DAVE TV Launches DAVE Media Content Services

3-Jan-05

Broadband IPTV Company DAVETV today announces it will make its 70,000-hour library of broadband content available to third party OEMs and Broadband providers. DAVE TV will also license a version of its PC and appliance media center software that includes a front end channel guide and back end DRM authoring tools. DAVETVís 70,000 hours of content range from first run feature films, music videos, and sports programming, to documentaries, foreign language content, religious and original special interest videos, music and films. ìWithout deep content, IPTV will have limited consumer interest in our view,î says Ken Lipscomb, DAVETVís CEO. While many IPTV competitors have made just a few hundred hours of English language content available, DAVETV is keeping its content sources under wraps for the time being. ìIn an effort to preserve our position in this burgeoning industry, we have decided to wait until March to divulge who all of our content providers are - rest assured they are some of the biggest names in the entertainment industry,î adds LipscombAn acronym for Distributed Audio Video Entertainment, DAVETV will also be demonstrating the first HD-capable set-top Digital Media Receiver called the Xportô. Available in the second quarter of 2005, the Xport includes an 80 Gig hard drive good for 200 hours of programming storage with a suggested retail price of $199.Try before you buyIn a unique IPTV content play, DAVETVís PC software called the DAVE Media Center (available for free download at wwww.dave.tv) gives consumers the ability to view free content on their PCs (as well as seeing what is available for a fee) before committing to a hardware receiver purchase for playback on a television. Roll your own contentThe DAVE Media Center also provides the means for content owners to self-publish content and choose from a wide variety of DRM rules to monetize their content should they decide to do so. ìKey to our IPTV solution is this self-publishing model; the ability for our network to be self-perpetuating depends on it,î continues Lipscomb.