Many more viewers say they will change their pay TV service in 2013 — but, despite greater planned adoption of new internet TV replacements, research suggests subscribers are more likely to simply remove channels from their packages.
Read the full story with more charts here: http://paidcontent.org/2012/12/05/research-pay-tv-customers-will-cut-existing-bills-before-cutting-cords/?utm_source=General+Users&utm_campaign=0bb8193fb3-c%3Amed+d%3A12-06&utm_medium=email
"PS3 is our largest TV-connected platform in terms of Netflix viewing, and this year, at times, even surpassed the PC in hours of Netflix enjoyment to become our number one platform overall," Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said.
Netflix often uses the PlayStation 3 as a test bed for advanced features. In the past, the PS3 was the first gaming console to deliver 1080p video with 5.1-channel Dolby Digital Plus surround sound from Netflix, as well as other features including post play, second screen controls, and subtitles.
The shift in favored devices comes a year and a half after Nielsen Research announced thatcomputers and the Nintendo Wii held the top spot as a Netflix streaming device at home. According to Nielsen's 2011 research, more than 42 percent of those surveyed used a computer, 25 percent streamed through a Wii, and only 13 percent utilized a PS3 to view the service during that period. Things can sure change in a year.
See the full story here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57557139-1/playstation-3-is-largest-tv-connected-platform-for-netflix/
Ensequence leverages the automatic content recognition tech inside Sony's sets and provides a platform for content producers and advertisers to sling up everything from relevant coupons to trivia games on displays. If you watched the 2012 Olympics through Verizon FiOS, chances are you've glimpsed the company's technology in action. Proud owners of connected TVs made by Sony between 2011 and 2012 won't be left out of the contextual content bonanza, however, as a software update packing Ensequence's secret sauce will be available.
See the full story here: http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/04/sony-connected-tvs-ensequence-2013/
Pop Secret just launched a year-long marketing campaign that will include apps meant to help people get more value out of services like Netflix, and have more fun with movie night at home. The reason? Orville Redenbacher’s has a tight grip on the theater popcorn biz.
Read the full story here: http://gigaom.com/video/pop-secret-labs/?utm_source=General+Users&utm_campaign=3a9425575b-c%3Amed+d%3A12-05&utm_medium=email
Entrepreneur Corey Ford is in an interesting spot: Today he launched Matter, the startup accelerator that aims to help companies tackling the future of publishing and media. But as of yet, no one, including Ford, necessarily knows what that future of journalism looks like. So what kind of companies will Ford accelerate to build that future? Companies that change how people think and learn, and companies that do things that well, matter.
Ford, who was an award-winning journalist with Frontline before teaching entrepreneurship at Stanford’s design school and starting Runway at Innovation Endeavors, isn’t going at it alone. While Matter (no relation to our former colleague Bobbie Johnson’s Matter startup) is structured like a typical accelerator, incubating companies for four months and giving them $50,000 in funding, it has backing from KQED, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and Public Radio Exchange (PRX). KQED and the Knight Foundation have each put $1.25 million into the initial $2.5 million fund, and PRX will provide strategic support. Applications for interested companies are due by Jan. 6.
See the full story here: http://gigaom.com/2012/12/03/west-meets-east-silicon-valley-accelerator-to-tackle-the-future-of-journalism/?utm_source=General+Users&utm_campaign=686e7fbaae-c%3Amed+d%3A12-04&utm_medium=email
During the recent CIFTE China (Shanghai) International Film Technology Exhibition, China’s first homegrown digital 3D dome theatre system.
Dome theatre technology, such as IMAX Omnimax, has been around for many years, but it has been foreign technology that has dominated in China. Like China’s DMAX – the domestic equivalent to IMAX, a new Chinese made dome technology from Beijing based company Silkroading, will entertain patrons with beyond peripherial vision 3D visuals.
See the full story here: http://www.3dfocus.co.uk/3d-news-2/3d-in-china/china-exhibits-first-domestic-3d-dome-theatre/11370
Hollywood director Bryan Singer wrote on Twitter after the world premiere of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey on Wednesday: 'Having some serious frame rate envy. Amazing and involving. Loved it!'
The 3D company that worked with Jackson on the shoot said the new technology should actually stop people feeling ill.
Matt Cowan, chief scientist at RealD, told stuff.co.nz: 'What you will experience is smoother motion.
'The effect you get for things like explosions is much more real.
'It is a great experiment and kudos to Peter Jackson for doing it.'
See the full story here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2241758/Hobbit-film-wizardy-left-feeling-sick--Cinema-goers-complain-camera-speeds-3D-effects-caused-headaches-queasiness.html
The real opportunity for change is still ahead of us, surpassing the magnitude of the development and adoption of the consumer internet. It is what we call the “Industrial Internet,” an open, global network that connects people, data and machines. The Industrial Internet is aimed at advancing the critical industries that power, move and treat the world.
Attaining the vision set forth for the Industrial Internet will also require an effective internet security regime. Cyber security should be considered in terms of both network security (a defense strategy specific to the Cloud) and the security of devices that are connected to the network. We need industry to effectively secure facilities and networks and governments to enforce a regulatory regime that promotes innovative solutions and international standards.
See the full article here; http://gigaom.com/2012/11/28/the-future-of-the-internet-is-intelligent-machines/
[Philip Lelyveld comment: at last nights Sony 4K event the sales rep said that buyers of the $25K panel or projector will receive playback hardware/software upgrades and new 4K content as they are released.]
Sony released the titles of the 4K movies it will bundle with its new 4K home theater system. The system includes an 84-inch 4K LED TV, an Xperia Tablet S that serves as a remote control, and a video player with 10 pre-loaded 4K feature films:
“The Amazing Spiderman,” “Total Recall (2012),” “The Karate Kid (2010),” “Salt,” “Battle Los Angeles,” “The Other Guys,” “Bad Teacher,” “That’s My Boy,” “Taxi Driver,” and “The Bridge on the River Kwai.”
The player is also “designed to be updated with additional 4K titles and video clips. More delivery solutions will continue to evolve rapidly, with further product and content announcements coming shortly.”
See the full story here: http://www.tvtechnology.com/article/sonys-k-ultra-hd-titles-available-/216608
To whatever extent BitTorrent can build a reputation as a legitimate media distribution platform, it doesn't help that its premium brand is The Pirate Bay, a file-search portal that declines to identify or filter out content that is shared without rights-holder permission. The site ranks in the top 100 websites worldwide, in some estimates, and has undergone lawsuits, server raids, andmultiple impermanent shutdowns. The Pirate Bay is regarded by movie and music companies as a blistering internet inflammation that infectiously poisons proper media consumption.
But legit players in the file-sharing biz quietly use Bittorrent for its network efficiency, while introducing new distribution and revenue opportunities for creators, and offering new media discovery sites for consumers.
In this article, the word "legitimate" means "in agreement with rights-holders." There is no philosophical stand here for or against The Pirate Bay or its users. The opinion here is that media companies adjust to technology disruption slowly, defiantly, and that they often intensify their own problems in a copy-share world.
See the full editorial here: http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/28/legal-torrent-sites-are-innovators-of-media-consumpti/
Many more viewers say they will change their pay TV service in 2013 — but, despite greater planned adoption of new internet TV replacements, research suggests subscribers are more likely to simply remove channels from their packages.
"PS3 is our largest TV-connected platform in terms of Netflix viewing, and this year, at times, even surpassed the PC in hours of Netflix enjoyment to become our number one platform overall," Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said.
Hollywood director Bryan Singer wrote on Twitter after the world premiere of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey on Wednesday: 'Having some serious frame rate envy. Amazing and involving. Loved it!'