Archive for December 2005

Up close and Personal TV

Dec 20th, 2005 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Advertising, Cross Media, Distribution, Innovation, Media Personalizing, Mobile, On-demand, Portals, Revolution, Social Software, TV, Transformation

Given I am travelling, doing the relative-thing and moving home over the next week or so this may be my last blog for the year – I hope not, but in case it is I thought I would finish on a few recent reports on the most significant thing to happen to media in [...]

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Report out! Personal TV in UK

Dec 15th, 2005 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Cross Media, Distribution, Innovation, Media Personalizing, Metadata, On-demand, Personalization, Production, Search, TV, Transformation

A report for the UK government I co-wrote with Scott Gronmark and Jonathan Marshall on metadata provision for the UK to enable national video-on-demand and time shift using TV-Anytime has finally been published on the Department of Trade and Industry site. You can download the 1.25MB PDF here. The paper is 73 pages long and [...]

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Courage to go cross-media

Dec 14th, 2005 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Cross Media, Innovation, Interactivity, On-demand, Production, Story Telling, Transformation

Realtime (and OnScreen) a journal looking at performance, dance, music, digital and the visual arts have published an interview my cohort from LAMP Peter Giles and I did a few weeks ago. Always interested in which bits Karen Pearlman decided to pull out of the ‘chat’. Anyway you can go to the article here or [...]

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Cellphone only content

Dec 13th, 2005 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Cross Media, Distribution, Mobile, On-demand, Production, Story Telling, TV

According to a Reuters report Cingular’s COO thinks things are about to get very interesting in the mobile phone video/TV department. Today they unveiled a deal that will make available a range of content from the US’s leading cable content company HBO.
“Now you can turn a boring everyday moment into an opportunity to escape,” [...]

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iTunes please change your name

Dec 12th, 2005 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Distribution, On-demand, Portals, Production, Revolution, TV

Picked up another interview with Mr. Zucker from NBC who today was even more sold on great TV content, shrink wrapped, signed sealed and delivered over online video portals.
Before that though is it me or is the concept of TV being delivered through something branded for audio a little odd. The idea of video [...]

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TiVo embrace vlogs

Dec 11th, 2005 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Creativity, Distribution, Media Personalizing, On-demand, Personalization, Production, Revolution, Social Software, TV, Transformation

I often refer in my presentations to Akimbo back in May starting to deliver vlogs (videoblogs) via its IPTV service in the US. It is pretty revolutionary that alongside and at the same level on the EPG as CNN, The History Channel, BBC , Cartoon Network and Turner Movies we get personalized stories from individuals. [...]

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Mind the Gap

Dec 4th, 2005 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Innovation

Currently directing the 2nd LAMP lab in Sydney so will find it hard to blog for a week, although may have a go Weds/Thurs if you are good to me. Some more great projects and even better people creating some amazing transmedia services.
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Searching for Sound

Dec 3rd, 2005 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Creativity, Cross Media, Distribution, Innovation, Media Personalizing, Metadata, Personalization, Production, Search, Social Issues & Privacy, Targeting

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Apple iHomeMediaCenter?

Dec 2nd, 2005 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Creativity, Innovation, Media Personalizing, On-demand, Personalization, Portals, TV

Not one to subscribe to rumour but this is one I have been keeping an eye on since January last year during the Macworld expo (where I also caught a glimpse of the video iPod!). Thinksecret has caught wind of something that has been on the cards since 2003 actually, an apple PVR/MediaCenter aimed squarely [...]

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Personalized iTV/VOD

Dec 1st, 2005 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Advertising, Distribution, Interactive TV, Media Personalizing, Metadata, Personalization, Portals, TV, Targeting

Once IPTV type networks are truly enabled it becomes possible to produce services that many of us have been advocating and wishing for, for many years. A service that provides each individual viewer looking at the same content with a different experience is now reaching out to larger and larger audiences. ITVT reported on Minerva’s [...]

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