Watching the "OnHollywood" (http://www.alwayson-network.com) panel about "THE FUTURE OF TV" via the web today was a trip....in fact when I was selecting key words for this blog I realized that participating via text chat with the audience made it seem more like a game than a conference session. It was really fun!
Blogger Joyce Schwarz cached her first chat contribution to the AlwaysOn "OnHollywood" chat session in conjunction with "The Future of TV" panel streamed via the web.
TALK TO YOUR TV, WATCH YOUR PHONE....for decades experts have been telling us that we will talk to our TV in the future and watch our phone and it's finally here -- at least the capabilities. Surprisingly, when this blogger, Joyce Schwarz wrote in the chat session about TextTV -- SMS TV -- which is big in Europe, I got a couple of questions back about what it was. Yet, here we were doing something very similar in a chat box right next to a streaming video of the session at the OnHollywood conference over at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. (Note: Fuse is doing this right now -- Feature - Fuse.tv - TXT TV: Perfect Pair) More info on the ITV dictionary site -- SMS iTV, SMS -TV, Mobile TV, Call TV, definition of and related ... Good white paper I found on this -- talks about "participation TV" -- PDF] I WANT MY TV! MOBILE INTEGRATED TELEVISION (MI-TV) BCA4086....
QUICK BUCK TV ---??In the chat session several of the 'chatters' were talking about micropayments and Peppercoin.com came up along with some other vendors-- interesting what's happening in Korea where this headline probably says it all: Brand New Malaysian: Weekend discussion: Quick buck TV and in the US -- it's promised to be the next BIG THING....via this blog...more on moconews.net also ...the LOOSE wire blog: The US' Next Big Thing: SMS-TVGeneral | MocoNews.net General | MocoNews.net
Moco News and his sister web site, www.PaidContent.org, make up the most ... has launched some new shows which incorporate real-time SMS-TV interaction. ... MOBILE TV ??? The streaming media section of the OnHollywood conference also included a 'live' vote on several questions -- interesting response to the one about whether you will/won't and plan to watch TV on your mobile.... click on the thumbnail to see what the audience at OnHollywood had to say about watching TV2Go -- on the mobile. THE FUTURE OF TV PANEL -- OnHollywood May 3, 2006 According to the agenda the moderator of the panel: George Zachary, Partner, Charles River Ventures, Panel members: Jim Behrens, CEO, Orb Networks, Drew Massey, CEO ManiaTV!, Lewis Henderson, SVP, WIlliam Morris, Adrian Sexton, VP Digital Media, Lionsgate and Jonathan Taplin, CEO, Intertainer and Professor, USC Annenberg School for Communication (note I did not confirm if everyone was present on the panel this was the advance info from the schedule on the Alwayson-network site).
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