforming today's cable, satellite, wireless cable and terrestrial set-tops and televisions -- and cable modems -- into versatile interactive devices. Wink's open Interactive Communicating Applications Protocol (ICAP) has been adopted by leading set-top, television, and cable modem manufacturers as a worldwide standard for distributing applications. Wink offers a complete set of tools including Wink Studio, an easy-to-use, Windows-based authoring tools for creating applications, and server software for application scheduling and response processing. -0- Note to Editors: Wink, Wink studio, Wink Engine, and ICAP are trademarks of Wink Communications. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners. CONTACT: Wink Communications Barak Kassar, 510/337-6308 |
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