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- Digital broadcast services to have 43% compound annual growth from Y1999 to Y2005 with set-top sales to take off by Y2003 (18AUG99) (ABI)
Allied Business Intelligence (ABI) released a new market research report entitled "Digital Broadcast 99: Worldwide Market for Digital Broadcast Systems and Equipment." ABI reports, "Transitioning to digital TV sets is going to take some time due to lack of content, cost, signal reception, and compatibility." Click the link for ABI's brief summary of the report. - VideoLogic to enforce TV-in-PC patents (27AUG99) (EE Times)
- VideoLogic expands on its technology licensing by engaging QED Intellectual Property Ltd to exploit VideoLogic patents (18AUG99) (VideoLogic)
VideoLogic previously partnered with STMicroelectronics. VideoLogic's PowerVR 3D technology is the graphics engine for the Sega Dreamcast console. - Excite@Home getting set to deliver interactive television (18AUG99) (InternetNews)
- Excite@Home announces content applications and network services for Interactive TV (17AUG99) (PRNewswire)
- AT&T Broadband & Internet Services to use Excite@Home for rollout of AT&T digital television (17AUG99) (PRNewswire)
- Disney, Time Warner, and NBC show they want ReplayTV by investing $57M in Replay Networks (18AUG99) (ZDNN)
ZDNN reports that Replay's investors include Time Warner, Disney, NBC, Liberty Media, Showtime, United Television, Matsushita, Microsoft, and Vulcan Ventures. Several of these companies, such as Disney, NBC, Liberty Media, and Showtime, were previously reported in the news as investors in TiVo which is Replay's major competitor. - Media firms back Replay in competition against TiVo (18AUG99) (CNET)
- Tribune Ventures increases investment in Replay Networks (18AUG99) (PRNewswire)
- Digital recorder boxes to be gold mine for interactive television (18AUG99) (CNET)
- AOL to put TiVo personal television into AOL-TV (18AUG99) (Standard Industry)
- AOL joins TiVo for enhancing Net TV (17AUG99) (Mercury)
- AOL teams up with TiVo for AOL-TV (17AUG99) (CNET)
- You've got AOL-TiVo (17AUG99) (ZDNet)
- AOL-TiVo tuned in say analysts (17AUG99) (ZDNN)
- Analysts say AOL-TiVo tuned in (17AUG99) (ZDNN)
- Time Warner launches digital services for 18 systems using Scientific-Atlanta's Explorer 2000 set-tops (17AUG99) (PRNewswire)
- Microsoft invests $126M in Brazil's Global Cabo for set-tops and PC broadband services (17AUG99) (InternetNews)
- Microsoft goes after Internet opportunity in Brazil and South America (17AUG99) (WIRED)
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Microsoft to invest $126M in Global Cabo for broadband cable alliance for set-tops and PCs in Brazil (16AUG99) (PRNewswire)
- Intel backs off Intercast and moves towards ATVEF standard (16AUG99) (ZDNN Inter@active Week)
- Computing power putting Videogames into television's league (16AUG99) (NY Times)
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NCH NuWorld and Evolve Products make deal for in-home printing of coupons via TV boxes (16AUG99) (PRNewswire)
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General Instrument selects Flextronics for manufacture of satellite set-top boxes (16AUG99) (PRNewswire)
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NTL second quarter results include Internet TV, interactive TV services, interactive education services, interactive games, and advertising venture with Real Media for UK (16AUG99) (PRNewswire)
- U.S. television boxes get Channel 3 interference from Tijuana and Mexico City television (14AUG99) (SD Union-Tribune)
The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that Cox Communications, Time Warner, and local San Diego cable and over-the-air broadcasters formed a coalition to protest the interference received on cable TV boxes, satellite TV dishes, Nintendo and Sega videogames, and VCR machines used by TV watchers in San Diego County. The Union-Tribune reports, "The interference results from a new Mexico City signal being broadcast to Tijuana on Channel 3. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission approved an application from the [Mexican broadcasters] to broadcast on that channel, but officials didn't weigh the full consequences of their action, Cox Communications executive Dan Novak said yesterday." The Union-Tribune quotes local San Diego KSWB-TV general manager Lisé Markham as stating, "The government inside the [Washington D.C.] beltway doesn't sometimes see the whole picture." The beltway folks at the FCC must have forgotten that Channel 3 is one of the channels used for output/input on TV boxes. - Cute Time-Warner Advertisement: Adopt a Cable Remote Control (14AUG99) (SD Union-Tribune)
Time Warner ran an almost full-page ad in the San Diego Union-Tribune in what was supposed to look like an ad torn out of the pets section of a newspaper's classified ads section. Time-Warner's ad had a picture of a handheld remote control along with the caption: "CABLE REMOTE to a good home. Comes with a really cool box, lots of channels, and hours of fun...." So, if you don't want the persian cat or the chihuahuas that are advertised for adoption, you may want to call Time Warner to ask about the cable remote control that is looking for a home. Look for similar Time-Warner advertisements in your local newspaper in your part of the world. - New coalition formed to protect broadcasters from commercial-skipping personal television services (13AUG99) (Variety)
- Advanced Television Copyright Coalition to protect TV turf from personal digital video recorders (12AUG99) (WIRED)
The Advanced Television Copyright Coalition consists of CBS, Discovery Communications, News Corp, Time Warner, and Disney. WIRED reports that the coalition hopes to "persuade makers of digital video recorders to license personal video programming in the same way content is syndicated to other broadcasters and channels." Otherwise, WIRED reports the coalition is prepared to sue manufacturers of the personal digital video recorders. This is like those other copyright licensing situations such as with the manufacturers of recorders and players for DAT cassette tapes and DVDs, as well as with the recent MP3-related news. - Scientific-Atlanta Fiscal Year ending 2JUL99: Digital deployments increase and 511,000 Explorer 2000 set-top boxes shipped (12AUG99) (PRNewswire)
- "Play TV" is on the way for TV in the UK (12AUG99) (BBC News)
BBC News reports that an upcoming football game between Manchester United and Arsenal will be the first sports event to be given the Interactive TV treatment where TV watchers will be able to "roll the action back 30 seconds at any time for tailor-made replays" and be able to "access statistics like the number of shots on goal or facts about a particular player." BSkyB will be broadcasting the Interactive TV sports event on Sky Sports Extra on August 22. Watch football in a new way. (Translation for the Americans: Watch soccer in a new way.) - Cable & Wireless begins offering Internet TV and Email to cable subscribers in UK (12AUG99) (BBC News)
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Voyager.net and Teknema intro free Voyager.net TV set-top boxes (11AUG99) (PRNewswire)
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- MeterNet teams up with Winbond and GES to begin production of WB6400 set-top box (10AUG99) (Business Wire)
- Reverend Jonas Robertson and his "Curse Free TV" box (11AUG99) (WIRED)
- Ruel's Spotlight Website: Curse Free TV (12AUG99)
- Gateway brings back Amiga for info appliances (12AUG99) (MSNBC-WSJ)
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MSNBC-WSJ reports, "... Gateway is aiming to revive the Amiga in a bold move to set standards for the next era in computing. It quietly has set up and staffed a new Amiga Inc. subsidiary to cobble together low-cost 'information appliances' for the Internet, based on Amiga technology, that can be linked like home-stereo components to add features." - Kiosk News: NCR to build internet kiosks for free access in UK (13AUG99) (InfoBeat Internet Daily)
InfoBeat reports, "NCR Limited of Great Britain has been signed to build, install and market a national network of 3,500 kiosks providing free access to the Internet. TownpagesNet.com plc [found at http://www.townpages.co.uk] said its kiosks will become a regular feature of major towns and cities across the UK, making available Net access in public access locations." - MS-WebTV has to fight off MSN $400 rebates on PCs (11AUG99) (CNET)
- Interactive TV to rival internet as advertising medium in three years (11AUG99) (WebTrendWatch)
WebTrendWatch quotes Josh Bernoff, Forrester's principal analyst for Television Research, as stating, "Interactive TV has gone from being a laughingstock to becoming a potentially massive revenue generator. As an advertising medium, it will rival the Internet within three years."
The report also states that EPGs (Electronic Program Guides) are the vanguard of interactive TV. EPGs are the "browsers" for interactive TV. As interactive TV guides that you scroll and click through to change channels and to see what is on television, EPGs will sneak in other interactive capabilities and other avenues of information that will revolutionize the way you watch television. -ruel -
"Rent Smart Cards" and Internet TV set-top boxes to be intro'd in apartment communities (11AUG99) (PRNewswire)
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NBC to feature full-motion video of TV shows on the internet using Parallel Addressing Video (PAV) and Digital Integrated Video Overlay (DIVO) technologies from United Internet Technologies (11AUG99) (PRNewswire)
- Discounted X10 gadget for watching PC DVDs on TV (10AUG99) (PC World)
- X10 wireless DVD Anywhere Kit to transmit DVD movies to television sets (7AUG99) (WIRED)
- TV Anytime Forum of broadcasters, set-top box vendors, and software makers to standardize personal television (9AUG99) (TechWeb EE Times)
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QNX and Espial Group team up to deliver PersonalJava suite for information appliances (9AUG99) (PRNewswire)
- Microsoft and Telewest unveil plans for internet and digital TV for British cable TV (5AUG99) (Nando/Agence France-Press)
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CableLabs and SCM Microsystems announce availability of OpenCable POD interface qualification tool (5AUG99) (PRNewswire)
The Point-Of-Deloyment (POD) tool is "designed specifically for consumer electronics manufacturers to develop and test the interoperability of the next generation of navigation devices including set-top boxes and digital TVs with the removable security module of any cable operator." - Interactive TV goes Hollywood (4AUG99) (WIRED)
First line of WIRED report: "Memo to Hollywood execs: Think television, baby."
YES, as often stated on these webpages: THINK TV! (but the next report says....) - American Academy of Pediatricians: Don't let your babies watch TV (4AUG99) (WIRED)
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Buckeye CableSystem and WorldGate sign multi-year deal providing interactive cable TV for Toledo, Ohio (3AUG99) (PRNewswire)
"The [WorldGate] service will cost about $10 per month for unlimited access and provides speeds over 4 times faster than typical 28.8 Kbps telephone modems." -
Sony Pictures Entertainment and Mixed Signals Technologies finalize interactive TV programming deal (3AUG99) (PRNewswire)
- Sega and AT&T playing games online (5AUG99) (PC World)
- Sega shoots ahead with Dreamcast console and AT&T online pact (5AUG99) (LA Times)
- Sega Dreamcast to alter net landscape as game console players go on the internet? (4AUG99) (MSNBC-ZDNN)
- Sega goes forward with internet strategy for Dreamcast (4AUG99) (NYT-Bloomberg)
- AT&T gets Sega Dreamcast net games access deal (4AUG99) (CBS)
CBS reports AT&T WorldNet will be the preferred U.S. ISP and British Telecom will provide the internet connection in the U.K. for the Sega Dreamcast Network where Dreamcast users put a special sega CD into the game console and connect to an interactive gaming environment with other Dreamcast gamers via the Internet. See pricing in next report for AT&T WorldNet access. British Telecom access is reported to be free. - Sega signs up AT&T as preferred ISP for Sega Dreamcast (3AUG99) (MSNBC)
MSNBC reports, "AT&T will use its standard pricing scheme with the network: $9.95 for 10 hours, $19.95 for 150 hours and $21.95 for unlimited access. Later, broadband access via digital cable lines could be a future possibility, said one source." The Sega Dreamcast is reported to be released on September 9 in U.S. retail stores.
The Sega Dreamcast was previously reported to include a WebTV sega CD that provided WebTV Classic-type access. So there will be an AT&T WorldNet sega CD (or BT sega CD) and a WebTV sega CD included with the Sega Dreamcast game console? -ruel - AT&T to wire Sega Dreamcast to the internet (3AUG99) (ZDNN)
- Sega to team up with AT&T on Dreamcast game network access (3AUG99) (Standard Industry)
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