Streaming21 and Zentek Joint Showcase iTV Solutions at BroadcastAsia 2006
Released on = June 21, 2006, 3:58 am
Press Release Author = Jennifer Cheng / Streaming21, Inc.
Industry = Telecommunications
Press Release Summary = Strategic Partnership to Live Demo Integrated End-To-End
Solutions for IPTV
Press Release Body = Singapore - June 21, 2006 - Streaming21, the world's leader in
broadcast-quality streaming solutions, and Zentek Technology Singapore Pte Ltd
("Zentek"), the world's leader in digital communications, will showcase its
real-world successes of residential iTV (Interactive TV) & KOD (Karaoke On Demand)
services at BroadcastAsia 2006 (June 20-23) in Singapore. This exciting live-demo
with intelligent "personalization" & "interactive" features will illustrate how
Telco's and broadband service providers can explore new revenue streams by offering
differentiated & compelling home entertainment services to attract more subscribers.
The KOD live demo is also a warm-up activity for a commercial service launch of a
leading broadband service provider in Singapore
This exciting live-demo with intelligent "personalization" & "interactive" features
will illustrate how telcos and broadband service providers can explore new revenue
streams by offering differentiated & compelling home entertainment services to
attract more subscribers. The KOD live demo is also a warm-up activity for a
commercial service launch of a leading broadband service provider in Singapore
Kazuo Yoshimura, Managing Director of Zentek, Singapore said, "As the digital home
entertainment market continues to accelerate, Karaoke On Demand will be a key
competitive differentiator for Asian operators to motivate more subscribers and
drive more revenues. Streaming21 has proven its ability to deploy advanced iTV
projects for many major Tier 1 Telcos and broadband service providers worldwide. We
are looking forward to working with Streaming21 to create more growing phenomena of
IPTV services together."
"We are excited to be working with Zentek to deliver rich, interactive applications
to carriers in the burgeoning IPTV market. Our partnership creates significant
synergy through the perfect combination of Streaming21's award-winning IPTV
solutions and Zentek's integrated technologies & global channels; thus, we are well
poised to meet customers' growing demands for the global IPTV business expansions,"
said Dr. Joe Lin, President and CEO of Streaming21.
The interactive KOD system, combining Streaming21's powerful iTV platform with
Zentek's strong integration capabilities and fully-integrated Celrun STB, is ready
to be shipped to worldwide in Q3 2006 through Zentek's global offices in Singapore,
Japan and US. The iTV platform is extensible which allows accommodating multiple iTV
applications with customizable capabilities such as game on demand, online singing
contest, online voting, online quiz contest, interactive advertising and convenient
on-line payment, etc.
The Karaoke On Demand solution is able to accommodate abundant karaoke music titles
with carrier-class stability. Intuitive EPG, unique interactive features, convenient
on-line payment and powerful service management system offer immediate adoption of
new home entertainment services. More interactivity features & services can be
easily integrated into iTV platform such as online karaoke contests, on-line voting
and many more. Karaoke is an extremely popular form of entertainment in Asia. The
joint efforts of Streaming21 and Zentek realize a dream of delivering Asia's most
popular entertainment directly to the living rooms. KOD has now become one of the
hottest home entertainments in Asia.
Come visit us in Hall 8 at Booth # 8M2-01 (Zentek's booth) at Singapore Expo in
Singapore on June 20-23 and see our exciting iTV solutions with compelling
Karaoke-on-Demand live demo. For more event information, please visit
www.broadcast-asia.com.
About Streaming21
Streaming21's broadcast and media-on-demand software solutions deliver
broadcast-quality video and audio over IP networks. Streaming21 is recognized as the
"winner of 2005 Red Herring Asia Top 100 companies" recently. Built upon a
revolutionary architecture, for which nine patents have been filed. Streaming21's
solution enables the deployment of rich-media services with carrier-class
scalability, 24/7 operations, and broadcast-quality delivery. The solution uses open
standard hardware to lower the total cost of the solution and its software is
optimized to support more users and media files with fewer servers as well as less
storage, and personnel. The platform is open and flexible to readily integrate
value-added services. To learn more about Streaming21's solutions and industry
leading partners, please call +886-2-2500-0680 or visit www.streaming21.com.
About Zentek
Zentek Group, a Digital Video Broadcasting ("DVB") project member, develops and
licenses software such as middleware libraries and authoring tools for the Digital
TV and provides hardware solution and engineering services for Digital TV (ATSC,
ARIB & DVB), mobile digital devices and network products for the world wide basis.
Zentek also provides an integrated DVB-MHP content development solution at its
Interactive Television Content Creation Centre in Singapore. Through Zentek's joint
venture with Korea's leading IP set-top box manufacturer, Celrun Co., Ltd, Zentek
provides IP set-top box and VOD (Video On Demand) solutions that display high
quality multimedia rich content in Japan and Asia. Zentek is also a pioneer in
mobile device emulation tools that shorten product development cycles. Zentek
Technology Group was established in 1997 in Silicon Valley, California, USA. Zentek
Technology Japan, Inc., the Group Headquarter, is listed on Hercules - Nippon New
Market Exchange in Japan. Zentek Technology Group's worldwide offices are located in
Japan, United States, United Kingdom, and Singapore. To learn more about Zentek,
please visit www.zentek.com.
Web Site = http://www.streaming21.com
Contact Details = Jennifer Cheng
Streaming21 Taipei
+866-2-2500-0680 x.350
jennifer@streaming21.com
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