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Showtime Networks Study: TV meets Web in 25M telewebber households,
and there is strong interest in "one box" technology (17OCT00) (Mediapost)
Mediapost quotes the Showtime Networks study as finding simultaneous telewebber co-usage of TV and PC "occurs most often among three programming types: news at 31%, sitcoms at 30%, and sports at 30%." -
More Telewebber Stats: Generation Y is multitasking in a very different way (16OCT00) (link changes) (Multichannel)
Multichannel reports the Gartner Group estimates consumers watch TV while using a PC in 27 million homes. Multichannel also reports Turner Broadcasting Sales Inc. as finding, "Simultaneous TV and Web users are 18 percent more likely to make online purchases than Web users alone, and they are more likely to spend more on those orders." And Multichannel also quotes Myers Report publisher Jack Myers as stating, "So much of what we're seeing in interactive TV is that it's moving to a two-screen setup. 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' has a very successful two-screen format." - Broadband Is Here But Where's The Video: Chervokas & Watson ask "We're all wired up, so why can't we watch the ballgame?" (17OCT00) (Inside)
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Gartner Groups says there will be 20X more ecommerce with broadband by Y2005 (17OCT00) (Gartner)
The news announcement states, "By 2004, 29 million U.S. households will be broadband-enabled. This, combined with a penetration rate of overall Internet access of 75 percent by 2005, results in enormous purchasing power. By 2006, Gartner projects that 25 percent of U.S. households will buy more than $10,000 of goods and services over the Internet.... Of these mega-purchasing households, 75 percent will be broadband-enabled." -
More On Star-GigaMedia Deal In Taiwan: GigaMedia chief executive Raymond Chang says Star TV and
Gigamedia believe converged TV-Internet broadband platform will be "really powerful vehicle" for delivery
of content and services people would pay for (17OCT00) (SCMP)
The South China Morning Post quotes GigaMedia chief executive Raymond Chang as stating Star TV and GigaMedia "shared the same vision. We think that the TV and Internet as a converged platform made possible by broadband would be a really powerful vehicle and would be able to deliver all types of really great content and services people would pay for." -
News From Switzerland: Singularis launches beta of personal TV website for recording TV programs
(16OCT00) (Singularis)
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The news announcement quotes Singularis CEO Mehdi J. Aminian as stating, "Singularis is working with TV operators and service providers to deploy the ultimate personal TV experience on digital TV. We hope Internet users will be pleased with this free technology demonstrator and will help us define the next generation of digital TV services." -
Ruel's Spotlight Website: Singularis Personal TV demo (17OCT00) (Singularis)
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Cocom Group announces Voyager 7 Set-Top Box based on National Semiconductor Geode GX1 for video-on-demand
digital entertainment, simple web access, and operating on both PAL and NTSC formats (17OCT00) (Yahoo.BW)
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Cartoon Network To Be Featured On BTopenworld Portal: Cartoon Network launches interactive broadband website for
streaming and interactive cartoons including upcoming interactive premieres for "Scooby-Doo," "The Banana Splits,"
"Bugs Bunny," and "The Flintstones" (17OCT00) (Netimperative)
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See It On TV, Buy It On TV: Panasonic TV commercials to allow Sky Digital subscribers to buy
Panasonic vacuum cleaners via TV sets (17OCT00) (MediaGuardian)
- ONdigital is to run Orange television commercials that link to website in what is said to be first in UK (17OCT00) (Netimperative)
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Orange to advertise on ONdigital interactive TV NetLinks advertising system to
allow TV viewer with ONnet set-top box to click straight from TV broadcast to Orange web site
while keeping TV picture in corner of screen (17OCT00) (Revolution)
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More On Ericcson Interactive TV Commercial: Ericcson and AT&T to run interactive TV commercial during ABC's
"Who Wants to be a Millionaire" where TV viewers point "phone" at TV to see if they win a prize using VEIL technology (18OCT00) (TechWeb.Reuters)
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Auction Via TV Set: eBay wants to be on TV five days a week (16OCT00) (Inside)
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The eBay show could possibly be a telewebber show using the ABC "enhanced TV" format where the TV viewer needs a PC or other internet device for the simultaneous two-screen interactivity. - eBay expected to be a "lifestyle" show focusing on stories about eBay auctioneers and histories of auction items (18OCT00) (Newsbytes)
- eBay TV show could be like "Antique Roadshow" but with the actual auction (18OCT00) (Forbes)
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Is That Your Final Bid: eBay could be on ABC TV in U.S. (17OCT00) (Mediaweek)
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Speaking Of Auctions: Half-a-dozen Microsoft XBOX videogame consoles up for bid at Amazon auction but
winning bidders won't get XBOX until Fall 2001 (17OCT00) (CNET)
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Related About Auctions: Old stuff finds new fans online and on TV (18OCT00) (FOXNEWS)
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Telia Stofa launches broadband services using Motorola DVB-compliant interactive digital cable platform
in Denmark with plans to deploy services for digital video, digital audio, video-on-demand, high-speed internet access,
ecommerce, email, and telephony (17OCT00) (MOT)
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Excite@Home and NET-36 announce strategic alliance to deliver rich, dynamic content to Excite@Home broadband subscribers
(17OCT00) (Excite@Home)
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Teletext Viewers Make Up 48% Of UK Population: Teletext investing £15M in digital multi-platform strategy
to expand Teletext presence to the net, WAP, and digital TV (17OCT00) (MediaGuardian)
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Jupiter Research says online movie business must re-create itself to survive (17OCT00) (Upside)
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Capitol Broadcasting Corp. president and CEO Jim Goodmon to give keynote address at
CEA conference "Delivering on the DTV Promise - Consumer Marketing and New Business Models in the Digital Age,"
November 2, 2000, Millennium Hotel Hudson Theatre, New York City (17OCT00) (Twice)
Twice reports conference panels include "New Opportunities in the Digital World," "Advertising in New Media: Interactive and Digital Television," "Alternative Media and Digital Television," and "DTV Trends: What do Consumers Think?" -
ACTV business development senior VP David Rudnick, ACTV entertainment executive vice president Jim Martin, and
RespondTV president Richard Fisher discuss local TV news opportunities, smart cards, game show and trivia interactivity, enhanced
advertising, multiple camera angles for sports, interactive endings for TV shows, and whether to add PC-like capabilities to the TV
(16OCT00) (MediaLife)
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More on LG Electronics Washing Machine which was a three-year $3.5M development project involving
30 engineers (17OCT00) (PCWorld)
- Interactive Program Guide As TV Portal: Motorola to use interactive program guides from Gemstar-TV Guide (16OCT00) (Mercury.Reuters) (alt.link) (alt.link)
- Deal Made And Pending Litigation Dropped: Gemstar-TV Guide and Motorola enter into license agreement for Gemstar-TV Guide interactive program guide technology and patents (16OCT00) (TVGuide) (alt.link)
- Motorola in interactive program guide deal with Gemstar-TV Guide (17OCT00) (FinancialTimes)
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Ruel's Spotlight Website: TV Guide Interactive and TV Guide Channel screenshots (16OCT00) (TVGuide)
- Interactive Program Guide Competitor: iSurfTV intros "SurfGuide" as multi-layered 3D-enabled interactive program guide for cable and satellite TV (16OCT00) (PRN)
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Ruel's Spotlight Website: iSurfTV's SurfGuide screenshots (16OCT00) (iSurfTV)
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Other Motorola News And More UPC News: UPC to use Motorola DVB-compliant MediaCipher conditional access technology in
advanced interactive digital set-top boxes to be used by UPC cable subscribers (16OCT00) (MOT)
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- "SideCar" Peripheral Adds External Harddrive To Set-tops: Western Digital subsidiary Keen Personal Media taking TV4Me software to set-top box market at large and also developing "SideCar" PVR peripheral to retrofit existing set-tops (16OCT00) (TechWeb)
- Keen Personal Media enters into joint development agreement to develop and license digital video recorder storage management subsystem software to Scientific-Atlanta (16OCT00) (KeenPM) (alt.link) (alt.link)
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Ruel's Spotlight Website: Keen Personal Media's TV4Me (16OCT00) (includes screenshots) (KeenPM)
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FCC Hearing In RealAudio: FCC Hearing on serving kids in digital TV world, protecting kids from
violent & sexual programming, and using digital TV to serve local communities (16OCT00) (FCC)
You can click here to see the FCC Monday hearing agenda. And you can click here for FCC commissioner Gloria Tristani's remarks at the hearing. -
FCC to draft digital television broadcaster guidelines to give community leaders and
parents more input into programming for children and local needs in U.S. (16OCT00) (USAToday.Bloomberg)
- More On FCC Chairman Kennard's Remarks Made Last Week: TV Broadcasters blast back at Kennard and also blame cable (16OCT00) (Mediaweek)
- Former FCC chairman Richard Wiley says current FCC chairman missed chances to push HDTV forward over past three years (16OCT00) (Mediaweek)
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Yankee Group says FCC chairman Kennard's comments of last week bring more heat than light to digital TV stalemate
(17OCT00) (YankeeGroup)
- Transition Is Mired: Digital TV still not ready for primetime (16OCT00) (USAToday)
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But interactive television growth is spreading (16OCT00) (CableWorld)
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TVSP Concept Also Applicable To Local TV Stations In U.S. And Elsewhere: Murdoch University marketing and
media professor Duane Varan says the "Television Service Provider" (TVSP) offering set-top boxes and
interactive copper-wire back-channel could be key to free-to-air interactive TV in Australia (17OCT00) (TheAge)
This is the "Push TV" concept: Along with the free-to-air TV stations broadcasting the TV shows, push other content and data, including webpage content, encrypted movies, games, etc., to the harddrive on set-top boxes, and then use the TVSP back-channel to complete the interactive loop. Also click here for a previous news item that publicly discussed the local-TV-station-and-settops-with-push angle. -ruel - What About Enhanced TV Show That Interactively Sells Items Appearing On The Show: Independent Television Commission in UK issues warning and rules Granada plugged spin-off book in non-interactive storyline of "Coronation Street" TV show (16OCT00) (Waveguide)
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Related: British policymakers seek to rewrite broadcasting and telecom legislation to suit new age of convergence
(16OCT00) (FinancialTimes)
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More on Oftel survey of UK households using digital television (17OCT00) (TheAge)
The Age cites the July 2000 survey of UK households by Oftel as finding: (1) 1 in 4 UK households with digital TV got digital TV because of free set-tops; (2) 77% of UK households with digital TV subscribed to extra channels, 60% got interactive services, 34% had email and internet services, and 15% watch free TV and did not subscribe to any extra services; (3) 1 in 5 UK households with digital TV actually use the interactive services, email, and internet that they have access to; and (4) 3 in 5 UK households with digital TV found the EPG to be a popular service, and almost 50% used favorites (aka bookmarks). See the actual survey report linked below for more detailed information. -
Oftel Survey Report: Consumers' use of Digital TV - Summary of Oftel residential survey, Q2 August 2000 (Oct2000) (Oftel)
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