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Let people know that you have video! Every day, millions of Internet users search the Internet for videos. A .TV lets them know that your site has it. Internet video host Amber Mac (of webnation.tv, commandn.tv and www.twit.tv fame) explains exactly what a .TV domain is and how it can help you get more visitors to your site.
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Stuart Isett for The New York Times - Gerald Ortega watches TV shows on his computer, using his iPhone as a remote control to search for programs on the Web.
THERE are certain timeless truths about people who don’t own a television, chief among them that they love to tell you they don’t own a television.
These days, they are still out there, but they have rivals in the realm of zealotry: people who do watch television — sometimes plenty of it — but don’t own a cable box.
Those who belong to this crowd are only too happy to remind you that they can watch most of what you watch, but don’t pay $60 a month or more for the privilege. They will explain gleefully how they (legally, for the most part) circumvent the cable companies. And they are becoming more voluble, as cable bills rise and technology improves.
“I tell everybody at my workplace about it all the time,” said Sundance McClure, a Web developer from Lakeside, Calif., who canceled his cable service nine months ago when the cost inched toward $100 a month.
Whenever colleagues talk about what they watch on TV, he said, “I always tell them, ‘Yeah, well, you know, we don’t have to pay for any of that.’ ”
Whether this makes Mr. McClure popular at the office does not seem to be the point. He gains pleasure from watching hours of television a day with the help of PlayOn, a $40 software download that aggregates Internet content and streams it to his Xbox 360, a game console attached to his TV.
It’s impossible to quantify how many people have ditched their cable service, and the cable providers are eager to paint them as a minority fringe. But with devices like Xbox and Apple TV and software like Boxee making it easy to stream Internet content to a television, mention the phenomenon in just about any gathering, and someone is likely to pipe up about his or her way of watching cable free. And, yes, by and large they do enjoy making other people jealous.
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Is 3D television the next big thing in consumer tech? Splashy, flashy, and (virtually) in your face, 3D TV is getting a mega-promotional boost by its backers, including Panasonic, Samsung, and Sony, all of whom hope you’ll be so bowled over by 3D’s visual splendor that you won’t mind paying a few thousand bucks for the 3D-at-home experience.
Well, 3D is pretty cool, I must admit. But its charm is limited to certain types of programming, and the unresolved problem of pricey, non-standardized 3D glasses will turn off a lot of potential buyers. And that’s why 3D TV will take a back seat to Web services in the HDTV features war.
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This video features Michael, Justin and Caleb from Justin.tv. If you’ve heard of “lifecasting”, you’ve probably heard of Justin.tv. Initially started as a 24/7 live streaming view into co-founder Justin Kan’s life, currently Justin.tv’s 1,800+ channels are viewed by millions of people daily. From their site:
“Live video can help you motivate a crowd to tell their friends what’s happening, follow you on Twitter, buy a product, donate to a cause or get up out of their chairs and take action. Justin.tv is built from the ground up to support any audience, whether it’s 5 people or 50,000. One new live video starts each second, and users watch more than 300 million videos every month.”
Watch this expert’s story on how Justin.tv was created, the importance of online video and the branding power of .tv.
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The FCC wants to create a digital literacy corps to help boost broadband adoption by training people in low-adoption areas, which include rural and low income communities, and at the same time boost the skills of those doing the training. It also wants the government to consider using spectrum to create a free or low-cost broadband service. Those were??among the key takeaways from a Knight Commission Digital Inclusion Summit in Washington, where FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and other commissioners unveiled yet another piece of the broadband plan in what has become an ongoing road show of recommended proposals. Driving the FCC’s focus on adoption are the almost 40 million Americans that haven’t adopted broadband.
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Editor’s note: Cisco made headlines today announcing a next generation router that will revolutionize the internet by increasing downloads to unheard of speeds. The Cisco press release makes the following claims about the CRS-3 router:
It enables the entire printed collection of the Library of Congress to be downloaded in just over one second; every man, woman and child in China to make a video call, simultaneously; and every motion picture ever created to be streamed in less than four minutes.
Tech Ticker interviewed Kelly Ahuja, Cisco Senior Vice President and General Manager Service Provider Routing Technology Group about the new product this afternoon. He answered all our questions but one: When will consumers be able to take advantage of this new high speed internet? Perhaps that’s because that part of the equation is up to our internet service providers. Until they upgrade it might as well all be a dream.
Below is Kara Swisher’s take on the new product.
Provided by All Things D, March 9, 2010:
Cisco today announced a new version of its key routing system, which the networking giant said has a dozen times the traffic capacity of competitors and three times as much as the company’s previous version.
Cisco’s CEO John Chambers said the CRS-3 Carrier Routing System is aimed at the huge growth in video on the Internet, a trend that has also caused slowdowns.
Pankaj Patel, SVP and GM for the service provider business, claimed the system could in just a few minutes deliver all the movies ever made or allow everyone in China to make a video phone call at once.
It had better. The consumption of video online is growing like crazy and a constant bottleneck is likely without some relief.
“Video brings the Internet to life,” said Chambers. “You are moving from a messaging platform to a video platform.”
Along with Chambers and Patel, AT&T (T) Labs CEO and President Keith Cambron was on the call discussing deployment trials the telecom giant has been doing with the CRS-3. CRS-3 (pictured here) will be available within the calendar year, said the Cisco execs on a press and analyst call this morning.
Cisco had said weeks ago that it was making “a significant announcement that will forever change the Internet and its impact on consumers, businesses and governments.”
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Jeff Bewkes (Getty)
NEW YORK — Time Warner chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes on Tuesday explained in more detail why he is bullish on his conglomerate’s growth prospects as a pure content company in the digital age.
Speaking at the Credit Suisse Global Media & Communications Convergence Conference in Palm Beach, Fla., he said digital not only offers better access and offers for consumers, but also attractive economics for media companies that device makers and others can’t erode.
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Because Google hasn’t extended its reach into enough areas of our lives, the company is now testing its TV search in various capacities. Looking to leverage its Android operating system and search technologies in set-top boxes and other television devices, TV search allows users to look for both online and broadcast content. Although the technology still has some maturing to do, it certainly points to the increasing convergence of the various screens through which we view content.
According to the Wall Street Journal,
Previous efforts to access Internet programming on TV sets have failed to catch on, partly because they required consumers to purchase extra hardware. By working directly with an operator like Dish and its hardware, Google could avoid the such issues. Unlike earlier efforts, Google’s service isn’t just about accessing Web content. It is also a search service that is integrated with the operator’s programming.
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Whether you’re a Cablevision subscriber who’s just lost your access to ABC or you simply like watching TV online, there are ways to follow the 2010 Oscars live (and free!) without cable television. We’ll update this posts are more links become available.
Livestream and the Associated Press have partnered on a widget that features live streaming coverage of the red carpet (though not the ceremony itself). You can access or embed it at Livestream or on Facebook.
A larger player — not the widget — is available for viewing at the Livestream Academy Awards page.
Keep an eye on YouTube‘s Oscars channel, sure to be busy on Sunday night.
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Yahoo's TV Widgets, available on some Sony, Samsung, LG and Vizio sets, bring the Internet to viewers who might want to use social networking programs like Facebook or keep track of activities on certain sites, like eBay, without leaving the TV program they're watching.
We want Internet access pretty much everywhere we are, even if where we are is on the couch, remote control in hand, in front of the TV.
TV manufacturers, cable and satellite providers are working to grant our wishes — and to make sure they stay in business, as viewership continues to flag and more of us turn our eyeballs to our computers to watch shows on Web.
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