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Shibuya Hachiko crossing
The neon. The gaudyness. The HDR.
After an outrageous set of footsteps along an unexplored path, including researching American defectors to North Korea, I’m borrowing (with attribution) a Joi Itoh photo of one of the last places I went to when I last went to Tokyo.
justin (time? case?) .tv
Most likely a social meta-experiment, the “Truman Show with self-awareness” site justin.tv has been viddering (what would a “video Twitter” be called?) the everyday of Justin.
Not sure of the longevity of this one; it’s probably just a time waster with a possible cult following. Like Jennicam in the early/mid 1990s.
Watch…and comment if you want…
Contemplating
..my own seaside getaway next long weekend.
Unlike J.H.C, I won’t wonder “whether”, I just will.
Jean Baudrillard: A Real More Real Than The Real
Au revoir, Jean.
Jean Baudrillard. 29 July 1929 to 6 March 2007.
Jean Baudrillard: A Real More Real Than The Real
Originally uploaded by Muli Koppel.
BIVL to Swivel twixt TV and Net
I tried to not go too far with the headline pun.
Extending from The Way Of Sony, the manufacturer has announced “real, actual” availability of BIVL.
BRAVIA™ Internet Video Link clips onto the back of selected TVs, and brings the content linking/downloading scenario of The Sony full-circle.
I was shown the design for a similar concept, whereby an entire HD IPTV Set Top Box and PVR could be slid in, as a board, to a manufacturer’s LCD panels. Not released yet, of course…
And I still have not seen Neotion’s enabler hardware.
Take yesterday’s comments on how to make “New TV”, and add the BIVL, and you might have a real, actual platform. As long as it’s not a closed, Sony-only platform.
[Via engadgetHD]
Lynch juice on joost
Joost, the future of television (or not), was hands-on critiqued by Chris Lynch. And I paid even more attention when he ended a paragraph with
[...] from an entertainment and television platform perspective, it’s no more interesting than watching TV shows on my iPod. Sure, I do it, but I only do it when I don’t have any other choice.
He had expressed the widely-blogged/widely-held story of
The quality is poor, the content is rather bland right now, and shows didn’t really hold my interest very long.
But it was the expression of want:need that made me think of the reasons why people buy into, and build, content experiences that result in a “meh!” reaction. Of course, joost didn’t mean to create a meh. And users certainly don’t want a meh. But it’s what happened.
I think people expected a really, really new-feeling experience. Chris’ description sounds like “Amigo TV” [I refuse to link to it, sorry. Google may be your friend] and even the ICI Media experiments with tagged and hyperlinked sports video [I think David Gratton's new venture is music-oriented].
Getting to your big screen will take more than a nice platform.
Agreed! Why?
It’s all about content.
and
Using Joost certainly points out a void in the world that exists between the computers and the television today.
Yes. It’s very hard to get people to give up preprogrammed notions of “what TV is” and “what PCs are”. If you build your application and platform, from the ground up, with the idea that there is no difference in what each can do: you will find out what each thing is best at.
So you start to analyse problems differently.
Why email through the TV when I have a perfectly good computer on my lap already? But isn’t that great that I can get a “boxmail” that tells me what is cool on TV right now, this very moment, with an action-button to take me to the cool stuff?
Then more understanding comes: I can link the systems on the backend, so if people are using multiple forms of communication and entertainment at once, the data can be shared to enable something new.
My chat status changes automatically depending on what I am watching on TV or the top downloaded show’s latest episode is on right now or I’m going to guess what happens next and “spoiler” my friends.
But I, the author, won’t be telling people what to do and how to do it. I’ll just publish the data via an interface, actually create the mini-apps that will generate me revenue or attract an audience, and let the rest occur.
Affair over. Engagement and marriage imminent.
I’d say that PCs and TVs have been flirting, and quite possibly canoodling, for some time.
Joanne Ostrow, whose sub-editor had the great idea to use the phrase will change the way we live, posted this article two days ahead of the usual schedule. Her predictions for 2007 are real!
You’ve heard the predictions before, but this time they [consumer electronics manufacturers] really mean it.
Keyword, and buzzword, laden this potted copy-and-paste doesn’t tell digitalmediaphiles a lot they didn’t already know. Nor does it help Joe Average navigate the digital media landscape that is just outside the livingroom door.
Reverse anachronism (I don’t know the right word) steps in, predictably in a predictions piece:
The notion of how you discover programs will change, too. Channel surfing will become overwhelming with far too many choices to sample. Expect to see different navigation cues pop up to let you know what’s on, specifically of interest to you.
No.
Cues to relevance, to relationships, to currency and to community will help you navigate.
People already know what is on: they need to determine why it’s on, where it came from, what it’s like, and what exists around it or its topic.
Revenues flat due to DRM MP3s
No, of course not.
But REUTERS, the esteemed organisation that it is, used a Billboard article by Antony Bruno to propose just this (second paragraph, even).
In 2007, the majors will get the message, and the DRM wall will begin to crumble. Why? Because they’ll no longer be able to point to a growing digital marketplace as justification that DRM works. Revenue from digital downloads and mobile content is expected to be flat or, in some cases, decline next year. If the digital market does in fact stall, alternatives to DRM will look much more attractive.
At least the article has a good look at the 1Q2007 market we’re all returning from holiday periods to face, reviewing:
- Amazon
- Limewire
- MySpace
- eMusic
- Yahoo! Music
By volume, I think MySpace has a chance of driving demand for liberated MP3s.
By quality, possibly David Goldberg’s deals with Sony BMG and EMI Music could influence the marketplace.
Ashwin Navin muses
It’s a selectively-edited interview, but Ashwin Navin, co-founder of BitTorrent publicly puts forth “common sense”.
I actually don’t think that if content owner and content rights holders take an inventory of the way that people want to consume content and embrace, rather than fight it, DRM almost becomes irrelevant. If people can use content in the way they want offline and online they won’t care about DRM, because the content is consumed in a flexible use case.
Yes, absolutely: this statement means two things though.
- With good use-case-management, via “DRM” platforms, people won’t really see the mechanism that lets them watch what they want, how they want
- If the original rights-holder publishes legitimate unencumbered media, they could combat the existence of illicit unencumbered media.
And as the interviewer emits surprise at the possibility of point 2, Navin explains that
[...] There’s huge amounts of value for publishers to license a TV show over and over again. Today they can’t stomach the risk of allowing content to be published free and clear of DRM. But eventually they’ll realize that’s the way people are going to consume it anyway, so they might as well profit from it.
Media houses coming to grips with the freedom ethic of digital content will prosper.
