UITV.INFO Newsletter - August 2007

August 2007


UITV.INFO - Interactive TV Research
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Two new books on interactive TV have been published
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Interactive TV: A Shared Experience, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science
http://www.springer.com/978-3-540-72558-9
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Interactive Digital Television: Technologies and Applications, IGI
http://www.amazon.com/Interactive-Digital-Television-Technologies-Applications/dp/1599043610/
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Interactive TV News
http://uitv.info/news

Is buyshifting the future of television?
http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/ins-and-outs-is-buyshifting-the-future-of-television-part-1
At the time of writing, seven of the top 25 DVDs on Amazon are TV
shows, and one in five DVDs rented on Netflix is a TV show. So perhaps
it's time we gave this phenomena a name: buyshifting. We'll use that
to refer to broadcast TV programming that you don't just watch -- you
buy or rent.

Freeview passes Sky and promotes digital video recorders
http://informitv.com/articles/2007/04/18/freeviewpassessky/
Freeview has overtaken satellite as the most popular way to view
multichannel television in the United Kingdom. The availability of
digital video recorders under the Freeview Playback brand will be a
further boost to the platform as the nation prepares to switch of
analogue transmissions.

Why Do You Want Interactive TV?
http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/9528
A very thoughtful question was asked. It went something like this:
"I've been waiting for interactive TV for 10 years, and I had given up
on it. Are you guys saying that Interactive TV is finally coming?".
Now watch the answers, it clearly reveals how each constituency sees
the world.

Is TV really opening up soon?
http://www.livedigitally.com/2007/02/10/is-tv-really-opening-up-soon/
Back in the late nineties, it was the dawn of interactive television.
In the early 2000s, it was the dawn of IPTV, about to be launched by
all the telcos everywhere. For the last couple of years, it's the end
of TV, as it'll be completely replaced by streaming Internet video and
user-generated content.




Interactive TV Events
http://uitv.info/events

AMDIT 2008: 1st International Workshop on Ambient Media Delivery and
Interactive Television
http://aria.asu.edu/amdit08
In conjunction with Ambi-Sys 08  (http://ambi-sys.org/)
Quebec City, Canada, February 11-14 2008
Deadline: September 30, 2007

6th European Interactive TV conference (EuroITV 2008)
http://www.euroitv2008.org
Salzburg, Austria, 3-4 July 2008
Deadline (Full papers): 11 January 2008




Edited by Konstantinos Chorianopoulos
http://uitv.info/konstantinos



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