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BBC’s “as big a milestone as the arrival of color TV”, the iPlayer...
Posted in IPTV, Television, News on August 9th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
The BBC recently launched iPlayer a software that let’s UK residents download broadcasted contents and watch them on their computer up to 30 days after their original broadcast. (more…)
Reality Bites: The YouTube/CNN debate...
Posted in IPTV, Television, Citizen Journalism, Internet, News on July 28th, 2007. By Maren Hermans.
What was supposed to be a debate on politics turned into a debate on journalism and multimedia. Does ‘broadcast yourself’ mean to participate in a political debate, and what is the role of traditional journalism in the relation between politician and voter? (more…)
Making Money out of Online Video: Paradigm Shift Required...
Posted in IPTV, Internet, Advertising, News on July 20th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
How to build a business out of online video? The Streaming Media Training program (Via Lost Remote) in Valencia, Spain, was all about this question. (more…)
Immediate media: Everywhere, anywhere, whatever you choose...
Posted in Television, Internet, Mobile, News on July 20th, 2007. By Maren Hermans.
Day in and day out, there is a lot to organize, categorize, customize, manage and report on. And let’s not forget: a lot to be entertained and informed by. The postmodern world maybe lost it’s grand narratives, but it offers a lot of little ones. Welcome to the age of immediate media. (more…)
Links from last week...
Posted in IPTV, Television, Internet, News on July 20th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
1 63% of U.S. broadband users watch TV or movies online
However, traditional home television ratings seem to be minimally affected by broadband video viewing, according to Nielsen. (more…)
LiveStation: Microsoft’s Live IPTV Solution...
Posted in IPTV, News on July 13th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
Two weeks ago we pointed out solutions and technologies to achieve live TV broadcasting over the Internet. Last week, Skinkers, a UK startup, presented a solution based on Microsoft Research technology: LiveStation. (more…)
Looking back at TV’s past to foreshadow it’s future...
Posted in IPTV, Television, News on July 5th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
How what’s important in a communication platform is changing values, and how TV’s future business model could be in it’s past. (more…)
Links from last week...
Posted in Television, Internet, Mobile, News on July 5th, 2007. By Maren Hermans.
1 Once upon a time, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) had a mission: to control if new US films were morally acceptable before they appeared on the big screen. Well, times have changed (more…)
Live TV: Where Traditional Broadcasters Will Live On...
Posted in IPTV, Television, News on June 28th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
Broadcasting used to require an expensive, government auctioned, broadcasting license. It granted the right to use a portion of the limited radio frequency spectrum. With cable and satellite, the limited radio spectrum issue was largely solved, (more…)
It’s payback time: Monetizing User Generated Content...
Posted in IPTV, Internet, Advertising, News on June 28th, 2007. By Maren Hermans.
‘Can User Generated Content (UCG) be monetized?’ A new study by Bear Stearns is asking (Via The Long Tail). ‘Yes.’ would be the answer of 20-year-old Brandon Fletcher, who just signed a revenue-sharing deal with YouTube for his online dating show. (more…)