iTV Applications

We make the things that make your users happy.

We use the understanding we've gained through our experience serving iTV users to create iTV applications for service operators, content producers, middleware providers, and advertisers. We have ready-to-go iTV products that can be quickly and inexpensively deployed to add value to operators' digital services, and modified to fit perfectly into the operator's overall plan. We also design custom applications to meet clients' specific needs and platforms.

Games4TV™

If you want your users staying, get them playing -- and make revenues from day one! Iacta's Games4TV™ is already deployed and delivering profits from thousands of iTV subscribers. We can install a virtual Games4TV channel today for all IPTV platforms and most cable middlewares. With more than 40 games available now (and more added all the time), the potential for your service is unlimited!

Iacta CAST™

iTV no longer has to be complicated or expensive. iacta CAST™ is an affordable, scalable, and extensible portal/walled garden server and content management system that delivers platform-optimized content for any middleware, or for any two-way set-top box with a presentation engine.

Client-Server Applications

Iacta's client-server applications extend the capabilities of low-power set-top box clients beyond what you thought they could do. The intelligence runs in the servers, while the client-side applications can use native capabilities in the system if available, or just pure HTML.

Chat4TV Chat Proxy

Iacta's Chat4TV Chat Proxy Server was originally developed to provide WebTV users who had a minimal IRC client with full IRC commands, to provide a nickserver that would allow them to chat with privacy, and to provide the chat operator with better control over user behavior. We've now extended it to allow platforms without a chat client at all to connect to IRC and chat with an HTML interface. Server is written in Java, and works with any off-the-shelf IRC server.

Chat4TV Messaging Proxy

The Chat4TV Messaging Proxy allows users on platforms without an Instant Messaging client to connect to popular messaging services like AOL Instant Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger. Users connect via IRC chat; platforms without an IRC client can use the Chat4TV Chat Proxy to connect with an HTML interface. It's not the same as having an IM client in the box, but it provides the basic ability for users to talk to their friends on the service with relatively little load on the network. Written in Java.

Multi-Player Games

Currently in user testing, Iacta's multi-player game system lets iTV and PC users play classic board and card games with each other online in real time.

Custom Applications

Iacta's custom applications for clients have included an Electronic Program Guide, community system including bulletin boards and magazine with user contributions, and email and chat applications for iTV. We also have designed and produced interactive programming for television content, including the interactive version of Carrier: Fortress at Sea for Discovery Channel.