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Uniview announces results for FY2000 with increase in expenses attributable to escalation of support and
development of MPEG4 and DSL capabilities for Uniview set-top box products (29SEP00) (Uniview)
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Set-Top IP-Scrambling Solutions: SandStream Communications & Entertainment selects Philips Digital Networks to provide
to provide CryptoWorks conditional access on multicast IP services for SandStream's new IP set-top boxes
(29SEP01) (Sandstream)
The news announcement quotes Philips Digital Networks CryptoTec general manager Jan Eveleens as stating, "With the rapid advance of convergence of cable and IP content in one set-top box, Philips and SandStream are the first to bring an optimal and future-proof secure IP content solution through fiber to the home." You can click here to visit Sandstream. -
Sega Dreamcast's stockpiled supply ready to fill the Sony Playstation II supply shortfall (29SEP00) (ZDNN.Reuters)
Reuters quotes Sega of America president and chief operating officer Peter Moore as stating, "We didn't believe [Sony] would be able to ship a million [Playstation II] units at launch and we've been building inventory in anticipation of that." -
E-inSite News Report: Anonymous sources speculate Sony Playstation II supply shortage may have more to do with time-consuming redesign of the videogame console's DVD content protection than component shortages
(29SEP00) (EinSite)
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TiVo working with AOLTV to bring interactivity to TiVo service (29SEP00) (RevolutionUK)
- AOLTV May Get Smaller User Base Than WebTV: Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin tells Congress that "AOLTV will only get tens of thousands of users" (27SEP00) (TechWeb)
TechWeb cites Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin as indicating, "Interactive TV will take five to 10 years to achieve widespread use like computers," and further quotes Levin as stating, "AOLTV will only get tens of thousands of users. We'll have to learn what users want."- Content Gatekeeper: What does "Open Access" really mean to AOL-Time Warner? (02OCT00) (USNEWS)
US News & World Report asks what does "open access" really mean to AOL-Time Warner: "Does it mean equal access to the wires? Does it mean equal quality of service? Does it apply to just Internet access, or does it extend to anything competitors want to offer, including interactive TV? A surprisingly persistent chorus of companies including Walt Disney, NBC, EarthLink, and telephone companies (not to mention consumer activist groups) isn't happy with AOL-TW promises of open access and is demanding remedies. (The main reason the AOL-TW deal has attracted more opposition than AT&T's purchase of $100 billion worth of cable assets is that Ma Bell isn't as big a content creator.)"- FCC to open proceedings to investigate and clarify whether high-speed internet broadband access is a cable, telecommunications, or information service (29SEP00) (FOXNEWS)
- U.S. Congressional House telecom subcommittee chairman Billy Tauzin wants to know if AOL-Time Warner will allow competitors to offer content or will AOL-Time Warner limit interactive TV choice for consumers (26SEP00) (Mercury.Reuters)
- Report Released At OpenTV's OpenRoads Developer Conference: Myers Report forecasts interactive TV aggregate revenue will grow to $32.1B in Y2006 (28SEP00) (OpenTV)
- Legend Holdings and National Semiconductor announce new set-top box based on Geode solution to be used by Hong Kong and China Gas Company Ltd. for Towngas iCare Internet-on-TV Service (28SEP00) (NatSemi)
- National Semiconductor and Legend Holdings announce iCare set-top box (28SEP00) (EinSite) (related.link)
- More On National Semiconductor-Legend Holdings Deal: UBS Warburg analyst Bethany Chan says "Future of set-top boxes looks pretty good" (29SEP00) (CNET.Bloomberg)
Bloomberg quotes UBS Warburg analyst Bethany Chan as stating, "The television penetration rate is very high in China, and personal computers are not as strong. So the future of set-top boxes looks pretty good."- CBS TV to offer majority of primetime lineup in HDTV format for the 2000-2001 television season (28SEP00) (Mediapost)
- iTV Games demos PowerBingo.TV product for WebTV at NASPL 2000, and announce digital marketing partnership with RealTIME Media Inc. (28SEP00) (ITVGames) (alt.link)
- Videonet to spend £15M this year for marketing HomeChoice video-on-demand in London (28SEP00) (MediaGuardian)
- Hansard Society in e-democracy program sponsored by Halifax Online bank to use digital internet TV as lifeline for the poor to communicate with politicians who make policies that are supposed to help the poor in Great Britain (28SEP00) (Guardian)
- Freebox to give away set-top boxes in U.K. beginning December 2000 to help end the digital divide (27SEP00) (ZDNetUK)
ZDNet UK reports, "Freeboxes will be compatible with high-speed data networks. Until ADSL is available, the company plans to distribute shopping DVDs to its users.... Customers will be able to browse the contents of the DVD and then go online when they're ready to buy an item." ZDNet UK also reports the set-top box giveaway begins in December 2000 and consumers must pay a refundable £10 deposit when registering for a Freebox.- UK Digital Divide Stats: Office of National Statistics finds 66% of internet surfers were from households headed by a professional, 20% were from households headed by someone working in an unskilled occupation, also only 1% accessed the internet through digital TV and less than 1% through a phone in the UK (27SEP00) (Netimperative)
- Related Digital Divide in US: Gartner Group says 50M adults may become functionally "illiterate" by being unconnected to the internet (01OCT00) (Mercury.Reuters)
- Scheduled October Roll-Out: Freeserve reformats portal for TV viewing via internet television with Bush Internet and ONdigital's ONnet (28SEP00) (MediaGuardian)
- Freeserve rolls out internet TV portal pre-set on Bush TV sets and set-top boxes and to also be available with ONdigital's ONnet internet television service in Great Britain (28SEP00) (ZDNetUK.Reuters) (alt.link) (alt.link)
- Freeserve unveils internet television portal plans (28SEP00) (Netimperative)
- BBC's Ten Ways TiVo Will Change Your Life (28SEP00) (BBC)
- BBC's Radio Times expected to confirm talks with TiVo (28SEP00) (MediaGuardian)
- BSkyB and TiVo to begin offering TiVo personal television service in October 2000 (28SEP00) (Sky)
The news announcement states, "Manufactured by consumer electronics manufacturer Thomson, under the Thomson SCENIUM brand, the TiVo Recorder will be available in October at Dixons, Currys and selected electrical retailers or direct by calling 08702 41 84 86."- Sky teams up with TiVo, Thomson to create UK version of PVR box to be available from retailers beginning this weekend (28SEP00) (Ananova)
- NBC teams up with TiVo for network preview show (28SEP00) (siliconvalley.internet)
- NBC and TiVo to air "The NBC Fall Preview Show" as an interactive TiVo show on October 1 to give TiVo viewers the opportunity to schedule their own line-up of shows to watch using TiVo Ipreview (27SEP00) (TiVo)
- Coca-Cola and ReplayTV working out how to do interactive TV advertising (28SEP00) (Adweek)
- RespondTV adds former ReplayTV VP Randall McCurdy as senior vice president for partner management and client services (27SEP00) (RespondTV) (alt.link)
- MediaLink and iSurfTV intro internet-based video with interactive embedded hyperlinks (28SEP00) (iSurfTV)
- Streaming21 and The Fantastic Corporation announce agreement to integrate technologies to enable large-scale broadband streaming and distribution of broadcast-quality video and CD-quality audio (27OCT00) (Streaming21) (alt.link)
- AENTV.COM announces 24/7 streaming video Classic Rock Network with extensive library of concert specials, television spots, behind-the-scenes interviews, and rare concert footage (28SEP00) (IWire)
- To Be Available In Japan On December 1: Sony announces wireless Airborne web-surfing TV device (28SEP00) (CNET)
- Revolutionary As The Walkman But Expensive: Sony Airborne may have the likely price-tag of about $1100 (28SEP00) (Mercury.Reuters) (alt.link) (alt.link)
- Met@box AG to begin production of new set-top boxes in December 2000 with delivery in 2001 (28SEP00) (Met@box)
- TVemail News: eNote.com Inc. announces changes to management team and board of directors (28SEP00) (NYTimes.PRN) (alt.link)
- Philips Semiconductors targets digital video and info appliances with MIPS Technologies' 64-bit cores (28SEP00) (NYTimes.PRN) (alt.link)
- Telewebber News: MTV merges internet with TV in multi-screen two-box TV show "Direct Effect" (28SEP00) (NYTimes)
- Telewebbers-Using-Mobile-Phones In Singapore: Asia-AsiaNet ITERU working with MTV Networks Asia to create "U-Pop" interactive TV show using SMS / WAP mobile phones to post messages directly onto the TV screen (28SEP00) (PRN) (alt.link) (related.link)
- Telewebbers-Using-Mobile-Phones In Japan: Kansai Cellular Telephone Co., Kansai Telecasting Corp., and Yoshimoto Kogyo Co. to broadcast late-night TV murder-mystery drama on October 5-6 that invites interactive participation via mobile phones (29SEP00) (AsiaBizTech)
- Dueling DivX Formats: Project Mayo says DivX Deus format is complete, but five Belgium programmers said to win award in Opencodex.com open-code DivX contest (28SEP00) (Salon)
- Countertop News: Solopoint.com selects Coollogic AE for next-generation personal marketing countertop product (28SEP00) (SheltonGroup)
- Coollogic names Edward Ghafari as chief operating officer (28SEP00) (SheltonGroup)
- Take And Reinvent Technology As Your Own: iDrop.com founder Markus Diersböck says current RIAA / Napster storyline is RCA / TV history repeating itself (28SEP00) (ZDNN)
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- AOLTV May Get Smaller User Base Than WebTV: Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin tells Congress that "AOLTV will only get tens of thousands of users" (27SEP00) (TechWeb)
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