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- MetaTitle Web-Enabled Movies On DVD: Metalepsis announces launch of double-movie DVD for internet-connected DVD set-top boxes, computer DVD-ROM, and DVD-capable videogame consoles including Sony Playstation 2 and Microsoft XBOX (22MAY01) (Metalepsis) (alt.link) (alt.link) (alt.link) (related.link)
One side of the interactive DVD movie disc has the "Game Over" movie and the other side has the "Montauk Girl" movie. The news announcement states, "Both movies combine the captivating nature of the cinema with live, dynamic Internet content, a combination that represents the first such interconnection between the film industry, the Internet, and the DVD ROM medium.... Produced using the iMMERSION suite of software products, this DVD enables viewers to see Internet content from within the movies themselves. The viewer can use the DVD disc to view live, streaming media on the Internet in conjunction with DVD-specific content or simply get caught up in the movies themselves." You can click here to check out Metalepsis and here to check out iMMERSION New Media.- NDS Wants XTV To Be De Facto Standard For PVRs: Broadcom to incorporate NDS Integrated Conditional Access Module technology into Broadcom next-generation cable and satellite set-top box chips and to support NDS XTV (22MAY01) (Broadcom) (alt.link) (alt.link) (alt.link) (related.link)
The news announcement quotes NDS Group consumer devices vice president Dr. Jas Saini as stating, "We're optimistic that XTV will become the de facto standard for PVR set-top boxes."- Belief In The End Of TiVo: Deutsche Banc Alex Brown analyst Peter Ausnit says "I continue to believe that TiVo will vanish from the Earth within 12 months from now" (22MAY01) (CNBC)
- Fall Of Metabox In Germany: Metabox AG files for insolvency and seeks reorganization in Germany (22MAY01) (Metabox) (related.link) (related.link) (related.link) (related.link) (related.link)
In the related news item, FTMarketwatch reports German prosecutors had recently searched Metabox offices and executives' homes in Germany for evidence of insider trading. There is a Metabox USA which is independent of and apart from the problems associated with the Metabox in Germany but they are using the same set-top boxes and technology.- JumpTV News From Canada: JumpTV to use Quova filters to block non-Canadian internet surfers from watching internet retransmission of TV broadcasts in Canada (22MAY01) (CNET) (related.link) (related.link) (related.link)
You can click here and here for other past JumpTV news. CNET reports JumpTV "has a way to stop Americans and other foreigners at the borders" using "some technology developed internally" and "using filters developed by Silicon Valley's Quova, which uses Web surfers' network addresses to pinpoint their geographical location by country, region, and possibly even ZIP code."- Effect Of JumpTV Retransmission: JumpTV CEO Farrel Miller says the National Association of Broadcasters should not believe its own rhetoric that JumpTV internet retransmission activities would gravely threaten the US television broadcasting industry (16MAY01) (JumpTV.THR)
In a filing made with the Canadian Copyright Board, the Hollywood Reporter (THR) quotes JumpTV CEO Farrel Miller as stating, "Surely the NAB does not believe its own rhetoric that JumpTV's retransmission activities would gravely threaten the U.S. broadcasting industry as it exists today."- JumpTV CEO Farrel Miller says internet retransmission of TV broadcasts should be permissible under Canadian law which should be technology-neutral (14MAY01) (TorontoStar) (alt.link)
The Toronto Star quotes JumpTV CEO Farrel Miller as stating, "We think it's inconceivable that any authority, governmental or otherwise, would suggest that retransmission would be permissible over one kind of technology but not over another. It would seem to us the law has to be technology neutral."- TV Shopping Channel Telewebber News: On-Air and online rebranding of ValueVision shopping channel to ShopNBC is set for June 22 (22MAY01) (NYTimes.PRN) (alt.link)
ValueVision's first quarter highlights include setting up the new ValueVision Enhanced Broadcast Technologies Group which took over the NBC Enhanced Broadcast Group and interactive television enhancements for NBC. Also ValueVision began broadcasting its "Bid Bash" live TV-internet telewebber auction show in primetime with host Robin Leach. You can click here for other recent NBC news involving the CueTV. As well as using CueTV with NBC shows, watch for possible CueTV interaction with ShopNBC sometime in the future. -ruel- Testing Enhanced Television: RespondTV and Jacobs Rimell launch enhanced broadcast digital television showcase to provide test bed for enhanced broadcast supporting Liberate, Microsoft, OpenTV, Spyglass, and WorldGate for Europe and the US (22MAY01) (RespondTV) (alt.link) (alt.link)
- Secure Video-On-Demand Content Delivery: Concurrent Computer Corp successfully tests and validates TVN Digital Content Express Video-On-Demand asset management and distribution system for use with Concurrent MediaHawk video servers (22MAY01) (NYTimes.BW) (alt.link)
- DVB Content Distribution: Nagravision Conditional Access System integrated with Scientific-Atlanta PowerVu BitMizer to provide TV operators with fully integrated and tested DVB solution for content distribution (22MAY01) (SciAtl) (alt.link)
- Digital TV Chip News: IBM and Mitel team up for development of digital television system-on-a-chip solutions for digital TV sets and advanced set-top boxes using IBM PowerPC-based set-top integrated controller technology and Mitel demodulation and digital television expertise (22MAY01) (IBM) (alt.link) (alt.link) (alt.link) (alt.link) (related.link)
- Espial to demo Espial DeviceServer service-provisioning system and Espial DeviceTop for internet appliances and interactive digital TV at SUPERCOMM, June 5-7, 2001, in Atlanta, Georgia (22MAY01) (Espial) (alt.link)
- Digital TV Transition In The US: FCC Chairman Michael Powell tells US Congressman Edward Markey that consumers may not buy digital TVs unless there is an industry copy-protection agreement (21MAY01) (Multichannel)
Multichannel quotes FCC chairman Michael Powell's letter to US Congressman Edward Markey as stating, 'With digital content, consumers are unlikely to purchase digital-television equipment, regardless of how well it works" unless there is a copy protection agreement in the industry but "Copy protection and licensing are almost entirely outside the [FCC's] control."- Asking For Open Non-Discriminatory Access Regulation Of iTV In The US: Disney's Preston Padden says consumers should enjoy unfettered access to any site of their choosing including interactive sites associated with a TV channel (21MAY01) (Multichannel)
Multichannel quotes Disney government relations executive vice president Preston Padden as stating, "The issue is whether consumers who have paid the platform owner for both two-way Internet access and for TV service will enjoy unfettered access to any site of their choosing, including interactive sites associated with a channel on the TV service.... the point is that consumers who have paid a platform owner [cable or satellite] for both Internet access and TV should be able to access any site - even those that do not have leverage with the platform owner."- Regulation Could Be Fatal To The Developing iTV Industry: Wink Communications CEO Maggie Wilderotter says government regulation of the evolving interactive television industry would scare away the already skeptical investment community (18MAY01) (Multichannel)
In covering Wink Communications CEO Maggie Wilderotter's speech at the Washington Metropolitan Cable Club, Multichannel quotes Wilderotter as stating, "Regulation would undoubtedly create a further downturn in the valuation of new-media companies and the already skeptical investment community will be scared away. At this early stage of development, any investment reluctance could be fatal."- Adding TiVo To AOL-TW Mix: Forrester Research Analyst Josh Bernoff says "AOL Time Warner Should Buy TiVo" (21MAY01) (EMonline)
With regard to AOLTV, Electronic Media quotes Forrester Research analyst Josh Bernoff as stating, "Cable operators that want to control their own walled gardens ... have little use for AOL's TV interface, AOL TV."- Other AOL-TW News: Rearden Steel Technologies and AOL Time Warner are said to be discussing how to use Rearden stealth set-top box (21MAY01) (Multichannel)
- Satellite TV PVRs: DirecTV to begin promotional offers for DirecTV-TiVo receivers and for DirecTV-UltimateTV receivers (21MAY01) (Multichannel)
In related satellite TV news for the US, Multichannel also cites EchoStar Communications chairman Charlie Ergen as indicating Echostar "plans to introduce a two-tuner PVR later this year" and is also developing a PVR for recording HDTV.- More TiVo News: TiVo provides selected short films from iFilm and AtomFilms (21MAY01) (ZDNN)
- 16 Million Club: OpenTV announces 16 million set-top box deployments worldwide (21MAY01) (OpenTV) (related.link) (related.link) (related.link)
The news announcement quotes OpenTV CEO James Ackerman as stating, "We are now the leader in activated middleware deployments in the United States, and we continue to extend our deployments leadership outside of the U.S. We plan to continue proliferating our core platform, and build our iTV applications business upon our market-leading position in set-top boxes."- OpenTV On Nexperia: OpenTV to port interactive television middleware to Philips Semiconductors' Nexperia Home Entertainment Engine line (21MAY01) (OpenTV) (alt.link) (related.link) (related.link) (related.link) (related.link)
- Interactivity & Video-On-Demand On Cable TV: Insight Communications' CFO & COO Kim Kelly says launching interactive services and video-on-demand will stem the tide of losses to DBS (21MAY01) (Multichannel) (related.link)
Multichannel reports that Disney's reduction of Disney titles in Insight video-on-demand library has had no discernible effect on VOD buy-rates- Adelphia Communications to offer subscription video-on-demand services from Home Box Office, Starz Encore, and Showtime in Cleveland and Pennsylvania beginning in June (21MAY01) (Multichannel) (related.link)
Multichannel reports, "Adelphia is the first MSO to officially announce plans for SVOD services that would allow operators to offer movies that debut within their premium windows on a VOD basis." In the related news item, Multichannel quotes Adelphia Communications finance vice president Jim Brown as stating, 'We're pretty good at selling HBO, but we're poor at retaining those customers. [SVOD] will help in the retention of these subscribers."
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- MetaTitle Web-Enabled Movies On DVD: Metalepsis announces launch of double-movie DVD for internet-connected DVD set-top boxes, computer DVD-ROM, and DVD-capable videogame consoles including Sony Playstation 2 and Microsoft XBOX (22MAY01) (Metalepsis) (alt.link) (alt.link) (alt.link) (related.link)
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