Complete Skitter.TV Platform to be Implemented as an Alternative TV Services Offering in February 2011 Skitter, Inc. today announced that Venus Telephone Corporation of Venus, PA will implement Skitter.TV as an alternative TV services offering to the company’s current Digital TV services. In addition, Venus Telephone has selected Skitter’s Acclaim Video Encoders as the encoding platform [...]
We are pleased to report that Skitter, Inc. has been named a finalist in this year’s TelcoTV Vision Awards, which honor the most innovative and “visionary” new products, services and applications announced in the telecommunications industry in the past year. Skitter.TV is honored as a finalist this year for innovation in video encoding. New Skitter.TV [...]
Skitter, Inc. is pleased to announce the addition of Scott Remillard to the company’s executive team as Vice President of Sales. Remillard will lead the company’s sales team in the highly visible and fast-growing hybrid OTT/IPTV market. Remillard and his team will continue to develop and serve a customer base of telecom service providers and [...]
New Acclaim™ Video Encoder Models Now Offer Prioritized VBR for Multicast Live Streaming in IPTV and Internet TV Environments Skitter, Inc. today announced that a provisional patent application has been filed for an invention that brings variable bitrate (VBR) video streaming to multicast IPTV and Internet TV environments. The invention, called Prioritized VBR™ (PVBR™), allows [...]
Several members of “The Skitterati” (our internal nickname for the Skitter team) are on the way to Seattle this weekend. Skitter, Inc. will be on hand for OPASTCO’s 2010 Summer Convention and Trade Show, which gets underway Sunday afternoon at The Westin Seattle. Look for us at tables 8 and 9 in the exhibit area. [...]
Occam Packet Access Network (OPAN) Alliance Welcomes Emerging Video Solution Provider Skitter, Inc. has become a member of the Occam Packet Access Network (OPAN) alliance. The partner program outlines customer support, on-going testing, and joint sales and marketing activities that can occur between the two companies. The partnership highlights the need for validated video solutions [...]
A new study by ABI Research shows that telco copper networks can continue to be an effective source of on-going revenue generation into the future. When telco’s deploy highly efficient video services platforms like Skitter.TV, the value of their DSL service can be significantly enhanced with bundled entertainment services that can help increase ARPU and improve customer loyalty.
Economic conditions, the DTV transition and rising TV services costs are causing many consumers to install new antennas in a return to over-the-air TV viewing. Skitter sees to factors that make over-the-air TV viewing an inadequate choice for many Americans. With the digital transition, changes in transmission power and frequencies used for broadcasting results in TV screens going blank for many people– especially in rural markets. And over-the-air TV does not give Americans what the majority say they want–the ability to connect their TV to the Internet.
Telco’s at the 2009 NTCA Annual Meeting and Expo confirmed the business and technical barriers that limit the success of many traditional IPTV deployments. In Skitter.TV’s conversations with telephone co-ops from across the country, virtually none with IPTV services in place would describe their IPTV business as profitable. Here’s why.
Skitter.TV has been named a finalist in the Middleware category for the TelcoTV 2009 Vision Awards. This is the second year for the Vision Awards, which recognize the most innovative and “visionary” new products, services, or applications as determined by a panel of industry experts.
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