Ken Austin is an
inventor
An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition, idea, or process. An invention may be an improvement upon a machine, product, or process for increasing efficiency or lowering cost. It may also be an entirely new concept. If an ...
,
technologist and chairman of
Inview Technology Ltd
Inview Technology (Inview Technology Ltd or simply Inview) is a UK-based digital TV software company. It specialises in advanced EPGs, broadcast, interactive broadcasts, and Internet Protocol, IP services for Pay television, Pay-TV and Digital t ...
.
His company, based in
Northwich
Northwich is a market town and civil parish in the Cheshire West and Chester borough of Cheshire, England. It lies on the Cheshire Plain, at the confluence of the rivers Weaver and Dane, east of Chester, south of Warrington and south of Ma ...
,
Cheshire
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,
UK is privately owned. Between 1986 and 1996 he was Technical Director and Vice Chairman of Pilkington Micro-elec Ltd.
Self-taught in electronics, and was the first to secure patents for digital television programme guides during the early 1990s.
He also featured in the book ''Organising Genius'' by Paul Thorne ().
In 2011
video on demand
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(VOD) company
OnDemand
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teamed up with Inview Technology to launch video-on-demand (TVOD, SVOD) services on connected TVs.
References
External links
Inview's company website
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Living people
1957 births
British inventors
20th-century Welsh scientists
21st-century Welsh scientists