Seen that? - Hillcrest Unveils its HoME for Content Navigation

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Hillcrest Unveils its HoME for Content Navigation The Digital TV Weblog

After we have access to a bazillion things to watch on-demand, how will we find it? Here is a startup with no customers yet. I quote from their press material because they claim that "a consumer [can] browse 50,000 content choices with a few clicks of a remote control that has 90% fewer buttons than traditional remotes." Rockville, Maryland-based start-up, Hillcrest Communications, unveiled its HoME application suite last month at the [...] Read More


Study Finds Consumers Spend 13% of TV Viewing Time on VOD Content The Digital TV Weblog

You would think that the programmers and the cable companies should stop fighting each other and build a mutually advantageous VOD platform for everyone. That thought got another boost today. The results of a Horowitz Associates study indicates that if programmers build on-demand programs, consumers will come. And if programmers don't create on-demand viewing options, they risk losing viewing share to those that do. An earlier joint study by Horowitz and Points [...] Read More


Content Spend Climbs To $2 Billion The Digital TV Weblog

PROPELLED BY A BURGEONING MARKET in downloadable music and videos, U.S. consumer spending on content surged to $2 billion in 2005. This marks a 15 percent increase from 2004, according to new research by the Online Publishers Association. Subscriptions continued to be the most common pricing model, accounting for 78 percent of total revenue. But revenues from single purchases, such as music downloads, continued to grow. Last year, single purchases [...] Read More


Delivering Content to the Home via a Combo of WiMax and Wi-Fi The Wireless Weblog

Pace Micro Technology, Metalink, and Runcom Technologies today announced that they've developed a combination WiMax/Wi-Fi multimedia content delivery system for the home. The system is designed to allow cable and DSL operators to expand their footprint into areas they couldn't otherwise reach, keeping the entire system wireless. The solution consists of a Wi-Fi server in the home that's connected to a wimax network for backhaul. The Wi-Fi server can then deliver [...] Read More


The Internet Demands New Content Constantly Homebased Business Weblog

Just like the laundry is never ALL CLEAN - the Internet is never done demanding we provide it new and fresh content. Over the last week I have attended three separate conferences; all that had something to do with social media, Internet marketing or creating a social media strategy. In every case the speakers talked about the demand for fresh content; articles, press releases, newsletter, blog posts, [...] Read More