Class #1
"Major
Events in the History of Interactive Television."
This
impressive online class is comprised of Lesson
Module #1. It's
an introductory online class that's not technically oriented. All the
institute's online
courses are a huge combination of
paragraphs of important information, learning
points, questions, online
demonstrations and relevant online video clips.
Your work is
graded by the
instructor. Please note, a
diploma is only given to those taking the complete set of classes
(class #7).
Topics
discussed/defined include: Winky Dink and You,
Picturephone, Teletext, Teledata, Ceefax, ORACLE, (Optional Reception
of Announcements by Coded Line Electronics), Viewdata, Videotex,
Prestel, vertical blanking intervals (VBIs), Digital Teletext, Qube,
Warner Amex, Pioneer Electronics' Interactive TV, Vidéoway,
What's Your Story? (the TV show), the groundbreaking interactive
Kellogg's Frosties (the cereal) TV commercial, cable/satellite TV
developer TV-Answer, Cablesoft, Microsoft Media Server (Tiger),
“Twenty-first Century Vaudeville" (Produced by Telemorphix in
1993-94), "21CV", Full Service Network (FSN), Acorn Computers, Apple
Interactive Television Box, nCUBE, nVision, Tele-TV, Americast, The
Lightspan Partnership Inc., WebTV, WebTV Networks, The
Interactive Channel (IT Network's Interactive Channel), Source Media,
Teacher's Assistance Program, enhanced versions of the TV shows
"Moesha", the WB network hour-long thriller "F/X" and the Sunday-night
USA Network feature "Pacific Blue", "WebTV for Windows", Hauppauge,
Hong Kong Telecom launched "iTV", Singapore ONE, Television Par
Satellite, NetChannel, Wink Communications, NBC Interactive
Neighborhood (NBC-IN), WebTV Plus, WebTV Classic, WorldGate
Communications, Hongkong Telecom (HKT) launched "iTV", AOLTV,
Excite@Home, Sky News Active, WINfirst, "the pusher", "the changer",
the "Lazy Bone", The Venus Project (Microsoft), "thick" set-top boxes,
"Thin" client set-top Boxes, The British Academy of Film and Television
Arts (BAFTA), the Interactive Services Association's ICEY Award for
Innovation in Interactive Television, First Annual ITV All-Stars
Reunion and Awards for Leadership in Interactive Television, AFDESI
International interactive TV Awards, Electronic Multimedia Awards
(EMMA), British Interactive Media Association Awards (BIMA), New Media
Age and the Revolution Awards, Value-added Services.
Cost is:
$275
(USD, per person)
Click
below to take the course:
Class #2
"Major Definitions in Regard
to Interactive Television including Application, Middleware, Platform,
Architecture, Various Interactive TV Standards &
Specifications."
This
impressive online class is comprised of Lesson
Module #2. It's
an introductory online class that's not technically oriented. All the
institute's online
courses are a combination of
paragraphs of important information, learning
points, questions, online
demonstrations and relevant online video clips.
Your work is
graded by the
instructor. Please note, a
diploma is only given to those taking the complete set of classes (class
#7).
Topics
discussed/defined include: Applications on
computerized devices, Middleware, the software stack, open standard
specifications, Linux4.TV, Client/server, Client side TV middleware,
Osmosys, consumer premise equipment, OpenTV Core™,
MediaHighway™ middleware solutions, NDS, TV platform,
Interactive TV platform, application programming interface (API), core
middleware, Windows API, architecture, Microarchitecture, client/server
architecture, peer-to-peer (P2P) architecture, P2P networking,
peer-to-peer network architecture, P2PTV, BitTorrent, torrent,
swarming, BitTorrent networks, Joost, Instruction set architecture
(ISA), RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer), CISC (Complex
Instruction Set Computers), System-on-a-chip (SoC), Advanced Television
Enhancement Forum (ATVEF), Transport A (ATVEF-A), ATVEF specification,
triggers, ATVEF system triggers, SMPTE, SMPTE DDE, ATVEF Transport B or
(ATVEF-B), Multimedia Home Platform (MHP), Global Executable MHP (GEM)
specification, DVB-MHP, DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting),
AltiCaptor™, MMDS (Multichannel Multipoint Distribution
Service), Multichannel Video Distribution System (MVDS), DVB-CA,
DVB-RC, Digital Video Broadcasting - Return Channel, DVB-S2, Direct
Broadcast Satellite (DBS), ACAP (Advanced Common Application Platform),
DTV Application Software Environment DASE specification, Cable
Television Labs’ tru2way™, (Open Cable Application
Platform, OCAP) & related specifications, DASE - (Digital
Television Application Software Environment), ETV-BIF (Enhanced
Television-Binary Interchange Format, EBIF), Ensequence interactive TV
authoring software, TVWorks, the MetaTV application, Liberate
Technologies, JavaTV, MHEG (Multimedia and Hypermedia Experts Group),
MHEG-5, IMPALA, OpenCable™ initiative, OpenCable project,
CableCARD Host Interface Licensing Agreement, CHILA, Interactive
CableCARD 2.0, bidirectional (interactive), ARIB, Association of Radio
Industries and Businesses in Japan, DOCSIS, Data Over Cable Systems
Interface Specifications (for cable modems), DOCSIS 2.0, DOCSIS 3.0,
CMTS (Cable Modem Termination System), DOCSIS architecture,
CableLabs® Certified™ Cable Modem project,
Terayon’s DOCSIS 2.0 system, EuroDOCSIS, DOCSIS® 3.0
Channel Bonding Initiative, logical channel, physical channel, IPv6,
DVB-S, Digital Video Broadcasting – Satellite, DVB-S2,
Digital Video Broadcasting - Return Channel via Satellite (DVB-RCS,
also Return channel over system), DirecPC, HughesNet™
(formerly named DirecWay), S-DOCSIS (Satellite - Data Over Cable
Service Interface Specification), MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, MP3, MPEG-2,
H.264, MPEG-4 Part 10 compression technology.
Cost
is:
$275
(USD, per person)
Click
below to take the course:
Class #3
"Enhanced TV, More on
Interactive TV, Advertising using
Interactive Television, Targeted Advertising"
This
impressive but smaller online class is comprised of Lesson
Module #3. It's
an introductory online class that's not technically oriented. All the
institute's online
courses are a combination of
paragraphs of important information, learning
points, questions, online
demonstrations and relevant online video clips.
Your work is
graded by the
instructor. Please note, a
diploma is only given to those taking the complete set of classes (class
#7).
Topics
discussed/defined include: Red-button Interactive TV,
Press Red, Press Green, BBCi, CBeebies, BBCi Index, BskyB, Enhanced TV,
eTV, enhanced TV programming for "The Match",
“Brainiac”, “How Gay Are You?”,
“Battlestar Galactica”, “Shock
Treatment”, Ensequence, Disney Channel Kids Awards: Buried
Treasure - This interactive broadcast, synchronized interactive {TV}
components, Interactive TV polling, live synch, BskyB's subsiduary's
SSSL (Sky Subscribers Services Limited) certification, Ofcom (which
used to be Oftel), Softel MediaSphere broadcast infrastructure,
Carousel (for Interactive TV), DSM-CC, an object carousel, data
carousel, DVB Object Carousel, stream events, DVB multiplexed transport
stream, Interactive TV Broadcast Servers (Interactive TV Content
Broadcast Servers), dynamic carousels, MediaSphere, niche groups,
specialized communication strategies, Contextually targeted (TV) ads,
behavioral targeting (TV) ads, ChoiceStream, personalized advertising,
Google AdSense, “Best Paper” award for its
Interactive TV work, Euro Interactive Television Conference,
“Google TV Ads,” Interactive TV from Dish Network,
addressable advertising, Cablevision's targeted TV commercials, Visible
World, “System and method of inserting advertisements into an
information retrieval system display.”
Cost
is:
$275
(USD, per person)
Click
below to take the course:
Class #4
"Video
on Demand, Timeshifting (DVRs), Walled Gardens, IPGs/EPGs."
This
impressive online class is comprised of Lesson
Module #4. It's
an introductory, online class that's not technically oriented. All the
institute's online
courses are a combination of
paragraphs of important information, learning
points, questions, online
demonstrations and relevant online video clips.
Your work is
graded by the
instructor. Please note, a
diploma is only given to those taking the complete set of classes (class
#7).
Topics
discussed/defined include: Impulse video on demand (IVOD),
Subscriber
video on demand (SVOD), Free video on demand (FVOD) (a.k.a.
free
on-demand {FOD}),Appointment TV (Linear TV), IP-based Video on Demand,
encryption/decryption management method, Quasi Video on Demand, Time
Shifting (Timeshifting), Aggregators, VOD Aggregators, iN DEMAND
Networks, Internet-based Video on Demand, Routers, VeohTV,
Internet-based VOD providers, Personal TV, Placeshifted, Ampex, Network
DVRs, headend, Video encapsulation, Transcoding, TiVo, ReplayTV,
SONICblue, Thomson Multimedia, Churn, PickProgramToRecord, TiVo's
WishList, TiVo OnlineScheduling, Intranets, Interactive TV
applications, walled gardens industry (UK), TV-based walled gardens,
Canal Plus, Backspace Communications, CloverLeaf, WAP (Wireless
Application Protocol), TV Guide, Prevue Guide, The Prevue Channel,
Prevue Networks, Gemstar-TV Guide, Tribune Media Services, Microsoft,
activating an IPG or EPG, Main Menu, I-guide, Quick Menu, Mini-Guide,
PSIP (Program and Systems Information Protocol), XMLTV, XMLTV-based
EPGs, Freevo, MythTV, PiCoGuide, SageTV, EPG v4.
Cost
is:
$275
(USD, per person)
Click
below to take the course:
Class #5
"Set-top
Boxes, Media Centers, Media Center PCs, Home Server, Digital Media
Adapters, Digital Media Receivers, {Windows} Media Extender."
This
impressive online class is comprised of Lesson
Module #5. It's
an introductory, online class that's not technically oriented. All the
institute's online
courses are a combination of hundreds of
paragraphs of important information, learning
points, questions, online
demonstrations and relevant online video clips.
Your work is
graded by the
instructor. Please note, a
diploma is only given to those taking the complete set of classes (class
#7).
Topics
discussed/defined include: Data port, Nintendo game box,
firmware, decode, decoder, decompress, encode, encoder, compress, video
compression technology, analog (analogue) TV, computing and digital
media file format, multiplexing, codecs, MPEG, redundant data, MPEG-2,
MPEG-4, DVB-S2, H.264, narrowband, buffer, memory, data stream,
metadata, Digital Media Adapters, Digital Media Receivers, Windows
Media Extenders, Media Centers, Media Center PCs, CableCARD,
CableCard-ready, Motorola, Scientific Atlanta (Cisco), Pioneer, Pace
Micro, AT&T Broadband, "Thin" client set-top boxes, "Thick"
set-top boxes, Multimedia Home Entertainment Center, Home Media DVR,
Home Server, Home Media Server, Multimedia Gateway, Home Media Center,
entertainment-based digital media based files, fully integrated media
center, wireless keyboard, Moxi by Digeo, Moxi media centers,
conditional access systems, "Digeo™ iTV service", "Charter
iTV," Vulcan Ventures Incorporated, Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Integrated
Digital Televisions (iDTVs), digital tuner, MediaSmart TV,
Microsoft® Windows XP Media Center Edition (XP MCE), Windows
Media Center PCs, embedded set-top boxes, Windows Media Center PC
remote control, "Freestyle", Microsoft's "eHome" inititative, Windows
XP Media Center Edition 2004, "Whistler", "Harmony", "Emerald",
"Runtime", "Symphony", "Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005", Windows
.NET 2001, Media Center TV guide service, Windows Media Center PC,
memory card, picture-in-picture, LinuxMCE, Ubuntu, Windows Portable
Media Center, Viiv, Axentra's HipServ™, Windows Home Server
Drive Extender, HP MediaSmart Server, Web Servers, Apache HTTP Server
Project, DMA, Media Adapter, Home Digital Media Adapter, Home Media
Adapter and Network Media Adapter, DMR, Integrated Digital Media
Adapter, Toolkits, Windows Media Connect, Apple TV, Windows Media
Extender, Media Extender, desktop Media Center PC, Media Center
Extender set-top box, Xbox’s Windows Media Center Extender
technology, transcode, Media Center Extender for Xbox”,
Windows Media Center Extender (WMCE) for Xbox, PlaysForSure (PFS), XBMC
(Xbox Media Center).
Cost
is:
$275
(USD, per person)
Click
below to take the course:
Class #6
"Web
TV, IPTV, Internet TV."
This
impressive online class is comprised of Lesson
Module #6. It's
an introductory, online class that's not technically oriented. All these online
courses are a combination of hundreds of
paragraphs of important information, learning
points, questions, online
demonstrations and relevant online video clips.
Your work is
graded by the
instructor. Please note, a
diploma is only given to those taking the complete set of classes (class
#7).
Topics
discussed/defined include: Web TV, WebTV Networks, WebTV
for Windows, Hauppauge, WebTV Plus, WebTV Classic, Excite@Home,
Netchannel, Microsoft TV platform, WindowsCE, Microsoft's Venus
Project, Acorn's Concord network computer (NC), WebTV browser, MSNTV,
Installing Windows Media Connect on your PC, Chris Wade, MSN TV2, Linux
on the MSNTV2 player, The MSN Companion, Microsoft Windows CE,
multicasting, unicast delivery, IPTV content aggregators, Brightcove,
Lasoo, TELECHANNEL, Kingston Communications launched KIT (Kingston
Interactive Television), Hong Kong’s PCCW's IPTV service, NOW
TV", niche programming, media player, using Internet TV for brand
recognition, bonded DSL.
Cost
is:
$275
(USD, per person)
Click
below to take the course:
Class #7
 The Complete Course
A
diploma is only given to those taking this complete set of courses.
Example of a
diploma.
This
introductory course is
our most
comprehensive review of Interactive Television.
This complete online class is the
class generally discussed on
this
website. It's
an introductory class that's easy to understand. It includes all the
above classes and all the topics listed in their description. This
online class provides dozens of paragraphs of important information, in
addition to its roughly 400 learning
points,
215 questions, numerous online demonstrations and relevant online video
clips. See
a sample
of it here.
Cost is:
$1285
(USD,
per person)
(A group
discount is available)
Click below
to take the
course:
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donation.) There is nothing else you need
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you have noted otherwise, your class material will be
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Happily the institute has
never had
anybody ask for a refund. However due to the extreme amount of work
involved in creating the courses, and the possible existence of those
unscrupulous few that may want to receive the class material, do what
they can with it and them ask for their money back, the institute has a
strict policy of not giving refunds. Thank you.
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