An alliance between high-speed network provider Advanced Digital Networks Inc and Telephone Video of America Inc announces details of an interactive video-on-demand trial due to start in New York. Also known under the alias Televideo Inc, Telephone Video of America has no connection to San Jose, California-based sound board manufacturer Televideo Multimedia or the German video distributor, TeleVideo Home Entertainment GmbH. Michael Sheppard, chief operating officer at Televideo, said the project, aptly named FreeBeeTV – it will be the advertisers that pay, not the consumers – has taken the firm four years fully to develop. The project will be deployed over the next five years throughout the New York Metropolitan area. TeleVideo just announced Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG’s Pyramid Technology Corp as its server partner, and says that it plans to deploy the system in Miami, Chicago, Ohio, and Germany and Israel.
