free online music

Bethpage, NY (PRWEB) February 16, 2012

iO TV® customers are all-in for ActiveVideo®s TAG Games, the free interactive game service available on iO TV channel 610. Every month, iO TV customers are playing more than 10 million casual multi-player games.

ActiveVideos TAG Games offers iO TV customers an exciting lineup of more than 20 titles appropriate for both children and adults. Every month, more than 275,000 iO TV customer households play the games, and more than 1,000 customers play for the first time every day. The games running on ActiveVideos CloudTV app platform range from classic card games and traditional word puzzles to kid-friendly challenges. Players easily use the remote control to compete against their own best score, and many games feature a unique house-to-house mode that allows live play against other iO TV customers.

We are thrilled that our customers are finding and playing TAG Games on iO TV, and taking advantage of the exciting ability to play live, house-to-house, against other customers, said Bradley Feldman, Cablevisions vice president, video product management. Every month, our customers are spending approximately 1.7 million hours on channel 610 playing TAG Games, nearly 3 million games a week. Whether its a High Stakes Hold Em tournament, or action-packed Word Champ battle, these games are delivering fun and value to our customers, and turning channel 610 into a frequent destination.

Key features of TAG Games include:

    Real-time multiplayer network games
    Player profiles to store high scores and achievements
    High scores visible across Cablevisions New York-metro service area
    Fast load time

Cablevision continues to deliver value and unique product features to its customers in a competitive marketplace including free and reliable access to wireless Internet through Optimum WiFi, the ability to watch its full cable television service on iPad, iPhone and iPod touch devices in the home, unmatched local content from News 12 and MSG Varsity, Optimum Rewards or free TAG Games on channel 610.

The companys award-winning digital cable service, iO TV, offers customers access to hundreds of channels, including more than 50 premium movie channels, 46 channels of commercial-free digital music, thousands of titles available on demand at all times, an interactive programming guide, more than 120 free high-definition programming services and uniquely valuable and relevant local content through News 12, MSG Varsity and their companion interactive television applications.

About ActiveVideo Networks

ActiveVideo Networks has created CloudTV, a cloud-based apps platform that enables the fast and flexible development and deployment of personalized navigation interfaces, such as iVOD, and other advanced user experiences for television service providers. Using the CloudTV platform, service providers can deliver iVOD experiences and navigational mosaics, as well as advanced advertising, TV apps, games and multi-screen pairing solutions to any set-top box, CI+ enabled television, mobile device, and broadband-connected CE device. ActiveVideo Networks is based in the heart of Silicon Valley, with offices in Los Angeles and Hilversum, the Netherlands. For more information, visit http://www.activevideo.com; find us at http://www.facebook.com/ActiveVideoNetworks; follow us at http://www.twitter.com/activevideo; view our videos at http://www.youtube.com/AVCloudTV.

About Cablevision

Cablevision Systems Corporation (NYSE: CVC) is one of the nation’s leading media and telecommunications companies. Its cable television operations provide a full suite of advanced communications services that include iO TV® digital television, Optimum Online® high-speed Internet, and Optimum Voice® digital voice, all over state-of-the-art cable systems that pass nearly 6 million households and businesses across the New York tri-state area and throughout four Western states. Cablevisions telecommunications properties also include its Optimum WiFi® wireless Internet, and its Optimum Lightpath® integrated business communications solutions. Cablevision serves the New York area with compelling local content through News 12 Networks, a local news leader; MSG Varsity, a suite of television and online services covering high school activities; and, Newsday Media Group, a business unit that includes Newsday, Long Island’s leading daily newspaper, and amNewYork, the nation’s most widely circulated free daily serving New York City. The company also owns and operates Clearview Cinemas throughout the New York tri-state area including the famed Ziegfeld Theatre, a frequent and historic venue for film premieres and events. Additional information about Cablevision is available on the Web at http://www.cablevision.com.

###

Boston, MA (PRWEB) February 15, 2012

A new study of over 1,400 consumers, from market research firm Chadwick Martin Bailey, uncovers major changes in how people are watching TV and movies, and the choices they make when it comes to the content they watch online. Once the domain of early adopters, more than half (54%) of all consumers have already tried alternatives to pay TV (i.e. Netflix, Apple TV, or a networks website). An even greater shift is expected, with 16% of all pay TV customers saying they are likely to reduce their level of pay TV service in the next year. In addition to the notable findings below, a summary report is available for download from Chadwick Martin Baileys website.

This study finds consumers of all stripes would adopt online TV viewing more broadly once providers develop a simple, reliable, and cost effective solution. According to this study, many of the prerequisites for this shift are already in place.

The biggest screen doesnt always win, even at home. Core viewing behaviors are changing; 63% of people who recently watched TV on a tablet say they used a tablet even though they had access to a television with the very same content available.

Streaming content is not only acceptable, its preferred. If mainstream consumers had an attachment to physically owning their content, theyre losing it. Respondents found streaming video twice as appealing as downloading and storing content on their own devices.

All of this is happening in the midst of a cost-cutting consumer mindset. Cost concerns came up again and again in the findings, as the main reason for dropping pay TV, for cutting back on pay TV, and for never signing up for pay TV in the first place. Even 1 in 5 of pay TVs most valuable subscribers (highest ARPU) say they are likely to cut back in the year ahead.

Online viewing is already more common than one might think. Over half of all consumers, not just early adopters, have gotten a taste of viewing TV and/or movies online via services like Netflix, Apple TV, Hulu, or a network website.

These findings show every part of the consumer TV and movie watching experience is up for grabs, says Jon Giegengack, Director at Chadwick Martin Bailey. In the digital music revolution, the primary shift was in how music was bought and stored. When it comes to TV and movies, everything has the potential to change: whom consumers buy from; how much they pay (if they pay at all); and the range of times and places offering viewing opportunities.

Consumers are ready to embrace a new method of accessing TV content, agrees Peter Fondulas, CMBs co-author on the project. Theyve got motive, theyve got interest, and a majority have already begun kicking the tires. Whats missing now is the right platform and offersomething easy to use, understandable, reliable, and affordable. Various players are working hard to come up with that solution; as we learned from the music industry, the first one to offer it effectively will be in an extremely strong position.

About this Research

This study was done as part of Chadwick Martin Baileys self-funded CMB Consumer Pulse program. A report with additional findings from this study is available as a free download from Chadwick Martin Bailey. Data was collected from 1,493 U.S. residents (aged 16-75 who have high speed internet access at home and watch at least two hours of television programming per week), via a nationally representative online survey questionnaire within the United States. The survey was conducted by Chadwick Martin Bailey in December of 2011.

About Chadwick Martin Bailey

Chadwick Martin Bailey is a Boston-based custom market research firm that works with many of the most successful companies and best known brands in the world to help them acquire, maintain, and grow their customer base. Founded in 1984 by John Martin and Anne Bailey Berman, the company has corporate headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts, serving clients in more than 30 countries around the globe. Chadwick Martin Bailey focuses on using leading-edge research techniques to collect and translate data into simple, business decision-focused deliverables. For more information visit http://www.cmbinfo.com.

# # #

Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) January 24, 2012

EarthCam, the webcam technology experts, will demonstrate its innovative webcam technology systems and solutions at the 2012 World of Concrete trade show (Exhibit #C4026), January 24-27 in Las Vegas, Nevada. EarthCam will unveil its new 16 MegapixelCam Robotic, which features megapixel HDR imagery and live streaming video in one easy-to-use, all-weather robotic system.

The new 16 MegapixelCam Robotic is designed for professionals seeking superior quality remote documentation for small to large scale projects. This heavy-duty outdoor, robotic system is housed in a thermostatically-regulated, corrosion-resistant black enclosure, and the inclusion of a maintenance-free wiper ensures optimal image clarity. This cutting-edge system is programmed to automatically capture large 4,928 x 3,264 pixel images continuously 24/7. A wide screen live streaming video preview allows users to quickly take on-demand snapshots of their project remotely at any time. In addition, this unique robotic system will pan the entire jobsite, capturing numerous high definition images and will automatically stitch them together into an impressive 54,208 x 13,056 pixel panorama. The powerful MegapixelCam Robotic relies on a fast, dependable, solid-state Linux system and features self-healing technology.

With many applications in the construction, education and entertainment industries, EarthCam’s professional-level network camera systems give users various advanced photography solutions. EarthCam’s 16 MegapixelCam Robotic offers clients remote access to important camera settings, including white balance, exposure compensation and High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging. The HDR setting enables the camera to take multiple photographs at various exposures and compile them to produce an image that most accurately represents the human eye. With the challenging angles and lighting presented by many construction jobsites, HDR imagery offers a truly genuine portrait of a project. Creative imaging effects are made available as well, including Architectural Miniature, Artistic Color Sketch and Cinematic Black & White. This new system captures not only high quality images, but also creates artistic renderings that are perfectly suited for the web, print and theatrical-quality time-lapse movies.

The EarthCam 700 MegapixelCam Robotic system is powered by EarthCam’s Control Center 7 comprehensive webcam Software as a Service (SaaS), delivering hosted infrastructure to securely archive and distribute sizable image, weather and project data; no additional IT services are necessary. Each EarthCam camera can be customized with solar and wireless options, including transmitting over new fast 4G wireless networks. Additionally, EarthCam offers installation services worldwide and meets requirements for projects of almost any length and budget.

About EarthCam

EarthCam is the recognized global leader in providing webcam content, technology and services to business and government agencies. The company, which started in 1996, offers construction webcam technology and services to some of the largest international construction companies and developers in the world. 36 State Departments of Transportation and 80 of the Top 100 construction companies rely on EarthCam’s expertise to monitor and document their projects. Projects documented by EarthCam include: Flight 93 National Memorial, National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial, Panama Canal Expansion, Smithsonian Institution Restoration, San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, Madison Square Garden, Hong Kong Disneyland, Los Angeles International Airport, Denver Union Station, George W. Bush Presidential Center, National Institute of Health, Whitney Museum of American Art, Guggenheim and Louvre.

Visit EarthCam at http://www.earthcam.net.

To learn more about the 16 MegapixelCam Robotic, visit: http://www.earthcam.net/products/megapixelcamrobotic.php.

###