Open Television Network launches today
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Jan 22, 2008 at 10:12am
The Open Television Network launches today. It’s open to any content owner who wants to sell content to viewers and for any viewer who wants to choose their own programming. It’s built on a technology called klickTab.
Content owners who use klickTab can sell audio, video and PDF content for digital download through a standard RSS feed (a podcast feed) that can be loaded into iTunes, Miro or compatible RSS aggregators. With a feed loaded, viewers preview, buy (click the “GET” button in iTunes), download, manage and view their programs in one piece of software. Viewers have options like iPods, AppleTV and others to get their content to a big screen TV for the traditional television experience.
klickTab is a patent-pending online payment system. You don’t have to sign up for annual subscriptions or buy some other currency to spend on the Internet.
klickTab works on the familiar model of a bar tab. In a modern American bar (customs differ from country to country), the Open Television Network can establish a tab at the beginning of the evening by leaving a credit card with the establishment. Once you establish a klickTab account using a credit card, your purchases of digital content are added to your tab until the end of a billing period, or preset limit, are reached. The tab is then charged to the credit card and a new tab opened automatically.
The “Macsimum MWSF 2007 Coupon Book” is available for download. You can find it here and print it as a PDF. It has discounts, special offers and promotions in conjunction with the upcoming Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco.
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Dennis Sellers
Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
