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- Concurrent acquires video-on-demand server competitor Vivid Technology (28OCT99) (Vivid)
- Sony and startups move quickly on interactive digital entertainment while telling the rest of Hollywood to get moving (28OCT99) (WIRED)
- MyWeb makes deal with China television shopping channel TVSN where MyWeb sells TVSN's consumer products online and TVSN sells MyWeb set-top boxes on the air (28OCT99) (E-Commerce Times)
- MyWeb to push online shopping with TVSN in China (29OCT99) (allNetDevices) (alternate link)
- UK teletext as model for interactive television (28OCT99) (AnchorDesk)
AnchorDesk provides a summary of some of the highlights from a new Cahners In-Stat Group report that you should take a look at (read the AnchorDesk summary if you don't want to buy the $995 22-page report). If you've studied the early days of the 1970s and 1980s online experience, then you're already aware of videotext and teletext which have been in existence ever since in the UK and Europe. - Microsoft officially denies existence of "X-Box" game console while reportedly meeting with manufacturers and game developers (27OCT99) (CNET)
CNET cites Peddie Report editor Kathleen Maher as speculating the "X-Box" may become a WebTV box "that happens to play games really, really well." - Hollywood battles over little webcast videos (27OCT99) (MSNBC)
- Another thumbs down on current quality of webcast video (28OCT99) (Boston Globe)
- Ruel's Spotlight Website: XTV from NDS (26OCT99)
XTV from NDS Ltd. (a News Corp. subsidiary) is push technology for interactive television that you will want to check out. The spotlighted website says, "XTV, or Extended TV, combines the strengths of the broadcaster with the advantages of ever-cheaper digital storage technology to deliver value to the consumer, the advertiser and the broadcaster. It combines digital storage on a hard disk in the set-top box with simple broadcaster controls to extend the TV business models." The website also mentions XTV "maximizes your use of bandwidth by using off-peak hours to deliver content to the digital storage in the consumer's home" and "uses the set-top box storage to create the effect of multiple channels at no additional operating cost." Content is encrypted using NDS VideoGuard to protect the digital-perfect copies of the content from being pirated. This is innovative push and on-demand technology that definitely throws conventional television scheduling and time out the window.
Paul Jackson from the UK headquarters of NDS says, "NDS is currently the world's leading supplier of smart card based conditional access systems for broadcasters. NDS' interactive service offerings benefit from the addressability, transactional security and local secure storage provided by its smart cards." As well as having its home base in the UK, NDS also has offices in Australia, Hong Kong, Israel, California, France, Germany, and Brazil. Check out the other NDS products by clicking here. - Liberty Digital coordinates $31.25M investment in OpenTV by AOL, General Instrument, Liberty Digital, News Corp. Time Warner, and Sun (27OCT99) (PRN)
- AOL to collaborate with OpenTV to develop AOL applications including email and instant messaging for home TV watchers (26OCT99) (allNetDevices)
- AOL to invest in and run on OpenTV (25OCT99) (CNET)
- AOL, General Instrument, Liberty Digital, News Corp., Time Warner, and Sun put money in OpenTV (25OCT99) (PRN)
- OpenTV getting ready for IPO (25OCT99) (PRN)
- EchoStar investors anticipating advanced services for satellite television (26OCT99) (CNET)
CNET reports, "Microsoft ... is subsidizing EchoStar's premium Dish Player equipment, which includes a built-in WebTV Internet system and a hard drive that allows users to 'pause' live TV shows and play video games.... [EchoStar] plans to launch new television services--such as the ability to record and store up to 8 hours of programming--later this year. EchoStar also is planning information services for news and weather, and an interactive TV offering as part of a partnership with interactive television firm OpenTV." - Scientific-Atlanta end-of-quarter highlights include installation of 88 digital interactive cable systems, shipping of 245,000 Explorer 2000 set-tops and 361,000 analog set-tops (26OCT99) (PRN)
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Scientific-Atlanta to expand manufacturing facilities in Juarez, Mexico to make more Explorer 2000 set-tops and digital interactive network equipment (26OCT99) (PRN)
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WebTV gives two-year extension of connectivity contract to ZipLink (26OCT99) (PRN)
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CyberRadioTV launches daily 18-hours of video and audio programming with 24-hours on the weekends (26OCT99) (IWIRE)
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Wink and Liberate announce multi-year strategic partnership agreement (25OCT99) (PRN)
- Sega Dreamcast launch in Europe too successful as British Telecom servers crash (25OCT99) (WIRED)
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PBS and LG Electronics demo enhanced television and data broadcasting (25OCT99) (PRN)
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WorldGate 3Q 99 highlights include 60 patents, 56% increase in subscribers, and SURFview box (25OCT99) (PRN)
- How about the home server appliance as the center of the networked home (25OCT99) (allNetDevices)
- Various new WebTV boxes said to have DSL, larger harddrive for digital video recording, instant messaging, and fax/voice mail (22OCT99) (CNET)
- Few U.S. television stations to make November 1, 1999 digital TV deadline while others ask for extensions to May 1, 2000 (21OCT99) (TechWeb)
- Ravisent CineMaster HDTV software with Conexant's Fusion 878A chip for HDTV product for PC to be delivered next year (22OCT99) (PCWORLD)
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General Instrument 3Q 99 highlights: GI merging with Motorola, DCT-5000+ shipments begin, GI gets UPC commitment for 250,000 DVi-5000+ boxes (21OCT99) (PRN)
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Inter-Con/PC announces TOTEBOOK 6000 set-top box for surfing the web, doing email, and playing CDs and DVDs (21OCT99) (PRN)
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