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ResearchChannel Call for Partners in Open Source Development of iHDTVT software suite
ResearchChannel announced today that its iHDTVT suite of software
will be available as open source in first quarter 2006. iHDTVT consists of software modules that capture, packetize and transport high-definition video in various formats over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, with the goal of providing wider access to HD content.
Subjects: Entertainment, Technology, Education & Research
Type: News Item
State(s): NONE
1st-Mile New Mexico
New Mexico 'open' broadband initiative.
Subjects: Rural/Hard to Reach Areas, Healthcare, Individual State, Entertainment, Technology, Policy, Education & Research, Advocacy, Business, Government, Economic Development, General Public, Rates, History
Type: Network/Service Provider, Publication, News Item, Organization, Policy/Regulation, Application, Mailing List, Presentations, Quote, Legislation
State(s): New Mexico
200 Billion Broadband Scandal
In this blog entry, Susan Estrada, President, FirstMile.US explains why everyone should care about big broadband in the US citing examples in Healthcare, Education, and entertainment.
Subjects: Healthcare, Entertainment, Education & Research, Business, Economic Development
Type: Blog/Wiki
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Apple Sells a Million Videos
Apple Computer Inc. Monday said its iTunes online service has sold a million videos in under 20 days.
iTunes, the most popular online music store, began selling about 2,000 music videos and episodes of ABC's "Desperate Housewives" and "Lost" for $1.99 October 12.
The debut coincided with the launch of a new generation of Apple's iPod digital music player that can play video on its 2.5-inch color screen.
Technology, media and Wall Street analysts are eyeing Apple's performance for validation that a market for legal downloading of videos exists.
Subjects: Entertainment, Business, General Public
Type: News Item
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BBC Two to go Broadband Soon
BBC Two will become the first big terrestrial channel to be available over broadband early next year, according to its controller.
Roly Keating, the channel's bigwig since June 2004, has said that he envisions the service offering a mixture of simulcast programming (simultaneous airings of the channel over two mediums, such as TV and internet) and catch-up offerings, such as the content due to be available soon on its iMP.
Subjects: Entertainment, Technology
Type: Application, Video
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BitTorrent Goes Legal in Warner Film Deal
San Francisco's BitTorrent Inc., the file-sharing site that became popular for offering free, illegal downloads of pirated movies and television shows, said Tuesday that it has struck a deal with Warner Bros. to make some of those same films and shows legally available online.
Subjects: Entertainment, Technology, General Public
Type: News Item
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Broadband Television
Guide to TV broadcasts available via the Internet
Subjects: Entertainment, General Public
Type: Organization, Application, Video
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Comcast, IFC Entertainment reach deal
Comcast Corp., the nation's largest cable operator, has reached a deal with IFC Entertainment to show selected independent movies at the same time the releases hit theaters.
Philadelphia-based Comcast said indie films from "IFC in Theaters" will be shown through its "On Demand" service, which stores movies, TV shows and other video for subscribers with digital set-top boxes to watch at any time.
Subjects: Entertainment, General Public
Type: News Item
State(s): NONE
Darknets: P2P by Invite Only
An article by New York Times reporter Tim Gnatek on "darknets" - invitation only peer-to-peer networks.
Subjects: Entertainment
Type: News Item
State(s): NONE
Digital Hollywood Spring 2004 Telco Presentations
On-demand presentations from the Telco Video Entertainment panel of the Digital Hollywood Spring 2004 conference. The panel looked at the current state of telcos and their deployment of video. The Digital Hollywood conference covers the convergence of technology, entertainment and business.
Subjects: Entertainment, Technology, Business
Type: Presentations, Audio
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Downloads of flicks get battle testing
Jonathan Sidener, Personal Technology Editor writes about what's coming in on-demand movies. Apple Computer is about to take over Hollywood the way it has dominated the portable digital music arena with its iPod. And you know your boss expects you to write about the terrain-altering news when official word comes out.
So you drag yourself into the office only to find out that the Earth hasn't shattered. Apple is going to sell Disney movies on iTunes. Whoa. Hold the presses.
Subjects: Entertainment, Technology, General Public
Type: News Item
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File-swap TV comes into focus
For the last several months, Clarke's television and radio stations have been putting content online using a four-month-old peer-to-peer service called the Open Media Network, which gives public broadcasters an affordable way to distribute high-quality versions of their work on the Net.
Subjects: Entertainment, Technology
Type: News Item, Application
State(s): NONE
Gaming Technology and Business IT Begin to Meld
Games are serious business, and business is a serious game. There's always been some crossover between frivolous entertainment and cutthroat commerce, but advances in user interfaces, graphics, interactivity, and visualization technologies, as well as the need to manage the complexities of modern game development, have brought the two worlds together.
Businesspeople and entertainers have a lot to learn from each other. Not only is the industry maturing and adopting the tools and techniques of software development from the business world, he says, but insights from gaming and virtual worlds are changing business.
Subjects: Entertainment, Technology, Business
Type: News Item
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High-def TV not ready for Net's prime time
Fans of video upload sites shouldn't expect to enjoy clips of amateur singers, bikini-clad dancing girls or mouse-eating centipedes streamed in high definition anytime soon.
While Hollywood and the consumer electronics industry are gambling on new high-definition video formats and televisions, there may not be enough room in the Net's pipes or in the servers offering video streams to make HD videos, which can require twice as much broadband capacity as traditional videos, a regular part of the Internet viewing experience.
Subjects: Entertainment, Technology, Business
Type: News Item
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Initiative Announced to Create a Connected Tennessee
The Tennessee Broadband Task Force announced today that national non-profit Connected Nation has begun work toward ensuring the State of Tennessee becomes a leader in the wired world by launching a statewide initiative called Connected Tennessee.
Subjects: Rural/Hard to Reach Areas, Healthcare, Individual State, Entertainment, Technology, Advocacy, Business
Type: News Item
State(s): Tennessee
Intellectual Property, Information Policy and The Devolutionary Power of Internet Protocol
A paper by Jonathan Taplin, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California. Traditional notions of U.S. dominance of knowledge-based industries have rested on the assumption that the existing rules for intellectual property enforced in the U.S. will survive in an era of Information Globalization. This paper argues that there is a beginning of a global pushback towards U.S. intellectual property regimes and that there is no a priori reason that China or other new players in the knowledge industries will adopt the U.S. formulated rules. Furthermore, the paper argues that the growth of Internet Protocol based broadband networks may bring forth a new era of on-demand media that could radically change the face of the current broadcast-centric media system, leading to a new set of rules for information policy.
Subjects: Entertainment
Type: Publication, Presentations
State(s): NONE
IPTV: killer apps and dead horses
Time and time again, industry talk comes back to what the one "killer app" will be for IPTV as a platform. Most assume it will be video-on-demand (VoD), as the historical business case has always rested on the fact that consumers love being able to have video whenever they want it, and it allows full VCR-like functionality over the network, which includes fast-forward (or ‘seek’). Fast-forward allows a viewer to skip ads, scan past what they’ve seen before and flick through material in a very efficient way. While this does put additional strain on video servers, technology is now emerging to counterbalance this.
Subjects: Entertainment, Technology
Type: Application
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ITU Internet Reports 2005: The Internet of Things
ITU Internet Reports 2005: The Internet of Things is the seventh in the series of "ITU Internet Reports" originally launched in 1997 by the International Telecommunication Union.
Written by a team of analysts from the Strategy and Policy Unit (SPU) of the ITU, the report takes a look at the next step in "always on" communications, in which new technologies like RFID and smart computing promise a world of networked and interconnected devices that provide relevant content and information whatever the location of the user. Everything from tires to toothbrushes will be in communications range, heralding the dawn of a new era, one in which today’s Internet (of data and people) gives way to tomorrow’s Internet of Things.
Subjects: Healthcare, Entertainment, Technology, Education & Research, Business, Economic Development, General Public, Other Countries
Type: Publication
State(s): NONE
Jackson County Telecommunications and Technology Strategic Plan
A strategic planning process fosters an enhanced economic and community development environment that will position Jackson County, Oregon to provide leadership to meet the growing needs of its residents. The planning process will promote countywide collaboration and cooperation to improve access to affordable broadband solutions, improve and focus economic and community development strategies employing technologies, and increase access to higher wage employment opportunities. The end result will be highly conducive to economic growth prospects with improved access to healthcare, government, education and entertainment.
Subjects: Healthcare, Entertainment, Education & Research, Government, Economic Development
Type: Policy/Regulation
State(s): Oregon
Martin Scorsese, Bob Dylan, and the Internet Revolution: Creativity, Money, and the Public Interest in the Entertainment World
1:20 hour video of a presentation at Calit2. America's competitive advantage in the entertainment and media industries has involved the ability of cutting edge (but not necessarily popular) artists like Bob Dylan and Martin Scorsese to get their work widely distributed. But as media distribution power consolidated in six multinational firms, new artists have had a harder time getting heard.
Subjects: Entertainment
Type: Presentations, Video
State(s): NONE
Media firms work to stay ahead of Net consumers
Big media companies must keep finding ways to reach on-the-go users and make money doing it to stay relevant in an online marketplace that values convenience and novelty, the leaders of three of the largest U.S. media and tech companies said Wednesday.
In a wide-ranging discussion on tech trends at the Milken Institute's Ninth Annual Global Conference, Walt Disney Chief Executive Robert Iger, News Corp. President and Chief Operating Officer Peter Chernin and AOL Chairman and Chief Executive Jonathan Miller agreed; standing still while users find ways--legal or not--to obtain the content they want is not an option.
Subjects: Entertainment, Business, General Public
Type: News Item
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mtvU & Cisco Incubator Challenge
mtvU, MTV's online channel aimed at college students, and Cisco Systems are awarding 10 grants worth $25,000 each to students to create a game, movie short or something else new and innovative, as long as it is transmitted via broadband.
Subjects: Entertainment
Type: News Item
State(s): NONE
NBC, Affiliates Form National Broadband Co.
Betting that video is the next killer app for the Web and other mobile devices, NBC and its affiliates announced Wednesday the formation of The National Broadband Company, a joint venture between NBC and its 213 affiliates.
The new company, majority owned by NBC, will develop ways to monetize video aggregated from NBC’s affiliates, NBC’s library, or user-created content through syndication or through a portal on the Web.
Subjects: Entertainment, Business
Type: News Item, Application
State(s): NONE
Open Media Network
OMN is a free public service designed to help you enjoy a broad selection of movies, public TV and radio, video blogs and podcasts while protecting producer's copyrights.
Subjects: Entertainment, Technology
Type: Video
State(s): NONE
Sony Adds Web Browser to PSP
Sony Corp. is adding Internet access to its Play Station Portable in a bid to increase the mobile gaming device's appeal as a handheld entertainment center, the company said on Wednesday, August 24, 2005.
Subjects: Entertainment, Technology
Type: Appliance/Device/Gadget, News Item
State(s): NONE
The Next Generation of Broadband
Cisco Systems Inc., best known for its business-networking tools, is attempting to get its feet wet in the world of online home entertainment. And in an effort to catch on to new broadband applications before they grow stale, the company is picking the brains of college students. Through a partnership with MTV's online college network, mtvU, Cisco has given $25,000 grants to 10 groups of college students with broadband projects on their minds. The students -- working on an assortment of blogging, gaming, and social-networking endeavors -- aren't likely to create any big moneymakers for the company. But Cisco officials say they're just hoping to get a sense of which technologies are capturing the attention of Millennials. (CNET News)
Source: Chronicle for Higher Education, subscription required
Subjects: Entertainment, Education & Research, Business
Type: News Item, Funding Source
State(s): NONE
The Politics of Broadband: Creating Your Own First Mile Vision
This is the PDF of slides from the presentation given by Susan Estrada, President, FirstMile.US at the USDA 2006 Rural Development Conference. It shows the possibilities and opportunities possible if a community employs broadband technology and also explores what a community needs to do in order to get broadband into their developments.
Subjects: Rural/Hard to Reach Areas, Healthcare, Entertainment, Policy, Advocacy, Government, Economic Development, General Public
Type: Presentations
State(s): Mississippi
The Rise of Virtual Business
More and more people are making a living in the virtual world. An estimated 20 million people around the world are spending time in so-called "massively multiplayer online roleplaying games," or MMORPGs. These online spaces are adding not only users, but are also growing economies that interact with the real world.
Second Life, for instance, has its own currency that is convertible to U.S. dollars at a fluctuating exchange rate. Users can buy the virtual currency using their credit cards, or sell it and get real dollars via checks or PayPal transfers.
Subjects: Entertainment, Business
Type: News Item
State(s): NONE
Warner Bros. to use File Sharing Network to Sell Films and TV Shows in Europe
Warner Bros. said Monday it would soon begin selling movies and television shows in Germany, Austria and Switzerland using a peer-to-peer network, embracing the very technology that has rattled the entertainment industry.
Starting in March, the new service called In2Movies will allow paying consumers to download a limited selection of Warner Bros. films and TV programs, including "Batman Begins" and "The O.C.," from central servers and from other users who have the desired files.
Subjects: Entertainment, Technology, Other Countries
Type: News Item
State(s): NONE
When the 'Bubble' Bursts: Soderbergh's new movie is opening in a living room near you
When "Bubble," a quiet $1.7 million crime drama directed by Oscar winner Steven Soderbergh, opens on Jan. 27, you'll be able to see it in a theater and on high-definition cable and on DVD. Cool, right? Well, the theater chains and the big studios don't think so. They think this simple idea -- that audiences should be able to watch a new film whenever and however they want could bankrupt the movie business.
Subjects: Entertainment, General Public
Type: News Item, Application
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Will Pod People Rule Wisteria Lane?
It's going to be fascinating to see just how much the ongoing shift in viewing habits, and people's growing willingness to pay to watch what they really want to see, will influence future network license fee negotiations. Some folks say the new technology and all the new portable devices may be even a bigger boon to shows on the bubble or that have a small but fervid fan base. Skewing young is especially important because it's the teenyboppers who are the natural target audience for these emerging technologies.
Subjects: Entertainment, Technology, General Public
Type: News Item
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World’s First International Real-time Streaming of 4K Digital Cinema over Gigabit IP Optical Fiber Networks
In a demonstration that could foretell the future of videoconferencing, scientific visualization and digital cinema deployment, scientists from around the world meeting at iGrid 2005 in San Diego were treated to the world’s first real-time, international transmission of super high-definition (SHD) 4K digital video. 4K images have roughly 4,000 horizontal pixels – offering approximately four times the resolution of the most widely-used HD television format, and 24 times that of a standard broadcast TV signal.
Subjects: Entertainment, Technology
Type: News Item
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Yahoo, TiVo Team Up to Blend Their Services
Under a partnership announced November 7, the two will collaborate to offer Yahoo’s Internet-based content and services through TiVo’s digital video recording devices.
Subjects: Entertainment, General Public
Type: News Item
State(s): NONE