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Date
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Story title |
| (09.20.06) |
HSN's Remote Shopping Sparks New Interactivity
When Time Warner Cable launched "Shop by Remote" on its Hawaiian system last month, momentum picked up for the next wave of interactive TV.
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| (07.26.06) |
Feature Creep Impedes Digital Appeal
Consumers are fickle, and electronics shoppers are poster children for that problem your mom warned you about: "Your eyes are bigger than your stomach."
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| (05.24.06) |
Experiencing TV Campaign Fatigue
Lucky you! If you live beyond the reach of Washington, DC, television stations, you may have avoided this spring's bombastic barrage of TV commercials about the future of TV.
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| (03.24.06) |
Form Factors and Future Habits a la NAB
LAS VEGAS: Introducing a new camera at a Las Vegas tradeshow is de rigeur. So are revelations about new digital distribution schemes. Depending on which Strip cocktail parties you attend, you'll probably hear plenty about storage and rights management and maybe sports production techniques. |
| (09.21.05) |
How Many
Tuner Enforcers Does It Take?
Let me know if you see an FCC enforcement sleuth lurking around
your neighborhood electronics retail store, probing for contraband
TV sets without the mandated digital TV tuners.
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| (07.20.05) |
High Definition
Comes To Videogames at E3
This year's E3 blast in Los Angeles in mid-May offered conclusive
proof of why the videogame industry can claim its revenues of about
$12 billion are "bigger than Hollywood."
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| (03.28.05) |
Access Becomes Focus
of Retail Video Value Chain
As more and more products require a subscription, retailers are
extending their reach deeper into the value chains. As a result,
consumers are tied more to the dealer, with subsequent questions
about responsibility.
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| (01.19.05) |
Small Wanders:
Making Video for Tiny TVs
Critics are questioning whether viewers who become accustomed to
the glory of the biggest screens will tolerate miniature video.
Proponents contend that the go-anywhere availability of the palm-top
and pocket devices assure an audience that will put up with size
limitations.
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| (12.08.04) |
Plug & Play Goes
Into Round Two
This month marks the second anniversary of the digital cable TV
plug-and-play pact between cable operators and consumer electronics
makers.
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| (09.22.04) |
DVR: $6 Billion
Ad Skip or False Alarm?
By the end of next year, if current trends continue, digital video
recorder (DVR) users will be fast-forwarding through $6.6 billion
worth of TV commercials. That's well above this year's $2.4 billion
"skipping" rate.
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| (07.21.04) |
Weather
Channel Forecast: Multimedia
Increasingly, the outlook calls for programs and projects that extend
well beyond TWC's "core" videocasts
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| (06.23.04) |
What Does Cable
Want?
In an obscure corner of the Sony booth at the far end of the National
Cable & Telecommunications Association convention tradeshow floor,
under Plexiglas covers, lay potential solutions to the digital TV
transition. And it looked like they could be priced at less than
$50.
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| (03.26.04) |
Whatever Happened
to Reruns?
Ever since TiVo and ReplayTV blasted into the television environment,
Madison Avenue and broadcasters have lamented that these devices
will murder advertising, as users of these Digital Video Recorders
(DVRs) skip through commercials.
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| (01.21.04) |
Tomorrow's
Television Remains Elusive
The TV industry has been invaded -- "overwhelmed," some contend
-- by hordes of interlopers who want to overhaul the way television
is sent and seen.
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