Ligos--a Savannah, Georgia-based interactive TV company that says its goal is to "extend standards-based video processing technology in order to deliver highly personalized video services over open platforms"--contacted [itvt] Wednesday to let us know that it will be demo'ing its ETV Mosaic system at next week's CableLabs Winter Conference in Denver as part of the conference's EBIF Ecosystem area. The company bills ETV Mosaic as a visual EBIF authoring and playout system that provides tools for creating and delivering rich interactive content to subscribers, and that is targeted at multichannel operators, content owners and solutions providers that have adopted the CableLabs EBIF spec (enables interactive TV applications on limited-resource legacy set-top boxes).
According to Ligos, ETV Mosaic's graphical environment enables designers to create dynamic interactive content using a workflow similar to composing presentation slides. The company claims that the system combines all the required functions--including video and graphics input, compositing, encoding, authoring, ETV carousel and stream output--into a single, compact server platform. In addition to a visually rich output video stream, Ligos says, the system generates the corresponding interactive EBIF application for use with the industry's leading ETV user agents and with standards for content definition (CoDF), advanced advertising and messaging.
Using ETV Mosaic, Ligos claims, content providers can build and deploy applications for video-rich program guides, polling, commerce, advanced advertising, RFI, VOD and premium channel promotion, customer care and billing, and TV Everywhere initiatives. The company says that it plans to show a number of these interactive applications at the Winter Conference next week.
