TVR Communications and Zodiac Gaming Partner to Provide Interactive Video Games to Hospital Patients, Visitors and Staff.FORT LAUDERDALE Fort Lauderdale (lô`dərdāl), residential, commercial, and resort city (1990 pop. 149,377), seat of Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled around a fort built (c.1837) in the Seminole War, inc. 1911. , Fla. -- TVRC TVRC Time-Varying Radio Channel Will Offer Package of Video Games See video game console. for Patients, Visitors, and Staff to Hospitals Using Its Latest Interactive Digital Media Technology TVR TVR Target Vessel Revascularization (cardiology) TVR Televisiun Rumantscha (Switzerland TV) TVR Trevor Wilkinson (British automobile company) Communications LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control (TVRC), the healthcare industry's largest developer and single-source supplier of interactive digital media solutions, television/telephone subscription programs, patient education and audio/visual products and services, announced today that it is partnering with Zodiac Gaming of Valley Stream, New York Valley Stream is a village in Nassau County, New York in the United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the village population was 36,368. If you include South Valley Stream, and North Valley Stream the total population is 57,795 as of the 2000 census. to provide interactive TV based video games in hospitals. Under the terms of the agreement, TVRC will offer hospitals, which deploy the company's interactive digital media solutions, a package of twenty games that the hospital may select from Zodiac Gaming's large number of gaming titles. "Zodiac's games are fun, intuitive, easy to play and great for children and adults alike," said Michael D. Stebel, TVRC's Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer. "The broad selection of games all work seamlessly with TVRC's EnerLook Rover(TM) interactive digital media systems. The fun and graphic-rich arcade, logic and puzzle games appeal to both children and adults who may be patients themselves or just visiting a family member. With this great new source of entertainment content, hospitals using TVRC's interactive digital media solutions for patient education, entertainment and Internet access See how to access the Internet. can now further broaden patient in-room activities and enhance the satisfaction of patients and their visitors during their hospital experience." Zodiac Gaming's Chief Executive Officer, Alexander V. Libkind stated, "Zodiac Gaming is excited to enter the healthcare market through our partnership with market leader TVRC. Through TVRC's state-of-the-art interactive digital media technology for healthcare, we are now able to bring Zodiac games to hospital patients and their visitors at the point-of-care, helping patients relieve boredom and for providing more diverse interaction between the patient and their visitors." About Zodiac Gaming LLC With over 80 experienced game developers, Zodiac Gaming is a leading developer, publisher and distributor of interactive games delivered through digital 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. , allowing consumers to play a wide range of single and multiple player games Player games is a stat used to estimate the number of games a player is responsible for. It was developed by Dean Oliver, the first full-time statistical analyst in the NBA. on their televisions using a simple remote. Based in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Zodiac has produced more than 100 game titles available to cable operators. Zodiac Gaming provides cable operators and their customers a large suite of highly interactive games in all major genres for their digital set-top boxes. For further information, visit the company's Web site at http://www.zodiacgaming.com. About TVR Communications LLC With over four-million paid subscriptions per year, a 24/7 call center providing easy access for patients and staff, and a team of field service engineers, technicians, graphic designers, and software and hardware engineers, TVR Communications is the largest developer and single-source supplier of interactive digital media solutions, television/telephone subscription programs, patient education and audio/visual products and services in the healthcare industry. Over 3.7 million patients - the most in the industry - have benefited from TVR Communications' interactive media technology to improve the quality of their hospital stay experience. TVR Communications products and services increase patient satisfaction, reduce the burden on nurses, provide staff and patient education, as well as verification and reporting. Additionally, TVR Communications' subscription programs and entertainment content offerings provide additional sources of revenue for healthcare organizations. For more information, visit the company's Web site at http://www.tvrc.com or call 954-771-0025 ext. 314. |
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