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BSkyB's Brian Sullivan Says TiVo Empowers Viewers: Personal TV gives digital choice to consumers
for wading through TV channels and TV shows (03OCT00) (MediaGuardian)
BSkyB's Brian Sullivan writes, "[O]ur research shows that interest in TiVo is highest among consumers who do not have access to multi-channel television." Sullivan also writes, "The Henley Centre predicts that 75 per cent - well over 15m - homes will have digital TV by 2008. And [BSkyB has] gone on record in projecting 7m Sky digital homes by 2003." -
Dawn Hayes Discusses Must-See-TV With A Slice For Everyone: Personal TV battle over who filters our
on-demand viewing (02OCT00) (MediaGuardian)
- AT&T Broadband to launch video-on-demand in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Pittsburgh using DIVA (03OCT00) (PRN) (alt.link)
- AT&T Broadband unveils video-on-demand plans for push-button remote-control movie-ordering capability (03OCT00) (NYTimes.Reuters) (alt.link) (alt.link)
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AT&T Broadband VOD pricing to be similar to AT&T Digital Cable PPV pricing (03OCT00) (CBS.Marketwatch)
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BBC signs deal with Video Networks for watching BBC-on-demand most likely via HomeChoice (03OCT00) (MediaGuardian)
MediaGuardian reports "the package is likely to see classic British programmes made available to subscribers to the Video Networks service Home Choice, which launched its London facillity last week." -
Japan Computer Corporation to use M-System DiskOnChip in iBOX-1 set-top box
for storing UNIX operating system, internet browsing software, and user data (03OCT00) (MSYS)
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DoD does iTV: Flying Colors Interactive selected by U.S. Dept. of Defense to enhance electronic town hall meeting
for TV via interactive TV set-top boxes (03OCT00) (FlyingColors)
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HBO's "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel" to be made interactive using WebTV Plus (03OCT00) (PRN)
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OpenTV and Shop At Home Inc. to develop interactive television shopping platform
expected to debut as early as end of 1Q Y2001 (03OCT00) (OpenTV)
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- Gameplay.com buys Pixel Broadband Studios for long-term broadband videogame strategy (03OCT00) (Mercury.Reuters)
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Gameplay.com buys out Israel-based interactive TV and internet games company Pixel Broadband Studios,
(03OCT00) (FinancialTimes)
- Two Way TV signs up Sportal.co.uk as sponsor for Armchair Manager sports game (04OCT00) (MediaGuardian)
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Two Way TV signs up interactive TV producer Simon Small for launch of interactive TV games channel (03OCT00) (MediaGuardian)
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MetaTV intros P3 Portal Partner Program to bring business, technology, and solutions-based service companies together with
cable and satellite companies for entertainment-rich content and services through interactive TV portals (03OCT00) (MetaTV)
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- Adforce teams up with MetaTV to offer cable operators and e-business websites access to technology for providing comprehensive interactive TV advertising (04OCT00) (Mediapost)
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Adforce joins MetaTV P3 to deliver advertising infrastructure for interactive TV and to collaborate with MetaTV to
provide intuitive campaign scheduling, profile-based targeting, reliable ad delivery, comprehensive tracking,
and accurate reporting services (03OCT00) (Adforce)
- MetaTV selects Pittard Sullivan to help develop interactive television market (04OCT00) (Adweek)
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Pittard Sullivan's Emmy Award-winning design team also joins MetaTV P3 and will work to provide
customized branded portals for network operators and TV-centric website designs for businesses
(03OCT00) (IWire)
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Internet appliances spark new microprocessor chip war (03OCT00) (SBN)
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Hacker Scanner Device News: Digital Convergence does not always like when hackers don't use
CueCat to scan advertisement bar codes (03OCT00) (FOXNEWS)
FOX News reports the CueCat is "being given away for free at Radio Shack and with several magazine subscriptions.' -
Digital Convergence made the CueCat but hackers find ways to hack it (03OCT00) (WIRED)
Wired quotes Digital Convergence CTO Doug Davis as indicating "the company has mixed feelings about the hackers' efforts. On the one hand, the company wants to work with hackers who extend the scanner's abilities in useful ways, but it takes a dim view of attempts to provide products or services based on its hardware." -
CueCat Sent To Dallas Morning News Readers, WFAA-TV Viewers In Dallas:
CueCat also uses audio tone Cues to transmit website addresses from TV to PC (29SEP00) (E&Ponline)
- Mathew Ingram says Napster is a lot like your VCR, the Betamax, and the Player Piano Roll (03OCT00) (GlobeMail)
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Napster to live or die with VCR "substantial non-infringing use" defense (02OCT00) (WIRED)
- TeleCable Nacional to provide WorldGate Internet on EVERY TV Service using the Motorola $99 SURFview set-top box to cable subscribers in the Dominican Republic (02OCT00) (WorldGate)
- WorldGate and TeleCable Nacional to launch interactive TV in the Dominican Republic (03OCT00) (InternetNews)
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WorldGate names veteran marketing and public relations executive Jim Boyle as vice president of
marketing and corporate communications (04OCT00) (WorldGate)
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Telewest launches £9-per-month interactive digital TV service with email, online shopping, banking, gaming,
as well as phone line with free local calls, using Pace set-top boxes running Liberate software (02SEP00) (Netimperative)
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TiVo To Arrive In UK: Take total control of your television set (02OCT00) (Independent)
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Media agency CIA UK finds only 3% of all people in the UK would pay £400 for TiVo box plus £10 monthly
subscription fee, while 8% of 15- to 35-year-olds in the UK would buy TiVo at those prices,
but 57% of all UK adults wouldn't pay anything (02OCT00) (MediaGuardian)
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Will The Future Ever Arrive: Waiting for the interactive TV future while trying to get consumers
to buy TiVo and ReplayTV boxes (02OCT00) (TheStandard)
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- ReplayTV delivers version 3.0 of free ReplayTV Service including MyReplayTV, manual record, show extender, adjustable recording days, and improved easier-to-read channel guide (02OCT00) (ReplayTV)
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ReplayTV intros third version of software to program PVR from the web (02OCT00) (CNET)
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Insight Communications uses DIVA and LocalSource to turn boob tube into a smart cable TV appliance
with a video-on-demand selection of 500 movies, documentaries, and kids' shows, plus a
"walled garden" selection of local internet content (02OCT00) (ChicagoTribune.Mercury)
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New Devices Bring Web Goodies: Sony Playstation II as the stealth set-top box, ZapStation as the jack-of-all-formats set-top box,
Empeg MP3 player for cars, and Nomad Jukebox personal MP3 player (02OCT00) (FOXNEWS)
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News From Korea: LG Electronics develops DVD recorder box and to make
U.S. market debut in first half of Y2001 (03OCT00) (KoreaHerald)
The Korea Herald reports, "The global market for DVD-RW is expected to hit 10 million units in 2004." -
Related: Adams Media Research says DVD movie sales to rise from $1.6B in Y1999 to $4.7B in Y2000,
DVD rentals to help overall video rentals to grow from projected $10.1B this year to $13.6B in Y2005 (02OCT00) (Variety)
Variety cites Adams Media Research as indicating "the video rental market will ... show a slight growth this year and video sales will increase by more than 20%" despite the introduction of VOD, NVOD, and new PPV services by satellite TV and digital cable TV. Variety also cites Adams as indicating "overall consumer spending on video rentals and sales will grow from $21.9 billion this year to $32.8 billion in 2005" which is "more than double the $15.5 billion in consumer spending on videos in 1995." - LG Electronics also spends 1.5 billion won to develop broadband videophone (02OCT00) (KoreaHerald)
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LG Electronics intros H323.2-compatible broadband videophone with video rate of 30 fps in QCIF mode and 10 fps in CIF mode
(04OCT00) (InfoWorld)
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Watch On WebTV Or AOLTV: "Family Feud" and "To Tell The Truth" television gameshows to be made
interactive with Mixed Signals Technologies (02OCT00) (NYTimes.Reuters)
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