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Digital Movies, Books, And Music Coming Direct To Your Home: Online video isn't as popular as
online music but it will be very popular very soon (09OCT00) (PCWorld)
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Video-On-Demand To Push More Buttons: AT&T Broadband CEO Dan Somers says push-button digital
cable TV ordering by remote control has lead to higher consumer usage of pay-per-view (09OCT00) (CableWorld)
CableWorld quotes AT&T Broadband CEO Dan Somers as stating, "Digital cable - with its remote-control, push-button ordering capability - has led to higher consumer usage of pay-per-view movies." CableWorld also quotes Adelphia Communications chief financial officer Tim Rigas as stating Adelphia thinks it will have a "50% digital box penetration rate" in three years by "giving away digital programming to customers who take two pay services" and Adelphia expects to earn "between $40 and $60 per customer in revenue from digital services alone." -
AOL Says No Harmful "AT&T Connection" In AOL-Time Warner Merger: U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch
worried about AT&T's 25% stake in Time Warner Entertainment as problem in AOL-Time Warner merger
causing detrimental anticompetitive effects for consumers (09OCT00) (ZDNN.WSJ)
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The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) quotes Senator Orrin Hatch's letter to the FTC as stating, "I am concerned that the AOL-Time Warner merger, if approved with this intertwined interest with AT&T, might have anticompetitive effects to the detriment of consumers." Meanwhile, the WSJ also quotes an AOL and Time Warner letter to the FCC as stating, "Neither through ownership nor contractual relations will this merger give rise to any 'AT&T connection' that would harm competition in any relevant area." -
FTC And AOL-Time Warner: FTC concern is said to be for AOL-Time Warner control of must-have content
and high-speed internet distribution over cable (08OCT00) (FinancialTimes)
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More Disney Meisinger Comments: Disney general counsel Louis Meisinger tells Congress that AOL-Time Warner
can't be trusted to open up cable lines to competitors providing content for interactive TV (09OCT00) (eV)
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eV quotes Walt Disney Co. general counsel Louis Meisinger as stating before Congress, "The preservation of consumer choice and robust competition require no less" than government intervention to prevent AOL-Time Warner from ruling the market for years to come. eV also quotes AOL chairman Steve Case as testifying before Congress that he promised AOL-Time Warner "will make interactivity and convergence accessible to consumers around the world - in ways that really enrich peoples' lives." - Disney CEO Michael Eisner believes AOL-Time Warner merger will be approved but with conditions (09OCT00) (CableWorld)
- Disney CEO Michael Eisner tells FCC that consumers using Time Warner cable systems should have same access to competing content as they would to AOL-Time Warner content (10OCT00) (DailyDeal)
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Disney Versus AOL In Three-Ring Regulatory Circus: Disney afraid of combination in AOL-Time Warner merger
when cable is hailed as key to new world of broadband internet and interactive television (09OCT00) (WashPost)
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AOL Anywhere: AOL moving beyond the PC to wireless phones, TV, net appliances, and even refrigerators
(09OCT00) (FOXNEWS.AP)
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The Associated Press (AP) reports, "Another linchpin of the AOL Anywhere strategy is AOLTV.... But so far, the interactive viewing choices are extremely limited." The AP quotes AOLTV vice president Carlos Silva as stating, "These two worlds [of the web and TV] are just starting to come together." -
VOD Launch Previously Scheduled For Fall 2000: Filmgroup says delay of its video-on-demand launch is due to BT's slow DSL rollout but expects launch during 1Q Y2001
via Films2.com with 60 unscreened movies including big-budget Hollywood movies (09OCT00) (Netimperative)
Netimperative reports Filmgroup's managing director Stuart Berman blames his company's delayed launch on British Telecom's slow DSL rollout. Netimperative quotes Berman as stating, "If we are delayed until after the second quarter, then there's six months of wasted film rights." (Check out the current placeholder version of the Films2.com website.) - British Telecom Launches Into Broadband: BT scoffs at allegations of "dragging its feet" with BTopenworld rollout (09OCT00) (TheRegister) (related.link)
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BTopenworld ducks critics while launching broadband service with residential service providing 500 Kbps upstream and
250 Kbps downstream for £39.99 per month plus £150 installation fee (09OCT00) (Netimperative)
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Former TV Online magazine publisher Phillip Swann predicts people will watch TV like how they read books
because of interactive personal TV (09OCT00) (InteractiveWeek)
Interactive Week quotes former TV Online magazine publisher Phillip Swann as stating, "I predict people will start watching TV the way they read books, because with a [personal video recorder] you can pause shows. I think you'll see people watch shows for five or 10 minutes and then move around because they have the ability to do that." The article says Swann's new book TV.com: How Television Is Shaping Our Future is "due out in February," but it is really to be published NEXT month in November (you can click here to pre-order the new book).
As for people's TV viewing habits, I would add that people already do take breaks every 10 minutes or so from the TV because of the commercial breaks. Personal TV and PVRs/DVRs give control to the viewer as to when those breaks occur and those breaks may not coincide with commercial breaks. Also, as others have said, the value of personal TV and PVRs/DVRs is in the time-shifting and personal TV scheduling. People are already in the VCR habit of time-shifting and pausing a videotape to take a break whenever they want. Personal TV, PVRs/DVRs make the time-shifting and pausing for breaks more convenient because you don't need to find a videotape to record a show. -ruel -
Pace Micro Technology appoints Laurie Crofts as customer support general manager to create
tailored support packages including strategic advice, project management, and service management
to maximize client investment in Pace digital television technology (09OCT00) (Pace)
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Our future with people interacting with one another in internet-connected computer-generated environments
is already here in videogames (09OCT00) (ClickZ)
- Excite@Home expands video broadband applications with "My Videos" for personal video greeting cards and personalized video messages (09OCT00) (Excite@Home)
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"My Videos" Available At BlueMountain.com: Excite@Home launches "My Videos" web-based application
powered by VideoShare for creating, storing, and sending video email and greeting cards (09OCT00) (Adweek)
- Smart Refrigerator News: Electrolux screenfridge is nerve center for six Jetsons-like automated e-homes in Sweden (09OCT00) (Telegraph)
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Home Geek Home: Idea of networked home slowly advancing from concept to reality (09OCT00) (Adweek)
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Ruel's Spotlight Website: ITV Games (09OCT00)
ITV Games was recently in the news with its PowerBingo.TV game for WebTV. - Telewebber News: FirstLook.com to promote previews of Carsey-Werner television shows of "3rd Rock From The Sun," "That 70's Show," and "Normal Ohio" with "Baby, I'm A Star" online sweepstakes (09OCT00) (IWire)
- FirstLook.com provides three million streaming samples of upcoming and current movies, DVDs, movie video trailers, top-selling videogames, and music (09OCT00) (IWire)
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Ruel's Spotlight Website: FirstLook.com (09OCT00)
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Telewebber Automobile Advertising: Internet Broadcasting Systems targets 50 U.S. markets and
signs up 17 dealers in nine markets for rollout of automobile-related websites working in partnership
with local TV stations (09OCT00) (Adweek)
Adweek quotes Internet Broadcasting Systems chief executive officer Tolman Geffs as stating, "Dealers know that upwards of 60 percent of their customers are going to the Web for research before they walk into the showroom. We've got the ability to create a tool for local dealers through a unique TV/Web partnership." -
Sony incubator 550 Digital Media Ventures's "Unsurface" multimedia locker on the web to not just carry Sony content
(09OCT00) (Newsbytes)
In commenting on "Unsurface," Newsbytes quotes iCrunch.com general manager Becky Savell as stating, "There will be lot of companies developing lockers. MP3 created one of the first lockers and it was successful, and that is what led to at least some of its legal trouble. I think it is significant that Sony has focused on the locker application. They are trying to define the next generation of what a record label is. No label is going to give another label the advantage of storing music in a proprietary locker." -
Delta Air Lines passengers waiting for flights can surf the net, watch digital movies, and
watch full-screen TV on wireless modem-equipped notebook PCs via Aerzone wireless local area networks at
the airport in Vancouver, British Columbia, and soon in Atlanta, Cincinnati, and Dallas-Fort Worth (08OCT00) (Mercury.AP)
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The Associated Press reports, "A user, sitting within a hundred feet of a wireless network broadcaster within a terminal, will get the equivalent of 100 television channels of computer bandwidth." The AP also reports United Airlines would be providing similar wireless net access for their passengers. (That would be nice for UA passenters who are waiting for delayed, if not cancelled, flights. -ruel) -
Telewebber News: Starz Encore to promote big title movies to attract telewebbers beginning with "The Sixth Sense"
(09OCT00) (CableWorld)
CableWorld quotes Liberty Livewire interactive services vice president Bill Airy as stating, "The emergence of convergence programming on the two-screen platform employed by Starz Encore Group for The Sixth Sense highlights the interest consumers have for enhanced television experiences." -
Telewebber Movie Viewing: Starz Encore cable broadcasts of "The Sixth Sense" movie to be enhanced
with live web content accessible via PC using HyperTV with Livewire (08OCT00) (StarzEncore)
Free preview weekend viewing of "The Sixth Sense" movie on Starz! is on October 8 at 12:35 pm and 8:00 pm. You can click here for other schedule listings for the movie. -
Hundred Of Families Hooking Up To Interactive TV: Kingston-upon-Hull, UK, seeks to become World Information Age City
(07OCT00) (BBC)
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Australian Pay-TV Company Buys Internet Company: Austar United Communications Ltd. pay-TV broadcaster acquires
Eisa Ltd. internet company (06OCT00) (DailyDeal.DowJones)
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