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FT.com / Media - Television goes smart in dramatic makeover - 0 views

  • Apple TV device is expected to be launched in September
  • smart TV
  • Web TV has failed to catch on in the pas
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  • ability to stream in HD quality has transformed the offering
  • “dumb” monitors
  • Retailers are looking to increase their margins
  • Media companies, too, are spreading their bets,
  • Netflix,
  • Technology companies aim to serve all sides
  • network equipment makers
  • fighting among themselves over standards.
  • Walmart bought the Vudu digital media servic
  • Sonic Solutions acquired DivX
  • Pace, the world’s biggest set-top box maker, is buying 2Wire to serve telcos
  • Google’s developer conference
  • Google, Intel, Sony, Logitech, Adobe, Dish Networks and Best Buy appeared on stage together to launch Google TV
  • experimentation.
  • competing services on the same device
  • etflix and Vudu streaming movies and Yahoo Widgets
  • , Google TV represents Google and Intel trying to simplify and spur mass adoption with their own content combinations, operating system and interface,
  • Google TV as a unifying solution
  • app developers to target a Google TV platform and end up on multiple devices
  • Google TV concept allows viewers to find the content they want through search, with results that mix regular broadcast programming with web content, recorded TV and personal media such as photos and music
  • Google’s Chrome browser is the interface to the web and there is a big-screen version of YouTube
  • “Google TV is not designed for local TV needs
  • “Different markets around the world have different requirements,
  • problem with innovation in the TV industry is the go-to-market strategy,
  • TV industry has a subsidised model that gives everyone a set-top box for free. So no one wants to buy a box. Ask TiVo… ask us… ask Google in a few month
Alex Street

Sony Qriocity service takes on Apple iTunes with streaming music and video | Technology... - 0 views

  • Sony has embarked on an ambitious challenge to Apple's iTunes,
  • based around the PlayStation 3
  • movies and songs
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  • web-enabled Sony devices, including its TVs, laptops and digital music players
  • Amazon also thought to be aggressively planning a web-based subscription service
  • online TV-on-demand market is about to expand dramatically.
  • Fujio Nishida, Sony's president for Europe
  • major expansion of its Qriocity
  • Qriocit
  • Qriocit
  • Qriocity
  • Music streaming will be added to Qriocity by the end of this year.
  • pricing.
  • Initially the service will just work on new network-enabled Bravia TVs, Sony Vaios and the PS3
  • Restricting the service to Sony products may damage take-up
  • open it up over time.
  • 54 million registered PS3s in use worldwide
  • move comes three years after Sony decided to abandon an earlier music streaming site, Connect Music
  • sers were restricted to using Sony hardware and software to listen
Alex Street

Analyst: Paywall Subscribers Worth A Quarter Of Print Readers | paidContent - 0 views

  • Annual income per paywall subscriber on TheTimes.co.uk and WSJ.com is just a quarter that from subscriber
  • Switching off the presses
  • might save newspapers 25 percent of their total costs
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  • quandary of trading physical dollars for digital dimes
  • negatively to TheTimes.co.uk’s paywall: “We are just not advertising on it. If there’s no traffic on there
  • counter print circulation decline, publishers have added 20 percent more pages in the last decade, allowing the quality dailies to drive up cover prices by 112 percent
  • inflating the paper will no longer work: deflation is now the agenda,
Alex Street

Publications - 0 views

  • newspaper pay wall subscriber is worth only a quarter to a third of a print buyer
  • newspapers will still face a basic problem of scale
  • Pay walls will not be able to compensate for lower revenue per reade
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  • publishers may need to consider producing a newspaper its loyal readers recognise and value with just 200
Alex Street

BSkyB signs up 3 millionth subscriber to high-definition television service | Media | g... - 0 views

  • 3 millionth subscribe
  • 50 channels are available in high definition
  • total subscriber base, which stood at 9.86 million
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  • Sophie Turner Laing, Sky's managing director of entertainment
  • bumper second quarter boosted by the football
  • slowdown was predicted b
  • Jonathan Webb, managing director of the Living TV Group,
Alex Street

FT.com / Media - Google plans pay-per-view films - 0 views

  • global pay-per-view video service
  • international appeal of a streaming
  • on-demand movie service pegged to the world’s most popular search engine and YouTube
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  • hell of a lot of eyeballs
  • is planning a $2bn initial public offering
  • YouTube said it had been beta-testing a film rental service since
Alex Street

MediaTel: Newsline: MGEITF 2010: Canvas bows down to Google TV - 0 views

  • product is primarily a navigation device.
  • esearch consistently shows that audiences don't actually want this kind of clutter on their TV screen.
  • people are actually resistant to convergence on this scale
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  • Google's main aim for this initially is to create more search revenue
  • no monetisation of programme searching
  • ternet browser;
  • er different formats for viewers and different ways to monetise content.
  • emand is still less than 8% of total TV viewing
  • 'RIP Scheduled TV?'
  • o from Google's Jill Szuchmacher,
Alex Street

FT.com / Technology - Texas watchdog reviews Google's practices - 0 views

  • d Google liable for the uploading by YouTube users
  • Federal regulators in Washington have looked into the competitive implications of Google acquisitions and other business deals
Alex Street

What equipment do I need for broadband? - 0 views

  • usual way to get broadband is via an ADSL service
  • get ADSL you will need to have your phone line upgraded (called 'line activation')
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    e usual way to get broadband is via an ADSL service
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