Interactive TV

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Yahoo! The Program Maker

Jan 2nd, 2006 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Advertising, Cross Media, Distribution, Interactive TV, Interactivity, Media Personalizing, On-demand, Portals, Production, Revolution, TV, Transformation

Within hours of a prediction in the last post that one of the online giants would start to deliver TV-like shows over the internet I find a report “…Reality series pilot to be broadcast on the internet” in the San Francisco chronicle. The article points out that Yahoo! is starting to dip its toes into [...]

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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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Prestalgia as TV spreads its wings

Nov 14th, 2005 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Cross Media, Distribution, Interactive TV, Interactivity, On-demand, Portals, Revolution, TV, Transformation

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Talk to your TV at last

Oct 15th, 2005 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Innovation, Interactive TV, Interactivity, TV

A bit gadgety this post but falls squarely in the personalize space - this time the personal interface. No longer the domain of low budget 50’s sci-fi movies the era of speech control entering our domestic abodes is upon us. One Voice Technologies have introduced basic speech recognition for the Windows Media Center. It has [...]

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It’s not about them, it’s about me!

Oct 6th, 2005 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Creativity, Cross Media, Divergence, Innovation, Interactive TV, Interactivity, Media Personalizing, On-demand, Personalization, Production, Profiling, Story Telling, TV

�Interactivity must require viewers to give something of themselves and for the system to resonate with that. If all you put in is a vacuous selection, all you will get out is a vacuous outcome.�

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The MyEdit Phenomenon

Oct 5th, 2005 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Interactive TV, Media Personalizing, Metadata, On-demand, Personalization, Production, Social Issues & Privacy, Story Telling, TV, Targeting

Researchers also see the potential for offering individual, custom television shows on particular channels that are made up from clips that the service assembles for the viewer. One such show might be a compendium of morning news, for example, tailored to your commute, or a sports show that gathers clips of your favorite teams from all over.

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Multitaskers r-us

Oct 3rd, 2005 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Advertising, Creativity, Cross Media, Innovation, Interactive TV, Interactivity, Media Personalizing, Personalization, Production, Revolution, Social Issues & Privacy, Transformation

The multi-modal-media-type, converged device future for the simultaneous media generation.

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