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Net Appliances Need To Join 21st Century: Web will not become ubiquitous until accessible through cheap,
unintimidating, and easy-to-use devices (30OCT00) (SFGate)
In bringing net appliances "below $300, preferably to the magic $199 mark," the San Francisco Chronicle's Henry Norr writes, "Microsoft's WebTV does it, but only by borrowing the customer's TV as its display, a less-than-ideal solution because most Web pages are still text-heavy and designed to be viewed close up." Other net appliances will be in the higher-price ranges unless subsidized or if the price is brought down by relatively high subscription fees.
Norr also likes stripped-down net appliances instead of PCs as public-access terminals in hotel rooms, libraries, cafes, airports, stores, and other public places. Related to public-access terminals, you can click here to check out Get2Net's Netstation. And you can click here for a Net Economy article, "In Search of the Mall-Rat Magnet," on shopping mall kiosks. -
Mobile Phone Video News: GEO Interactive signs ClickPLAY to provide audio and video entertainment previews on GEO Emblaze
wireless platform (30OCT00) (Netimperative)
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Home Broadband Music News: Musicheads using net for broadband stereo music (30OCT00) (Salon)
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Fiber To The Home: Jim Vaughn's Winfirst seeks to build the most extensive U.S. fiber-optic cable network connected to the home
(30OCT00) (Wired)
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FTC attorney Dean Forbes says WebTV users should educate themselves about problems
and shortcomings of internet access devices (29OCT00) (Net4TV)
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Extra Goodies Of DVD And Modems Added To Consoles: Sony Playstation II is just the beginning of videogame war
(29OCT00) (NYTimes.Reuters)
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ZapMedia selects InterVideo's LinDVD Linux DVD player-decoder for DVD video-audio playback capability on the
ZapStation Universal Media Player (25OCT00) (ZapMedia)
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CEA Industry Forum and Fall Conference included convergence forum investigating future of digital home (26OCT00) (CEA)
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Liberate wants to invest millions of U.S. dollars in New Zealand to set up interactive television (28OCT00) (NZHerald.NZPA)
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WIN Television launches TV-friendly information channel using web content repurposed for television environment
using ICE Interactive's iTV application platform (26OCT00) (ICE)
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FOXTEL Stalemate In Digital TV Power Struggle In Australia: Telstra controls FOXTEL set-top box but FOXTEL (owned 50% by
Telstra, 25% by Publishing and Broadcasting, and 25% by News Corp.) owns the subscriber base of 700,000 households
(28OCT00) (AustralianIT)
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Saturday Night Telewebber Movie Trivia Contest: NBC Saturday Night Movie broadcast invites telewebbing TV viewers
to visit movies.NBCi.com every week to answer questions about the Saturday night movie in $100,000 cash giveaway contest (28OCT00) (NBCi)
NBC wants telewebbing TV viewers to pay careful attention to the Saturday night movie broadcast (and, also, to the commercials) so they can log in at movies.NBCi.com to answer questions about the movie at six different times during the broadcast. Non-telewebbing TV viewers can watch and answer the questions also, but without the internet they can't log in to input their answers in the contest. This is like those local TV movie broadcasts where the local TV host invites TV viewers to call in to answer a question for a chance to win a prize. But the NBC contest is conducted on national TV with the immediate instantaneous interactivity of the internet. To enhance the "community" feel of the interactive movie night when people are watching all across the U.S., the NBC Saturday Night Movie has movie night host Ryan Seacrest in what appears to be a busy restaurant-bar environment. BTW, the movie for this particular Saturday night was "Maverick" starring Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, and James Garner. -ruel -
UK TV Licence Fee Increase In April 2001: UK Department of Culture and Media raises television licence fee to fund
BBC programmes and development of digital TV broadcasting services (27OCT00) (Waveguide)
Waveguide quotes UK Minister for Culture and Media Janet Anderson as stating, "This will enable the BBC to provide a strong and distinctive schedule of benchmark quality programmes and remain at the forefront of the development of digital broadcasting services." Waveguide reports the color TV licence fee will be £109 per year and the black-and-white licence fee be £36.50 per year. You can click here for the TVL webpage on television licence fees and which shows the current fee amounts. And you can also click here for some info on those TVL detector vans that drive around the UK trying to catch TV licence evaders. BBC telewebbers can also click here to read about the BBC winning awards at the Bafta Interactive Entertainment Awards. -
Digital TV Pushes UK TV Licence Fee To £109: TV licence fee increase to help finance BBC digital TV services
(27OCT00) (Telegraph)
The Telegraph cites Culture Minister Janet Anderson as indicating the TV licence fee increases "were in line with a funding formula introduced in February to help finance the BBC's digital services." -
Week After Ebay TV News: FOX TV producing "The Ultimate Auction" special in conjunction with
Amazon.com LiveBid website (27OCT00) (Yahoo.THR)
The Hollywood Reporter (THR) reports on the FOX-Amazon TV auction special that is sure to generate telewebber activity as TV viewers simultaneously watch FOX and surf the Amazon website. -
Telewebber Auction TV Special: FOX TV and Amazon partner for "The Ultimate Auction" two-hour television special to be
broadcast on December 7 (27OCT00) (Newsbytes)
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Concurrent Computer Corp. 1Q results include XSTREME Division's video-on-demand revenue growth for
ninth consecutive quarter (27OCT00) (CCUR)
The news announcement quotes Concurrent Computer Corporation president and CEO Jack Bryant as stating, "I am enthusiastic that calendar year 2001 will be remembered as the year for significant VOD deployments in the U.S., and I am confident that Concurrent will continue to be an industry leader in those deployments." -
TVBroadcast interviews MediaSite VP & General Manager Howard J. Affinito who says over-the-air television broadcasters
should leverage the internet (27OCT00) (TVBroadcast)
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Sega Anywhere: Sega Enterprises switching corporate strategy to become "online network and content company" with
Sega content to be available on more online access devices including TV set-top boxes, PCs, handheld devices,
and mobile phones, while Sega of America continues with videogame consoles (27OCT00) (ZDNN)
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Vivid Finds Video Alone Not Enough And Same May Happen For Mainstream Video: Vivid Entertainment seeks to exploit
broadband video interactivity for profitable porn while politicians, regulators, and law enforcement try to clamp down on
online porn (27OCT00) (TheStandard)
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Like Videophone With No Extra Boxes Where You Call On Phone And Change Cable TV Channel: Media Logic's iSeeTV home
shopping system brings "personal shopping assistant" to your television screen in UK (27OCT00) (ITdirector)
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Disney Wants Interactive Return Path: Disney says AOL-Time Warner won't give "fair access" to rival
providers for return paths for interactive television (26OCT00) (Newsbytes)
Also on another cable TV front, Disney's ABC television network may be facing a blackout on Comcast cable systems in Chicago, Flint, Michigan, Los Angeles, New Jersey, Philadelphia, and Toledo, Ohio. Click here and here for a couple stories regarding Disney-ABC's woes with Comcast and cable companies. (28OCT00 update: The Hollywood Reporter reports ABC and Comcast extended their carriage agreement to November 29 to avert blackout.) - Disney says AOL-Time Warner's assurances to not block access to rival programming are belied by AOL-Time Warner provision for proposed deal with ABC freeing AOL-Time Warner from providing access to return path (26OCT00) (Mediaweek)
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Related: Jon Friedman talks about Disney v. Time Warner in comedy blood sport (27OCT00) (CBS.MarketWatch)
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Pace Micro Technology launches DSL4000 digital home gateway as TV ADSL set-top box in U.S. and compatible
with NTSC (26OCT00) (Pace)
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- ZoomTown subscribers to watch TV entertainment-on-demand from Intertainer with Uniview DSL set-top boxes using Microsoft Windows Media Player with digital rights management technology (26OCT00) (Uniview.WSJ)
- Broadwing's ZoomTown.com, Intertainer, Uniview, and Microsoft announce testing of ADSL broadband entertainment delivered to consumer TV sets (26OCT00) (Microsoft) (alt.link) (alt.link)
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Ruel's Spotlight Website: ZoomTown (26OCT00)
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ONdigital considering video-on-demand service for when ADSL becomes serious consumer proposition in UK
(26OCT00) (MediaGuardian)
MediaGuardian quotes ONdigital CEO Stuart Prebble as stating a video-on-demand service would be launched "as and when ADSL becomes a serious consumer proposition." -
I Want My Personal Video Station: Snapstream software let's you turn your PC into personal television system to record
and watch your favorite TV shows over a home network (26OCT00) (SMW.internet)
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Tventures Drafts Former Our Price Music Chairman David Clipsham: Tventures planning to launch interactive TV channels on
Sky Digital including "Mint" interactive music television channel (26OCT00) (MediaGuardian)
MediaGuardian reports the "Mint" interactive music television channel "will be a 24-hour video channel that will encourage viewers to buy CDs while watching the videos. A website is being developed to support the planned user interaction." -
OpenTV 3Q results include deployment on 10M set-top boxes, increased Motorola investment in OpenTV, and
OpenTV Broadband initiative for U.S. market (26OCT00) (OpenTV)
- Add Five Bucks To Add Your Own ISP: Microsoft WebTV says basic pricing for UltimateTV to be available for DIRECTV receivers with UltimateTV service is $9.95 a month for 35 hours of digital video recording, plus ability to pause live TV, interactive TV, and 3 hours of internet access (26OCT00) (Microsoft) (alt.link)
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Microsoft's product marketing manager Karl Empey says UltimateTV subscribers are likely
to have an ISP and may go for $14.95 plan (26OCT00) (CNET)
CNET reports, "UltimateTV is compatible with many ISPs, but not with America Online" since "AOL has chosen not to conform to some industry standards." (On the computer side of the world, and for those with desktop PCs, click here for a news story on AOL Plus for DirecPC which is a PC satellite internet service.) -
UltimateTV service is likely to be available sometime in mid-December 2000 (26OCT00) (Newsbytes)
Newsbytes reports, "Microsoft said when it introduced the UltimateTV package last June that it would be available for the holiday season. Today the spokesperson said it would likely be available in mid-December." -
UltimateTV is said to be the only fully integrated product offering DIRECTV programming, digital video recording,
interactive television, internet access, and simultaneous dual TV show watching in one complete package
(26OCT00) (InternetNews)
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Tickets To Be Donated To Alameda County Middle Schools: Microsoft WebTV Networks and Oakland Raiders
to launch the Microsoft WebTV Kids Corner at home football games (26OCT00) (Microsoft)
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Beam Me A Coupon, Scotty: Use VEIL technology to beam supermarket coupons from the TV
to your cell phone (26OCT00) (WIRED)
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ZDNet Equip's roundup on universal remote controls for TV and home theater systems (26OCT00) (Equip.ZDNet)
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