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- Planetweb Uses ZiVA-5 For Internet DVD: C-Cube Microsystems intros ZiVA-5 DVD system processor (23OCT00) (CCube) (alt.link)
- C-Cube intros ZiVA-5 chip for MP3 and DVD audio in DVD players (23OCT00) (EinSite)
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DVD Players To Replace CD Audio Systems: C-Cube's DVD processing engine adds music (23OCT00) (EETimes)
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Keen Personal Media to integrate Metabyte MbTV preference determination software into Keen PM TV4me software
(23OCT00) (PRN)
- Telewest and Atomic Tangerine form SmashedAtom consultancy to offer strategic advice, concept development, graphic design, programming, and project management services for interactive television (23OCT00) (Netimperative) (related.link)
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Telewest and AtomicTangerine form new interactive TV joint venture to provide development services
for interactive television (23OCT00) (MediaGuardian)
- Open launches Open Extra as television online department store (23OCT00) (MediaGuardian)
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Interactive TV service Open launches an interactive department store in time for Xmas in UK (23OCT00) (Revolution)
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More AOL-Time Warner News: Disney and NBC want conditions put on AOL-Time Warner to ensure consumers can interact with
interactive TV programming as provided by Disney or NBC (23OCT00) (TheStandard)
In a one-liner in the news item, The Standard reports, "Disney and NBC have been pushing for conditions so consumers can interact with Disney-ABC [and NBC] television programming the same way they will with content owned by AOL Time Warner." -
Post IPO Blow-Up News: Freedomland Internet Television Network resumes trading after week-long suspension from
Italy's Nuovo Mercato (18OCT00) (TheStandard.Europe)
- Gartner Viewpoint commentary on net appliances' bumpy road (23OCT00) (CNET.Gartner)
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Net Appliances Have PC As Main Competitor: Net appliances finding niches but not profits (23OCT00) (CNET)
CNET reports, "Even those who are skeptical of today's appliance market say that once homes have speedy broadband connections to the Web, the market for Net appliances will become substantial." CNET then cites Dataquest analyst Martin Reynolds as indicating, "As for the types of devices that will succeed, ... fixed-function and room-specific devices, such as a telephone-like device that makes phone calls over the Internet."
Hmm, "telephone-like device that makes phone calls over the Internet." Isn't that a phone but you use the internet for the connection, right? So, why refer to telephones as net appliances? Okay, now add video to that "telephone-like device." You'll then you have a videophone. Now, add entertainment, TV streams, movie videos, music, games, etc. That "telephone-like device" will have to be more than a mere phone because you can always hook up regular telephones to extension jacks in each room of a home without the need for broadband. -ruel -
Disney Accused Of Sneaky AOLTV Peek: AOL says Disney accessed confidential information revealing AOL strategy for
competing against TV broadcast networks and terms of AOLTV contracts (21OCT00) (FinancialTimes)
The Financial Times reports, "In AOL's October 18 letter to the FCC, the company said that the secret documents concerned the company's 'strategy for competing against broadcast networks and the terms of AOLTV contracts.'" -
Secret AOL TV info said to have been sent to people who are central to every significant competitive decision
at Disney (21OCT00) (CNET.Reuters)
(alt.link)
Also check out the previous Washington Post news items where the Washington Post's Sebastian Mallaby in an op-ed column says Disney lobbyist Preston Padden wants the government to stomp on AOL and the proposed AOL-Time Warner merger, and the letter to the editor where the Center For Media Education's executive director Jeffrey Chester says in a response to the op-ed column that the real battle between Disney and AOL-Time Warner will be in "the lucrative interactive TV market" and not with internet broadband access. (Also see the next three news items which discuss or deal with content that would require broadband access for quality webcast streaming video and fast video file downloads.) -
This Isn't Your Father's TV: Gary Arlen says conventional TV stations and FCC regulators don't grok webcast programming
and how they may lose TV programming advantage to the evolving internet platform (20OCT00) (Newsbytes)
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Digital Chastity Belt For Net Video: MPAA chief Jack Valenti asks movie and TV engineers to use technology
to defeat napster-style video thievery (20OCT00) (Inside)
In referring to napster-style video file-sharing, Inside quotes Motion Picture Association of America chief Jack Valenti as stating, "Technology may make it easy to steal, but that doesn't make it right." -
FilmsOn provides online interactive film guide and search engine as "legitimate alternative to illegal file-sharing" (20OCT00)
(Mediaweek)
Mediaweek quotes FilmsOn chief creative officer Tony Lord as describing the FilmsOn.com website as "a legitimate alternative to illegal file-sharing." Mediaweek also quotes the FilmsOn chief creative officer as stating, "As the popularity of true video-on-demand evolves, we will continue to provide links and information only to legal sites and downloads." -
Ruel's Spotlight Website: FilmsOn.com (21OCT00)
- PS2 As The Convergence Box: Sony wants to get into your living room in a big convergence way with Sony Playstation II for videogames, DVD movies, and CD music (20OCT00) (Mercury)
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But PS2 broadband adapter is not ready; also Babbages brand marketing VP Russ Howard says DVD is not driving
factor to make Sony Playstation II successful (20OCT00) (WIRED)
Wired reports, "Sony said it will someday offer a broadband adapter that will connect the PS2 to the Internet via cable or DSL modem. However, no release date has been specified, nor has Sony revealed an online strategy adding network play."
Wired also quotes specialty game retailer Babbages brand marketing vice president Russ Howard as stating, "DVD is not the driving factor in making the PS2 successful. But it certainly is nice that it plays games and movies and consolidates two machines into one." - TiVo expects to add 100,000 more subscribers in 4Q (20OCT00) (eV)
- TiVo 3Q results include 39% sequential revenue growth, 52% sequential subscriber growth, TiVo-capable DIRECTV receiver, intro of TiVo service in UK with BSkyB, TiVo-AOL deal raising $200M of equity, STARZ Encore deal, and helping to create a national TV sample to forecast the future impact of personal TV (19OCT00) (PDF file) (TiVo) (html.link)
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TiVo beats analyst 3Q expectations as revenue and subscriber base grows (19OCT00) (CNET)
(related.link)
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TiVo Also At Radio Shack: TiVo announces RCA personal video recorders with TiVo service are
available at Radio Shack stores nationwide in U.S. (19OCT00) (TiVo)
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For Your Home Audio-Video System: Sampo America intros new line of DVD players including DVE-620 with
component video output, DVE-660 with Dolby digital decoder, and DVE-625 with karaoke (20OCT00) (Videography)
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Pick The Digital TV Winners: Scottish Equitable's Technology Fund manager Stuart O'Gorman likes Liberate, OpenTV, Scientific
Atlanta, Pioneer, and Philips; Scottish Widows manager Andrew Fraser likes Pace Micro Technology and NDS; Scottish Value
Management's European Growth fund manager Michael Nicol likes Novabase and Octal; and Financial Times MarketWatch's
Bernard Hickey says look to AOL-Time Warner and News Corp. for content (20OCT00) (FTMarketwatch)
- NDS Gets Former Soap Advertiser: NDS signs up former Procter & Gamble associate director Rahul Chakkara as new NDS director of interactive advertising (20OCT00) (Revolution)
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NDS's new interactive advertising director Rahul Chakkara created interactive TV marketing models for
Procter & Gamble, including Procter & Gamble's first interactive TV advertisements for satellite and cable
(17OCT00) (NDS)
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Related TV Soaps But Streaming: 4O'Clock-4Play web video soap opera streams one-minute episodes on the net
every weekday and puts product placement advertising in streaming soap storyline (20OCT00) (PCWorld)
PC World reports, "If you plan to tune in, be prepared for in-your-face product placement. The necklace Destiny wears and the golf club Brady swings [in the soap opera] are both hawked shamelessly. In fact, there seems to be no other reason for the golf club other than to sell it." You can click here for the 4O'Clock 4Play soap opera. And you can also click here for telewebber soap opera news. -
Don't Be Too Web-Centric When People Will Buy Great Content In Any Format: Andy Bourland wants yahoo-like interface on
his TV but he would settle on watching DVDs for episodes of "Sex And The City" (20OCT00) (ClickZ)
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TV Encyclopedia: NTL puts Hutchinson Educational Encyclopedia on interactive Knowledge Channel
(20OCT00) (MediaGuardian)
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Ruel's Spotlight Website: GlobalFashionTV.com (20OCT00)
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"Whistler" Previously Reported To Have Digital TV Software: Windows "Whistler" release
said likely to be late and could slip to Y2002 (20OCT00) (VNUNET)
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Blue Mountain video email greeting cards for Windows PCs with dial-up and cable modems (20OCT00) (TimeDigital)
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