Sony Offers Content Developer Program for Interactive Digital Cable Platform; Program Encourages Creation of Advanced Interactive TV Applications and Services.Business Editors SAN DIEGO San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 14, 2001 Sony Electronics Sony Electronics Inc., headquartered in San Diego, Calif., is the largest component of Sony Corporation of America, the U.S. holding company for Sony's U.S.-based electronics and entertainment businesses. Inc. (SEL (SELect) A toggle switch on a printer that takes the printer alternately between online and offline. 1. SEL - Self-Extensible Language. 2. SEL - Subset-Equational Language. ) today announced the launch of a Content Developer Program for third party developers to create interactive TV applications and services on Sony's interactive digital cable platform. The program is designed for web developers, content providers, studios, network/cable operators and new media companies. It offers a comprehensive resource of tools that enable fast and efficient development of interactive TV applications and services. The company also established a web site, Sony Content Developer's Portal (www.sony.com/digitaltvdeveloper) to facilitate the program. Sony expects that the program will promote the creation of a wealth of interactive applications and services merging video and web content, including video-based interactive entertainment applications, personalized news/information services, games, T-Commerce (Television-Commerce) and interactive targeted advertising. These new applications and services will enhance the TV experience for end users, and will generate new revenue streams for service providers, MSOs and content holders on Sony's digital cable platform. In January, Sony and Cablevision Systems Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CVC See CSC. ) demonstrated the next generation interactive digital cable system that the two companies jointly developed based on Sony's interactive digital cable platform. The companies will provide support to developers who wish to develop new applications and services on Cablevision's distribution system in New York metropolitan area New York–Northern New Jersey–Long Island is the most populous metropolitan area in the United States and the third most populous in the world, after Tokyo and Mexico City. . "Sony has developed its interactive digital cable platform as one of four key gateways of broadband network," said Michael Fidler, senior vice president of Digital Platform Division of America, Sony Electronics Inc. "The key to the success of Sony's platform is to create an environment where interactive TV content developers can create new applications and services quickly and efficiently. Sony is unique in its ability to provide cable operators a customized end-to-end solution based on open standards." Sony has developed an open, flexible, and scalable middleware for its advanced interactive digital cable platform as well as the software that integrates the total system, from the set-top receivers to the head-end services. Sony's interactive digital cable receiver offers these advanced features: -- Built-in Browser with HTML Extensions designed for TV; -- HTML-based customizable user interface; -- Internal DOCSIS cable modem; -- Access card slots for conditional access and secure T-Commerce; -- Built-in USB ports peripherals such as printer, digital camera; -- HTDV pass-through with i.LINK(IEEE-1394) port/Digital Transmission Content Protection ("5C DTCP"); and -- S-video outputs. These comprehensive hardware and software features will enable MSOs to extend the platform to a variety of applications. To date, 46 companies are developing content for the platform, including 724 Solutions, BottleRocket, Commerce.TV, Extend Media, FolksNetwork, Ignite Sports Media, Intellocity, Intertainer, Kobalt Interactive, Lightspan, MetaTV, NDS See eDirectory. NDS - Netware Directory Services , Qpass, Public Broadcast Service (PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, ), PushyBroad, Sony Pictures Digital Sony Pictures Digital, first known as Columbia TriStar Interactive, then Sony Pictures Interactive Network (or SPiN), is known as the digital website interactive creator for Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) that was established in 1997. Entertainment, RespondTV, RuneCraft, Trintech, Visible World. Contact for the content/service partners: Content Developer Program Office, Sony Electronics, Inc. Tel.858/942-4257 www.sony.com/digitaltvdeveloper Sony Electronics Inc. Background: Headquartered in Park Ridge, N.J., Sony Electronics has more than 26,000 employees in the U.S. and Mexico. Sony is the co-developer of CD and DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. technologies, and noted for such recent developments as Memory Stick(R)removable media, the MiniDisc A compact digital audio disc from Sony that comes in read-only and rewritable versions. Introduced in late 1993, the MiniDisc has been most popular in Japan. The read-only 2.5" disc stores 140MB compared to 650MB on a CD, but holds the same 74 minutes worth of music due to Sony's Adaptive digital audio system, Digital 8(TM)Handycam(R)camcorders and flat-screen FD Trinitron(R)televisions and computer displays. Sony Electronics achieved record sales of nearly $14 billion for the fiscal year 2000. For more information, please see our Web site at http://www.sony.com. |
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