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Building Up TiVo: Heightened expectations for TiVo subscriber growth in wake of CBS "60 Minutes" broadcast
(20MAR01) (Yahoo.Variety)
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Variety quotes Deutsche Banc Alex Brown analyst Peter Ausnit as stating, "TiVo has a corner on this space but hasn't demonstrated its ability to meet projections or presented a path toward profitability. In fact, it continues to burn cash at an incredible rate." For those of you who buy stock, Variety reports Ausnit says TiVo gets an "underperform" rating (although Ausnit really believes in PVRs) while Sutro analyst David Miller gives TiVo a "buy" recommendation. You can click here for another article regarding Ausnit's "underperform" rating for TiVo. -
TiVo Played Up On TV News Magazine: TiVo revels in glow of "60 Minutes" coverage (19MAR01) (CNET)
CNET quotes Deutsche Banc Alex Brown analyst Peter Ausnit as stating the "60 Minutes" coverage was a "puff piece" and TiVo "is a company that is on plan to run out of cash within the year." -
TV Living Room Apps: SNAP2 to demo java-based LivingRoom applications for interactive television at CeBit 2001
(20MAR01) (SNAP2)
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- News For Canada: Aliant Telecom selects Pace Micro Technology to provide Pace DSL4000 digital set-top boxes using iMagicTV DTV Manager software for VibeVision digital television service in Canada (14MAR01) (Pace) (alt.link)
The news announcement states the Aliant Telecom VibeVision service using the Pace DSL4000 set-top box with the iMagicTV software "provides customers [with] digital color and sound, local radio stations and the Galaxy music channels, PPV movies, and an interactive on-screen TV guide that allows customers to surf the program listings. As an extra benefit, customers can surf the Net and retrieve e-mail on their television."- Related On DSL Repeating History: Telocity's Vicki Foshee discusses DSL changes, innovations, and telephone history (20MAR01) (ISP-Planet)
Telocity service deliver senior vice president Vicki Foshee writes, "History does, in fact, have a propensity to repeat itself: several factors have created a demand for DSL unforeseen by the same local telephone companies that failed to predict the boom in dedicated dial-tone service [in moving from shared telephone party lines] some 30 years ago. These factors include the growth in Internet usage, the affordability of personal computers, corporate acceptance of telecommuting and the desire to quickly navigate the Internet from home."- Cinema On-Demand Patent News: Media[netCom] gets international patent for Cinema-on-Demand technology (20MAR01) (Variety)
FYI, Variety switched to a new subscription system after this link was originally posted. You can click here to go to Media[netcom] and you can click here to visit Cinema-on-Demand.- Music On Interactive TV: Music Choice rolls out interactive TV service on Sky with on-demand music with on-screen in-depth artist and track information (20MAR01) (Netimperative)
Netimperative reports, "Later in the year, an 'impulse buying' functionality will be added [to the Music Choice interactive TV service] so that customers can purchase albums on-screen."- Cable Channel To Be Built Around Website: USA Cable buys Crime.com for telewebbing with launch of new "Crime" digital cable TV channel (19MAR01) (Inside) (related.link)
Inside quotes Crime.com general manager Doug Lee as stating, "We already have a dialogue going with [the web] audience. We already have loyal users. It's a great base on which to build a digital-cable channel."- Scale Of "Crime" Cable Channel Rollout Depends On Set-Tops: USA Cable President Stephen Chao says he's convinced of the inevitable rollout of digital set-top boxes (20MAR01) (Variety) (related.link)
Variety quotes USA Cable president Stephen Chao as stating, "I'm convinced that the rollout of digital boxes is inevitable."- Cozy CableLabs Set-Top Duolopy For Scientific-Atlanta And Motorola: Digital cable television set-top boxes were supposed to be in stores for purchase by US consumers by now (19MAR01) (Forbes)
Forbes quotes cable TV analyst Leslie Ellis as stating the "[d]eadline for digital set-top boxes to be in stores was July. Instead there was just deafening silence." The Forbes article also discusses how Sony is getting around the duolopy with the Cablevision deal. Forbes reports, "Not only is Cablevision conspicuously not a member of the CableLabs consortium, it also owns the Wiz electronics chain, which would presumably benefit from sales of set-top boxes."- Interactive On-Demand Entertainment: AtomShockwave merged company launches with AtomFilms and Shockwave brands for interactive entertainment content including short films, animation, and games for cable TV, airlines, internet, and mobile wireless (20MAR01) (AtomShockwave) (related.link)
- UK Government Health Service Via TV: UK NHS does interactive TV with "Living Health" service powered by SmashedAtom to go live in six month test to 50,000 Telewest homes beginning June 2001 (19MAR01) (MediaGuardian) (related.link)
Media Guardian quotes Living Health general manager Ronnette Lucraft as stating, "This groundbreaking project demonstrates how interactive TV can deliver real benefits for government and reach people who don't necessarily have internet access." As well as providing online health information, Media Guardian reports, "Living Health will enable a user to have a TV video conference with a nurse in the NHS Direct call centre." A competing channel will be the Wellbeing channel. You can click here to find a news item about Wellbeing.- Where Oh Where Is Digital TV: US Congresswoman Anita Eshoo says the only place she has ever seen digital television was in congressional hearing rooms and not in living rooms (19MAR01) (Mediaweek)
This Mediaweek article is another in the continuing news covering the recent US House subcommittee hearing on the transition to digital TV. At the end of the article, in quoting US Congresswoman Anita Eshoo, Mediaweek reports, "Rep. Anita Eshoo (D-Calif.) quipped that the only time she's ever seen DTV is in Hill 'hearing rooms, not in living rooms.' The reaction from the crowd indicated she is not alone."- Open The Walled Gardens On Interactive TV: Consumer groups file a comment telling the FCC to require safeguards for open access in the interactive TV environment in the US (19MAR01) (CNET) (alt.link)
CNET quotes Center For Media Education executive director Jeffrey Chester as stating, "Without safeguards, [inteactive TV] is likely to become a digital mirror image of the current closed multichannel cable model." CNET also cites a NCTA filing made with the FCC that says the consumer group filing made by the Media Access Project, the Consumers Union, Consumer Federation of America, and the Center for Media Education is "peculiar" and "misguided."- Blockbuster Versus Hollywood: Movie studios don't want to see a dominant Blockbuster in the developing broadband video-on-demand market (19MAR01) (BusinessWeek)
Business Week (BW) quotes a top Hollywood movie studio executive as stating, "We didn't like their business model. We didn't like their terms. We basically didn't like them." BW also quotes Disney strategic-planning operation chief Peter Murphy as stating, "We intend to be Blockbuster." BW reports Blockbuster will play hardball with the movie studios: "Namely, if a studio wants Blockbuster to carry its videos and DVDs [in Blockbuster stores], it will have to let Blockbuster in on distributing its flicks over the Internet as well."- Hollywired 2001: "Tomb Raider" movie premiere will mark the official commencement of the Napsterization of the movie business (April2001) (YIL) (alt.link)
The link actually goes to the Yahoo Internet Life (YIL) website. You'll have to go out to your local newsstand and get the April 2001 issue of the Yahoo Internet Life print magazineso you can read the "Hollywired 2001" articles on "The Next Picture Show," "Confessions of a Would-Be Movie Pirate," "Flicks to Click," "Will The Toons Inherit The Earth," and "Tinseltown for the Taking."
There's also a two-page "Tres Jolie" article on Angelina Jolie who is the cover girl for the April issue and who is to appear in the new "Tomb Raider" movie to premiere in June 2001. The first article on "The Next Picture Show," which discusses pay-per-view and subscription movie services on the internet, also mentions the "Tomb Raider" movie and quotes an unnamed digital Hollywood chief executive as predicting the "Tomb Raider" movie "will be the single most pirated movie in the history of the world." In response to that statement, YIL magazine comments, "With that release [of the "Tomb Raider" movie], the Napsterization of the movie business will have officially commenced."- News For Korea: Liberate and Broadband Solutions Inc. announce exclusive agreement to bring interactive television services to Korea (19MAR01) (Liberate) (alt.link) (related.link)
- Digital Movie Theater Distribution News: SightSound Technologies, Microsoft, and Panasonic Broadcast & Television Systems testing delivery of movies via the internet for projection onto movie screens using Microsoft Windows Media Video in Pittsburgh (19MAR01) (Microsoft)
- Microsoft WindowsMedia.com showcases Motion Picture Academy Best Picture nominees using Microsoft Windows Media with clips, interviews, trailers, and more (19MAR01) (Mircosoft)
- Real VP3 Streaming Video: On2 proprietary VP3 video compression technology available as RealPlayer plug-in update via RealNetworks AutoUpdate for full-screen, full-motion, TV-quality video over IP networks (19MAR01) (NYTimes.BW) (alt.link) (alt.link)
- Free Online Movie: Kanakaris Wireless showcases online cinema technology with "Cannibal: The Musical!" movie on CinemaPop website for free digital delivery to desktop PCs, pocket PCs, and big-screen TVs (19MAR01) (CinemaPop) (alt.link)
You can click here to go to CinemaPop.- Making Homebrew Digital Movies: Mercury News does quick survey of do-it-yourself home video products including Hollywood DV-Bridge, Dazzle Digital Video Creator, MyDVD, and Pinnacle Systems' Studio software (19MAR01) (Mercury)
- Archiving Homebrew Movies On VCD: YesVideo can convert home videotapes and super 8 movie film to digital form on Video CDs (19MAR01) (Mercury)
- Videotapes Still Reign In Corporate Offices: Digital Pipe CEO Chris Wallace wants you to watch streaming video in the corporate environment (19MAR01) (ZDNN)
- Telewebbing Potatos: Comedy Central cable channel revamps companion website and seeks to complete "virtual circle" to turn PC mouse potatos into TV couch potatos (19MAR01) (Adweek)
- WorldGate promotes Joe Augenbraun to engineering senior vice president (20MAR01) (WorldGate)
- Eagle Expansion News: Eagle Broadband executives to begin tour to discuss company's 'Focused Diversification' empire building (19MAR01) (EGLW) (alt.link) (alt.link) (related.link) (related.link) (related.link)
- Content Packaging For Broadband Snacking: Ernst & Young's "Business Redefined: Connecting Content, Applications, and Customers" report says broadband households "consume" 20% more entertainment time (19MAR01) (PRN) (alt.PDF) (related.link)
The news announcement quotes one CEO as stating, "Broadband is snacking technology. With broadband's convenience you will eat more." Another CEO is quoted as stating, "Technology will fundamentally reshape the way content can be delivered and stored." The new report from Ernst & Young and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young discusses "Content Packagers" where "cable and satellite companies ... are introducing content-on-demand, manufacturers of set-top boxes who allow viewers to define the content they want and strip out programs and advertising they don't, and online exchanges for businesses and consumers." In the related link, which also covers the same report, yet another CEO is quoted as stating, "People need Content Packagers because they can't find the content they want and don't trust the content they find."- TV Guide Winks: Gemstar-TV Guide to integrate Wink interactive television services with TV Guide Interactive Program Guide on Motorola DCT-2000 digital set-top boxes (16MAR01) (TVGuide) (alt.link) (alt.link) (alt.link) (alt.link) (related.link)
The news announcement quotes Gemstar-TV Guide International co-president and chief operating officer Peter C. Boylan III as stating, "TV Guide Interactive is pleased to be able to support our cable customers who desire to deploy the Wink interactive television services in concert with our IPG." The news announcement also quotes Wink president and chief executive officer Maggie Wilderotter as stating, "[T]his agreement is a watershed event for Wink.... our company will immediately gain access to several million digital cable households representing the lion share of the digital cable television market."- TV Guide Patent Power: Gemstar-TV Guide's Henry Luan may be the smartest guy in television since his greatest strength is he owns every idea he has (12MAR01) (BusinessWeek)
- Youmeus Fuzzy-Logic Television Guide: Applied Psychology Research gets $10M venture capital funding for sales and marketing of Youmeus fuzzy-logic electronic programme finder software (16MAR01) (FT)
The Financial Times (FT) reports Applied Psychology Research's Youmeus software "has been fed thousands of examples in order to help it 'learn' to gauge people's requirements" and applies "fuzzy logic" to find movies and TV shows that match what the user may want to watch. FT reports Applied Psychology Research is working with the Independent Television Commission in the UK on the electronic programme finder and is "working with Blockbuster to produce a guide to its database of videos."- Guide For PPV Movies & Events: Pay-Per-View.com seeks to provide PPV providers with free placement listings on TotalPPV.com website to be launched in late Summer (19MAR01) (Multichannel)
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- News For Canada: Aliant Telecom selects Pace Micro Technology to provide Pace DSL4000 digital set-top boxes using iMagicTV DTV Manager software for VibeVision digital television service in Canada (14MAR01) (Pace) (alt.link)
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