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Microsoft Recommends Uniview In Campaign For MPEG4: Uniview Technologies Corp. to announce future development and
deployment of broadband digital set-top box products through high-growth DSL and cable markets (02NOV00) (Uniview)
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SNAP2 enters into services agreement with Microsoft WebTV to provide SNAP2's digital television software services
and embedded software expertise (02NOV00) (SNAP2)
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Click Pizza Hut Icon On MyITV In Australia: ICE Interactive and Pizza Hut launch interactive pizza ordering system via TV sets
in Australia (02NOV00) (ICE)
The news announcement quotes ICE Interactive Ltd. managing director Carl Braden as stating, "This is the first true example of t-commerce in Australia. Hundreds of Orange residents will now be able to order pizzas and other Pizza Hut menu items while watching TV. Viewers simply click on the Pizza Hut icon on their TV screen with their remote control. And since they can still see and hear the TV program while they're making their pizza selections, they don't miss any of the action on their favorite TV shows." -
Pizza Ordering Via TV In Australia: Pizza Hut to try out remote-control pizza ordering during interactive TV test
in Orange by ICE Interactive on WIN Television (02NOV00) (SMH)
The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) quotes Carat Australia buying director James Parkinson as stating, "We're not so much interested in the technology but how it impacts on consumer behaviour so we can advise our clients on how best to use interactive television." Carat facilitated the deal for the Pizza Hut interactive TV advertising. -
Pizza Hut heading into T-commerce in Australia (02NOV00) (B&TM&M)
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Gas Pump Video News: Phillips 66 gas stations to have display monitors on gas pumps showing
full-motion news and advertisements from BillBoard Video (02NOV00) (Mediaweek)
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Eagle Wireless and ClearWorks.net to showcase technology at Comdex Fall 2000 for providing voice, data, and video services via
high-speed fiber-to-the-home digital lines for commercial and residential customers (02NOV00) (EGLW)
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IBM spinoff Home Director secures $55M first-round funding for home networking (01NOV00) (DailyDeal)
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Home Networking Sort Of Grows Up: Home networks still slow to find a broad audience (02NOV00) (NYTimes)
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Charter Communications 3Q results include deployment of video-on-demand technology to about 167,000 homes in
Pasadena, California, and the Project Disco joint venture with Motorola Broadband Communications Sector, ReplayTV,
and Vulcan Ventures to integrate digital video recording capabilities into advanced digital set-top boxes (02NOV00)
(NYTimes.BW)
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- Local News And Info For Set-Tops: CableSoft and MyCity.com team up to deliver local content via interactive TV to advanced analog and digital set-top boxes from Motorola (02NOV00) (Yahoo.BW)
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Ruel's Spotlight Website: CableSoft (02NOV00)
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AT&T Broadband to test SpotOn from ACTV's Digital ADCO for addressable interactive digital TV advertising (02NOV00)
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Use Kid-Friendly Remote Control Instead Of V-Chip: Weemote TV remote control let's the kids surf among only five channels
that you select ahead of time (02NOV00) (TimeDigital)
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Sony working on 360-degree cylindrical multi-directional video content to packaged on DVD-ROM for play on
Playstation II and eventually on PC (02NOV00) (Sony)
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Sony Says PS2 Is A Computer In Europe: European Commission says Sony Playstation II is a videogame console
and therefore subject to 2.2% rate on every machine imported into the European Union (02NOV00) (TheRegister)
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NFL Broadband Video News: NFL.com to have new broadband link for NFL Films TV to show unused film and video of
National Football League games not shown on regular TV (01NOV00) (Mediaweek)
- More On Matsushita-Toshiba-Sony-Hitachi e-Platform Joint Venture: Set-top box standard expected have 30-40 gigabyte harddrive, stored data on harddrive, modem with initial 36.6K speed, harddrive also partitioned into service provider section and user section for 7-8 hours of standard-definition digital TV programming, and remote controller instead of keyboard to control all functions (01NOV00) (EETimes)
- TVIA's CyberPro5005 streaming media processor is put into Fujitsu Siemens Computers' ACTIVY 300 third-generation digital set-top box for broadband advanced digital services and applications (01NOV00) (NYTimes.BW) (alt.link) (related.link)
- NxtWave's NXT2000 demodulator to be installed in Seoul Korea-based Macro Image Technology's Teres MDR-100 HDTV receiving set-top box and MyHD MDP100 DTV PC-Card (01NOV00) (NxtWave) (alt.link)
- M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers Ltd. opens sales and marketing office in Seoul, South Korea (01NOV00) (MSys) (alt.link)
- Sigma Designs selects Quickturn MercuryPlus emulation system for development of next generation high-performance single-chip set-top box solution (01NOV00) (Cadence) (alt.link) (related.link)
- Adelphia to deploy Wink Enhanced Broadcasting and the Wink Response Network beginning this quarter (01NOV00) (Wink) (alt.link) (alt.link)
- Consumer Electronics Association providing "Switched On" comprehensive and objective guide to consumer electronics products (01NOV00) (CEA)
- Ruel's Spotlight Website: CEA's "Switched On" Complete Guide to Buying and Connecting Consumer Electronics (02NOV00)
- Internet Appliance Push Begins: Forbes looks at Compaq iPAQ IA-2, 3Com Audrey, Netpliance I-Opener, New Internet Computer, eMachines MSN Companion, and Honeywell WebPAD (01NOV00) (Forbes)
- TV And Stereos To Be Separate From Net Unless Broadband With Compelling Content Increases: PricewaterhouseCoopers Consumer Technology Survey 2000 finds currently only 6% of net surfers in U.S., 2% in Australia, and 4% in Europe say entertainment was primary reason for going on the internet (01NOV00) (InternetNews)
InternetNews quotes PricewaterhouseCoopers' entertainment & media practice global leader Kevin Carton as stating, "In order to make [the internet] a viable alternative source for entertainment, broadband access must increase in hand with more compelling content. Until then, TVs and stereos will remain separate entities from PCs in the home."- PricewaterhouseCoopers Finds Broadband Video Interest Low: Streaming videos and short online films downloaded by 16% of internet surfers in France, 12% in Germany, 11% in UK, and 11% in US, while almost half of the respondents had no interest in downloading videos (03NOV00) (TheStandard)
- Web Is Still For Info: PricewaterhouseCoopers report says entertainment is rarely mentioned as No. 1 reason for going online (03NOV00) (MediaLife)
- Broadband Not Cheap To Have: PricewaterhouseCoopers survey finds that expensive cost is main reason why consumers not using broadband (03NOV00) (PCWorld.IDG)
- Canal+ Joins UMG's Broadband Programming Initiative: Canal+ U.S. Technologies to port Universal Music Group's "The Viewing Lounge" to interactive TV set-top boxes for personalized custom blocks of broadband music (01NOV00) (PRN) (alt.link) (related.link)
- Liberate TV Platform Compact 2.4. available to provide interactive services on millions of existing low-powered digital set-top boxes (01NOV00) (Liberate) (alt.link)
- PowerTV says more than 70 interactive TV content creators, developers, operators, and equipment manufacturers gathered at PowerTV's PowerSummit 2000 (01NOV00) (PRN) (alt.link)
- Next Big TV Jump Is To Digital TV: Television history from shadowy grey to the brink of digital (01NOV00) (AustralianIT)
- Web May Pose Threat To TV Primetime: 50% of regular internet users go online between 6 pm and 9 pm (02NOV00) (MediaGuardian)
- Telewebber News: Nielsen / NetRatings says TV primetime is most popular time for UK consumers to go online (01NOV00) (Netimperative)
Netimperative reports "just under 50% of active internet users in September went online between 6pm and 9pm." Netimperative also reports that Nielsen predicts the internet leisure use "will have implications for broadcasters and advertisers with the advent of broadband and convergence."
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- More On Matsushita-Toshiba-Sony-Hitachi e-Platform Joint Venture: Set-top box standard expected have 30-40 gigabyte harddrive, stored data on harddrive, modem with initial 36.6K speed, harddrive also partitioned into service provider section and user section for 7-8 hours of standard-definition digital TV programming, and remote controller instead of keyboard to control all functions (01NOV00) (EETimes)
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