Cartt.ca at CES Special Report #6: U.S. MSOs chat up iTV

LAS VEGAS – Execs from the largest U.S. cable companies and consumer electronics firms today discussed their system preparation plans for early trials of advanced-interactive digital video technologies At a news conference organized by CableLabs at CES, executives talked, for the first time, about the OpenCable Application Platform (OCAP) and two-way OpenCable (Digital Cable-Ready) devices. OCAP is the middleware software specification that CableLabs (the North American cable industry’s collective R&D arm) has established to enable application writers to create new interactive services that will run on a broad range of advanced digital set tops and cable-ready TVs. Glenn A. Britt,...