Pace, a technology provider for the global payTV industry, announced that its App Cafe platform is ready for deployment throughout the Americas.
The Pace App Cafe offers cable subscribers access to web-based applications via their set-top box for the first time, increasing the range of entertainment available via the television set.
The Pace App Cafe is a service allowing cable operators to harness the potential of online applications within an integrated managed TV service. It offers applications in a storefront format for subscribers to download directly to their set-top boxes, enhancing their entertainment experience and solidifying the service provider's position at the heart of the home.
Pace App Cafe enables payTV operators to offer a range of social networking, gaming and Video on Demand (VoD) applications. In addition, the company has worked with web-based TV technology platform, Clearleap, to offer IP-based video services delivered through customizable, white-labelled applications. This provides operators with a cost effective method of delivering unlimited hours of on-demand content to consumers over the high speed data path.
Pace has also partnered with Universal Electronics to integrate its UEI Velocity remote control with QWERTY keyboard and UEI QuickSearch remote control setup application, enhancing the usability and navigation of the App Cafe and applications.
The Pace App Cafe will be customised with each operator's unique brand and allows them to create custom applications. Operators will have administrative control over the available applications in their library, which they can then package as part of their existing service or make them an additional offering.
The applications can pull their data feed from any Internet connection in the home or from the DOCSIS modems embedded in nearly all Pace set-top boxes.
The onscreen presentation of each application is designed to work alongside the existing electronic program guide and VoD applications. Many of the applications have the ability to coexist with live or recorded television programming, so subscribers can get constant, real-time information updates while watching television.
The Pace App Cafe is based on Pace's Engineware software platform and is underpinned by a standards-based Flash Lite Engine and published Software Development Kit (SDK).
Pace plc is a technology developer for the global payTV industry, working across satellite, cable, IPTV and terrestrial platforms. Pace has one of the world's most experienced specialist engineering teams, developing intelligent products and services for both payTV operators and retail markets across the world.
Pace employs over 2000 people in locations that include the UK, the United States, France, India and China. Pace's international headquarters are in Saltaire, West Yorkshire, UK.
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