Our Mediaroom expertise has been building over the last few years, and the recognition for our ‘Time Capsules’ concept (it won second prize in a world wide competition organised by Microsoft) felt like a strong endorsement for our progress with the leading IPTV platform.

The Microsoft Mediaroom Conference held in San Jose in October, showed the investment that big companies are making in the technology. This will be a key driver of the next phase in interactive TV.

The sessions offered some good development insights. I was particularly impressed with the new “Physics” controls. The speed bump was really noticeable and I think that with this kind of polish, it will take the platform to the next level. The movement and tweening that can be added to scrolling menus will make the whole user experience feel much slicker.

There was also lots of talk about developing solutions for the ‘3 screens’ using the well known MVC development model. All very exciting!

This was Pushbutton’s 3rd year attending the Mediaroom conference and its starting to feel like a real developer community is coalescing around a very solid platform.

James Cumberbatch, Director of Interactive Development, Pushbutton