Topic: TV - on July 6, 2007 at 2:11:00 PM CEST
Watch out! Your TV will soon be watching you
DAVID VERKLIN is a little twitchy about how traditional TV audiences are going to react to what he calls "behavioural targeting".
Online players such as Google are already using such technologies but the technique is now headed to TV land as the broadcast spectrum goes digital, paving the way for electronic program guides and TiVo-style program scheduling and recording.
These developments throw up a "data trail" that can be analysed for advertising, says Verklin, who controls about $US8 billion ($9.3 billion) in media-buying budgets as the chief executive of Carat Americas and chairman of the group's Asia Pacific operation.
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Topic: TV - on July 4, 2007 at 12:01:00 PM CEST
arte: Summer of Love - Juli > August
Der Sommer des Jahres 1967 gilt als "Summer of Love". Vor 40 Jahren entwickelte sich in Wechselwirkung mit gesellschaftlichen Veränderungen ein Kunststil, in dem sich die unterschiedlichen Künste von Malerei, Performance, Literatur, Musik, Mode und Film gegenseitig befruchteten und verbanden.
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Topic: TV - on July 1, 2007 at 5:34:00 PM CEST
Hamas 'Mickey Mouse' killed off
A Palestinian TV station has killed off a controversial Mickey Mouse lookalike that critics said was spreading anti-US and anti-Israeli messages to children.
The Hamas-affiliated al-Aqsa channel aired the last episode on Friday, showing the character, Farfur, being beaten to death by an "Israeli agent".
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Topic: TV - on June 28, 2007 at 11:36:00 AM CEST
BBC web downloads set to launch
The BBC's on demand TV service, the BBC iPlayer, will launch to the public on 27 July, the corporation has revealed.
UK users will be able to download popular shows over the net seven days after broadcast to watch on their PC.
Later this year, the service will also be available via links from YouTube and could also appear on other websites such as MSN, Bebo, and Facebook.
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Topic: TV - on June 4, 2007 at 11:20:00 AM CEST
Spying on the home front
In PBS's epidose of Frontline entitled "Spying on the Home Front", a good primer is developed for anyone who is interested in just one example of how the executive branch has ram shod over the Constitution and used every IT trick in the book to help them do it. If you haven't seen this episode, you need to watch it and think long and hard about the next time you use a credit card, do a search online, or browse alt.binaries.pictures.preteen. If you are already up to date on this topic, I still suggest you watch the episode for some interesting interviews. There's even additional footage that should make up anyone's mind about whether Al Gonzales is a slimeball or not.
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Topic: TV - on May 26, 2007 at 11:15:00 AM CEST
EU extends TV law to the internet
The European Council has passed a law which extends the laws governing television broadcasters to companies providing video content online regardless of how it is transmitted.
The Audiovisual Media Services Without Frontiers Directive broadens broadcast rules introduced in 1997 to encompass content on the internet, mobile phones and other devices, video on demand, and peer-to-peer networks. But it does not cover non-commercial content.
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Topic: TV - on May 13, 2007 at 11:31:00 AM CEST
TV anytime, anywhere? Sooner than you think
The launch of Joost could show why it's time the TV industry stopped fearing the spectre of free shows via the internet.
They may all be dipping their corporate toes in the online waters, but TV executives have nightmares about the havoc the internet could play with their businesses.
Imagine a world where anyone could watch any show free of charge at a time of their choosing. That could bankrupt the industry overnight, and it is a scenario that is drawing ever closer.
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Topic: TV - on April 28, 2007 at 1:16:00 PM CEST
Apple TV hackers called to create open source set-top
Neuros launched its Linux-based OSD last autumn. It's a media centre that can digitise video content to connected storage - either a locally fitted USB drive or memory card; via the unit's LAN port to a networked computer or NAS box; or to an iPod, PSP or other portable media player.
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Topic: TV - on April 26, 2007 at 11:45:00 AM CEST
The End of Broadcast TV
No homage to the annual NAB confab, held last week in Las Vegas, would be complete without invoking the "end of broadcast TV" cliché. Today, though, it's time to tune in to a new take on that old story.
The over-expounded media dinosaur extinction theory usually implies the word "broadcast" as a synonym for linear, or time-based television. In other words, the hypothesis covers the terminal trajectory of tuning into a program on the television set at a scheduled air time. No shocker there.
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Topic: TV - on April 23, 2007 at 11:42:00 AM CEST
DSDS ist tot
Max Buskohl hat die Fernsehshow "Deutschland sucht den Superstar" verlassen, obwohl ihn das Publikum am Samstag nicht rausgewählt hat. Hinter den Kulissen soll es so gekracht haben, dass RTL den Schüler kurzerhand rausschmiss.
RTL war heute für eine Stellungnahme noch nicht zu erreichen.
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Topic: TV - on April 20, 2007 at 12:45:00 AM CEST
A TV Guide For IPTV: 100 of the Best Internet TV Channels
Did your TiVo accidentally erase Lost? Perhaps your favorite MLB team doesn't broadcast in your area. Maybe you're just plain sick of what's on TV. Not to worry; the Internet has a solution. Whether you want to cheer on your hometown sports team, catch up on news or check out what you've missed on Survivor, the right video is out there waiting for you. The key is finding it. In this article we cover 100 of the best TV channels the Internet has to offer.
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Topic: TV - on April 14, 2007 at 12:28:00 PM CEST
This is what TV is like. In Japan.
This is one fool. Who loves him some TV in Japan.
Seriously. Something happened at some point where I started to become obessed with this stuff.
Now, I can’t live without it.
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