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Digital TV Over Phone Lines: ViaGate announces ViaGate 4000 System, ViaGate 4160 Broadband Multimedia Access Switch,
ViaJet AE200 VDSL Modem, and ViaView Element Management System to enable simultaneous delivery of multiple streams of
digital broadcast television, interactive digital video, video-on-demand, HDTV, high-speed data, and integrated telephony
services over existing telephone lines (21MAY01) (PRN)
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The news announcement quotes ViaGate Technologies president and CEO Dennis Roth as stating, "Broadband solutions are becoming more sought after and will become a critical offering for telco service providers over the next 12 to 18 months.... The ability to deliver end-to-end multichannel digital TV and interactive media services, including media-on-demand and traditional telecommunications services, will generate additional revenue streams for telecommunications companies, and enable them to compete with cable and satellite operators." -
Fifth-Generation Set-Top Gateway: Xcom/Pace launches fifth-generation advanced XSat digital gateway technology
for payTV and free-to-air markets at Mediacast 2001 (21MAY01) (Pace)
The news announcement quotes Pace Micro Technology marketing director Andrew Wallace as stating, "This is Xcom's first product launch since becoming part of the Pace Group earlier this year." -
Digital Home Set-Top Gateway: Amino Communications intros Residential Gateway Reference Design with security
architecture for video-on-demand, broadband internet, multi-player gaming, security services, predictive maintenance,
videoconferencing, home shopping, and online banking (21MAY01) (Harvard)
The news announcement quotes Amino Communications CEO Martyn Gilbert as stating, "We are entering the Digital Home era where digital technologies and services will start to pervade the home." -
Embedded Browser For Set-Top: LSI Logic software development platform for LSI Logic SC2000 digital set-top box chip
features ANT Fresco embedded browser (21MAY01) (LSILogic)
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DVB-HTML Platform: Netgem demos Netgem 4.0 digital interactive TV software platform for digital television at ECC in London
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The news announcement quotes Netgem CEO Joseph Haddad as stating, "The world of interactive digital TV is at a major crossroad. Never has such an opportunity existed for the forward-looking operators and set-top-box manufacturers to bring real life innovative services to the consumers." -
Broadband Services & Applications For iTV: InfoSpace private-label broadband services and interactive television
applications to be integrated with Netgem 4.0 digital platform (21MAY01) (InfoSpace)
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In the related news item, Netimperative quotes InfoSpace Europe broadband services director Nick Henry as stating, "Some of the services we provide include content and content management which we plan to port to the TV portal, communication services like email, instant messaging, chat, calendar and address book as well as the commerce piece." - DVB-MHP Set-Tops: Philips Semiconductors and Humax to demo STB8525 Nexperia Reference Platform and other set-top boxes based on Philips Semiconductors' pnx8525 Nexperia Home Entertainment Engine with Multimedia Home Platform capabilities at MediaCast in London, England on May 21-23 (21MAY01) (Philips) (alt.link)
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Browser For Digital TV: Philips Semiconductors to include ANT Fresco browser with Nexperia platform for set-top boxes
and integrated digital TV (21MAY01) (Philips)
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Interactive TV In Hungary: TV2 to form Korridor internet-teletext subsidiary to manage online assets and teletext services as well as
develop new interactive television services (21MAY01) (Europemedia)
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Growth For Video Servers: Cahners In-Stat Group's "VOD & Streaming Drive Growth For Digital Media Servers" report says
video-on-demand and streaming media to drive worldwide annual value of digital media servers from $1.2 billion in 2001 to
$4.4+ billion in 2005 (21MAY01) (Cahners)
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DirecTV As Jewel In Murdoch's Satellite TV Crown: News Corp's Rupert Murdoch shepherds the negotiations for a DirecTV deal
while US Senator John McCain emerges as Murdoch's regulatory nemesis (21MAY01) (Salon)
Salon reports, "Convinced it's the answer to his cable competitors (most notably AOL Time Warner), as well as the foundation for the coming interactive television revolution, Murdoch has staked his News Corp.'s future to satellite TV." -
Satellite TV "DeathStar" Combo: Monica Hogan discusses the past and future possibilities of a DirecTV-EchoStar
"Deathstar" combination (21MAY01) (MultiChannel)
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In the related news item, the Denver Post quotes EchoStar Communications CEO Charlie Ergen as stating, "We don't see a compelling need to marry up with someone else, but we do think there are partnerships in our future." -
PVRs To Have VCR Déjà Vu: Forrester Research's "The Digital Copyright Standoff" report says network television will face a
repeat of videocasette recorder issues as personal video recorders become more popular (21MAY01) (Newsbytes)
Newsbytes cites Forrester Research's "The Digital Copyright Standoff" report as indicating, "Personal video recorders are already on the market in the form of TiVO and other products, and as they become more popular, network television will find itself faced with many of the same issues it faced [when] the videocassette recorder first emerged.... [Network] television will be unable to use the courts or Congress to stop people from copying programs on the devices...." -
Interactivity Equals Communication Plus Choice: Peter Jorgensen looks at PVR time-shifted TV viewer preferences,
content related interactive services, and chicken-and-egg problem for interactive TV content (21MAY01) (Europemedia)
- Digital Product Placement To Avoid TiVo Commercial Skipping: Princeton Video Image provides technology for inserting virtual product images into TV shows (21MAY01) (Standard)
The Industry Standard reports, "The advantage in the era of the personal video recorder is obvious: You can't fast-forward past these ads because they are part of the show. The technique is flexible, too. The can of Coke shown in the original broadcast could be switched to Pepsi once a show is in syndication."- Surviving TiVo Commercial Skipping With Product Placement: M2 Universal president Hugh Dow says integrating commercial product presence into the content of TV shows will become of more interest (21MAY01) (Strategy)
Strategy magazine quotes M2 Universal president Hugh Dow as stating, "[A]s advertisers become more concerned about conventional commercial avoidance by viewers [using TiVo-type devices], I think areas where a commercial presence can be integrated into the content of the program itself will become of more interest. We saw some very powerful examples of this in Survivor, for example, where there was to my mind extremely effective and extremely relevant product placement." One example that Dow is apparently referring to is the Target department store logo on a cargo box, with various products inside the box, that was parachuted to the "Survivor" camp in the recent "Survivor: The Australian Outback" television show broadcast on CBS TV.- Broadband Video Downloading Future: Netflix CEO Reed Hastings sees the ultimate future in downloadable and streaming video and also notes the need to understand personal entertainment preferences (21MAY01) (RedHerring)
- Broadband Video Coming Attractions: Mac User Claire Tristram looks at the hype for broadband video on the internet (June2001) (TechReview)
- TiVo Video File-Sharing And Tweaking Devices: EnjoyWeb develops technology to allow TiVo and other personal video recorders to receive shows-on-demand via the internet (19MAY01) (MSNBC.AP) (alt.link) (alt.link)
The news item from the Associated Press (AP) is about enthusiasts who do hardware hacking and the companies that are following them. The AP quotes David Beckemeyer, who hacked a TiVo by adding an ethernet port for high-speed internet connections to get TiVo guide data without making phone calls, as stating, "Ultimately guys like me are all probably a sign of things to come." The AP reports that "hackers come up with functions before market demand justifies manufacturers adding them" and that installing "an Ethernet port could, for example, pave the way for file-sharing, allowing TiVo users to find the 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' episode they missed on the unit of another TiVo owner." With regard to the shows-on-demand file-sharing technology, the AP cites EnjoyWeb CEO Yangbin Wang as indicating his company would only use the file-sharing technology for TiVo and other PVRs with partner companies for legal distribution of content. You can click here to check out EnjoyWeb. And you can click here for past video file-sharing news.- Related Online File Locker News: Vivendi Universal is acquiring MP3.com (21MAY01) (MP3) (related.link) (related.link)
In the first related news item, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports, "San Diego's embattled MP3.com, a Wall Street favorite before losing a high-stakes copyright fight with major record labels, is being acquired by its fiercest opponent."- More TiVo News: Good reviews don't help to sell TiVo to consumers who don't get it or who don't want to pay for it (21MAY01) (NYPost)
The New York Post reports, "The popularity of TiVo and PVRs has not grown as quickly as had been expected - for a few reasons. For one, TiVo's hard to advertise because it's tough to sum up all its attributes.... Another big problem is that TV viewers can be a passive lot - not easily prodded off the couch to explore their options." The New York Post cites UBS Warburg director Thomas Eagan as indicating, "Salespeople have been pushing DVDs much more than PVRs because the digital discs are easier for people to understand." Another reason cited by the Post is that the consumer has to buy a TiVo box and then pay a monthly subscription fee. Elsewhere, and related to this with cable and satellite TV companies providing or selling boxes, AustralianIT quotes Austar interactive services manager John Paul as stating, "If you operate under a retail model your take-up will never ever be the same or approach what you do if you were heavily subsidising."- TV Horserace Betting News: Youbet.com to use Gemstar-TV Guide TVG unit's online and automated telephone betting technology, video streams, and online wagering with TVG partner racetracks (21MAY01) (NYTimes.Reuters) (alt.link) (related.link) (related.link) (related.link)
In the related news item, DowJones quotes Youbet CEO Robert Fell as stating, "The biggest reason subscribers canceled with us or did not sign up is that we have not had the major track content." The TVG deal gives Youbet access to horseracing at 20 major horse-racing tracks including Churchill Downs and Hollywood Park.- Web Audience Gains Minorities & Retirees: Media Audit Co-Chairman Bob Jordan says internet access is to follow the same history as television (21MAY01) (MediaAudit) (alt.link) (related.link)
The news announcement cites The Media Audit co-chairman Bob Jordan as indicating, "He expects Internet access to follow the same history as television." Jordan is quoted as stating, "Initially, TV was only in affluent homes. But as sets became less expensive the market expanded. The same scenario played out when TV went color and I expect to see a very similar market penetration with the Internet."- Live Remote Control Of Appliances Via The Internet: LiveDevices provides $5 silicon firmware to enable TV sets, VCRs, and other consumer electronic devices to interact with other devices and central resources via the internet (21MAY01) (Newsbytes)
You can click here to check out LiveDevices.- Ruel's Spotlight Website: Byron Allen's on-demand celebrity interviews and telewebber walled garden (20MAY01) (EntertainmentStudios)
This is a very smart video website featuring celebrity interviews from Byron Allen's various syndicated television shows. Click here for "Entertainers with Byron Allen" and here for "Kicking It with Byron Allen" and here for "The American Athlete." Each episode of Byron Allen's different television shows consists of several interviews that last several minutes each. All of those interviews make up a good-size library of short videos to browse through. And each interview is linked to products related to the celebrity such as books, CDs, and videotapes featuring the celebrity. Although this is a telewebber website on the open internet, this is a good simple example of a "walled garden" linked to a video library with the very powerful celebrity attraction. On Byron Allen's television shows, there is a persistent bottom-up graphic that shows up during each show telling telewebbing TV viewers to go to his company's EntertainmentStudios.com website.- Advanced Cell Phone Glitches But Video Seems To Work: "The only thing that seems to work right now is the video conferencing" (20MAY01) (NYTimes.Reuters)
Reuters reports, "The cell phone of the future is to become a phone, a wallet, a diary, a database, a walkman, a TV and a camera. All in one." However, Reuters then reports "it is the new applications that are being rushed into phones which are blamed for most of the problems with current Japanese handsets." Reuters quotes an industry source as stating, "The only thing that seems to work right now is the video conferencing."
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- Digital Product Placement To Avoid TiVo Commercial Skipping: Princeton Video Image provides technology for inserting virtual product images into TV shows (21MAY01) (Standard)
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