Earlier this week, Sezmi, a company that has developed a set-top box-based offering which it bills as "combining traditional TV content, movies and Internet video in a single, easy-to-use product and service," announced that it had secured $25 million in new funding and had launched a three-month public pilot in Los Angeles, in preparation for a nationwide launch next year. In this recorded episode of [itvt]'s talk radio show, "Radio [i]tvt," Sezmi co-founder, chairman and president, Phil Wiser, discusses the company's platform, its programming partnerships and its various interactive, social and content-discovery capabilities; the company's monetization strategy and roadmap for the platform; why the company believes the platform could "replace" cable and satellite; and much more.