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FT.com / Management - Apple takes a second bite at TV - 0 views

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  • 160Gb in the previous version
  • streaming media player
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  • jostles with games consoles, laptops that can wirelessly transmit what is on their screen to the TV, and similar media players f
  • $99 price tag marks a recognition of the stiff competition
  • istances it from the Mac Mini, a small-box computer that some Apple fans saw as a better value
  • enabled home-sharing in iTunes on my PC to share its content with Apple TV.
  • Netflix streaming film service, YouTube, Flickr
  • Being able to access a computer on a home network means anything stored in iTunes can be played or watched on the big screen
  • Many set-top boxes and Blu-ray players in the US offer Netflix
  • losest competitor to Apple TV in functionality is Roku’s box.
  • Roku may lack YouTube but it has more than 85 “channels” of internet content, including Netflix, Amazon’s video-on-demand service, Pandora internet radio, the MOG music streaming service,
  • Apple TV’s narrower content is its biggest weakness.
  • s synergies with other Apple devices –
  • Remote app allows control with touch gestures on an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.
  • ame kind of apps as an iPhone or iPad in the future
Alex Street

DVD Intelligence - FEATURE: Physical media are hanging on for dear life - 0 views

  • Amazon.com’s deep discounting
  • deluxe art book containing more than 50 pages of art,
  • Amoeba arose out of that community of music lovers that wanted a better place for music than a corporate chain store
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  • one with the widest possible selection, better service, and more respect for people’s ideas and lives.”
  • Amoeba Musi
  • huge chain stores were mercilessly swallowing up independent store
  • depriving communities across the country of a personal relationship with their musi
  • HMV chief executive Simon Fox reported that CDs currently account for about a quarter of HMV’s business
  • If HMV merely maintains its share of the shrinking CD pie over the next three years, the company projects its annual revenues from CDs to fall to £120 million
  • the entire CD market in the UK would be worth just £300 million in three years’ time
  • £145m of turnover that has to be replaced by “digital entertainment devices”.
  • 1 million subscribers in Europe already pay the monthly premium subscription fee, while more than 10 million users go the free route.
  • Billboard reported that Spotify in just three weeks amassed at least 1 million total US users, and 70,000 paid subscribers in the first week
  • Spotify’s partnership with Facebook
  • ny labels or musicians who want to make money from CDs better wow buyers with unforgettable packaging
  • consumers have demonstrated that they’re willing to sacrifice sound quality for convenience and portability.
  • enough audiophiles – and videophiles for that matter – to sustain an entertainment ecosystem to cater to their needs?
  • Not having actual possession of a digital file is the premise of ‘cloud’-based computing, a
  • The Death of Bunny Munro, w
  • transmedia storytelling’ is a technique of telling stories
  • mass media to develop media franchises
  • type of thing that CD-ROM started doing in the 1990s
Alex Street

BBC - Research and Development: Orchestrated Media - Beyond second and third screen - 0 views

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  • consumers are adding video consumption platforms (mobile, Internet) to their weekly viewing schedule, rather than replacing TV,
  • 2.7% of the total TV time per month involved simultaneous Internet access
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  • 7% of the respondents frequently engaged online with content related to the TV show or advertisement
Alex Street

What Do TV-Social Media Multitaskers Talk About? « - 0 views

  • ABC had launched a mobile app and website that let internet users watch and comment
  • Crimson Hexagon
  • Twitter serves more as a broadcast medium.
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  • lots of self-conscious referencing
  • ittle discussion of the actual content
  • social-media vacuum
  • genuine attention only during annual live-TV e
  • rest of the year, multitaskers are more interested in themselves
Alex Street

Josh Halliday interviews Mark Rock, founder of Audioboo | Media | The Guardian - 0 views

  • company's grand ethos: "democratising radio".
  • Twitter for audi
  • Stephen Fry is one of its most devoted users
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  • utstripped by the sounds of crises and uprisings
  • in March 2009, the site was almost brought down by 250,000 listens in one day during London's G20 protest
  • the spoken word can go social
  • Conversation has become very private
  • social networks really was an opportunity to innovate in the audio space.
  • judged the 14th most powerful person in UK media
  • Audioboo's iTunes-style micropayments model
  • Audioboo is to begin charging its heaviest users
  • charge a modest sum each year for extra recording time
  • currently limited to five minutes
  • Rock also has his mind on the company's second round of funding
  • wants to raise £2m
  • art of the investment strategy is to get some presence in America
  • traffic or usage data end in failure
  • gripe with the BBC is that they're more than happy to support the big-reach American companies, such as Twitter and Facebook, and yet not support small, focused, British startups
Alex Street

Audioboo allows any iPhone app to add user voices - Signs big media partners - 0 views

  • pp developer can now add Audioboo recording functionality to their app
  • number of high profile media partners
  • BBC, ABC Australia, Guardian, Aljazeera, Sky New
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  • audioboo a lot of potential for scale compared
  • SoundCloud and Cinch
  • Broadcastr, Cinch and also iPadio
  • Soundcloud’s
  • simple way of recording audio while on the move and adding as much useful data to it as possible, such as photos, tags and locatio
Alex Street

Korea Communications Commission - 0 views

  • improve regulations on cross-ownership of media
  • uthorization of cross-Ownership of Diverse Media
Alex Street

BBC - Media Centre - BBC iPlayer launches on Xbox LIVE - 0 views

  • 015, over 50% of requests will be via TV* devices
  • irgin Media plus other services capable of delivering BBC iPlayer direct to TVs, including IPTV platforms such as BT Vision, connected “Smart TVs” and connected set-top boxes, such as Freeview HD, Freesat HD, games consoles and some Blu-Ray players.
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    BBC projects that by 2015, over 50% of requests will be via TV* devices.
Alex Street

How to save Streaming Media - 0 views

  • saved somewhere else (who knows where? - but check the "temp" folder) or is stored in memory (RAM), and therefore no file is created and you cannot save it !!  
Alex Street

KT lays out vision to grow into global media content distribution group-INSIDE Korea Jo... - 0 views

  • leading mobile and fixed-line operator
  • distributing quality media content globally
  • converging mobile and land-line business
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  • KT will spearhead the move to freely circulate virtual goods.”
Alex Street

All3Media to launch video-on-demand TV app | Media | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

  • kins, Midsomer Murders, The Cube and Peep Show, h
  • ideo-on-demand app on internet-connected Samsung and LG smart TVs
  • first UK indie to go direct
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  • branded A3M and carry the strapline "Best of British TV"
  • app is being viewed as an experiment to test pricing, appetite and extend the reach of its programmes.
  • 49p and 99p per episode to potentially offering shows for free on a promotional weekend.
  • monthly subscription and season pass option.
  • PayWizard,
  • All3Media application has been developed by connected TV software company Easeltv and video technology company Ooyala
  • The Only Way is Essex: online hit in the US
Alex Street

Trend Report: Are paywalls the only way forward for online publishers? - Media news - M... - 0 views

  • uccess is well documented, with an online base of 3.7 million registered users and upwards of 230,000 paid subscribers.
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