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Ruel's Spotlight Website: ATI Set-Top Solutions (19JAN00)
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Ruel's Spotlight Website: Surf-Master set-top box (19JAN00)
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Cahners In-Stat Group report: How soon will Set-Top Boxes swallow Cable Modems? (19JAN00) (Cahners)
This is a fifteen-page $1495 report from the Cahners In-Stat Group recently published in December 1999. - Home market is ripe for web appliances, non-PC access devices, WebTV, screenphones, dumb Web terminals (19JAN00) (Anchordesk)
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Cahners In-Stat Group report: Multimedia Consumers in the U.S.: What Makes Them Tick? (19JAN00) (Cahners)
This is a forty-seven page $2495 report from the Cahners In-Stat Group. -
Really about computers: Legend Holdings in China sells computers, also happens to make set-tops for Microsoft Venus project (24JAN00) (Forbes)
Forbes in its report mentions, "Legend builds the set-top boxes for Microsoft's Venus project in China, launched a few months ago to bring the Internet to the masses through their TV sets." -
Maritime Telephone & Telegraph (MTT) selects iMagicTV software to enable deployment of interactive television
service for Halifax Regional Area residents (17JAN00) (LoisPaul)
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Lineo, Elitegroup, and Bast to provide hotel guests with web browsing from hotel room television sets (18JAN00) (PRN)
Lineo Embedix Linux 1.0 and Embedix Browser will be put in Bast's line of embedded Linux-based set-tops for use in hotel rooms and apartment buildings in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. -
USA Video Interactive to intro Linux-Wavelet Set-Top Box for video-on-demand by Spring 2000 (18JAN00) (PRN)
(alternate link)
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Titan selected by Satellite Terminal Access to develop internet terminal for France Telecom's
planned satellite-based consumer broadband service (18JAN00) (PRN)
- If You Got It, We Want It: ClickMovie.com seeking content at NATPE for internet on-demand media portal (18JAN00) (Davis-Marrin)
- Ruel's Spotlight Website: ClickMovie.com (18JAN00)
Cool domain name. Very nice flash intro. TV portals are the websites to follow as on-demand interactive media revs up for a mainstream take off. -
Tivix webtsite for TV programming distribution to debut at NATPE (18JAN00) (Variety)
Variety reports Tivix is "offering its basic programming service free of charge to both buyers and distributors, the Tivix database will enable its users to search for programming by title, genre, format or distributor and goes well beyond basic programming information listing. Tivix will also offer a full range of client service applications for a nominal fee." -
Spyglass expands European operations for information appliances, mobile phones, and interactive television set-top boxes (18JAN00) (PRN)
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E-Commerce news: NCR-led Digital Receipt Alliance proposed XML-based standard
for digital receipts accepted by ARTS (18JAN00) (PRN)
Make an online purchase via an interactive television set and get a standardized digital receipt. "The receipt is an Internet version of the traditional paper receipt, and can be delivered via email or to a website database." -
Internet ready to transform television viewing habits (17JAN00) (CANOE-AP)
The Associate Press quotes CBS "Early Show" senior executive producer Steve Friedman as stating, "... broadcasters that refuse to embrace interactive TV could lose viewers to other shows and non-TV outlets." -
Loewe Digital Televisions win honors in Inside Track Supplier Loyalty Test (18JAN00) (PRN)
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Smart appliances and blankets that talk to each other and the internet (18JAN) (TechWeb-EETimes)
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WebTV co-founder Steve Perlman tinkering continues at Rearden Steel (17JAN00) (MERCURY)
Mercury News reports Steve Perlman with his fellow WebTV co-founders "created WebTV in a living room, using gear bought off the shelf at Fry's Electronics...." -
SeaChange acquires Digital Video Arts provider of custom digital video, interactive television and set-top software (17JAN00) (PRN)
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Microsoft TV Interactive Pitch event to be hosted at NATPE 2000 (17JAN00) (PRN)
"... [A]uditions will be held in which NATPE 2000 attendees will have 60 seconds to pitch their best new interactive television program ideas to a panel of judges that includes leading Hollywood development, production, and broadband executives." -
It will be a brave new interactive world with interactive television (16JAN00) (UnionTribune)
The San Diego Union-Tribune quotes USC Integrated Media Systems Center director Chrysostomos L. "Max" Nikias as stating, "A lot of us have been talking about this technological revolution but couldn't get anyone's attention. This [AOL Time Warner] merger is a message to everybody that the convergence is going to happen." -
Ruel's Spotlight Website: DIBco (16JAN00)
The folks at DIBco write in to say they are deploying set-top boxes in the hospitality environment (hotels, restaurants, and bars). They will be setting up set-top boxes and a server system to link up Hooters restaurants beginning with Hooters in Palm Desert, California. They wil be using their trademarked MediaOverlay system to place webpage ads on television screens. They are also getting ready to deploy set-top boxes along with their network system to provide CATV, pay-per-view movies, internet, email, and MediaOverlay in various Las Vegas hotels. That is a big deal. This is a company I applaud for what they are doing in the hospitality business. As previously mentioned on this news page, if you see a new entertainment activity in restaurants, bars, and hotels, then you know that activity is about to go mainstream. -
MSU Web2u set-top box available in February 2000 through Argos catalogue, Tandy stores, and Doro Audioline in UK (14JAN00) (PRN)
Link in news announcement for Web2u goes to a Web2u Productions website (http://www.web2u.com) that is apparently unrelated to MSU's Web2u. Try the next link instead to http://www.web-2u.com. - Ruel's Spotlight Website: Web2u info website (15JAN00) (alternate link)
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FREE and LOW-COST internet from Kmart and Wal-Mart; also expect Wal-Mart to sell AOLTV boxes (15JAN00) (InternetWorld)
Internet World reports, "... AOL and Wal-Mart promise a low-cost version of CompuServe. Wal-Mart can also hawk AOLTV, an access method that many expect will be critical in getting many households without PCs online." -
Watch interactive television and send TV product to smart household appliance (14JAN00) (PCWORLD)
PC World reports, "In one scenario served up by Maytag chief executive officer Lloyd D. Ward, consumers could conceivably watch a cooking program on an interactive TV set and send the recipe to the refrigerator, which in turn would shoot off a list of ingredients to your handy online grocer."
I think the scenario might instead be the refrigerator downloads a list of available ingredients with coupons from the local grocer. It is still difficult for me to believe that online grocery stores will really take off unless they are connected to the local neighborhood supermarket that you can actually drive to. It may be very difficult for the average consumer to break the actual in-store grocery shopping habit where you go to the local market to do the actual grocery shopping. Shopping for food at an actual marketplace whether in open markets or in supermarkets is an ingrained, centuries-old habit. -ruel -
Internet-connected refrigerators, ovens, and washing machines: Will they work and will people actually buy them and pay for the internet service? (14JAN00) (PCWEEK)
What I think could work is if the internet connection for these refrigerators, ovens, and washing machines was subsidized (i.e., provided for free) by supermarkets or brandname food makers where the consumer gets coupons (either printed or encoded into smart cards or coupon cards) for products to be bought at supermarkets. This would involve setting up a new utility-type relationship for the consumer. But will these refrigerators, ovens, and washing machines sell? The average consumer may not buy new refrigerators, ovens, or washing machines, whether internet-capable or not, until they have to replace what they already have. -ruel -
Liberate and Next Level team up for interactive television using DSL over phone lines (14JAN00) (CNET)
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