UITV.INFO Newsletter - November 2006

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EuroITV 2007 final call for papers
http://uitv.info/euroitv07
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5th European Interactive TV conference (EuroITV07)
In Cooperation with ACM SIGMM, SIGCHI, SIGWEB
Proceedings will be published by Springer LNCS
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Interactive TV News
http://uitv.info/news

DVRs are TV's friend, honest
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=ad531996-bc33-443e-821d-02fb55c55fb5&k=1454
It seems like the most obvious thing in the world that digital video
recorders are bad news for TV networks. Nevertheless, the chief
research officer of CBS presented TV critics with the other side of
the story.

New UI Showdown: Apple vs. TiVo
http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,71774-0.html
Although movie downloads and the iTV set-top box are hugely
significant for Apple, an announcement of similar importance has been
largely overlooked -- Cover Flow: the new navigation scheme in iTunes.
Cover Flow will really shine when it's used as the interface to
Apple's iTV, the wireless streaming-media box set for release early
2007.

Interactive TV format allows viewers to be producers
http://informitv.com/articles/2006/09/06/interactivetvformat/
Anyone with a computer and an internet connection will be able to
produce broadcast quality clips or programmes based on existing
licensed video footage. That is the promise of a new idea from a
company called Witty Future Entertainment and they have applied for a
patent on the concept.

Music TV battles to survive in Internet age
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1098022006
Music television is the endangered species of the pop world, and is
learning the hard way that it must adapt to the Internet age, or die.
MTV begins to reinvent itself with a new interactive TV channel and
Web site that will target the online social networking craze.

Google and Apple 'in video talks'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5355330.stm
Technology giants Google and Apple are in discussions over video
content for the computer firm's recently announced iTV device, say
reports.




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

5th European Interactive TV conference (EuroITV07)
http://www.cwi.nl/events/2007/euroitv2007
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 24-25 May 2007
Deadline (Full Papers): 15 December 2006

Shared Encounters: Content Sharing as Social Glue in Everyday Places
http://www.mediacity-project.org/shared-encounters
CHI 2007 workshop, San Jose, April 29th 2007
Deadline: 12 January 2007

Supporting non-professional users in the new media landscape
http://soc.kuleuven.be/com/mediac/chi2007workshop
CHI 2007 workshop, San Jose, April 29th 2007
Deadline: 12 January 2007




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




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