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--Says It Can Develop a Branded Channel for a Publisher within Two Weeks

--Characters from "EastEnders" Broadband Video Spin-Off to Tweet to Viewers

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences recently announced that Showtime Networks' high-definition EBIF-based "Showtime Sports Interactive" application will receive an Engineering Plaque--an award that honors "those achievements that exhibit a high level of engineering and are important to...

Let's do the time warp again this week. We started our PERSPECTIVE series with Full Service Network (1994), then Video Juke Box (1988), followed by Talkback to Showtime (1981). Now we go back to 1977, and the granddaddy of interactive television. It didn't last. The technology worked. The consumers liked it. It even had scale (once the system was built). But they shut it down. The most innovative work on television done up to that date, and maybe since. QUBE. The name resonates still. A legend to most, and a bitter disappointment to (us) old-timers. It gnaws at our memory like an unfulfilled dream. Could it return? I wonder who owns the rights to the name? I watched a program the other day....

--Will also Showcase its Watch & Buy Interactive TV Commerce Solution for VOD

--Launches Free, Exclusive "ESPN Next Level" App, Reveals Plans to Launch 3D Movie Trailer App

--TiVo's Rogers: Deal Will Enable Cox to Offer "Fully Integrated Converged Television and Internet Experience"

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