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- Interactive TV services from NBTel VibeVision, Rogers Interactive TV, Shaw, and Aliant making inroads in Canada (06NOV00) (Strategy)
- TV broadcasters, producers, and motion picture distributors want to plug Canadian legal loophole and prevent JumpTV.com from re-transmitting television signals via the web despite Border Control software that restricts access to Canada (03NOV00) (Mediaweek)
- ICE and WIN Television produce first Australian interactive television programs where TV viewers can interact with TV news and travel shows with remote control in Australia (06NOV00) (ICE)
- More Pizza Hut Tcommerce News In Australia: 150-household interactive TV test includes remote-control pizza ordering in Australia (07NOV00) (AFR)
- As Previously Reported: ICE Interactive and WIN Television to produce interactive news and travel programs in Australia (07NOV00) (Newsbytes)
- SeaChange hires digital video engineer Paul Madden to play key role in SeaChange interactive TV product development, field integration, and next-generation digital video server applications (07NOV00) (SeaChange) (alt.link)
- Cable & Wireless Optus suspends digital television plans and will not intro interactive digital television in Australia before any sale of Optus assets (06NOV00) (AFR)
Australian Financial Review (AFR) quotes Optus CEO Chris Anderson as stating, "Capital expenditure will be severely limited ... capital expenditure will decrease for the whole company, not increase. The options for interactive [services] will be considered going forward."- Infomatec AG introduces CrossTV technology for linking TV media and internet both in digital and analog (06NOV00) (German language) (Infomatec) (English link)
- Media Concepts thinks consumers will buy home theater systems and components online at HOMtheater.com instead of at a brick and mortar store (06NOV00) (PCWorld)
- Ruel's Spotlight Website: etv.NBC.com (06NOV00)
- Before Disney Bought ABC: Disney was close to owning 49% of NBC before buying ABC (06NOV00) (MediaLife)
Scroll down the MediaLife news briefs page to see the news item where MediaLife cites Talk magazine's quotation of Disney's Michael Eisner regarding the proposed deal where General Electric owned the controlling interest in NBC while Disney would get 49%: General Electric's Jack Welch "completely convinced me that it was a great deal. He's such a good salesman. I was ready to go. But then I got in the elevator and realized the economics of it made absolutely no sense for us."- FOX News Network and eMediaMillWorks launch searchable interactive video archive at FOXNEWS.com (06NOV00) (PRN)
- Applicable To Personal TV Also: Matt Dattilo discusses information gathering on the net and the three levels of privacy including the "What Privacy?" group, the "Big Deal!" group, and the No Name anonymous group (06NOV00) (ZDNN)
- QBeo to demo "My Photo Gallery" broadband cable imaging service at Las Vegas Fall Comdex 2000 for image storage, enhancement, editing and print ordering via TV sets (06NOV00) (QBeo)
- dotTV announces capability to register .TV domain names in Chinese, French, German, Korean, Japanese, and Spanish (06NOV00) (InternetNews)
You can click here to visit dotTV for registering .TV domain names.- dotTV expands global domain capabilities to include registration services in German, French, Spanish, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese languages (06NOV00) (PRN)
- InterVideo intros CeDVD as software-based DVD player-decoder for WinCE devices (06NOV00) (NYTimes.BW)
- DVD Reaching Critical Mass: DVD reaches acceptance in the consumer consciousness quicker than any other electronic product (04NOV00) (CBS.MarketWatch)
- David Wilson says "DVD is expected to become obsolete before 2020" (06NOV00) (SCMP)
In the South China Morning Post (SCMP), David Wilson writes, "DVD is expected to become obsolete before 2020. Eventually everything - audio and video - may come via an electronic pipeline instead of a shop." Wilson also writes, "Some consumers reject DVDs because of the emergence of the ubiquitous, accursed VCD - video compact disc - a CD on which a full-length movie has been squeezed.... They play in the standard CD slot in either a Mac or PC."- Philips working with Sony on Blue Disc system for DVDs with up to 22.5GB capacity per side for feature-length movies in HDTV (06NOV00) (Twice)
- More MeTV DSL VOD News: MeTV to stream full-length feature films, music videos, promotional trailers, and sports programming in three-month test beginning January 2000 in San Diego and using Microsoft Windows Media Rights Manager, IP authentication and other methods for security (06NOV00) (Newsbytes)
- Turner Broadcasting appoints Stephen Johnstone as head of interactive for TBS Europe and who would be in charge of content creation for web, broadband, interactive and enhanced television, and wireless devices (06NOV00) (Revolution) (related.link)
- Brainspark incubator starts EC1 Media interactive TV and broadband agency for building interactive TV services, broadband websites, and WAP applications (06NOV00) (Revolution)
Revolution UK quotes Brainspark wholly-owned EC1 Media CEO Paul Cackett as stating, "Everyone knows that the broadband revolution is coming. What is not clear is how traditional businesses are going to integrate capabilities that they will need in this converged media landscape."- More On ACTV-Cyclo Interactive TV Advertising Deal: ACTV gets access to Cyclo advertising clients including American Express, AT&T, Ford, General Mills, Nasdaq, Nike, and Procter & Gamble (06NOV00) (Mediapost)
- Microsoft announces XBOX independent developer program and XBOX incubator program (07NOV00) (Microsoft)
- Linux Videogame Console News: Indrema and CollabNet launch Indrema Developer Network for developers building videogames for the Indrema Entertainment System linux platform (06NOV00) (Indrema)
- Indrema and Metro Link to collaborate to make Indrema OpenStream as universal open standard for video on Linux (06NOV00) (Indrema) (alt.link)
- Metrowerks to produce Indrema version of Codewarrior for Indrema Entertainment Software Development Kit (06NOV00) (Indrema) (alt.link)
- Net4TV looks at AOLTV (05NOV00) (Net4TV)
- Telewebber Whassup News: Budweiser TV commercials tell TV viewers to go to the web to see how "Whassup" is said around the world (05NOV00) (Mercury.USAToday)
- Sigmacom to integrate NxtWave NXT2000 receiver chip into DTV cards for PCs (06NOV00) (NxtWave)
- PC Will Survive: John Dodge says PC should be an appliance that grows automatically with you (05NOV00) (ZDNN.eWEEK)
- National Semiconductor takes on leadership position in HomeRF Working Group as one of six promoter member companies promoting deployment of interoperable wireless devices for the home (06NOV00) (NatSemi)
- Pacific Century CyberWorks to restructure Network Of the World (NOW) and reposition iTV unit for web television (06NOV00) (asia.internet)
- Jesse Berst on webcams and video conferencing (06NOV00) (Anchordesk)
- Comment On FTC-WebTV Case: Dudette discusses "Why WebTV Didn't Have to Do That" (05NOV00) (Net4TV)
- More TiVo-DIRECTV News: Sony releases $449.99 SAT-T60 recorder/player, and Philips DSR6000 is due out (06NOV00) (PCWorld)
- King Of TV: Philips Electronics in great position for interactive TV by manufacturing the set-top boxes for DIRECTV with TiVo, Microsoft, Liberate, and AOLTV (03NOV00) (updated link) (Upside)
- CBS named best digital TV network (03NOV00) (Twice)
- Academy Of Digital Television Pioneers gives awards to ABC Monday Night Football (Best DTV Sporting Event), CBS (Best DTV Network), DirecTV (Best DTV Satellite Provider), Over America (Best Original DTV Material), Time-Warner Cable (Best DTV Cable System), and WRAL-Digital (Best Local DTV Broadcaster) (02NOV00) (CEA)
- IMIX.TV 2.0 "Best of Show" awards go to ACTV and TBS, MetaTV and E! Online, and Spiderdance and MTVi (23OCT00) (ACTV)
- Telewebber News: NBC Saturday Night Movie contest causes NBCi.com traffic to spike (03NOV00) (MediaLife)
- Telewebber Election Prediction: Internet to outdo TV on U.S. election night (03NOV00) (CNET.AP)
- MeTV to launch consumer trials of broadband video-on-demand service beginning January 2001 in San Diego with 250 subscribers using the Internet Express DSL service (03NOV00) (Videography) (related.link)
Videography quotes MeTV Network marketing senior vice president Martin French as stating, "We expect the test to validate the MeTV VOD delivery mechanism, our security, territory, and content management systems, while justifying the consumers need for high bandwidth."
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- Interactive TV services from NBTel VibeVision, Rogers Interactive TV, Shaw, and Aliant making inroads in Canada (06NOV00) (Strategy)
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