Japanese companies ally to create acTVila.com

by Cyrus Farivar, posted Oct 10th 2006 at 10:27AM

Last week, there was more to come out of the recent CEATEC expo than just droolworthy gadgets. Half a dozen major Japanese television manufacturers -- Matsushita (Panasonic), Sony, Sony Communication Network, Toshiba, Sharp, and Hitachi -- have banded together to form a company called "TV Portal Service Corporation," which we're hoping sounds a little less like a mafia front in Japanese. The new partnership seeks to launch a website on February 1, 2007 called acTVila.com, which would be accessible through each company's net-enabled TV. The site aims to provide "basic information services" at first, and later will move to video-on-demand, "content downloading services" and "payment transactions" by 2008. Business talk aside, we hope that Apple doesn't mind that acTVila's logo looks very inspired by the Picasso-esque MacOS smiley face logo.

[Via EETimes]

Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment

Tags: actvila, ceatec, hitachi, japan, matsushita, sharp, sony, sony communication network, SonyCommunicationNetwork, toshiba

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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aDub @ Oct 10th 2006 12:57PM

I think it looks a lot like a 3D version of Goodwill Industries logo

http://s164183236.onlinehome.us/engadget/goodwill.jpg

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Louis @ Oct 10th 2006 2:40PM

Exactly what I was thinking, aDub.

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Mrfreezie @ Oct 10th 2006 7:43PM

Their "ally"ing to create something? Are you sure you don't mean "-R-ally"?

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Lars Schouw @ Mar 10th 2007 7:46AM

http://www.acTVila.jp

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