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Article: ICTV unveils new interactive cable service.
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- Multichannel News
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- May 24, 1993
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Silicon Valley startup ICTV is teaming up with IBM Corp. and New Century Communications to roll out an interactive cable system that supports delivery of advanced services without requiring high-cost hardware in the home.
The as yet unnamed system, which ICTV will demonstrate at the National Show in San Francisco in early June, combines ICTV's headend-based "virtual channel" technology with billing software developed by NCC and a "scalable" server from IBM known as the ES 9000.
ICTV principals say the system is designed to allow operators to begin providing on-demand services over a non-digitized one-way cable system while at the same time supporting more ...