This is the exact same subject I was going to approach after Bill posted the survey showing that people prefer watching video on their television screens. The whole thing makes sense because you get to sit on a comfy couch and the video takes up the whole screen... who WOULDN'T want to watch all their favorite shows like that...
As someone raised on Star Trek, though, I understand that we must find a way (besides TiVo, which is not available up here in Canada) to make it easier to place our favorite web-based content on our big screen TVs. [I wrote a whole bunch of other stuff here, but I ended up just babbling.] The truth is, we basically have all the technology we need right now... we just need: a) someone to explain exactly how to set everything up or someone to put out a product that will open internet content to our television screens; b) to make sure our videoblogs are good quality so that they look and sound alright when they're blown up to fit our TV screens. I'm needed on the bridge, Kitka out. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Deirdre Straughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > from > http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=39848 > > Points North: Consumers Crave Web-Based TV by Gavin O'Malley, Wednesday, Feb > 15, 2006 6:01 AM EST ONLINE MEDIA COMPANIES MUST ARRANGE to make their > content available on consumers' TV screens as well as their PCs. That's the > conclusion of new Points North Group research to be released today, which > found that while 25 percent of Internet users are interested in watching > downloaded TV shows and movies on their PCs, 38 percent expressed interest > in watching that same video on their TVs. > > "Getting Web-based content to the TV should be the industry's primary goal > and will unlock by far the biggest revenue opportunities," Stewart Wolpin, > senior consulting analyst for Points North Group, said in a statement. > > Interest in watching content on TV is even stronger among 18- > to-34-year-olds--at 68 percent, compared with the 45 percent interested in > watching on PCs--concluded the study, conducted in association with Horowitz > Associates. > > > -- > best regards, > Deirdré Straughan > > www.beginningwithi.com (personal) > www.tvblob.com (work) > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
