Absolute waffle ...you obviously know nothing about the technology, its reason for existing nor its roll-out in Europe and throughout the Rest of the World...OCAP is running in all 8 Korean MSOs and very successfully deploying. MHP is being taken up in European Cable, Satellite, Terrestrial and GEM-IPTV Services are flourishing Worldwide...Alticast alone has deployed more than 10Million MHP/OCAP enabled STBs...8 million MHP boxes alone in Italy on Terrestrial...Blu-ray and OpenTPYV forum have embraced the OCAP/MHP Specifications and we now have a GEM Application Framework (Globally Executable MHP) which is collaboration by all the different agaencies involved. Cablelabs, ATSC, ARIB, BDA, OpenIPTV and of course the DVB. Things have moved on a looooooooong way since you last studied the subject.

The IPTV Guys have ALL re-invented the Middleware Part of their services - instead of embracing the existing initiatives - There are over 35 Differing flavours and many based on HTML - After all the Telcos think they understand that and it is OK for TV - Duh! Alsp Lots of NIH - Not Invented Here Syndrome and IPR. - Everyone thinks that they can invent a better mousetrap in Interactive TV and keep all the cash for themselves.

All the Proprietary Middleware vendors for Interactive Services are fighting the battle to keep the likes of Tru2way at bay as it takes them out of the market. They denied it for so long it looks like their stubborness has now become their Achilles Heel...

This is because Tru2way is a Cable Specification and CES is a Electronics Gadget Show...duh! Give them credit not a kicking...Those Companies committed will steal the early market - Well done I say.