So some are saying it is the next big thing - TV mashed with the web ;
After more than a decade of disappointment, the goal of marrying television and the Internet seems finally to be picking up steam. A key factor in the push are new TV sets that have networking connections built directly into them, requiring no additional set-top boxes for getting online. Meanwhile, many consumers are finding more attractive entertainment and information choices on the Internet -- and have already set up data networks for their PCs and laptops that can also help move that content to their TV sets. Amid other developments pegged to this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Yahoo Inc. and Intel Corp. plan to announce support from several major consumer-electronics companies to sell TV sets that come with software, dubbed widgets, that make it easier to call up Web content on TV sets using ordinary remote controls rather than computer keyboards.
It seems that as there are plenty of us who already surf the net as we watch TV , this is a natural evolution for the technology;
The research showed that nearly 70 percent of online British adults who watch television go online while doing so, with 21 percent of 16-24 year olds always using the Internet while watching TV. And more adults who surf the web for content related to what they’re watching on TV are at the same time searching for products which appeared in the show (30 percent) than for the products which were advertised between the shows (27 percent).
And there is a good comment on this from Techdirt.com ;
They [the TV industry] must realize that television sets are nothing more than another screen for many types of content, not just on-ramps to network TV schedules.
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What will happen in 2009? There are plenty of predictions around;
The year of the mobile ? "Mobile tools will certainly change the landscape, open spectrum will unleash the kind of creativity we've seen on the wired internet, and of course there will be many more YouTube/Facebook-class applications."
The year of games ? "The games industry will continue to be the sleeping giant of the media sector, out-earning Hollywood and out-performing TV in terms of attention, yet still only getting media coverage when the tabloids get themselves into yet another tizzy about in-game violence."
It will be the year of twittering... And there are other predictions from here; - In-Video advertising will grow… and begin to work
- Video will grow further as people’s appetite for online content moves significantly beyond 30-90 second clips
and ... - Small businesses embrace video advertising
- Record year for video content consumption
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Terry McBride, the CEO of Netwerk music made some interesting points about the future of the music industry and you could just as easily substitute film, TV or games into it...
To me, the future of music is really simple. It's cloud-based servers that have all of the music, TV, movies -- whatever it might be. Very rich application-driven PDAs, whether it's the iPhone or whatever else comes up, that has applications that I have yet to see. Like digital maids or valets, which go out and knows what your musical tastes are and your 20 friends, and finds that music and organizes it -- not the actual music but the metadata so you can pull it when and how you want it. ...I call it the "hassle factor" -- for $5 to $10 you get all the music you want without the pain of having to find it. So you get the new Killers album without even knowing the new Killers album is out, and it's automatically in your weekend listening folder because your digital valet got it for you. And if you want to know what your buddy Ken's listening to, then the valet checks out his playlist and copies it over for you.
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It has been almost a year since the launch of the iPlayer (an online TV-on-demand service run by the publicly funded broadcaster, the BBC). This has prompted much discussion and debate. Here's a sample ; The BBC iPlayer on-demand online TV catch-up service is a year old, but it cannot rest on its laurels...Such has been its impact on the media landscape, it’s hard to believe that it’s been a year since the BBC’s online TV catch-up service, iPlayer, was launched. It has even won over technophobes with its simple premise of “making the unmissable unmissable”
Plus then the BBC talked of offering the technology to its rivals as the BBC director general said "[The BBC should] share the benefits of its scale and security with the rest of the industry". However Channel 4 shot back calling these plans 'inaccurate'.
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P2P applications continues to evolve and get more interesting. Introducing LittleShoot - an in-browser p2p application... Littleshoot is in short a browser-based P2P service that is based on the open source SIP protocol. The service also offers search and download capability for various other media services, such as Youtube, Yahoo's video search and Limewire / Gnutella.
It features a nifty integration of Yahoo's Flash media player, making it possible to play back MP3s you download right in your browser. One interesting technical aspect about it is that it making substantial use of Google's App engine. Fisk is also working on a Twitter integration right now that will make it possible to share media files through Twitter in your browser.
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Looks like Blu-Ray is having an unfortunate benefit...
But one group of people is loving Blu-ray: Asian movie pirates. The pirates rip Blu-ray movies, then burn them onto DVDs using the AVCHD format, at a resolution that's lower than Blu-ray, but still higher than standard DVDs. The lower resolution means the pirates can burn onto regular blank DVDs, not blank Blu-ray discs, holding their costs down and creating fat profit margins on the $7 bootlegs.
On the subject of copyright - worth reading is this very interesting presentation on new emerging business models;
I see news about the health of the music industry as defined by the stock price of WMG or quarterly earnings of UMG, Sony, and EMI every day. What I don’t see, apart from a few articles on Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails, is an update on how the world is changing from the artist point of view. |
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