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Stuart · 03-05-2006, 17:27

All I know is that when I looked (seriously) into developing interactive stuff, Sky wanted a huge amount of money before they would even talk to me, whereas NTL GAVE me all the software needed, and give me access to a special interactive test server (to point the liberate emulator at). They also gave me extensive technical support. All for free.

The liberate middleware is actually far more capable than the current implementations of interactive would suggest, hence my comment about the broadcasters being responsible. However, it does need a fast STB to work at a reasonable speed. Hence my comment about it not being entirely NTL's fault (the implication being that NTL must take some of the blame).

As for freeview, well, when I looked into interactive, that wasn't available.

03-05-2006, 17:27	#45
Stuart - Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Somewhere Services: Virgin for TV and Internet, BT for phone Posts: 26,546	Re: Where Now For UK Cable? All I know is that when I looked (seriously) into developing interactive stuff, Sky wanted a huge amount of money before they would even talk to me, whereas NTL GAVE me all the software needed, and give me access to a special interactive test server (to point the liberate emulator at). They also gave me extensive technical support. All for free. The liberate middleware is actually far more capable than the current implementations of interactive would suggest, hence my comment about the broadcasters being responsible. However, it does need a fast STB to work at a reasonable speed. Hence my comment about it not being entirely NTL's fault (the implication being that NTL must take some of the blame). As for freeview, well, when I looked into interactive, that wasn't available.