Softel-USA’s MediaSphere carousel streaming products will be showcased in multiple booths during this week’s Cable Show in Las Vegas. Softel-USA said it wants to use the show to demonstrate its OpenCable Application Platform and Enhanced TV interactivity.
These standards allow any headend to provide interactivity to viewers with legacy set-top boxes as well as those with OCAP-compliant set-tops. This maximizes interactive TV application investment and ensures the greatest number of viewers, the company said.
MediaSphere carousels support a variety of middleware standards and have the ability to playout to cable, digital terrestrial, IPTV, and satellite, all from a single unit.
Softel-USA will use the show to launch the third MediaSphere carousel system, MediaSphere Desktop, which is aimed at the content creation community and is designed for use with software development environments. The system has built-in QAM modulation for cable, or QPSK for satellite, and may playout directly to iTV-enabled set-top boxes or television sets.
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