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- Broadband Pay-Per-Game: Yummy Interactive makes agreements with videogame publishers Activision, Eidos, Infogrames, and Ripcord Games (20OCT00) (WIRED)
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More Videogames Via Broadband: Stream Theory provides videogames for PC via streaming for sampling, renting, and
buying without need to download, install, and configure the videogame software (20OCT00) (Gamepro)
- Olympics Net Video News: Sydney Olympics to be last TV-only broadcast Olympics (20OCT00) (TVBroadcast)
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Related Olympics-Type Video News: Sydney Paralympic Games are webcast on only WeMedia.com website
(20OCT00) (AFR)
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October Baseball Memories: "Subway" World Series between NY Yankees and NY Mets baseball teams is time to crank
up the VCR, TiVo, or ReplayTV for recording October baseball memories (20OCT00) (Twice)
Twice's Steve Smith really wants to talk about baseball when he writes, "VCRs, big screen TVs, DVD recordable decks (pick your favorite format), TiVo, Replay, heck even HDTVs seem to be invented for major sporting events." -
NFL Broadband News: NFL to stream American football games to select international markets via subscription / pay-per-view
broadband service in partnership with Fantastic Entertainment and GlobalMedia (19OCT00) (HollywoodReporter)
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The Hollywood Reporter cites GlobalMedia CEO Jeff Mandelbaum as indicating "he sees such services as the NFL's driving the adoption of broadband technology." The Hollywood Reporter further quotes Mandelbaum as stating, "By 2004, more than 50% of Internet users will be broadband-enabled throughout the world."
One year ago, the NFL was also reported to be conducting an experiment for webcasting American football games via cable internet and DSL to fans in Vienna, Amsterdam, and Singapore. -
Don't expect NFL broadband webcasts in U.S., Canada, Mexico, or Japan (19OCT00) (eV)
eV cites NFL senior vice president Tola Murphy-Baran as indicating the NFL broadband webast service "won't be available to any Web surfers in markets where the NFL has already achieved 'substantial penetration,' such as the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Japan, for fear of cannibalizing the league's existing off-line distribution networks." That is, the NFL doesn't want to upset the major TV broadcast, cable TV, and satellite TV networks that are broadcasting the football games to TV viewers. -
Related Pay-Per-View Sports: Whether paying through the armchair really makes money for PPV
sports events (20OCT00) (MediaGuardian)
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Personal TV Sports: TiVo's team line-up now includes Joe Montana at the Sports Marketing Offensive Coordinator
position and Ronnie Lott at the Sports Marketing Defensive Coordinator position (18OCT00) (TiVo)
The news announcement quotes former Super Bowl quarterback Joe Montana as stating, "I'm really excited about this. Ronnie and I will help develop TiVo's sports marketing strategy and get the word out on what the TiVo personal TV service is all about. As a longstanding TiVo subscriber myself, I believe in the company, I love the service and look forward to working with the team to reach out to sports fans." -
Virtual Horseracing: The Ten Network in Australia to show virtual Melbourne Cup horse race before actual race
using Pineapplehead virtual system (19OCT00) (AustralianIT.APP)
AAP quotes Pineapplehead managing director Evan Kourambas as stating, "We are finding a continued enthusiasm for our products and ideas for TV, internet and broadband services." -
Whopping 84 Specific ITV Prognostications: John Townley reads Phillip Swann's soon-to-be-published TV.Com book (19OCT00) (SMWnews)
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Streaming Media World's John Townley says Phillip Swann's book, TV.com: How Television Is Shaping Our Future, is a "Must Read for Streamers." You can click here to pre-order Phillip's new book which is due out next month in November. -
More On Recent Strategis Group Report: Interactive TV market is still too complex
for any one product or service to appeal to everyone (19OCT00) (CyberAtlas)
- Scientific-Atlanta begins shipping faster, smaller, more consumer-friendly Explorer 2100 and 3100 set-tops (19OCT00) (SciAtl) (alt.link)
- Scientific-Atlanta 1Q highlights include quarterly digital set-top shipments exceeding 1M units and subsidiary PowerTV operating system cumulative shipments reaching 4M units (19OCT00) (SciAtl) (alt.link)
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Scientific-Atlanta profits double due to higher set-top sales (19OCT00) (CNET)
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DIRECTV, Wink, and THOMSON multimedia provide demo of DIRECTV INTERACTIVE Powered by Wink with
sneak preview of new interactive channels from Barnes & Noble, ESPN, NBC, and the Weather Channel (19OCT00) (Wink)
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- National Semiconductor announces second generation National Mediamatics NDV8501 DVD-on-a-chip directed at all DVD feature ranges, internet.connected DVD, and internet access applications (19OCT00) (NatSemi)
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National Semiconductor announces next-gen DVD-on-a-chip (19OCT00) (EinSite)
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Broadcom begins sampling BCM3352 EuroDOCSIS residential gateway chip for
high-speed always-on Internet access, audio and video streaming, multi-line VoIP telephony, and
secure home networking of PCs and peripherals (19OCT00) (EinSite)
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Radio Shack As Your Connectivity Store: Excite@Home with Cox, Comcast, and AT&T Broadband to sell QuickStart
installation kits and cable modems at participating Radio Shack stores (19OCT00) (Excite@Home)
The news announcement quotes RadioShack Corp. chairman, president and CEO Leonard Roberts as stating, "Our business strategy is to become America's Home Connectivity Store.... By offering multiple broadband transport choices, including cable, RadioShack puts high-speed Internet service within easy reach of millions of American consumers." - Radio Shack to offer Excite@Home installation kit (19OCT00) (Mercury.Reuters) (alt.link) (related.link) (related.link)
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Do-It-Yourself Broadband: Excite@Home QuickStart self-installation kit costs $30 for CD installation software,
proper cords, and connections but have to buy cable modem separate
(20OCT00) (Forbes)
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No Fear UK Streaming TV Watchers: TVLA detector vans can't tell if you're watching TV streamed to PC in UK
(19OCT00) (TheRegister)
The Register quotes a statement from the Television Licensing Authority (TVLA) in the UK as stating, "Currently, our detection equipment is not designed to pick up signals given off by PC monitors and laptop screens. However, as the statement says, detection equipment is only one tool available to us. An address that already has a TV Licence would not require an additional licence if, in addition, a PC was being used in the house to watch TV." -
N2H2 and Bush Internet to filter out porno and gambling websites on internet TV in UK (19OCT00) (Netimperative)
Netimperative quotes N2H2 managing director Peter Hodgson as stating, "With TV sets becoming internet-enabled, there is a need for filtering controls. It makes sense for Bush Internet to offer content filtering - so that parents can restrict access to unsuitable content." -
Chairman Denies Charges Of Stock Manipulation: Freedomland chairman Virgilio Degiovanni resigns in blow up of
IPO scandal for internet TV company in Italy (18OCT00) (FinancialTimes)
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For Those Who Are So Gung Ho For Mobile Wireless: CNET's Borland and Grice report on reality checks that
dampen wireless optimism (18OCT00) (CNET)
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FOX To Be Wink-Enabled: FOX Broadcasting Company to add interactive Wink enhancements
to all FOX primetime TV shows (18OCT00) (Wink)
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The news announcement quotes Wink programming vice president Jeremy Handelman as stating, "Wink's end-to-end interactive television service provides a tremendous number of viewers an ability to interact with FOX programs in a way never before available. The same viewer interested in his or her favorite FOX series can keep watching, while also easily accessing a deeper level of interactive content, all without paying any additional monthly fee." - TV Search Engine: ICTV and StreamSearch.com form strategic relationship to showcase a "TV-Ready" version of StreamSearch.com Search Engine Services on ICTV’s platform (18OCT00) (ICTV)
- ICTV appoints Edith Crowe as ICTV's new vice president of marketing (18OCT00) (ICTV)
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ICTV announces upgrade release of ICTV TV Browser version 2.3.1(16OCT00) (ICTV)
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Liberate Technologies sets up wholly-owned subsidiary Liberate Technologies Japan K.K. in Tokyo (18OCT00) (Liberate)
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- Seven Network in Australia sprints out of post-Olympics blocks towards digital TV future (19OCT00) (TheAge.AAP) (alt.link) (related.link)
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More News From Australia: Labor leader Kim Beazley says new technology requires deregulation of
telecom laws as well as big investments in education and technology (18OCT00) (AustralianIT)
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Philips to integrate the SpotLife personal "point, click, and broadcast" service with Philips PC video cameras (18OCT00) (Spotlife)
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Fingering DVD Pirates: Intelligent Automation provides DiskPrint technology to identify unique "fingerprint" of DVDs and CDs
to determine who made the disc (18OCT00) (WIRED)
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More Bill McCloskey who says internet radio, not TV, will be killer app driving broadband adoption in 2001 (18OCT00) (ClickZ)
- ZapMedia and MP3.com announce strategic agreement to develop co-branded music platform for ZapMedia ZapStation (17OCT00) (ZapMedia)
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People Want Entertainment News: ZapMedia ZapStation subscribers to access entertainment-based
content including news, interviews, and feature stories from MediaX amuZnet.com entertainment website (16OCT00) (ZapMedia)
- Pace Micro Technology demos video-on-demand delivered through Telewest digital cable set-top box at BCE 2000 (17OCT00) (Pace)
- Pace Micro Technology says it has the only commercially deployed digital set-top boxes with integrated DOCSIS, EuroDOCSIS, and DAVIC cable modems (17OCT00) (Pace)
- Pace Demos Digital Cable Expertise At BCE 2000: Pace to unveil evolution of digital cable set-top box into gateway of the networked home (17OCT00) (Pace)
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Pace provides demonstration of Pace wireless home networking technology (17OCT00) (Pace)
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