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Microsoft TV Doing Well, It's Still Early In The Multi-Platform Game: Microsoft TV Platform Group marketing communications director
Ed Graczyk denies delays in shipping the Microsoft TV platform are causing problems with UPC or AT&T
(02OCT00) (allNetDevices)
Also note the previously reported 26SEP00 news item where the Yankee Group's Jim Penhune said, "The Yankee Group believes Microsoft will still take a leading role in enabling cable-delivered interactive TV once its software is ready to run on the next generation of highly advanced digital set-tops." - However There Are Still Worries: Pro-Microsoft analysts anxiously wonder about Microsoft TV delays and if more "stumbles" are on the way (02OCT00) (BizJournals)
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Nonetheless AT&T Committed To Microsoft, But Good To Have Liberate Also: AT&T Broadband interactive TV
senior vice president Rich Fickle says "We're still committed to the Microsoft product" (02OCT00) (CableWorld)
CableWorld quotes AT&T Broadband interactive TV programs senior vice president Rich Fickle as stating, "We're still committed to the Microsoft product. It's an early stage for interactive television, and having a couple of different companies working hard on this area is a very good thing." However CableWorld also cites Broadband Intelligence president Cynthia Brumfield as indicating, "AT&T has to say that" since Microsoft is "a significant shareholder, and [AT&T is] not going to stick them in the eye." In discussing Microsoft's shift from the PC world to the TV world, CableWorld also quotes Brumfield as stating, "We're talking TV-centric as opposed to PC-centric. Liberate is TV-centric, and Microsoft started off on a PC-centric platform" and is "on a death march to get that software workable for set-top boxes." -
China News: China Broadband Corp. Ltd. to launch Century Vision Network on October 18 with third-generation set-top box
technology to provide broadband access to interactive multimedia broadband content and ecommerce (02OCT00) (PRN)
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Tokyo News: Nippon TV, NTT Multimedia Engineering, and NTT East Corp. setting up new broadband
company called B-BAT to develop broadband digital content distribution business (02OCT00) (eV)
- Dauphin Technology has SmartBox set-top box prototype that supports remote control of home environmental systems and smart appliances as well as TV watching (02OCT00) (allNetDevices)
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Dauphin Technology to show off SmartBox STB at Comdex Fall 2000 in Las Vegas (28SEP00) (NYTimes.BW)
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British Telecom's BTopenworld Broadband ISP service and Canada's SaskTel
to use USA Video Interactive's Hurricane MediaCaster Video server (02OCT00) (ITinvestor)
ITinvestor also reports in its newsletter issued today that USA Video Interactive will provide real-time and on-demand full-motion video to classroom computers and workstations for the 70,000 students in the 147 District of Columbia public schools in Washington D.C. -
HKNet and USA Video Interactive agree to bring streaming video and video-on-demand to
HKNet customers in Hong Kong and the Asia Pacific region (25SEP00) (USVO)
- ABC TV's Persistent Telewebber Desktop Dots Portal: ABC TV and ABC.com to use DoDots technology to provide TV viewers with online connection to ABC television fall line-up of TV shows (02OCT00) (DoDots)
- ABC TV announces ABC Dots software program for PCs to integrate ABC.com with the ABC Television Network to provide TV watchers with telewebber viewing experience (02OCT00) (DoDots)
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Ruel's Spotlight Website: DoDots feature on ABC Dots (02OCT00) (DoDots)
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Ruel's Spotlight Website: ABC Dots splash page (02OCT00) (ABC)
- Telewebber Hockey News: Turner Entertainment Group, the NHL Atlanta Thrashers team, and Rotor.net to provide Cyber-Ice participatory experience on the web with live interaction with players, polls, interactive trivia, and prizes beginning November 17 (02OCT00) (allNetDevices) (alt.link)
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Turner producer Tom Cappello says the two-screen Atlanta Thrashers hockey interactive programming
will drive TV viewership and increase ratings (02OCT00) (link expires) (HollywoodReporter)
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Panasonic's $12,999 PT-52DL10 52-inch rear-projection HDTV set to be showcased at Good Guys Beverly Center
in Los Angeles, Good Guys Santa Clara in Santa Clara, California, and Good Guys Bellevue in Bellevue, Washington
(02OCT00) (PRN)
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PC Magazine's editor-in-chief Michael J. Miller looks at putting your home DV movies online (02OCT00) (Anchordesk)
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Ruel's Spotlight Website: Lycos VideoCenter (put your video on the web) (02OCT00) (Lycos)
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Merrill Lynch media expert Neil Blackley expects ONdigital to lose up to 20% of subscribers who
received free set-top boxes with 12 month sign-up after the 12 months are up
(01OCT00) (Independent)
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New Book Published: Interactive Television Demystified by Jerry C. Whitaker (30SEP00) (McGrawHill)
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China Venus Project News: Dresdner analyst Johnny Wong Kin-man wonders why Legend Holdings
develops new set-top box with other partners when working on Microsoft Venus Project;
Legend says no conflict and some set-top boxes for Venus Project have been sold (30SEP00) (SouthChinaMorningPost)
The South China Morning Post quotes Dresdner Kleinwort Benson analyst Johnny Wong Kin-man as asking, "If the Venus project is very successful, why would Legend want to partner with other partners to produce a set-top box?" In response, the South China Morning Post cites a Legend Holdings spokeswoman as indicating, "there was no conflict as the two arrangements involved different kinds of set-top boxes," and further quotes the spokeswoman as stating, "It's [sic] all depends on which one our clients want to use." Without disclosing any numbers, the South China Morning Post also cites the spokeswoman as indicating, "Legend had sold some Microsoft set-top boxes since the Venus project agreement was signed." The new non-Venus set-top box is the iCare Internet-on-TV set-top box with the Geode chip. -
SeaChange names Maggie Smith as new manager for SeaChange's Partners Program for Interactive Television Systems
(29SEP00) (SeaChange)
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Not Really TV: Salon.com's "From Degas To Dot-Com" panel discusses future
of web-based entertainment (29SEP00) (WIRED)
- U.S. and Canada sign letter of understanding regarding DTV channel allotments and procedures for digital television service within 400 kilometers of the U.S.-Canada border (29SEP00) (FCC) (alt.link)
- Letter of Understanding between the Federal Communications Commission of the United States of America and Industry Canada related to the use of the 54-72 MHz, 76-88 MHz, 174-216 MHz and 470-806 MHz bands for the Digital Television Broadcasting Service along the common border (22SEP00) (PDF file) (FCC)
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U.S. and Canada sign agreement for digital television allotments along shared border (13OCT00) (TVBroadcast)
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Internet Version of Cable TV: TV broadcasters and content producers have two
more weeks to respond to bid by JumpTV.com for rights to retransmit off-the-air TV signals
via the internet in Canada (28SEP00) (Newsbytes)
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Olympics web video police helps to ensure TV broadcasters have exclusive video coverage
(29SEP00) (TheStandard)
The Standard quotes NBC Olympics senior vice president Gary Zenkel as stating, "The ad dollars won't support [Olympics webcasting]. Until there is enough demand and enough revenue to support [the webcasting] platform, we won't focus on it." -
Telewebbers Want Olympics Now Without Having To Watch The Whole Thing:
Internet is drawing Olympics fans away from TV (29SEP00) (SeattleTimes)
Seattle Times staff columnist Kay McFadden writes in her column about visiting Olympics websites after watching the hours-long Olympics TV coverage on NBC, MSNBC, and CNBC. She was also flipping over to watch CBC since she is near the U.S.-Canada border. I would add for the folks along the U.S.-Mexico border, there is also the television coverage by TV Azteca and Televisa where you can watch many of the latest events before waiting for the NBC tape-delay broadcast. -ruel -
Ruel's Spotlight Website: I See TV (face-to-face customer service system via TV) (29SEP00) (MediaLogic)
Media Logic Systems Ltd. is the U.K.-based company behind the "I See TV" interactive home shopping system for personal face-to-face customer service via interactive TV. They also have "I See PC" for desktop computers and "I See M" for mobile wireless phones that have video. Media Logic will be launching a new interactive TV shopping service using the "I See TV" technology on October 13, 2000. They will also be at the iMIX conference in New York. Also click here for Media Logic's corporate webpage. -
Digital broadcasting to transform TV watching, but it's still in the early stage (29SEP00) (KoreaHerald)
The Korea Herald quotes a LG Electronics official as stating, "While the digital TV sets here are world-class, broadcasting is still in its early stage." -
LG Electronics aggressively jumping into digital home theater TV market (29SEP00) (KoreaHerald)
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Mitsubishi Corp. in talks with Nippon Television Network and others to
form joint venture to enter communication satellite digital broadcasting field
to offer wide range of interactive TV services including online shopping (29SEP00) (Yahoo.Reuters)
Yahoo Asia also carries a Dow Jones report that reports the companies involved in the talks to create a new interactive TV broadcaster include Mitsubishi Corporation, Japan Satellite Broadcasting, NTT DoCoMo, NTT Communications, and Nippon Television Network. -
PCCW reveals plan for development of Chinese version of NOW broadband content service
to be rolled out in three phases for three different audiences in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan (29SEP00) (asia.internet)
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