Yara,

I'm not very familiar with the technical attributes or features of either platform, but I have had some (minor) dealings with Alticast. I assume Alticomposer fits somewhere into their bouquet offering to iTV apps developers - if so, as you may already be aware, Alticast charge a pretty steap license fee for their products (I think in the region of $80k). If this applies to Alticomposer, I would recommend trying to negotiate the fee down by emphasising the opportunities your app will provide for product demonstration and case studies. Most of these companies are desperate for tried-and-tested examples of their platforms in action.

Murray

On 09:31:27 19 December 2002 yara wrote:
>I am looking for an authoring tool that would let me
>develop ITV applications for MHP platform. At the moment I
>am comparing between the AltiComposer and the Cardinal
>Studio. I have downloaded the evaluation kits, which I am
>trying. I would like to have some more information about
>the products that would help me decide on one. Any help?

Hi Yara

Have you come across the following - might help in your research...?

1. List of MHP products
http://www.mhp.org/products/index.html

2. Sony Media Gateway
http://www.mhp.org/products/pdf_and_other_files/MediaGateway%20Shortform%20Description.pdf

3. Phillips (Softworks MHP SDK )
http://www.digitalnetworks.philips.com/InformationCenter/Global/FArticleDetail.asp?lNodeId=572&lArticleId=2151

4. Aircode
http://www.mhp.org/products/pdf_and_other_files/Aircode%20TVPLUS%20i%20Author.pdf

5. Unisoft
- http://www.unisoft.com/mhp/s-and-t/TSDeveloper.html
- http://www.unisoft.com/mhp/s-and-t/SoftOC2.html
- http://www.unisoft.com/mhp/s-and-t/TSPlatform.html
- http://www.unisoft.com/mhp/s-and-t/I-Framer2.html

6. Media Master from zentek
http://zsupport.zentek.co.jp

Ashley