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Digital TV In Australia: Prime Television to begin digital television broadcasting in Canberra in five weeks on June 30
(24MAY01) (AustralianIT)
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Watching Enhanced TV In Brazil: Globo Cabo General Director Moyses Pluciennik says the killer app is enhanced TV with
interaction with the broadcast using a remote control (21MAY01) (EMonline)
Electronic Media quotes Globo Cabo general director Moyses Pluciennik as stating, "We have a very popular show called 'Vôce Decide' ['You Decide']. Hundreds of thousands [of TV viewers] call in - an estimated 200,000 calls in 20 minutes - to select an ending to the drama from choices offered by the network.... [After the votes are made,] you watch what the average Brazilian wants to watch. With enhanced TV, you would select the ending you want to watch with one device. And you can make comments to other viewers." Globo Cabo is using Microsoft TV Basic, NDS interactive TV software, and Samsung set-top boxes. You can click here for previous Globo Cabo news. -
Subsidized Set-Tops Remain Free: Carlton Communications CEO Gerry Murphy has no plans to charge ONdigital subscribers
for the "free" subsidized set-top boxes in the UK (23MAY01) (MediaGuardian)
MediaGuardian also quotes a source at News Corp as stating, "BSkyB is not going to start introducing prices [for subsidized set-top boxes]. We don't need to because we make money out of our subscribers." -
Internet-On-TV Auctions: FSauctions auction website is now available on ONdigital's ONnet internet-on-TV service in the UK
(22MAY01) (ONdigital)
The news announcement quotes Freeserve Auctions managing director Simon Danciger as stating, "We are absolutely delighted to be the first of the big 3 online auctions to roll-out onto ONnet. Online auctions with their inherent entertainment value blend perfectly into the TV environment, and we predict Internet TV will play an important role in the future." -
Internet-On-TV Classified Ads: AdTrader.co.uk classifieds website launches on ONdigital's ONnet internet-on-TV service in the UK
(22MAY01) (ONdigital)
The news announcement quotes Adtrader Digital acting chief James Bromley as stating, "Our iTV activity has already demonstrated the very different user base that exists on interactive television as opposed to the general internet demographic." -
Broadband Or Interactive TV: Jennifer Owens asks whether advertisers should put their advertising dollars into
interactive television or broadband applications (21MAY01) (Adweek)
- Not TV But Handheld Devices: Simputer as handheld computer for India and other developing nations (24MAY01) (MSNBC)
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Why Bother To Surf By Phone: Meta Group says internet-enabled cell phones must become easier to use before people
will use them (24MAY01) (PCWorld.IDG)
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Videophone News: CNN uses videophone from 7E Communications Ltd for news reporting (24MAY01) (AOLTW)
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Cahners In-Stat Group Research Analyst Cindy Wolf says new internet-enabled TV sets will look just like regular TVs and
there will be no extra charge like with AOLTV (23MAY01) (Newsbytes)
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Newsbytes cites the Cahners In-Stat Group report on "Smart Consumer Appliances" as forecasting internet-enabled television sets will become popular with consumers and will reach "a growth rate of 115 percent." Newsbytes quotes Cahners In-Stat Group research analyst Cindy Wolf as stating, "These new TVs will look just like a regular TV, but it will have Web access. The TV will have a keyboard, and the consumer simply plugs into the phone jack or the broadband connection and uses the current Internet service provider (ISP) to surf the Net. There is no extra charge like AOL TV." -
Smart Appliances: Cahners In-Stat Group's "Smart Consumer Appliances" report forecasts
internet-enabled non-PC devices to exceed 20 million units by 2005 (23MAY01) (Cahners)
- Interactive TV Commercial To Schedule Car Test-Drive: ActiveTV develops digital interactive TV service to enable TV viewers to book a test drive on the Volvo S60 automobile via the TV set in Linköping, Sweden (23MAY01) (ActiveTV)
The news announcement states, "This digital-TV service, commissioned by the Rejmes Volvo dealership in Linköping, is connected to a regular Volvo commercial."- Saving Television Advertising In A PVR World: Jovio wants to put advertisers in charge of the remote control with unskippable commercials, fast-forward sponsor ads, and picture-in-picture fast-forward commercials (22MAY01) (DCD)
Digital Coast Daily (DCD) quotes Jovio co-founder and vice president Richard Roberts as stating, "We're essentially putting the remote control in the hands of the advertisers for these 60 seconds. And just as importantly, it lets them capture viewers in the primetime environment that they create for themselves, so it's a very captive audience."- Online VCR Auction: RecordTV.com appoints Y&M Partners to auction RecordTV.com assets including patent-pending One-Click Recording and USEIT digital rights management technology (22MAY01) (RecordTV) (related.link) (related.link) (related.link) (related.link)
Over at the RecordTV.com website, RecordTV.com founder David Simon left a message that states he "can no longer continue to do this on [his] own with no funding. Instead, RecordTV.com has authorized Y&M Partners to sell the assets of the company. I regret that we were unable to come back in our original format. Hopefully someone will be able to in the future." RecordTV.com settled its case with the MPAA last month which resulted in no damages paid and the stopping of the "online VCR" activities.- Broadband Set-Top Video-On-Demand: Bast and Vesta Broadband Services announce non-exclusive marketing agreement to include Vesta NetMovies video-on-demand and software service with Bast video-on-demand set-top box products (23MAY01) (Vesta) (alt.link) (alt.link)
The news announcement quotes Vesta chief marketing officer Venky Adivi as stating, "Besides video-on-demand, email and web-browsing, we will be able to distribute games, audio, software and educational content with Bast's hardware and our software platform."- Remote Control For TV Set-Top Games: SNAP2 set-top games to be supported by IntuiTouch broadband remote control with one-touch input (23MAY01) (SNAP2) (alt.link) (alt.link) (alt.link)
The news announcement states, "IntuiTouch technology, with its pad-to-screen (PTS) mapping feature, allows users to play games on their televisions using simple "one-touch" actions on the touch pad area of the remote control. IntuiTouch remotes also support handwritten text entry in the same way that text is currently entered on PDAs. This allows users to send messages, input text, and scroll through documents for a variety of onscreen applications without using a keyboard. This feature greatly simplifies game play for onscreen word games such as SNAP2 Crosswords."- Secure Online Videogames: Sony Computer Entertainment selects RSA Security technology for secure online entertainment, browsing, transactions, and data storage on Sony PlayStation 2 (23MAY01) (RSA) (alt.link) (related.link) (related.link)
- "Survivor" Telewebber Texting In The UK: ITV and mWise to provide text messaging services to TV viewers of the "Survivor" television show in the UK including show alerts, news updates, trivia quizzes, and guessing who's next to be thrown off the show (23MAY01) (PRN)
The news announcement quotes m-Wise co-founder and chief executive officer Shay Ben-Asulin as stating, "We know that this [short-message-service texting] model is successful and popular among consumers, and we will see more and more content providers and entertainment companies looking to capture text messaging entertainment." You can click here to check out m-Wise.- More Texting News: Mobile Data Association says 3.5 billion text messages have been sent by British cell phone customers since the beginning of the year (23MAY01) (MediaGuardian)
MediaGuardian reports, "Next week, the [Mobile Data Association] is launching the second phase of its Text.it [advertising] campaign to promote the use of text messaging."- Interactive & Enhanced TV Branding: FutureBrand names digital media branding veteran Stephanie Otto as FutureBrand Media & Entertainment executive director to focus on branding and design solutions for interactive and enhanced television, on-air, online and wireless application (23MAY01) (NYTimes.BW)
The news announcement states, "Ms. Otto was instrumental in developing and launching branded services for TiVo, Sony, Microsoft, AOL, HBO, ABC, Fox Family Channel, SeaChange, Intertainer and DIRECTV." The news announcement quotes FutureBrand Worldwide media & entertainment executive director Alan Schulman as stating, "Entertainment marketers are now forced to consider how consumers will interact with their brands across many different platforms, from narrowband, to broadband to wireless - their message needs to be consistent and comfortable across all mediums."- Video Email Advertising: Marketing Forum 2001 selects SystemsVideo auto-adaptive online video technology for video email campaigns (23MAY01) (IWire) (alt.link)
You can click here to check out SystemsVideo.- OSGi Leadership For Gateway Devices: Open Services Gateway Initiative elects new officers (23MAY01) (PRN)
The Open Services Gateway Initiative provides the OSGi specification "which complements virtually all residential networking standards, defines an open platform that enables multiple software services to be loaded and run on a service gateway such as a set top box, cable modem, DSL modem, PC or dedicated residential gateway. Once resident in a service gateway, these services, such as energy measurement and control, safety and security services, health care monitoring services, device control and maintenance, electronic commerce services and more, can interact both with devices and networks in the home, automobile or small office."- Home Gateway Devices: Pace Micro Technology Americas Marketing Director David Novak says a "gateway" is anything that enables interactive applications, plus the addition of a DOCSIS tuner according to Scientific-Atlanta's Ken Klaer (21MAY01) (EMonline)
Electronic Media reports that other monikers of these DOCSIS interactive boxes include "home networking solution," "home gateway," and "home media server." Electronic Media reports "Despite the technology's homey description, the buzz indicates that most cable operators have shied away; only Comcast and Time Warner, and possibly AT&T Broadband, are even looking at it. None indicated they were ready to deploy."- Digital Jukebox Storage News: Perception Digital Limited selects Seagate U Series harddrive for PDHercules Digital Recordable Jukebox (23MAY01) (Seagate) (alt.link)
The news announcement states, "The PDHercules compresses music from CD, cassette tape, vinyl record or other format into MP3 files and stores them on the built-in Seagate hard drive.... Music is stored via Perception Digital's patent pending Rapid Archive System using only 1/6 of the playing time - a 60 minute CD will take less than 10 minutes to be stored on the PDHercules."
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- Interactive TV Commercial To Schedule Car Test-Drive: ActiveTV develops digital interactive TV service to enable TV viewers to book a test drive on the Volvo S60 automobile via the TV set in Linköping, Sweden (23MAY01) (ActiveTV)
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