Softel delivers the iTV experience to the home, using highly regarded expertise and experience. Its iTV platform, MediaSphere™, is widely deployed and streams interactivity to over 50 million households every week.
MediaSphere is a versatile iTV platform that helps developers, creative agencies, operators and programmers create, test and demonstrate their new apps, verify them in iTV infrastructures and plays out to viewers.
MediaSphere is installed and relied upon by many prestigious operators and programmers, such as the BBC, ESPN, MTV, Shaw Cable, Showtime, Starz, Technicolor, Time Warner Cable, Turner Broadcasting and many more.
Every week, MediaSphere TX plays out primetime t-commerce for broadcasters such as QVC™, interactivity for the very biggest sporting events, and voting apps for blockbuster shows, like X Factor.
Softel also works closely with Canoe Ventures™, a joint venture of the leading cable operators in America that delivers the largest national iTV ecosystem in the United States, reaching more than 22 million households.
Right now MediaSphere systems around the world are serving a variety of interactive apps, such as for:
- Polling and trivia
- Advanced Advertising
- Entertainment and games
- Interactive show guides
- Sports statistics and information
- News and weather services
- Game show play-along applications
- On screen shopping (“t-commerce’) for channels such as QVC
- RFI applications
