ACTV, Inc. and CYLO to Work Together On Digital iTV Advertising and Marketing Campaigns.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 3, 2000 Forge Partnership to Introduce CYLO's Extensive Client Base to ACTV's Leading-Edge, Patented Technologies for iTV and Enhanced Media ACTV ACTV Active ACTV Activate ACTV Azienda del Consorzio Trasporti Veneziano (Venice Public Transport Company, Italy) ACTV Advanced Compatible Television , Inc. (Nasdaq: IATV) today announced a partnership with CYLO, a leader in interactive television production and strategy, that will expose CYLO's extensive client base of advertisers and content providers to ACTV's patented technologies for interactive digital TV (iTV), addressable Reachable. When something is addressable, it can be identified and manipulated independently of its surroundings. For example, screen pixels and RAM memory are addressable. Each of the screen's picture elements can be individually turned on and off, and each of the memory's bytes can be iTV advertising, and enhanced media. ACTV's software-based products and services -- SpotOn(sm), One To One TV(sm) and HyperTV(R) -- will enable CYLO to offer its clients ready-to-deploy technologies which empower advertisers, programmers and viewers as they navigate the emerging iTV landscape. Kirt Gunn, chief marketing officer, CYLO said, "ACTV has developed its technologies with a central focus on meeting the needs of the programmer, the advertiser and the consumer in the iTV world. Their technical depth, and their eye toward the digital future, makes ACTV an important partner for CYLO." CYLO's CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Julie Atherton, continued, "ACTV has proven to be a smart player in this space. They are providing interactive television solutions that work today and they own some of the most promising technologies of tomorrow. We will actively promote ACTV's technology to our advertising and programming partners as we work to develop and implement the world's most creative and profitable interactive content and advertising." "CYLO has been one of the leaders in the traditional advertising world for many years and have been at the forefront of leveraging new technologies that bring more value to their clients," said Art Cohen cohen or kohen (Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male. , senior vice president of advertising and e-commerce, ACTV, Inc. "Our ready-to-deploy technologies can open up a world of new and exciting iTV advertising and marketing opportunities that CYLO can offer to its clients today." In contrast to other new technologies that allow viewers to zap A command that typically deletes the data within a file but leaves the file structure intact so that new data can be entered. See wipe. 1. (language) ZAP - A language for expressing program transformations. ["A System for Assisting Program Transformation", M.S. out TV commercials, SpotOn, the advertising application of ACTV's One To One TV software, focuses on making TV advertising more meaningful and useful for viewers. SpotOn is designed to deliver targeted commercials based on viewers' interests, allowing them to see ads that are truly relevant while providing access to value-added information and special offers from the advertisers. Its goal is to dramatically improve the effectiveness of TV advertising and, for the first time, bring real accountability to an advertiser's media buy. SpotOn can be delivered via digital cable, digital satellite, or digital broadcast television. For more information, visit http://www.spoton.tv. ACTV's One To One TV software enables viewers to instantly and seamlessly customize their viewing experiences. Using a standard digital set-top box The cable TV box that sits on "top" of the TV "set," although it is often located several feet away in an equipment rack. The set-top box descrambles the premium channels and provides a tuner for the higher cable numbers that very old TVs did not support. and remote control, a viewer can switch between the regular network programming feed and a multitude of personal options and features. ACTV's software remembers viewer commands and responses to on-screen on·screen or on-screen adj. & adv. 1. As shown on a movie, television, or display screen. 2. Within public view; in public. prompts, enabling an unlimited number of viewers to individually-tailor the program they are watching. ACTV's patented enhanced media technologies, which are incorporated into the company's HyperTV products and services, enable broadcast networks, cable programmers and advertisers to automatically deliver compelling interactive Web content, Web-based advertising, e-commerce, chat and other Web-based features that can be synchronized syn·chro·nize v. syn·chro·nized, syn·chro·niz·ing, syn·chro·niz·es v.intr. 1. To occur at the same time; be simultaneous. 2. To operate in unison. v.tr. 1. to correspond with a live or pre-recorded video and/or audio program. For more information, visit http://www.hypertv.com. ABOUT CYLO CYLO is widely recognized as an industry leader in television and convergent media strategy and production. CYLO has produced some of the most memorable and lauded advertising campaigns of the last decade, for Nike, Anheuser-Busch, Miller Brewing, Nasdaq, Levi's, Texaco, Tide, Nissan, Pfizer and McDonald's. CYLO recently produced the much-lauded Ford Millennium campaign shot on three continents and seen simultaneously in every major market around the world. In 1999, CYLO began to forge relationships with convergent technologies (company) Convergent Technologies - A company formed by a small group of people who left Intel Corporation in 1979. Convergent Technologies' first product was the IWS (Integrated Workstation) based on the Intel 8086, which ran Convergent Technologies Operating System - their first to provide clients with new addressable and accountable methods of delivering content and advertising. With this rare combination of technology expertise and proven creative vision, CYLO provides its clients and partners with strategy and production services for existing and emerging technologies. CYLO's partnerships with the world's leading interactive technologies enable the company to provide efficient integrated solutions for each individual client. ABOUT ACTV, INC. ACTV, Inc. (Nasdaq: IATV), with headquarters in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , pioneered enhanced media with its patented convergence technology, which it markets under the brand name HyperTV. The company also created interactive one-to-one digital television with its proprietary One To One TV software and programming capabilities. SpotOn, the advertising application of One To One TV, is a service of ACTV subsidiary, Digital ADCO ADCO Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations ADCO Alcohol and Drug Control Officer ADCO Air Defense Control Center ADCO Alcohol & Drug Control Office ADCO Air Defense Communications Office ADCO Air Defense Coordination Organization , Inc. ACTV has developed an extensive patent portfolio that broadly covers the core methodologies for enhancing television, radio and other audio visual programming with an array of synchronous Refers to events that are synchronized, or coordinated, in time. For example, the interval between transmitting A and B is the same as between B and C, and completing the current operation before the next one is started are considered synchronous operations. Contrast with asynchronous. and non-synchronous Internet-based functions, and for the creation and delivery of interactive, one-to-one digital television. ACTV has key strategic relationships with many of the dominant players in the Internet, television and digital technology fields, including Liberty Digital, Inc. (Nasdaq: LDIG), Motorola (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : MOT) Broadband Communications Sector, OpenTV (Nasdaq and AEX AEX See: Amsterdam Exchange : OPTV), and Liberty Livewire Corporation (Nasdaq: LWIRA). For more information, visit http://www.actv.com. This news release contains forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. as defined by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. Forward-looking statements include statements concerning plans, objectives, goals, strategies, future events or performance, and underlying assumptions and other statements which are other than statements of historical facts. These statements are subject to uncertainties and risks including, but not limited to, product and service demand and acceptance, changes in technology, economic conditions, the impact of competition and pricing, government regulation, and other risks defined in this document and in statements filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All such forward-looking statements, whether written or oral, and whether made by or on behalf of the Company, are expressly qualified by the cautionary statements and any other cautionary statements which may accompany the forward-looking statements. In addition, the company disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof. |
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