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AOLTV Rolled Out With Little Promotion: AOL provides interactive TV with Time Warner links (03NOV00) (MSNBC.WSJ)
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The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports "AOL says it won't turn AOLTV into an exclusive promotional vehicle for Time Warner.... The early version of AOLTV points to so much Time Warner content simply because it was the first programmer to sign on, AOL says." WSJ also reports the slow AOLTV rollout with little promotion "gives AOL time to work out bugs - a recent tryout of the service indicates it has its work cut out for it." (Preview of Ruel's Review on AOLTV: Different but WebTV Plus has nothing to worry about at the moment....) -
Build A Car, Watch AOLTV: DaimlerChrysler, General Motors, and the UAW to offer AOL for PC and AOLTV to
auto workers in U.S. (02NOV00) (AOL)
The news announcement states, "GM and DaimlerChrysler Corporation employees will have easy access to the features and functionality of AOL and the Internet through the AOL service or the AOLTV service, which will be delivered via either the HUGHES DIRECTV digital satellite system or through a Philips receiver set-top box." The news announcement also cites General Motors president and CEO Rick Wagoner as indicating, "Approximately 75 percent of GM employees have personal computers and virtually all have televisions." Auto workers would pay either $3 per month for AOL for PC service, $5 per month for AOLTV service which includes the set-top box, or $31.95 per month for AOLTV and DIRECTV which includes the set-top box. -
Related AOL Anywhere & New AOL 6.0 For PCs: Bob Massey says AOL gets many things half right too late
by trying to be everything for everyone (03NOV00) (WashPost)
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Microsoft UltimateTV News: Some RCA UltimateTV set-top boxes will be available by Xmas while Sony UltimateTV
set-top boxes may not be available until sometime in Y2001 (03NOV00) (TheStandard)
The Standard quotes Microsoft Ultimate TV planning senior director Rob Schoeben as stating, "We are shipping for the holiday. It will launch a little softer in December and harder in January." -
More On HP E-Scanner For WebTV Plus: Scan and send pictures to grandma's television set (03NOV00) (Forbes)
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ACTV and CYLO announce partnership for digital interactive TV advertising and marketing (03NOV00) (ACTV)
The news announcement quotes ACTV advertising and ecommerce senior vice president Art Cohen as stating, "CYLO has been one of the leaders in the traditional advertising world for many years and have been at the forefront of leveraging new technologies that bring more value to their clients. Our ready-to-deploy technologies can open up a world of new and exciting iTV advertising and marketing opportunities that CYLO can offer to its clients today." - BSkyB quarterly results include 4M+ digital TV subscribers, 1000+ hours of interactive sports programming shown to date, and Open brand partners increasing to 75+ (03NOV00) (Sky) (related.link) (related.link)
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Ruel's Spotlight Website: BSkyB's Open (03NOV00)
The BSkyB Open website has a nice demo providing an extensive tour of what can be done on Open. -
Internet TV Networks America Inc. intros internet TV set-top box in U.S. (03NOV00) (inTVnet)
There are several interesting set-top box companies in Korea. Internet TV Networks Inc. is one company that sent in news about their company and their U.S. counterpart Internet TV Networks America Inc. You can click here to see the website for the Korean company. You can also click here for the U.S. company. Click here for their previous website. Also click here for an interesting composite screen shot from the previous website. -
UK News: Channel 4's E4 digital entertainment channel to have Banzai gameshow where TV viewers can
bet on show events via the TV remote control or the E4.com website (03NOV00) (MediaGuardian)
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Motorola Semiconductor develops MCT5100 M-DTVT module for digital TV to be inserted in conventional
TVs by manufacturers (03NOV00) (TVBroadcast)
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Oren Semiconductor hires Jacob Tanz as new CEO and rolls out OR51211 and OR41221 chips for U.S. digital TV market
(03NOV00) (EETimes)
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CEA Market Research Says Consumer Satisfaction With HDTV Is High And Interest Growing:
Consumer Electronics Association reports factory sales of 368,947 digital television displays to
dealers during first nine months of 2000 (02NOV00) (CEA)
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For TV Stations Behind On DTV Transition: Ten point list for contending with the DTV construction crunch
(03NOV00) (TVBroadcast)
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Flip-Side Of Disney Versus AOL-Time Warner, Time Warner Cable, And Comcast: BSkyB really wants the
UK television network ITV to end its absence from Sky Digital (03NOV00) (MediaGuardian)
This is not really about interactive TV ("iTV"), but about Independent TV ("ITV") in the UK. The BSkyB-ITV situation here is the flip-side of the overall complaints from Disney against AOL-Time Waner, Time Warner Cable, and Comcast regarding carriage, "open access," and "fair access" for Disney content and interactivity on cable. How about if you didn't want to be carried on a particular cable TV or satellite TV service? That is what is illustrated in the long-running BSkyB-ITV situation.
The MediaGuardian quotes an ITV spokesperson as stating, "In every home in Britain ITV is the most popular channel and in digital homes it is drawing viewers away from the Sky Digital platform. Our autumn schedule has performed very strongly and saw us grow audience share for the third year running. With figures like that, it's not surprising they want us on their platform."
"ITV" here stands for Independent Television which is a federation of regional broadcasters operating on Channel 3 throughout the UK and was founded in 1955. That's why you may see some people saying "iTV" for interactive TV to differentiate from ITV in the UK (I'd rather just say "interactive TV" or "interactive television.") You can click here to see the ITV website. And you can also click here to see the ITC's page on ITV. -ruel - Retrofitting Theaters For Digital Movies: Madstone Films says the digital revolution would play better in theaters than on TV sets (03NOV00) (WIRED)
- More On Movie Theaters: Digital movie projection could be the biggest revolution since sound (03NOV00) (WIRED)
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Movie Making: Using low-cost digital video and the internet are becoming wildly popular at film schools
(03NOV00) (BostonGlobe)
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Pfeiffer Report On Emerging Trends & Technologies: Andreas Pfeiffer wants to separate broadband from the
conventional TV broadcast influence (02NOV00) (PfeifferReport)
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Pfeiffer Consulting's Andreas Pfeiffer expects broadband digital entertainment to evolve from the creativity of individuals and groups instead of from the typical TV networks and production companies. Pfeiffer writes, "If we forget about 'TV on the Internet' for a moment, we can see that the potential for broadband media is much wider than simply delivering television programs interactively over the Internet." -
WorldGate 3Q results include deployment of TVGateway, introduction of CableWare 2000, digital trials in
India and Dominican Republic using Motorola's $99 SURFview set-top box, and partnerships with
Bloomberg, Broadband Interactive Group, and RespondTV (02NOV00) (WorldGate)
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- Which Videogame Console Do You Want To Get: Sega Dreamcast has modem and online service while Sony Playstation II has no modem yet but can play DVD movies (02NOV00) (Mercury.AP) (alt.link)
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Jim Lynch Speculates On Saving Sega Sonic Hedgehog: Don't be surprised if the Microsoft logo is slapped on
Sega's AAA-quality videogame titles in time for XBOX launch (03NOV00) (Salon)
- Sony using Regional Coding Enhancement on DVD movie discs to defeat multi-region DVD players (02NOV00) (Inside)
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New DVD movie discs have new built-in Regional Code Enhancement (RCE) to stop disc from playing
on DVD players outside of the US (28OCT00) (NewScientist)
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TV Broadcast Signals To Push Data And Entertainment: Chris Nolan comment on datacasting as the "new"
interactive TV that uses broadcast television signals to send digital information to homes (02NOV00) (Upside)
The short Upside comment by Chris Nolan in part discusses Dotcast. This is "Push TV" using broadcast signals. -ruel -
Ruel's Spotlight Website: Dotcast (02NOV00)
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Broadband To Push Movies To The Set-Top: Core Competence president David M. Piscitello discusses testing of
a DSL video rental service (02OCT00) (ClecPlanet)
Core Competence Inc. president David M. Piscitello writes, "One trial, still under development, will explore the viability of DSL as a delivery method for a video rental service.... The service provider installs an integrated access device (IAD) in a DSL customer's residence. This device is pre-loaded with about a dozen movies.... New movies are uploaded to the IAS as a background task, perhaps over the course of an entire week prior to making these available for selection; in this manner, even modest bandwidth (384 Kbps) is sufficient to deliver DVD-quality movies to the home." This is "Push TV," or "Push Movies," using broadband. -ruel - DIRECTV and TiVo announce U.S. availability of DIRECTV receiver with TiVo from both Philips and Sony (02NOV00) (DIRECTV) (alt.link) (alt.link)
- DIRECTV and TiVo release satellite TV receiver that combines DIRECTV programming with TiVo technology (02NOV00) (Mercury.Reuters) (alt.link) (alt.link) (alt.link)
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Ruel's Spotlight Website: DIRECTV with TiVo webpage (02NOV00) (TiVo)
- Philips and Sony set-top boxes for DIRECTV now Include TiVo (03NOV00) (TheStandard)
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Philips Electronics DSR6000 set-top box for DIRECTV with TiVo is available at most major electronic retailers in U.S.
(02NOV00) (Yahoo.BW)
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