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Pace Micro Technology's exhibit at Western Cable Show to include Pegasus-compliant digital set-top boxes, set-top boxes with
DigiCipher II and harddrives, and home networking technologies (24OCT00) (Pace)
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Acer Laboratories developing RISC processor and games emulation software
for DVD devices to play PC and Sony Playstation videogames (24OCT00) (TechWeb.EETimes)
EE Times quotes Wilson Huang, Acer Laboratories senior product marketing director for peripheral and multimedia products, as stating, "We want to turn DVD players for consumers into information appliances." -
Tony Smith asks whether Acer has Sony's blessings since the Acer DVD technology for playing Sony Playstation games
is directed towards the Chinese market (24OCT00) (TheRegister)
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Set-Top Photo Scanner: Hewlett-Packard is testing a new e-scanner for WebTV, AOLTV, and other set-top boxes
(22OCT00) (Net4TV)
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Gemstar-TV Guide's StarSight Telecast subsidiary goes after DISH for unlicensed interactive program guide (24OCT00)
(link changes) (Skyreport)
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TiVo Direct And ReplayTV Disco: Impact of personal video recorder boxes could be bigger than just zapping TV ads
(24OCT00) (MediaLife)
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NTL makes content deal with MyMovies.net which has teamed up with Short Film Bureau for
streaming movies over the net and new platforms (24OCT00) (MediaGuardian)
MediaGuardian quotes MyMovies.net managing director Stuart Dennis as stating, "Joining forces with the Short Film Bureau enables us to roll out mould-breaking, movie-related content to the UK market. NTL's multi-platform strategy and broadband capacity will allow us to deliver this content to a variety of audiences both on PC and TV." - Keynote Systems has debut for streaming media performance index to establish benchmark for quality online audio-video streaming (24OCT00) (Keynote)
- Please No More Herky-Jerky Video: Keynote Systems creates index for measuring quality of video-audio streaming and finds most online video is currently unwatchable (24OCT00) (ZDNN.Reuters) (alt.link) (alt.link)
- Keynote Systems will tell you how well you stream (24OCT00) (TheStandard)
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Neil Strother On Keynote Benchmark: Streaming still stinks and it gets a benchmark to try to push up the quality
(24OCT00) (Anchordesk)
- UstreamIt Inc. launching VideoMessage.com website for free personal streaming video email (24OCT00) (IWire)
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UstreamIt Inc. to provide its streaming video messaging product in Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and English
to Click2Asia.com's 600,000+ user base (25OCT00) (IWire)
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Mobile Phone Video: Samsung and GEO Interactive intro MPEG4 videophone with video playback bandwidths up to 144Kbps
over 2G, 2.5G and 3G GSM and CDMA networks (24OCT00) (Netimperative)
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Smartcard News: Windows-powered smartcard applications and services include 500,000 smartcards deployed for
home cholesterol monitors developed by Lifestream Technologies (24OCT00) (Microsoft)
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Yankee Group's Karuna Uppal says proliferation of broadband internet is major driving force behind home networking
(24OCT00) (PCWorld)
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Philippines May Get Similar House: More on that Cisco Internet Home in Singapore (24OCT00) (Newsbytes.MCT)
Newsbytes is carrying a story by Alex Villafania in the Metropolitan Computer Times (MCT) from the Philippines. MCT cites Cisco network consultant Philip G. Tan as indicating "techno-savvy Filipinos might not see a working model of a smart home until late next year, or maybe until the economic crisis has subsided." MCT further quotes Tan as stating, "The major problem actually is the [Philippines'] unstable economy. There are uncertainties that should be addressed to by the government before anyone could put together a project as ambitious as this.... We've already made announcements regarding the Internet Home project. Responses are rife but none have yet approached us to have a full-scale project launch in the [Philippines]."
In case you don't know, yours truly (Ruel, as in me) is a filipino born in Philippines but raised in the U.S. Although the "love bug" virus originated in the P.I., computers are not as prevalent in the P.I. as they are in the U.S. (A group I'm involved with will be sending ten computers to some of the high schools over there.) In comparison, building an "internet home" in the Philippines would be a big thing like a filipino version of Bill Gates' house but scaled down. At the very least, the rice cooker should be automated. :-) -ruel -
Keith Regan says "I Don't Want My eBay TV" (23OCT00) (EcommerceTimes)
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More On FCC Chairman Kennard's DTV Remarks: Harry Shearer says consumers are running away from digital TV
(23OCT00) (Inside)
- News From Japan: Matsushita, Toshiba, Sony, and Hitachi unveil plans to form two media companies to create an industry standard for set-top boxes and programming for Japanese digital TV (23OCT00) (FinancialTimes)
- Matsushita, Toshiba, Sony, Hitachi, Fuji TV Network, and nine other companies to form joint venture for interactive TV, interactive broadcasting, storage-type datacasting, and standardized technology for advanced TV set-top boxes (23OCT00) (Yahoo.Reuters) (alt.link)
Reuters quotes Toshiba president Tadashi Okamura as stating, "This is the kind of undertaking that will lead to the Japanese version of the information super highway. This will be Japan's first comprehensive media platform, covering TVs, data transmission, Internet and mobile phones. We expect this project to have an impact on next-generation platforms in the U.S., Europe and in Asia."- Matsushita, Toshiba, Sony, and Hitachi to jointly form new "e-Platform" company for interactive broadcasting, datacasting, standardizing "e-Platform"-compatible set-top box specifications, specifications for "e-Platform" service operations, and developing businesses and services (23OCT00) (Sony)
In addition to Matsushita, Toshiba, Sony, and Hitachi, the other companies involved in the new "e-Platform" joint venture include Asahi National Broadcasting, Dentsu, Fuji Television Network, Japan Satellite Broadcasting, Nippon Television Network, SKY Perfect, Sumitomo, Television Tokyo Channel 12, Tokyo Broadcasting Systems, and Tohokushinsha Film Corp. There is also a new "e-Port Channel Corporation" being planned as a broadcast content venture backed by Matsushita, Toshiba, Sony, Hitachi, Japan Satellite Broadcasting, SKY Perfect, Dentsu, Sumitomo, and Tohokushinsha Film.- Wall Street Meets Porno With Obscene Profits: Adult Video News tech editor Bryn Pryor says mainstream telecom, cable, and satellite companies are looking 10 years into the future when 50M North Americans will have broadband and all their TV and internet will be interactive through one big box (23OCT00) (NYTimes) (alt.link)
The New York Times article discusses the profits made by mainstream telecom, cable, and satellite companies on pornography. The New York Times quotes Adult Video News technology editor Bryn Pryor as stating, "These companies like AT&T, they're thinking ahead to a time, perhaps in 10 years, when 50 million Americans will have broadband capability and all their television and Internet will be interactive through one big box. But it's not just technology that made the big boys get into it. This just happens to be a business where you can't lose money."- Related: Online porn versus online gaming in paid-content market (21OCT00) (CNN)
- Jupiter Media Metrix says webcasters should give up and maybe wait until Y2005 for higher broadband modem speeds (23OCT00) (eV)
eV quotes Jupiter Media Metrix analyst Robert Hertzberg as stating in a new report: "The Web-as-movie-screen has turned out to be an idea before its time. But the Internet is still valuable to Hollywood as a low-cost marketing tool, a test bed for creative ideas and a sandlot where scouts can discover fresh talent." eV further quotes Hertzberg and his report as stating, "Dot-com movie companies must ... reinvent themselves as business-to-business providers to have any chance of surviving." eV then cites Hertzberg's report as indicating 90% of internet surfers still use 56 kbps modems and 36% will have high-speed internet in 2005.- August Unique Visitors To Movie Websites: Media Metrix reports on web visitors to AtomFilms (794,000), IFILM (723,000), ICast.com (343,000), Icebox.com (326,000), Shockwave (5.4M), and Z.com (206,000) (23OCT00) (NYTimes.AP)
- Using Portals To Find And Watch Net-Based Video: IFILM as portal to link viewers to films on other websites (23OCT00) (Nando.AP) (alt.link)
- Dreamline, Filament Networks, and Eazy CNC develop webcasting solution for up to 30,000 simultaneous users (21OCT00) (KoreaHerald)
- TV House launches syndicated streaming video service and wants to make every company into an online video broadcaster (23OCT00) (chicago.internet)
- More Interactive TV Sports News: Rugby fans with digital cable watching the Rugby League World Cup will be able to interactively play for prizes on Two Way TV (Waveguide)
- Sony Playstation II with its DVD player could pave the way for hip and easy-to-use videogaming; also other set-top videogames are on the way: (23OCT00) (Mercury.Reuters)
As well as discussing the Sony Playstation II, Reuters also reports, "Television set-top box makers, meanwhile, are integrating gaming software in their boxes. Several of the largest European cable companies are talking to games publishers ... about offering games in the first digital set-top boxes." Reuters also mentions Static 2358's PlayJam digital television games channel which is to debut this fall on Sky Digital and OnDigital.
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