Interactive TV connection. (Technology).In other acquisition news, Interactive television company Gold Pocket Interactive has acquired a major competitor in Mixed Signals Technologies' ITV (1) See interactive TV. (2) (iTV) The code name for Apple's video media hub (see Apple TV). Professional Services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. Group. Gold Pocket officials claimed to secure 75 percent of the interactive television market -- a market that varies according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. how you classify it. Interactive television encompasses things as simple as interactive program guides to full-on synchronization (1) See synchronous and synchronous transmission. (2) Ensuring that two sets of data are always the same. See data synchronization. (3) Keeping time-of-day clocks in two devices set to the same time. See NTP. of television and PC so viewers can play along at home in real time. Mixed Signals was the leading provider of interactive television programming for set-top boxes 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. . Gary Arlen, president of Arlen Communications, a Bethesda, Md., research company that specializes in interactive media, said both companies are important in the still forming interactive television industry. "They are being very aggressive," Arlen said. "Gold Pocket now has the resources and ambition to take advantage of a lull in the industry and step in and gobble up Verb 1. gobble up - eat a large amount of food quickly; "The children gobbled down most of the birthday cake" garbage down, shovel in, bolt down eat - take in solid food; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?" business." Gold Pocket President and Chief Executive Scott Newnam refused to disclose the terms of the deal. Cynthia Brumfield, president of research and analysis company Broadband Intelligence Inc., said the deal was a bit of a surprise as she thought Mixed Signals was gearing up to take the lead in nascent interactive television. Brumfield and Arlen concurred that interactive television will be in development for at least another three years. Newnam said the deal was attractive to Gold Pocket as an opportunity to take a commanding control of the market and introduce standards to the television industry. "We believed if you could get high enough market share you could get standards out there," Newnam said, adding that those standards would be introduced at next month's annual conference and exhibition sponsored by the National Association of Broadcasters. "Now we have the market share and we can drive efficiencies and we'll be launching standards for everyone to write to." Standards would allow the television studios and interactive television content creators to concentrate on the content that will be universally functional across digital television providers. Gold Pocket relocated to Marina del Rey Del Rey may refer to:
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