Television
Reuters Video Affiliate Network
Reuters is using Brightcove to distribute its video content via an affiliate network of bloggers and small publishers. The network is in the pilot phase now but you can apply here and, if accepted, copy & paste some code into your site to make Reuters Video available on your site via a player like the [...]
Tivo serving up advertisments to 30-second skippers
Davis Freeburg has a long post about Tivo’s new Product Watch service which allows people to subscribe to advertisments. I’ve signed up for the service and will post more about it once I’ve had a chance to try it out.
Davis writes:
Advertising, ironically enough for an ad zapper, is probably more important to TiVo than just [...]
Why you will no longer skip the ads on “Lost”
If you’ve been following the ABC television show Lost, you may know that they’ve been building up to a season finale that would integrate the internet and game play into the viewing experience. Tonight the game launched itself with a non-descript advertisement from "The Hanso Foundation"
Any regular viewer of Lost knows that this is the [...]
If you have a small screen, you need to be able to point in anywhere
Russell Beattie has his Tivo streaming to his cellphone and says, “who needs Location Free TV or a Slingbox if you have a TiVo sitting there already? And all those $5 a month video plans? Forget it. This is awesome stuff.”
Mass media is being sliced into ever smaller chunks. First it was the 200+ channels [...]
A $46.6 million Bet on Sling Media
UPDATE: One of the main investors is EchoStar, which also operates the Dish Network satellite TV service. The plan is to differentiate the Dish service with the Slingbox “take your video anywhere” service and, “to expand into mobile platforms like cell phones and handheld devices. Sling Media also recently announced plans to introduce [...]
Rocketboom now available on your Tivo
Rocketboom, the daily video newscast is now available for download to your broadband connected Tivo.
We differ from a regular TV program in many important ways.
Instead of costing millions of dollars to produce, Rocketboom is
created with a consumer-level video camera, a laptop, two lights and a
map with no additional overhead or costs.
It’s also distributed via RSS [...]
Origins of the “TiVo” moniker
The winning answer was we were naming the next TV. I thought it should be as close as possible to what people would find familiar so it must contain T and V. I started looking at letter combinations and pretty quickly settled on TiVo. I also liked that “i” and “o” were a part of [...]
What would you do with unlimited bandwidth?
If you’re Time Warner/AOL, you’d use it to clean out your attic and broadcast re-runs. Actually, that’s not quite accurate as they’re going to ask folks to participate in a peer-to-peer network to access the video files. AOL and peer-to-peer, that’s not a union I would have imagined but a new dawn is upon us.
I’m [...]
Yahoo to connect to TiVo
Via the New York Times, Yahoo and TiVo announce that TiVo users will soon be able to access Yahoo information (Weather, Traffic) and Yahoo users will have shortcut to their TiVo from their personalized Yahoo television listings.. (I just checked and the link to add to your TiVo’s To Do recording list is already there!) [...]
KRON TV blogger meetup
On Saturday, I headed over to check out the KRON4 Blogger Meetup. I was not sure what to expect but who could turn down the offer of free food and interesting conversation? I think all of us there would agree that we would have liked to have more structure to the afternoon but KRON achieved [...]
