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Pace's Revolutionary App Café Available for Commercial Deployment
SALTAIRE, England, June 15, 2011/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
- Pace Application Store Ready for Deployment by Operators Across USA,
Canada and Latin America
Pace (LSE: PIC), a leading technology provider for the global payTV
industry, today announces that its groundbreaking App Cafe platform is ready
for deployment throughout the Americas. The Pace App Cafe offers cable
subscribers access to popular 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 unique 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 provide subscribers with access to high-profile
and popular online services including:
- Popular social networking services
- Internet radio and music
- Online photo and video sharing
- Weather
- Personal finance
- Sports scores
- Operator service and support
Tim O'Loughlin, SVP of Sales and Customer Support, Pace Americas,
commented: "There is a rapidly growing desire amongst consumers to access a
range of different content on their TV and the Pace App Cafe is the perfect
response. The App Cafe offers our service provider customers an extensive
choice of applications, so that they can deliver the best possible range of
services to their subscribers."
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(R) Engine and published
Software Development Kit (SDK).
Pace will be demonstrating the App Cafe on its booth at The Cable Show
in Chicago (# 649).
About Pace plc
Pace plc (LSE:PIC) is a leading 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 and innovative 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 USA,
France, India and China. Pace's international headquarters are in Saltaire,
West Yorkshire, UK. For more information on Pace, please visit
http://www.pace.com
About Clearleap
Clearleap's IP-based content management and delivery platform enables
the efficient, cost effective delivery of video to linear channels, VOD,
broadband, and consumer electronic devices. Clearleap's technology offers
both video service and content providers services to vastly improve
workflow, monetization, and content capabilities. Founded by a team of TV
technology veterans and industry experts, Clearleap is based in Atlanta, GA
with offices in New York City and San Francisco and data centers in New
York, Los Angeles and Atlanta. All Clearleap products can be offered as
hosted, cloud-based solutions or licensed software products. For more
information, visit http://www.clearleap.com.
Source: Pace plc
For further information, contact: Paul Crouch, Chameleon PR, Paul.crouch@chameleonpr.com , +44-(0)207-680-5500. For further information, contact: Jason Damata, Fabric Media, jason@fabricmedia.net , m: +1-917-279-8706.
Pace's Revolutionary App Café Available for Commercial Deployment
SALTAIRE, England, June 15, 2011/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
- Pace Application Store Ready for Deployment by Operators Across USA,
Canada and Latin America
Pace (LSE: PIC), a leading technology provider for the global payTV
industry, today announces that its groundbreaking App Cafe platform is ready
for deployment throughout the Americas. The Pace App Cafe offers cable
subscribers access to popular 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 unique 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 provide subscribers with access to high-profile
and popular online services including:
- Popular social networking services
- Internet radio and music
- Online photo and video sharing
- Weather
- Personal finance
- Sports scores
- Operator service and support
Tim O'Loughlin, SVP of Sales and Customer Support, Pace Americas,
commented: "There is a rapidly growing desire amongst consumers to access a
range of different content on their TV and the Pace App Cafe is the perfect
response. The App Cafe offers our service provider customers an extensive
choice of applications, so that they can deliver the best possible range of
services to their subscribers."
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(R) Engine and published
Software Development Kit (SDK).
Pace will be demonstrating the App Cafe on its booth at The Cable Show
in Chicago (# 649).
About Pace plc
Pace plc (LSE:PIC) is a leading 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 and innovative 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 USA,
France, India and China. Pace's international headquarters are in Saltaire,
West Yorkshire, UK. For more information on Pace, please visit
http://www.pace.com
About Clearleap
Clearleap's IP-based content management and delivery platform enables
the efficient, cost effective delivery of video to linear channels, VOD,
broadband, and consumer electronic devices. Clearleap's technology offers
both video service and content providers services to vastly improve
workflow, monetization, and content capabilities. Founded by a team of TV
technology veterans and industry experts, Clearleap is based in Atlanta, GA
with offices in New York City and San Francisco and data centers in New
York, Los Angeles and Atlanta. All Clearleap products can be offered as
hosted, cloud-based solutions or licensed software products. For more
information, visit http://www.clearleap.com.
Source: Pace plc
For further information, contact: Paul Crouch, Chameleon PR, Paul.crouch@chameleonpr.com , +44-(0)207-680-5500. For further information, contact: Jason Damata, Fabric Media, jason@fabricmedia.net , m: +1-917-279-8706.