Extend

Minerva Networks’ iTVManager allows you to extend your subscribers’ experiences far beyond “just television.” It lets you deliver commercial television channels to subscribers’ homes and businesses, with services like channel guides, video on demand, and video recording and playback.

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iTVManager Extend features:

Full-featured television experience: iTVManager comes preconfigured with all the core television features needed to match cable and satellite TV services: live TV, with full on-screen program guide (EPG) including high definition (HD) and music channels, Pause Live-TV with record and playback capabilities (DVR), video-on-demand (VOD), subscription video-on-demand (SVOD), Pay-Per-View, search, parental controls, .All of these can be delivered with a customized and branded user interface.
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URL channels: You can also create channels that point to Web pages. These can include URLs with information about local governments, educational institutions, merchants, service providers or other advertisers.
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Games: With iTVManager, you can offer games and other browser-based applications to your subscribers. Games can be included with basic or premium channels, or offered a la carte creating a number of revenue producing oportuntiies.
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Communications Services integration: IPTV operators are in a unique position to blend television and telephone services, like on-screen caller ID for incoming telephone calls, and letting users dial out to merchants and advertisers from their television screens.
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… and how you can use them:

Win against satellite and cable: With iTVManager, you can match baseline competitive television services, but then extend the choices and capabilities of your service they cannot match.

Offer exciting new capabilities to advertisers: Offer URL channels and Web portals to local advertisers. Incorporate lifestyle brands in the user interface designs. Tie branded skins to unique channel, VOD or web content. Enable promotions not possible in any other medium.

Make television personal: Combine the best of television with the best of the Internet to offer and unmatched entertainment and information experience.

Exploit the power of viral marketing: Give your subscribers an experience so different and compelling that they become your advocates and market your offering to their friends and families.