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- Get In Line For PS2: Sony Playstation II debuts in U.S. with only 500,000 units available at retail stores (26OCT00) (WashPost) (related.links)
- Sony estimates 1.3M Playstation II units will be shipped into North American market within two months (25OCT00) (Sony.Playstation)
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Prior News: Sony Playstation II launch schedule is to have shipped 3M units by March 31, 2001 (27SEP00) (Sony.Playstation)
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- PS2 As Trojan Horse: The kids play videogames on the new Playstation II and the parents watch DVD movies on the new HDTV connected to the Playstation II (26OCT00) (NYTimes)
- Good Day For Videogames: Sony Playstation II debut in U.S. is another step towards turning the television set into the dominant hub for home entertainment (26OCT00) (Upside)
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PS2 To Short-Circuit High-Priced PC Trend: Sony Playstation II is trojan horse sold as videogame system
which doubles as family DVD player in battle for conquest of the living room (25OCT00) (Feed)
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DVD Makes PS2 More Than A Videogame Console: CNET's coverage on Sony Playstation II for a videogamer's
home theater (26OCT00) (CNET)
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Meanwhile Back In Redmond: Microsoft works on XBOX as Sony Playstation II debuts (26OCT00) (CNET.Reuters)
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Reuters quotes Microsoft CXO Robbie Bach as stating, "In terms of the launch activity and commitment we're making, this will be the largest launch Microsoft has ever done, by orders of magnitude." -
Microsoft Does Hardware With XBOX: If not for jazz pianist and nuclear physicist Seamus Blackley, Microsoft may not
have gone into the XBOX hardware business (26OCT00) (NYTimes)
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Western Digital 3Q highlights include Microsoft XBOX contract for harddrives, launch of Keen Personal Media for
interactive personal TV, and Scientific-Atlanta agreement for Keen PM digital video recorder storage management
subsystem software (26OCT00) (WesternDigital)
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Rachis Prepares For Future With New Office Space: Rachis president Jeff Bobzin says the upcoming multi-billion dollar interactive TV market
will soon change consumer viewing habits (23OCT00) (boston.internet)
Boston.Internet.com quotes Rachis Corp. president Jeff Bobzin as stating, "Analysts have been projecting a multi-billion dollar interactive TV market will emerge in just a few years, one which would forever change consumer viewing habits. Our rapid growth, and the acceptance of the Microsoft TV platform among vendors, very much supports these projections." Rachis will be using its new office space to accommodate new employees and for a testing facility. - More Networked Home News: Yankee Group says as many as 21M U.S. households interested in networked home concept and 12.4M of them will install home network services over next 12 months (26OCT00) (ITdirector)
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Network Hardware Alone Won't Get Into The Home: Yankee Group program manager Karuna Uppal says consumers will network
homes because of compelling applications and services (23OCT00) (Yankee)
It's the content, the service, the task that people want to accomplish. In citing a Yankee Group home networking study, the news announcement states 39% of PC households want a home network for downloading video anywhere in the house and 33% want the home network for downloading music in a similar fashion. -
Web Is Shared Household Activity: UCLA survey research finds internet fosters friendships and furthers family bonding
without sacrificing internet surfers' personal and social lives (26OCT00) (WashPost)
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The Washington Post quotes UCLA communications professor Jeffrey Cole as describing web surfing as a "shared household activity" and further cites Cole as indicating "nearly half of users spend time online each week with someone else sitting next to them." Cole is also the director of the UCLA Center for Communications Policy and the founder of the World Internet Project. -
UCLA Internet Report: Surveying The Future (October2000) (UCLA)
The UCLA report says currently that telephone modem access dominates internet access at 80%, cable modems at 10%, Web TV at 4%, T1/T3 lines at 2%, DSL at 1%, and "other" at 2%. The report also shows that 97% of internet users watch TV, 23% play videogames, 87% listen to the radio, and 85% listen to recorded music. Although internet users do watch TV, the report states they "watch significantly less television than non-users." -
Holiday Shopping: Consumer Electronics Association says approximately 69M U.S. households plan to visit electronics stores to
shop for digital electronics products including DVD players, CD recorders, digital cameras, wireless phones, and
mass storage devices (26OCT00) (CEA)
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Synchronized TV And PC Net Coverage: ABC-TV to provide telewebber "Enhanced TV" coverage on U.S. elections night
(25OCT00) (Newsbytes)
- Wink 3Q highlights include total Wink households of 1,500,000, 45% overall click-rate for interactive offers, and the signing of eleven new national advertising partners (25OCT00) (Wink) (alt.link)
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Rogers signs three-year enhanced broadcasting license agreement with Wink (25OCT00) (Wink)
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Personal TV Targeted Ads: ReplayTV signs up Ford Motor Co. as a national advertiser (25OCT00) (ReplayTV)
The news announcement quotes Ford Motor Co. global media manager Mark Kaline as stating, "For the Ford Motor Company, this relationship is about connecting with consumers to better understand how new services like the ReplayTV Service will affect their television viewing habits, and therefore how we will need to adapt our approach to consumers in this new digital environment. We are looking to leverage both ReplayTV's digital utility, as well as their unique targeting capabilities." -
More Personal TV Advertising: ReplayTV signs up Toyota Motor Sales USA as a national advertiser (25OCT00) (ReplayTV)
The news announcement quotes Toyota Motor Sales marketing president Steven Sturm as stating, "We've chosen to advertise via the ReplayTV Service because it allows us to connect with consumers in a way that no other technology can and gives us the advantage of sending the right message to the right consumer. We'll be able to relate with customers by sending information on our [automobiles] to the customer who wants it versus sending the information to everyone." -
Ruel's Spotlight Website: ShowShifter Digital Media Gateway for PCs (25OCT00)
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Ban In China Originally Put In Place After Gun Battles Over TV: China repeals ban and now officially allows telephone companies
to provide TV services and cable companies to provide internet (25OCT00) (WIRED.Reuters)
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In the longer Wired version of the Reuters news story, Reuters reports on real gun battles in China between cable companies and telcos: "Gunfights and riots broke out in some counties after cable TV officials chopped down telephone lines that carried video programming, and one state newspaper reported that more than 100 people were injured or killed in the clashes." In another article, Newsbytes then apparently understates the riotous circumstances by reporting China then "put down strict regulations that separated the industries after fierce competition between cable TV executives and phone officials in southern China got out of hand." -
China People's Daily News: China erected regulatory wall between telephone and cable companies a year ago after competition in
Hunan province led to deadly battles between cable TV executives and phone officials (27OCT00) (PeoplesDaily)
The People's Daily reports, "China erected a regulatory wall between the industries a year ago after competition in the southern province of Hunan led to deadly battles between cable TV executives and phone officials who waded into one another's turf." The People's Daily also reports, "Despite the ban, however, provincial branches of state phone giant China Telecom have continued to pipe television service to their customers, and many of the country's 2,000 cable TV stations have carried Internet and data over their networks." -
TV Via DSL: Alcatel and Oracle back Thirdspace to accelerate interactive television race (24OCT00) (Alcatel)
The news announcement quotes Thirdspace CEO Brian Keating as stating, "The battle is on to build the most ubiquitous, most capable iTV platform." Of course, Keating is referring to the competitive economic "battle" of the marketplace among vendors and between cable companies, satellite companies, and telephone companies ... and not that other "out of hand" situation. -ruel -
Alcatel and Oracle to set up Thirdspace joint venture to offer interactive television to
telephone companies for on-demand TV and movies (24OCT00) (Mercury.Reuters)
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Reuters reports, "Interactive television is in its infancy, and generally offered via cable television wires.... By offering the same interactive services over telephone wires, telecom operators will try to retain customers." -
Thirdspace to combine Alcatel DSL network equipment with Oracle video server technology
for on-demand content provided by potential media partners (24OCT00) (InfoWeek)
Information Week cites Oracle vice president Doug Renert as indicating the Thirdspace joint venture "will be an ideal vehicle for promoting Oracle's database software and E-commerce application suite." - Oracle divests certain assets of Oracle's ITV Division to nCUBE and Thirdspace (26OCT00) (TVBEurope) (alt.link)
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Related Past News: Alcatel partners with iMagicTV, nCUBE, Oracle to provide broadband TV solution
(06JUN00) (Alcatel)
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Order Cable TV PPV Via Net: AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, and Time Warner to allow cable TV subscribers to
order pay-per-view movies and special events via Gist.com beginning October 24 in certain areas of the U.S. (25OCT00)
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More China News: China Broadband Corporation intros broadband in Fuzhou, China, for two-way interactive technology and
set-top boxes to provide entertainment, personal computing, content, and ecommerce (25OCT00) (PRN)
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Broadband Content Splits Between TV And PC: Forrester Research says TV set-top boxes and videogame consoles
will provide broadband connections to nine million TVs in two years (25OCT00) (Newsbytes)
Newsbytes quotes the new Forrester Research report "Broadband Content Splits" by Forrester analyst Bruce Casrel as stating, "Entertainment content will flow away from uncomfortable PCs in the den, toward comfy couches in front of the living room TV set." As for the desktop PCs, Newsbytes quotes Casrel as stating, "PCs will be left for practical, task-oriented activities."
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