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What’s next in telecommunications?

As the most influential executives in the telecommunications
industry gather this week in Las Vegas for their annual powwow, they’re
more likely to be talking about TV than phones.

Judging from the diverse list of keynote speakers, it’s easy to see
that the phone business is readying itself for cataclysmic change. The
traditional telecommunications market has already begun consolidating in anticipation.

New technology developments are making it possible for content owners,
such as Disney, and Internet companies, such as Google and Yahoo, to
also become competitors to the cable and phone companies, since these
companies will also be able to deliver telephony and video services.

MercuryNews.com | 03/20/2006 | Startup to wed mobile games with live TV shows

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Dialing into the fast-growing market for mobile games, a San Francisco-based startup is poised to unveil a new service on Monday that it hopes will make television viewers as hooked to their cell phones as they are to remote controls.

AirPlay Network Inc. said it will introduce a lineup of cell phone games tied to live television broadcasts. While watching TV, subscribers could use their cell phones to compete against others in “real time'’ by predicting plays in sports, choosing winners on reality TV shows or picking answers on game shows.

Wired 14.03: START

DVRs, DVDs, iTunes Video - no one watches TV in real time anymore. So Nielsen Media Research, the venerable monitor of America’s viewing habits, is rebooting.

Digital Spy - Broadcasting - ABC to test online streaming in April

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ABC will test streaming of its network programming online next month, according to various reports.

The shows would be available eight hours after their broadcast airing through abc.com, with commercials included.

Popular ABC shows such as Desperate Housewives and Lost are already available for download in the US at $1.99 (£1.15) a shot through iTunes.

Este artículo utiliza el ejemplo de los Juegos Olímpicos de Invierno en Torino para explicar lo complejo del nuevo panorama mediático y las enormes oportunidades en newmedia.

Pete Blackshaw habla sobre el futuro de la televisión y da algunas ideas interesantes de contenidos para newmedia.

Are you ready for the small screen?

NBC partnerships build new Olympic platforms - Yahoo! News

It’s unlikely that even the most ardent Olympics fan can sit at home to watch all 418 hours of NBC’s coverage from Turin, Italy. The network, therefore, pumped up its online presence and entered alliances with Google, ESPN.com, Apple, TV Guide, MobiTV, Zingy and other companies to extend its reach far beyond the television set.

As an Alternative to a Trip to a Video Store, Movies Through a Set-Top Box - New York Times

Will people pay $230 and hook a new gizmo up to their television sets so they do not have to drive to the video rental store? That is the question to be answered by MovieBeam, a service being introduced in 29 major markets today. The service was originally developed and tested in three cities in 2004 by the Walt Disney Company. Disney has brought in new investors and streamlined the service’s pricing to offer it on a broader scale.

MovieBeam is built around a technology that broadcasts movies slowly over unused portions of the television signals to set-top boxes that store them on a hard disk.

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“MovieBeam video service launches nationwide“

The service, which uses the wireless television airwaves to send movies to a hard drive in the home, is aimed at high-volume movie renters who want to avoid the hassles of video stores…The service will use spare television broadcast bandwidth, usually that of a local PBS station, to send data to the box.

“Disney bringing back MovieBeam set-top box“

The box receives movies through over-the-air broadcasts and stores them on a hard drive…About 10 new movies are sent each week over an unused part of the broadcast TV signal using a technology called datacasting.